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law bestows the title or property of another at the death of the latter. I am my father's heir and only son. Shak.

The state of an heir; succession by inheritance. Burke.

, A female heir.

Destitute of an heir. Shak.

y furniture, movable, or personal chattel, which by law or special custom descends to the heir along with the inheritance; any piece of personal property that has been in a family for several generations. Woe to him whose daring hand profanes The honored heirlooms of his ancestors. Moir.

The state, character, or privileges of an heir; right of inheriting. Heirship movables, certain kinds of movables which the heir is entitled to take, besides the heritable estate. [Scot.]

One of the Cheiroptera.

An order of mammalia, including the bats, having four toes of each of the anterior limbs elongated and connected by a web, so that they can be used like wings in flying. See Bat.

Belonging to the Cheiroptera, or Bat family.

The typical pentadactyloid limb of the higher vertebrates.

The art of reading character as it is delineated in the hand. -- Chei*ros"o*phist (, n.

A genus of extinct animals, so named from fossil footprints rudely resembling impressions of the human hand, and believed to have been made by labyrinthodont reptiles. See Illustration in Appendix.

A joint heir; one of two or more heirs; one of several entitled to an inheritance.

A female heir who inherits with other heiresses; a joint heiress.

The state of being a coheir.

To disinherit. [Obs.] Dryden.

The possessive case of the personal pronoun they; as, their houses; their country.

Destitute of an heir. To leave him utterly unheired. Chapman.

sound that was not an element of Greek articulation; and the Greeks took it to represent their vowel Alpha with the ä sound, the Phoenician alphabet having no vowel symbols. This letter, in English, is used for several different vowel sounds. See Guide to pronunciation, §§ 43-74. The regular long a, as in fate, etc., i…

nds (Law), to enter into a freehold after the death of the last possessor, and before the heir takes possession. See Abatement, 4.