own 
My lady Claytone, who, never having had any child of 
her own, grew to make so much of me as if she had been 
an own mother to me. 
Autobiography of Lady Warwick, p. 2. (Nares.) 
"Own brother, sir," observes Durdles, . . . "to Peter 
the Wild Boy ! " Dickens, Edwin Drood, v. 
Of one's own motion, of spontaneous impulse ; at one's 
own suggestion ; of one's own accord ; spontaneously. 
The ownt, its own. 
The bodie whereof was afflicted on the East by the Per- 
sians, on the West by the Gothes and other Barbarians, 
and fretted within the owne bowels by intestine rebellions. 
Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 246. 
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Zuych [such i. e. t theft] is the zenne ... of ham of 
religion thet byeth ojeneres, uor hi behoteth to libbe 
wy[th]-oute ogninge. Ayentrile of Inwyt (E. E. T. S.), p. 37. 
That love is merchandized whose rich esteeming 
The owner's tongue doth publish every where. 
Shak., Sonnet*, cii. 
With no Owner Beauty long will stay, 
Upon the Wings of Time borne swift away. 
Prior, Celia to Damon. 
Abutting owner. See abut. Beneficial owner. See 
beneficial. Dominant owner. -See dominant tenement, 
under domiiiant. Equitable owner, an owner having 
only an equitable estate. 
, 
Where he himself was lost, Prospero his dukedom 
To be one's own man. (at) To be in one's right senses or Ownerless (6'ner-les), a. [< owner + -less.] 
normal state of mind. Having no owner: as, ownerless dogs. 
Ferdinand, her brother, found a wife ownership (6'ner-ship), n. [< owner + -ship.] 
The state of being an owner; the right by 
which a thing belongs specifically to some 
person or body ; proprietorship ; possession as 
an owner or proprietor. See owner. 
The party entitled may make a formal, but peaceable 
entry thereon, declaring that thereby he takes possession ; 
which notorious act of ownership is equivalent to a feodal 
investiture by the lord. Blackstone, Com., III. x. 
No absolute ownership of land is recognized by our law- 
books except in the crown. F . Pollock, Land Laws, p. 12. 
appropriate to oneself, = OHG. eiginen, MHG. BorUtarian ownership. See -.bomtarian 
eigenen, eignen, G. eignen = Icel. eigna = Sw. Own-form (on form), a. In lot, belonging to a 
eqna = Dan. egne, be proper, be becoming, be- P^t having stamens of a length correspond- 
seem ; from the adj. : see own 1 , a.] To have or ln g mth the W e * * P^ nt J be fertilized : 
hold as one's own; possess; hold or possess a term ?PP. 1 1 led ty -Darwin to pollen used 
rightfully or legally; have and enjoy the right J. n cross-fertilizing dimorphic and tnmorphic 
Which so cut his heart, to see a woman his confusion, 
that hee was never his owne man afterward. 
Dekker, Strange Horse Race (1618). (Nares.) 
(fe) To be free to control one's own time. To hold one's 
own. See def. 1, and holdi. 
own 1 (on), v. t. [< ME. ownen, ohnien, ognien, 
ahnien, agnien, < AS. dgnian, dhnian, have as 
one's own, own, possess, claim as one's own, 
of property in; in a general sense, to have : as, to 
own a large estate, or a part interest in a ship. - 1 h ave invariably employed pollen from a distinct plant 
of the same form for the illegitimate unions of all the 
Not Afric owns a serpent I abhor 
More than thy fame and envy. 
Shak., Cor., i. 8. 3. 
But none of them owns the landscape. , - , * 
Emerson, Nature, p. 11. OWnneSS (on &), 
=Syn. Hold, Occupy, etc. See possess. 
own 2 (on), v. [In the present form due to con- 
fusion with own 1 , v. (being formerly also some- 
times owe (see owe 2 ), by further confusion with 
owe 1 ); < ME. unnen, < AS. unnan = OS. unnan, 
the present, orig. pret., being AS. an, on (=OS. 
an = MHG. an, on, etc.), pi. unnon, weak pret. 
uthe, etc.] I. trans. If. To grant; give. 
species : and therefore it may be observed that I have used 
the term own-form pollen in speaking of such unions. 
