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egislation on the subject was reënacted and continued, and made applicable to the insular possessions of the United States.

A thing; personal property. Chose in action, a thing of which one has not possession or actual enjoyment, but only a right to it, or a right to demand it by action at law, and which does not exist at the time in specie; a personal right to a thing not reduced to possession, but recoverable by suit at law; as a right to…

A right to claim or demand something; a title to any debt, privilege, or other thing in possession of another; also, a title to anything which another should give or concede to, or confer on, the claimant. "A bar to all claims upon land." Hallam.

A collected state of the mind; self-possession.

The possession or exercise of authority. Command and force may often create, but can never cure, an aversion. Locke.

To take arbitrary or forcible possession of. [Colloq.]

nsurate; proportional. She being now removed by death, a commeasurable grief took as full possession of him as joy had one. I. Walton.

s of life; specifically, a scheme which contemplates the abolition of inequalities in the possession of property, as by distributing all wealth equally to all, or by holding all wealth in common for the equal use and advantage of all.

Common possession or enjoyment; participation; as, a community of goods. The original community of all things. Locke. An unreserved community of thought and feeling. W. Irwing.

d composed The calf in Oreb. Milton. A few useful things . . . compose their intellectual possessions. I. Watts.

To grant as a possession; to bestow. The public marks of honor and reward Conferred upon me. Milton.

To perplex; to disconcert; to abash; to cause to lose self- possession.

The state of being abashed or disconcerted; loss self-possession; perturbation; shame.

To gain or acquire by force; to take possession of by violent means; to gain dominion over; to subdue by physical means; to reduce; to overcome by force of arms; to cause to yield; to vanquish. "If thou conquer Rome." Shak. If we be conquer'd, let men conquer us. Shak. We conquered France, but felt our captive's charms…

That which is conquered; possession gained by force, physical or moral. Wherefore rejoice What conquest brings he home Shak.

To give, transfer, or deliver, in a formal manner, as if by signing over into the possession of another, or into a different state, with the sense of fixedness in that state, or permanence of possession; as, to consign the body to the grave. At the day of general account, good men are to be consigned over to another st…

To struggle or exert one's self to obtain or retain possession of, or to defend. You sit above, and see vain men below Contend for what you only can bestow. Dryden.

Calm impudence; self-possession. [Colloq.]

A writ to recover possession of an estate in lands, when a stranger has entered, after the death of the grandfather's grandfather, or other distant collateral relation. Blackstone.

To wish for with eagerness; to desire possession of; -- used in a good sen Covet earnestly the best gifts. 1. Cor. xxii. 31. If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul alive. Shak.