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Material possessions; estate; property; resources. And there wasted his substance with riotous living. Luke xv. 13. Thy substance, valued at the highest rate, Can not amount unto a hundred marks. Shak. We are destroying many thousand lives, and exhausting our substance, but not for our own interest. Swift.…

usual, natural, or prescribed course of things; to follow; hence, to come next in the possession of anything; -- often with to. If the father left only daughters, they equally succeeded to him in copartnership. Sir M. Hale. Enjoy till I return Short pleasures; for long woes are to succeed! Milton.

The right to enter upon the possession of the property of an ancestor, or one near of kin, or one preceding in an established order.

The act of superseding, or setting aside; supersession; as, the supersedure of trial by jury. A. Hamilton.

to serve as substitute for another in, as a vacant place or office; to occupy; to have possession of; as, to supply a pulpit.

To hold possession of; to hold. [Obs.] Not with me, That in my hands surprise the sovereignity. J. Webster.

To yield to the power of another; to give or deliver up possession of (anything) upon compulsion or demand; as, to surrender one's person to an enemy or to an officer; to surrender a fort or a ship.

f one's right; suspension, as when the rent or other profits of land cease by unity of possession of land and rent. Suspense account (Bookkeeping), an account in which receipts or disbursements are temporarily entered until their proper position in the books is determined.

ay hold of; to seize with the hands, or otherwise; to grasp; to get into one's hold or possession; to procure; to seize and carry away; to convey. Hence, specifically: --

The act of gaining possession; a seizing; seizure; apprehension.

A secular possession; a temporality.

Holding fast, or inclined to hold fast; inclined to retain what is in possession; as, men tenacious of their just rights.

A holding, or a mode of holding, an estate; tenure; the temporary possession of what belongs to another.

eralty, for life, for years, or at will; also, one who has the occupation or temporary possession of lands or tenements the title of which is in another; -- correlative to landlord. See Citation from Blackstone, under Tenement, 2. Blount. Wharton.

ments. The thing held is a tenement, the possessor of it a "tenant," and the manner of possession is called "tenure." Blackstone.

One who has the actual possession of land; the occupant. [Written also ter-tenant.]

That which constitutes a just cause of exclusive possession; that which is the foundation of ownership of property, real or personal; a right; as, a good title to an estate, or an imperfect title.

ates and practices manual labor, simplicity of living, nonresistance, etc., holds that possession of wealth and ownership of property are sinful, and in religion rejects all teachings not coming from Christ himself.

r the purpose in hand was to employ some one of a character and position suited to get possession of their confidence, and then use it to tone down their religious strictures. Palfrey. -- To tone up, to cause to give a higher tone or sound; to give a higher tone to; to make more intense; to heighten; to strengthen.…

, as a fleet on the ocean. Shak. To toss for, to throw dice or a coin to determine the possession of; to gamble for. -- To toss up, to throw a coin into the air, and wager on which side it will fall, or determine a question by its fall. Bramsion.