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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.

Clownishness. L'Estrange.

One who, or that which, crowns. Beau. & FL.

One who, or that which, drowns.

An owner of land.

One who gives renown. [R.]

Owner of a ship or ships.

it is too late to work; -- called also traveler and swagman (but not all swagmen are sundowners).

parts of the original substance. Abstract of title (Law), an epitome of the evidences of ownership.

One who, or that which, abuts. Specifically, the owner of a contiguous estate; as, the abutters on a street or a river.

t for which it was bought, or as that agreed to be delivered, or the taking possession as owner.

A mode of acquiring property, by which the owner of a corporeal substance which receives an addition by growth, or by labor, has a right to the part or thing added, or the improvement (provided the thing is not changed into a different species). Thus, the owner of a cow becomes the owner of her calf.…

The adhering of property to something else, by which the owner of one thing becomes possessed of a right to another; generally, gain of land by the washing up of sand or sail from the sea or a river, or by a gradual recession of the water from the usual watermark.

nt. A bill of adventure (Com.), a writing setting forth that the goods shipped are at the owner's risk.

To alienate; to estrange; to transfer, as property or ownership. [R.] "It the son alien lands." Sir M. Hale. The prince was totally aliened from all thoughts of . . . the marriage. Clarendon.

To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.

Freehold estate; land which is the absolute property of the owner; real estate held in absolute independence, without being subject to any rent, service, or acknowledgment to a superior. It is thus opposed to feud. Blackstone. Bouvier.

An obligation to have the grain growing on certain lands ground at a certain mill, the owner paying a toll. Bell.