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To get possession of by force; to capture. The town would have been carried in the end. Bacon.

To get possession of; to attain. Torment myself to catch the English throne. Shak.

s in the Milky Way, to be revolving. A point near Alcyone in the Pleiades was supposed to possess characteristics of the position of such a body.

A nitrogenous substance closely resembling diastase, obtained from bran, and possessing the power of converting starch into dextrin, sugar, and lactic acid. Watts.

tragus), living on the loftiest mountain ridges of Europe, as the Alps, Pyrenees, etc. It possesses remarkable agility, and is a favorite object of chase.

The possession or revenue of a chapel. Johnson.

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…

ts form or size, thus causing changes of color in the translucent skin of such animals as possess them. They are highly developed and numerous in the cephalopods.

Possessed of the properties of chyle; consisting of chyle.

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 group of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the educated class; the lower classes.

The quality possessed by many crystallized substances of splitting readily in one or more definite directions, in which the cohesive attraction is a minimum, affording more or less smooth surfaces; the direction of the dividing plane; a fragment obtained by cleaving, as of a diamond. See Parting.

flowers, without petals or with minute petals; -- said of certain species of plants which possess flowers of two or more kinds, the closed ones being so constituted as to insure self-fertilization. Darwin.

Possessing quickness of intellect, skill, dexterity, talent, or adroitness; expert. Though there were many clever men in England during the latter half of the seventeenth century, there were only two great creative minds. Macaulay. Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever. C. Kingsley.

Possessing the qualities of a prism, obliquely inclined to a rhombic base; monoclinic.

Not wearing a coat; also, not possessing a coat.

Possessing, or pertaining to, the power of thinking or meditating. "Cogitative faculties." Wollaston.

Self-possessed; calm; composed.

A collected state of the mind; self-possession.