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Unequal development of the tail lobes of fishes; the possession of a heterocercal tail.

Differing in kind; having unlike qualities; possessed of different characteristics; dissimilar; -- opposed to homogeneous, and said of two or more connected objects, or of a conglomerate mass, considered in respect to the parts of which it is made up. -- Het`er*o*ge"ne*ous*ly, adv. -- Het`er*o*ge"ne*ous*ness, n. Hete…

Possessing a characteristic quality in a supreme or superior degree; as, high (i. e., intense) heat; high (i. e., full or quite) noon; high (i. e., rich or spicy) seasoning; high (i. e., complete) pleasure; high (i. e., deep or vivid) color; high (i. e., extensive, thorough) scholarship, etc. High time it is this war n…

Possessed of noble or honorable principles.

The possessive of he; as, the book is his. "The sea is his, and he made it." Ps. xcv. 5.

To retain in one's keeping; to maintain possession of, or authority over; not to give up or relinquish; to keep; to defend. We mean to hold what anciently we claim Of deity or empire. Milton.

he Saracens in the Holy Land, in the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth centuries, for the possession of the holy places. -- Holy water (Gr. & R. C. Churches), water which has been blessed by the priest for sacred purposes. -- Holy-water stoup, the stone stoup or font placed near the entrance of a church, as a recepta…

The possession of a homocercal tail.

Possessing the same number of factors of a given kind; as, a homogeneous polynomial.

Possessing the property of homography.

The possession, in one species of plants, of only one kind of flowers; -- opposed to heteromorphism, dimorphism, and trimorphism.

A feast or merry-making made by or for a family or business firm on taking possession of a new house or premises. Johnson.

The property possessed by vegetable tissues of absorbing or discharging moisture according to circumstances.

The doctrine that matter possesses a species of life and sensation, or that matter and life are inseparable. [R.] Cudworth.

To subject, as property, to liability for a debt or engagement without delivery of possession or transfer of title; to pledge without delivery of possession; to mortgage, as ships, or other personal property; to make a contract by bottomry. See Hypothecation, Bottomry. He had found the treasury empty and the pay of the…

an hypothecation, in the strict sense of the Roman law, exists; that is a pledge without possession by the pledgee. Story.

ing principle; as, an essential idea; the idea of development. That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one. Johnson. What is now "idea" for us How infinite the fall of this word, since the time where Milton sang of the Creator contemplating his newly- created world, -"how it showed . . . An…

The condition of being the same with something described or asserted, or of possessing a character claimed; as, to establish the identity of stolen goods.

A morphological unit, consisting of two or more plastids, which does not possess the positive character of the person or stock, in distinction from the physiological organ or biorgan. See Morphon.

Possessing luster or brightness; brilliant; luminous; splendid. Quench the light; thine eyes are guides illustrious. Beau. & Fl.