Property

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·adj Propriety; correctness.

II. Property ·vt To invest which properties, or qualities.

III. Property ·vt To make a property of; to Appropriate.

IV. Property ·adj The exclusive right of possessing, enjoying, and disposing of a thing; ownership; title.

V. Property ·adj All the adjuncts of a play except the scenery and the dresses of the actors; stage requisites.

VI. Property ·adj An acquired or artificial quality; that which is given by art, or bestowed by man; as, the poem has the properties which constitute excellence.

VII. Property ·adj That to which a person has a legal title, whether in his possession or not; thing owned; an estate, whether in lands, goods, or money; as, a man of large property, or small property.

VIII. Property ·adj That which is proper to anything; a peculiar quality of a thing; that which is inherent in a subject, or naturally essential to it; an attribute; as, sweetness is a property of sugar.

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