heirloom (heir as ar)

[Eng. heir, and Mid. English loom = a piece of property; furniture.] [LOOM, 8.] 1. A personal chattel which by special custom descends to the heir with the heritable estate. "Thus an heirloom , or implement of furniture, which by custom descends together with an house, is neither land or tenement, but a mere movable: yet being inherit. able is comprised under the general word hereditament." -Black stone: Comment., bk. ii., ch. 2. 2. Any special inheritance; property handed down by inheritance. "This tumor by a king might cured be alone: Which he an heirloom left unto the English throne." Drayton: Polyolbion, s. 11.