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Own. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A follower of Robert Owen, who tried to reorganize society on a socialistic basis, and established an industrial community on the Clyde, Scotland, and, later, a similar one in Indiana.

A prostitute; a courtesan; a strumpet. [Low] Smart.

A hard, compact variety of serpentine found in Rhode Island. It is of a light green color and resembles jade.

imp. pl. of Fly, v. i. Chaucer.

A small British lake whitefish (Coregonus clupeoides, or C. ferus); -- called also gwyniad and lake herring.

the autumn, that it may be cropped by cattle. Turn your cows, that give milk, into your rowens till snow comes. Mortimer.

A nutritious article of food, much used in Scotland, made from the husk of the oat by a process not unlike that by which common starch is made; -- called flummery in England. [Written also sowans, and sowins.]

orted branches. The eyes of the cirripeds are more or less aborted in their mature state. Owen.

tion; as, an accretion of earth. A mineral . . . augments not by grown, but by accretion. Owen. To strip off all the subordinate parts of his as a later accretion. Sir G. C. Lewis.

Acritan. Owen.

ice; -- with to; as, he adverted to what was said. I may again advert to the distinction. Owen.

A second moving; the grass which grows after the first crop of hay in the same season; rowen. Holland.

onsolidate so as to make a stiff joint; to grow together into one. [Spelt also ankylose.] Owen.

having the characteristics of both; being in nature both male and female; hermaphroditic. Owen. The truth is, a great mind must be androgynous. Coleridge.

Destitute of a stomach or an intestine. Owen.

f, pertaining to, or resembling, a snake or serpent. "The anguine or snakelike reptiles." Owen.

Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation. Owen.

Connecting; annexing. Owen.

contending principles that are found in the minds and affairs of men. Burke. As Professor Owen has remarked, there is no greater anomaly in nature than a bird that can not fly. Darwin.