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Allotropic property or nature.

The property of existing in two or more conditions which are distinct in their physical or chemical relations.

To destroy or eradicate, as a property or attribute of a thing; to make of no effect; to destroy the force, etc., of; as, to annihilate an argument, law, rights, goodness.

A remedy possessing the property of preventing the return of periodic paroxysms, or exacerbations, of disease, as in intermittent fevers.

Having the property of applying; applicative; practical. -- n.

esignating (under a "power of appointment") a person to enjoy an estate or other specific property; also, the instrument by which the designation is made.

division and assignment, to each proprietor, of his just portion of an undivided right or property. A. Hamilton.

To annex, as a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property. Blackstone.

The person in whose hands is the property attached by arrestment.

Liable to be assessed or taxed; as, assessable property.

A valuation of property or profits of business, for the purpose of taxation; such valuation and an adjudging of the proper sum to be levied on the property; as, an assessment of property or an assessment on property.

One appointed to assess persons or property for the purpose of taxation. Bouvier.

Property of a deceased person, subject by law to the payment of his debts and legacies; -- called assets because sufficient to render the executor or administrator liable to the creditors and legatees, so far as such goods or estate may extend. Story. Blackstone.

A person to whom property or an interest is transferred; as, a deed to a man and his heirs and assigns.

uted by another to do some act, perform some business, or enjoy some right, privilege, or property; as, an assignee of a bankrupt. See Assignment (c). An assignee may be by special appointment or deed, or be created by jaw; as an executor. Cowell. Blount. (b) pl.

The transfer of the property of a bankrupt to certain persons called assignees, in whom it is vested for the benefit of creditors. Assignment of dower, the setting out by metes and bounds of the widow's thirds or portion in the deceased husband's estate, and allotting it to her.

Any written or other legal evidence of the conveyance of property; a conveyance; a deed.

One whose life or property is insured.

An optical property of some crystals which exhibit a star- shaped by reflected light, as star sapphire, or by transmitted light, as some mica.

The act or property of attracting; the effect of the power or operation of attraction. Newton.