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[= Sc. ain, awen; God wrougt it and wrot hit with his on fynger, And toke it Moyses vpon the mount alle men to lere. Piers Plowman (B), xi. 163. He sett them by hys awne syde, Vp at the hyze dese. The Horn of King Arthur (Child's Ballads, I. 25). To thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. Shak., Hamlet, i. 3. 78. IMG:content-2079.png:[graphic] Portius, behold thy brother, and remember Thy life is not thy own , when Rome demands it. Add is on , Cato, iv. 4. And Jove's own thunders follow Mars's drums. Pope , Dunciad, iv. 68. Beneath her father's roof, alone She seemed to live; her thoughts her own; Herself her own delight. Words worth, Ruth. Our own sun belongs to the cla of yellow stars, prob- ably somewhat past maturity. Tait , Light, § 328. [In this sense own is often used elliptically, the noun which it is to be regarded as qualifying being omitted: as, to hold one's own (that is, one's own ground, or one's own cause); a man can do as he likes with his own (that is, his own property, po e ions, goods, etc.). He came unto his own [po e ions], and his own [people] received him not. John i. 11. My study is to render every man his own , and to contain myself within the limits of a gentleman. Beau . and Fl ., Honest Man's Fortune, ii. 2. These poor can toners could not enjoy their own in quiet. Bp . Hacket , Abp. Williams, i. 67. The cup, the cup itself, from which our Lord Drank at the last sad supper with his own . [The superlative is sometimes used. Tennyson Holy Grail.] My bride to be, my evermore delight, My own heart's heart, and ownest own, farewell. Tennyson, Maud, xviii. 8.] 2. Actual: used without a po e ive, with to instead before the po e or; as, own brother to some one. Ferdinand, her brother, found a wife Where he himself was lost, Prospero his dukedom In a poor isle, and all of us ourselves Zuych [such-i. e., theft] is the zenne... of ham of religion thet byeth ozeneres, uor hi behoteth to lib be wy[th]-oute ozninge. Ayenbite of Inwyt (E. E. T. S.), p. 37. That love is merchandized whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where. With no Owner Beauty long will stay, Upon the Wings of Time borne swift away. Abutting owner. See abut . - Beneficial owner. See beneficial . - Dominant owner. See dominant tenement , under dominant. - Equitable owner, an owner having only an equitable estate. ownerle (ō'nėr-les), a. [ owner + -le .] Having no owner: as, ownerle dogs. ownership (ō'nėr-ship), n. [ -ship .] The state of being an owner; the right by which a thing belongs specifically to some The party entitled may make a formal, but peaceable entry thereon, declaring that thereby he takes po e ion; which notorious act of ownership is equivalent to a feodal investiture by the lord. Black stone , Com., III. x. own1 (ōn), v. t. [ ownership of land is recognized by our law- ahnien, aznien, āgnian , āhnian , have as books except in the crown. F. Pollock , Land Laws, p. 12. one's own, own, po e , claim as one's own,. appropriate to oneself, OHG. eiginen , MHG. eigenen, eignen, G. eignen = Icel. eigna = Sw. egna = Dan. egne , be proper, be becoming, be- seem; from the adj.: see own1 , a.] To have or IMG:content-2080.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-2081.jpg:[blocks in formation] 2. To admit; concede; acknowledge: as, to own a fault; to own the force of a statement. "Ich an wel," cwath the nigte gale, "Ah [but], wranne, nawt for thire tale." Her . 