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is inherent in a subject, or naturally essential to it; an attribute; as, sweetness is a property of sugar. Property is correctly a synonym for peculiar quality; but it is frequently used as coextensive with quality in general. Sir W. Hamilton.

To cause to be no longer property; to dispossess of. [R.] Shak.

Impropriety. [Obs.]

sh all claim to; -- used when an insured person gives up to underwriters all claim to the property covered by a policy, which may remain after loss or damage by a peril insured against.

The relinquishment by the insured to the underwriters of what may remain of the property insured after a loss or damage by a peril insured against.

Legally qualified; possessed of legal competence; as, able to inherit or devise property.

A medicine to which is attributed the property of causing abortion. Dunglison.

Expressing a particular property of an object viewed apart from the other properties which constitute it; -- opposed to Ant: concrete; as, honesty is an abstract word. J. S. Mill.

The taking surreptitiously for one's own use part of the property of another; purloining. [Modern]

The quality of being abstractive; abstractive property.

cquittance of a duty imposed; as, to accept the report of a committee. [This makes it the property of the body, and the question is then on its adoption.] To accept a bill (Law), to agree (on the part of the drawee) to pay it when due. -- To accept service (Law), to agree that a writ or process shall be considered as…

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.…

A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, as gender, number, case.

A property which is not essential; a nonessential; anything happening accidentally. He conceived it just that accidentals . . . should sink with the substance of the accusation. Fuller.

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.

Property acquired by purchase, gift, or otherwise than by inheritance. Bouvier.

The quality of being acquisitive; propensity to acquire property; desire of possession.

Possessing acres or landed property; -- used in composition; as, large-acred men.

The property of radiant energy (found chiefly in solar or electric light) by which chemical changes are produced, as in photography.

action as distinct from mere existence or state. Active capital, Active wealth, money, or property that may readily be converted into money.