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Own. [Obs.] Chaucer.

of memory." G. Eliot. Mischievous practices arising out of the paralysis of the powers of ownership. Duke of Argyll (1887).

rty of a woman which, on her marriage, was not made a part of her dower, but remained her own.

ive the meaning of a passage in other language. We are put to construe and paraphrase our own words. Bp. Stillingfleet.

To add a parcel or item to; to itemize. [R.] That mine own servant should Parcel the sum of my disgraces by Addition of his envy. Shak.

The act of one who kills one's own parent. [R.]

The same district, constituting a civil jurisdiction, with its own officers and regulations, as respects the poor, taxes, etc.

A concession to an adversary in order to strengthen one's own argument.

Properly, one who murders one's own father; in a wider sense, one who murders one's father or mother or any ancestor.

The glebe and house, or the house only, owned by a parish or ecclesiastical society, and appropriated to the maintenance or use of the incumbent or settled pastor.

e verb is a part of speech which asserts something of the subject of a sentence. -- Part owner (Law), one of several owners or tenants in common. See Joint tenant, under Joint. -- Part singing, singing in which two or more of the harmonic parts are taken. -- Part song, a song in two or more (commonly four) distinct…

longing to one only; not general; not common; hence, personal; peculiar; singular. "Thine own particular wrongs." Shak. Wheresoever one plant draweth such a particular juice out of the earth. Bacon.

Devotion to the interests of one's own kingdom or province rather than to those of the empire.

r in succession; to be present transitorly. So death passed upon all men. Rom. v. 12. Our own consciousness of what passes within our own mind. I. Watts.

The head of a person; the top, or crown, of the head. [Now generally used in contempt or ridicule.] His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate. Ps. vii. 16. Fat paunches have lean pate. Shak.

The head of a family; in a large sense, the proprietor of an estate; one who is his own master.

r business and social concerns, upon the theory that they are incapable of managing their own afffairs.

romotion; to pave the way for an enterprise. It might open and pave a prepared way to his own title. Bacon.

To appropriate to one's own use the property of the public; to steal public moneys intrusted to one's care; to embezzle. An oppressive, . . . rapacious, and peculating despotism. Burke.

The act or practice of peculating, or of defrauding the public by appropriating to one's own use the money or goods intrusted to one's care for management or disbursement; embezzlement. Every British subject . . . active in the discovery of peculations has been ruined. Burke.