'Tis a saying, sir, not due to me. Leon. You will not own it. Bonitarian ownership. See bonitarian . own-form (on'form), a. In bot . , belonging to a plant having stamens of a length correspond- ing with the style of the plant to be fertilized: a term applied by Darwin to pollen used in cro -fertilizing dimorphic and trimorphic flowers. I have invariably employed pollen from a distinct plant of the same form for the illegitimate unions of all the species: and therefore it may be observed that I have used the term own - form pollen in speaking of such unions. ownne (on'nes), n. [ Napoleon,... with his ownne of impulse and in- sight, with his mystery and strength, in a word, with his originality (if we will understand that), reaches down into IMG:content-2082.jpg:[blocks in formation] ox-acid (oks'as"id), n. Same as oxyacid . oxalamide (ok-sal'a-mid or-mid), n. [ oxal - ic + amide .] Same as oxamide . oxalate (ok'sa-lāt), n. [ oxal - ic + -ate1 .] In chem ., a salt formed by a combination of oxalic acid with a base: as, pota ium oxalate . oxalemia, oxalæmia (ok-sa-lē'mi-ä), n . [NL., oxalic + Gr. αἷμα , blood.] Exce of oxalic acid or oxalates in the blood. oxalic (ok-sal'ik), a . [ oxalic us , όξαλίς , sorrel: see Oxalis .] Of or pertaining to sorrel. - Oxalic acid, (COOH)2, the acid of sorrel, first discovered in the juice of the Oxalis Ace to sell a. It is widely distributed in the vegetable king- dom in the form of pota ium, sodium, and calcium salts, and is made artificially by heating sawdust with a mix- ture of caustic potash and soda. It forms white crystals, is readily soluble in water and alcohol, has an intensely acid taste, and is violently poisonous. It is often sold under the erroneous name of salt of lemons . Oxalic acid Hughie the Graeme (Child's Ballads, VI. 56). is used largely in calico-printing, dyeing, and the bleach- An' owsen frae the furrow'd field Return sae dowf an' weary, O. He owns himself deterred from suicide by the thoughts of what may follow death. Goldsmith, Metaphors. I own the soft impeachment. Sheridan, Rivals, v. 3. Let each side own its fault and make amends! Browning , Ring and Book, I. 87. In the long sigh that sets our spirit free, We own the love that calls us back to Thee! IMG:content-2083.png:[blocks in formation] Ox (oks), n.; pl. oxen (ok'sn). [ oxe (pl. oxen ), oxa (pl. oxan ) = ÓS. * oh so = OFries. oxa = MD. o e , D. os = MLG. LG. o e = OHG. oh so, MHG.ohse, G. ochse, ochs = Icel. oxi , uxi = Sw. Dan.ore=Goth. auhsa , auhsus , an ox: an old Aryan word, like cow and steer , though not, like these, found in Gr. and L.; = Skt. ukshan , an ox, bull; referred by some, as 'impregnator,' to Skt. ✓ uksh , sprinkle;; by others to Skt. ✓ uksh , increase, wax, = E. waxl , q. v. The noun ox , plural oxen , is notable as being the only one still having in familiar use the old plural in -en (AS. -an ), the plurals eyne, hosen, and peasen , though of AS. origin, being obs. or archaic, and children , brethren, kine , and shoon , in which the plural in -en (-n, -ne) appears first in ME., being all (except chil- dren ) archaic, or at least (as brethren ) confined to a limited and non-vernacular use.] 1. The adult male of the domestic Bos taurus , known IMG:content-2084.png:[subsumed][subsumed][subsumed][ocr errors][subsumed][subsumed][merged small][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed][subsumed][merged small] 1. A genus of orna- mental plants, type of the tribe Oxa- lidea of the order Geraniacea. It is characterized by the ten perfect stamens, five distinct styles, and five-lobed loculicidal pod with ten persistent valves. There are about 205 species, mostly of South Africa and South America, with one or two widely scattered throughout the trop- ics, and three or four throughout the tem- perate zones. They produce short stems with alternate leaves, or more commonly rad- ical leaves from a fleshy rootstock or bulb. The characteristic leaves IMG:content-2085.png:[graphic] are of three radiating (wood-sorrel). e, pistil with some of inversely heart-shaped the stamens. leaflets; others are pin- fr , frontal; ma , mandible; c, cervical vertebræ; D , dorsal vertebræ; L, lumbar vertebræ; sc, scapula; hu , humerus; ul, ulna; ra, radius; mc , metacarpal; pe, pelvis; fe , femur; rib , tibia; ca , calcaneum; met , metatarsus; cp , carpus; tar , tarsus. nate or undivided. The flowers are yellow, pink, or white, usually in long-stalked umbels, with additional minute IMG:content-2086.png:[blocks in formation]