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One of a breed of field spaniels similar to the clumbers, but shorter in body and of a liver-and-white or black-and-white color.

The act of taking or holding possession; possession; occupation. Title by occupancy (Law), a right of property acquired by taking the first possession of a thing, or possession of a thing which belonged to nobody, and appropriating it. Blackstone. Kent.

One who occupies, or takes possession; one who has the actual use or possession, or is in possession, of a thing.

The inspissated juice of an umbelliferous plant (the Opoponax Chironum), brought from Turkey and the East Indies in loose granules, or sometimes in larger masses, of a reddish yellow color, with specks of white. It has a strong smell and acrid taste, and was formerly used in medicine as an emmenagogue and antispasmodic…

To unyoke or disengage, as oxen from a wagon. [S. Africa]

To reach or extend over.

Same as Pompano.

A participator; a partaker. Participants in their . . . mysterious rites. Bp. Warburton.

In a participant manner.

A pan for baking patties.

A long, flat-bottomed canoe, used for the navigation of rivers and lagoons in Central America. Squier.

A California harvest fish (Stromateus simillimus), highly valued as a food fish. Pompano shell (Zoöl.), a small bivalve shell of the genus Donax; -- so called because eaten by the pompano. [Florida]

A cloth for carrying bread, so as not to touch it with the hands. [Obs.]

Situated behind the tympanum, or in the skull, behind the auditory meatus.

The act or right of taking possession before another; as, the preoccupancy of wild land.

A heavy gaseous hydrocarbon, C3H8, of the paraffin series, occurring naturally dissolved in crude petroleum, and also made artificially; -- called also propyl hydride.

falls asleep at death, and does not wake until the resurrection of the body. -- Psy`cho*pan"ny*chism, n.

The quality or state of being rampant; excessive action or development; exuberance; extravagance. "They are come to this height and rampancy of vice." South.

ng upon the hind legs; hence, raging; furious. The fierce lion in his kind Which goeth rampant after his prey. Gower. [The] lion . . . rampant shakes his brinded mane. Milton.

In a rampant manner.