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The largest genus of true mosses; feather moss.

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.

A substance from the egg yolk of osseous fishes.

ng 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 . . . Ans…

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.

Embossed or raised work. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

as 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 en…

Deeply occupied; engrossed; entangled.

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.

on or entreaty. [Obs.] In way of impertation procuring the removal or allevation of our crosses. Barrow.

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.

Carrying or possessing weight or consequence; of valuable content or bearing; significant; weighty. Things small as nothing . . . He makes important. Shak.

One who impropriates; specifically, a layman in possession of church property.

te; to set to the account of; to charge to one as the author, responsible originator, or possessor; -- generally in a bad sense. Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, If memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise. Gray. One vice of a darker shade was imputed to him -- envy. Macaulay.

With privilege or possession; -- used to denote a holding, possession, or seisin; as, in by descent; in by purchase; in of the seisin of her husband. Burrill. In and in breeding. See under Breeding. -- In and out (Naut.), through and through; -- said of a through bolt in a ship's side. Knight. -- To be in, to be at h…

In being; actually existing; -- distinguished from in posse, or in potentia, which denote that a thing is not, but may be.