ownership

[Eng.owner; -ship.] The quality or state of being an owner; the legal right or title to the po e ion of anything; proprietorship, po e ion. "Which notorious act of ownership is equivalent to a feodal investiture by the lord."-Black stone: Comment., bk. iii., ch. 10. *ōwn-ne , s. [Eng. own , a.; -ne .] Individuality. ( Carlyle : Miscellanies , iv. 198.) *owre, s . [URE.) An aurochs (q. v.). owre-hip, s. [Scotch owre =over, and hip.] A way of fetching a blow with the hammer over the arm.