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One's own; belonging solely or especially to an individual; not possessed by others; of private, personal, or characteristic possession and use; not owned in common or in participation. And purify unto himself a peculiar people. Titus ii. 14. Hymns . . . that Christianity hath peculiar unto itself. Hooker.…

son or a slave with the father's or master's consent; a little property or stock of one's own; any exclusive personal or separate property. Burrill.

The wife of a peer; a woman ennobled in her own right, or by right of marriage.

A party formed in 1891, advocating in an increase of the currency, public ownership and operation of railroads, telegraphs, etc., an income tax, limitation in ownership of land, etc.

An annual survey of boundaries, as of town, a parish, a forest, etc.

. You may, fair lady, Perceive I speak sincerely. Shak. Till we ourselves see it with our own eyes, and perceive it by our own understandings, we are still in the dark. Locke.

ception. Sir W. Hamilton. Matter hath no life nor perception, and is not conscious of its own existence. Bentley.

death. The mere perdition of the Turkish fleet. Shak. If we reject the truth, we seal our own perdition. J. M. Mason.

dium-sized leaf, small stem, tough and gummy fiber, raised in Louisiana, and cured in its own juices, so as to be very dark colored, usually black. It is marketed in tightly wrapped rolls called carottes.

raction of mind through doubt or difficulty; embarrassment; bewilderment; doubt. By their own perplexities involved, They ravel more. Milton.

Things gotten by a man's own industry, or purchased with his own money, as opposed to things which come to him by descent. Mozley & W.

One who perverts (a person or thing). "His own parents his perverters." South. "A perverter of his law." Bp. Stillingfleet.

See Petard. [Obs.] "Hoist with his own petar." Shak.

Supported by its own petiolule. Gray.

A bird fabled to exist single, to be consumed by fire by its own act, and to rise again from its ashes. Hence, an emblem of immortality.

or screens (red, green, and blue, respectively) are superimposed. Each image is given its own primary color, and these colors blend and reproduce the colors of the object.

ogician before I came to him." Sir P. Sidney. Thy mother was a piece of virtue. Shak. His own spirit is as unsettled a piece as there is in all the world. Coleridge. a piece of cake, a task easily accomplished. a piece of work, a disparaging term for a person considered to have an excess of some undesirable quality; es…

d in England, formerly incident to every fair and market, of which the steward of him who owned or had the toll was the judge. Blackstone.

iarizes; or purloins the words, writings, or ideas of another, and passes them off as his own; a literary thief; a plagiary.

One who purloins another's expressions or ideas, and offers them as his own; a plagiarist. Dryden.