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OWN v. 3 definitions

nowledge; to admit to be true; to confess; to recognize in a particular character; as, we own that we have forfeited your love. The wakeful bloodhound rose, and shook his hide owns. Keats.

One who owns; a rightful proprietor; one who has the legal or rightful title, whether he is the possessor or not. Shak.

Without an owner.

The state of being an owner; the right to own; exclusive right of possession; legal or just claim or title; proprietorship.

ADOWN adv. 2 definitions

From a higher to a lower situation; downward; down, to or on the ground. [Archaic] "Thrice did she sink adown." Spenser.

Of or pertaining to the time of Allhallows. [Obs.] "Allhallown summer." Shak. (i. e., late summer; "Indian Summer").

A receding or giving up; a complete surrender. [Colloq.]

p. p. of Bestrew.

BLOWN p. 5 definitions

Out of breath; tired; exhausted. "Their horses much blown." Sir W. Scott.

to whim annually on the king's birthday were distributed certain alms, including a blue gown; a beadsman.

To make ready; to prepare; to dress. [Obs.] We will all bowne ourselves for the banquet. Sir W. Scott.

BREAKDOWN n. 3 definitions

The act or result of breaking down, as of a carriage; downfall.

BROWN a. 6 definitions

Of a dark color, of various shades between black and red or yellow. Cheeks brown as the oak leaves. Longfellow. Brown Bess, the old regulation flintlock smoothbore musket, with bronzed barrel, formerly used in the British army. -- Brown bread (a) Dark colored bread; esp. a kind made of unbolted wheat flour, sometimes…

centuries. See 4th Bill. Many time, but for a sallet, my brainpan had been cleft with a brown bill. Shak.

The Malay or Polynesian race; -- loosely so called.

BROWN THRUSH n.

American singing bird (Harporhynchus rufus), allied to the mocking bird; -- also called brown thrasher.

The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See Dowitcher.

Pertaining to Dr. Robert Brown, who first demonstrated (about 1827) the commonness of the motion described below. Brownian movement, the peculiar, rapid, vibratory movement exhibited by the microscopic particles of substances when suspended in water or other fluids.

An imaginary good-natured spirit, who was supposed often to perform important services around the house by night, such as thrashing, churning, sweeping. [Scot.]