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nother against loss arising from certain hazards, perils, or risks to which his person or property may be exposed. See Insurance.

Destitute of property; wanting in material riches or goods; needy; indigent.

legal title to; to have a just right to; to be master of; to own; to have; as, to possess property, an estate, a book. I am yours, and all that I possess. Shak.

The having, holding, or detention of property in one's power or command; actual seizin or occupancy; ownership, whether rightful or wrongful.

A possessor; a property holder. [Obs.] "Possessioners of riches." E. Hall. Having been of old freemen and possessioners. Sir P. Sidney.

tions of attributes involved in logical arrangements, namely, genus, species, difference, property, and accident.

tension. Spenser. Primogeniture can not have any pretense to a right of solely inheriting property or power. Locke. I went to Lambeth with Sir R. Brown's pretense to the wardenship of Merton College, Oxford. Evelyn.

Illustrating, possessing, or characterized by, some quality or property in the first degree; having undergone the first stage of substitution or replacement. Primary alcohol (Organic Chem.), any alcohol which possess the group CH2.OH, and can be oxidized so as to form a corresponding aldehyde and acid having the same n…

sonal; one's own; not public; not general; separate; as, a man's private opinion; private property; a private purse; private expenses or interests; a private secretary.

s to some particular transaction; mutual or successive relationship to the same rights of property.

Court of Probate, a court for the probate of wills. -- Probate duty, a government tax on property passing by will. [Eng.]

A citizen of the lowest class, who served the state, not with property, but only by having children; hence, a common person.

Possessing property; holding real estate, or other investments of money. "The propertied and satisfied classes." M. Arnold.

Belonging, or pertaining, to a proprietor; considered as property; owned; as, proprietary medicine. Proprietary articles, manufactured articles which some person or persons have exclusive right to make and sell. U. S. Statutes.

Individual right to hold property; ownership by personal title; property. [Obs.] "Onles this propriety be exiled." Robynson (More's Utopia). So are the proprieties of a wife to be disposed of by her lord, and yet all are for her provisions, it being a part of his need to refresh and supply hers. Jer. Taylor.…

The state of having, or the property of taking, a crystalline form unlike that which belongs to the species.

surface corresponds in non-Euclidian space to the sphere in ordinary space. An important property of the surface is that any figure drawn upon it can be displaced in any way without tearing it or altering in size any of its elements.

With exposure to popular view or notice; without concealment; openly; as, property publicly offered for sale; an opinion publicly avowed; a declaration publicly made.

The quality or state of belonging to the community; as, the publicness of property. Boyle.

To acquire wealth or property. [Obs.] Sure our lawyers Would not purchase half so fast. J. Webster.