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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.

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 receptacle…

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…

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

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 . . . Answe…

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.

fixed by statute as the begining of the reign of Richard I. (1189). Proof of unbroken possession or use of any right since that date made it unnecessary to establish the original grant. In 1832 the plan of dating legal memory from a fixed time was abandoned and the principle substituted that rights which had been enjo…

Presented, instituted, and inducted into a rectory, and in full possession. -- n.

Absolute seignory or possession; the act of investing with such possession. [R.] Cotgrave.

A property possessed by a moving body in virtue of its weight and its motion; the force with which any body is driven or impelled; momentum.