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

art for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper. In its strict and appropriate meaning. Porteus. Appropriate acts of divine worship. Stillingfleet. It is not at all times easy to find words appropriate to express our ideas. Locke.

In an appropriate or proper manner; fitly; properly.

ing. The largest capacity and the most noble dispositions are but an approximation to the proper standard and true symmetry of human nature. I. Taylor.

In an apt or suitable manner; fitly; properly; pertinently; appropriately; readily.

Incombustible; capable of sustaining a strong heat without alteration of form or properties.

Having the form, constitution, or habits, of a proper tree, in distinction from a shrub. Loudon.

Used in building; proper for building. Derham.

A suffix properly meaning a rule, ruling, as in monarchy, the rule of one only. Cf. -arch.

r, esp. one organized in companies, battalions, regiments, brigades, and divisions, under proper officers.

To put in proper order; to dispose (persons, or parts) in the manner intended, or best suited for the purpose; as, troops arranged for battle. So [they] came to the market place, and there he arranged his men in the streets. Berners. [They] were beginning to arrange their hampers. Boswell. A mechanism previously arrang…

A ranking or setting forth in order, by the proper officer, of a jury as impaneled in a cause.

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

One of the elements, a solid substance resembling a metal in its physical properties, but in its chemical relations ranking with the nonmetals. It is of a steel-gray color and brilliant luster, though usually dull from tarnish. It is very brittle, and sublimes at 356º Fahrenheit. It is sometimes found native, but usual…

us of plants including the milkweed, swallowwort, and some other species having medicinal properties. Asclepias butterfly (Zoöl.), a large, handsome, red and black butterfly (Danais Archippus), found in both hemispheres. It feeds on plants of the genus Asclepias.

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.