Darwin, Different Forms of Flowers, p. 24. 
[Xown 1 , a., + -ness.] The 
quality of being peculiar to one's self. 
Napoleon, . . . with his ownness of impulse and in- 
sight, with his mystery and strength, in a word, with his 
originality (if we will understand that), reaches down into 
the region of the perennial and primeval. 
Carlyle, Misc., IV. 198. 
owset, n. An obsolete form of ooze. 
OWsellt, n. [Origin obscure ; cf. owse, ooze.] A 
slough ; a quagmire. 
God hunne [read unne] him ethemodes [well-disposed] ben, 
And sende me min childre agen. 
Genesis and Exodus (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2249. 
He on the [thee] muchele more. 
Proverbs of Alfred, 1. 241. 
2. To admit; concede; acknowledge: as, to own 
a fault; to own the force of a statement. 
Twenty white owsen, my gude lord, 
If you'll grant Hughie the Graeme to me. 
Hughie the Graeme (Child's Ballads, VI. 66). 
An' owsen frae the furrow'd field 
Return sae dowf an* weary, O. 
Burns, My Ain Kind Dearie, O. 
But, for singing, among other things, we got Mrs Cole- OWtt, OWtet, adv. Obsolete spellings of out. 
an to sing part of the Opera, though she would not own OX (oks), n. ; pi. oxen (ok ' sn). [< ME. oxe (pi 
oxen),< AS. oxa (pi. oxan) = OS. *ohso = OFries. 
oxa = MD. osse, D. os = MLG. LG. osse = OHG. 
ohso, MHG. ohse, G. ochse, ochs = Icel. oxi, uxi = 
Sw. Dan. oxe= Goth, auhsa, auhstts, an ox : an old 
Aryan word, like cow and steer, though not, like 
these, found in Gr. and L. ; = W. ych, an ox, 
= Skt. ukshan, an ox, bull ; referred by some, 
as 'impregnator,' to Skt. / nksh, sprinkle; by 
^4-Un.n *~ CH~* - / ..7._I. ' * ^ ' f 
I am verily perswaded that neither the touch of con- 
science, nor the sense and seeing of any religion, ever 
drewe these into that damnable and untwineable traine 
and owseU of perdition. J. Melton, Sixefold Politician. 
A dialectal form of oxen. 
"Ich an wel," cwath the nijte gale, 
"Ah [but], wranne, nawt for thire tale." 
Owl and Nightingale, 1. 1739. 
Ber. 'Tis a saying, sir, not due to me. 
Leon. You will not own it. 
Shak., W. T., iii. 2. 60. 
she did get any of it without book in order to the stage. 
Pepys, Diary, II. 319. 
He own* 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 ! * ^ - / - r 7 -M , j 
0. W. Holmes, Dedication of the Pittsfleld Cemetery, others to Skt. / uksh, increase, wax, = E. wax 1 , 
3. To recognize ; acknowledge : as, to own one 1' v ' . Tlle noun ox < pi* 1 oxen, is notable 
as a son. as being the only one still having in familiar 
How shall I own thee? shall this tongue of mine use tne ^ plural in -en (AS. -aw), the plurals 
E'er call thee daughter more? eyne, hosen, and peasen, though of AS. origin, 
Beau, and Fl, Philaster, v. 5. being obs. or archaic, and children, brethren, 
th;rhMr?h ptUre <m * " 8Uch M % der ' ch , function in kine, and shoon, in which the plural in -en (-n, 
MMon Eikonoklastes, xxiv. .) appears first in ME., being all (except 
S^^SSSS^S^SSStS ) archa ic, or at least' (as Lthr^) c&l 
to" 06 - Evelyn, Diary, June 30, 1660. 
To own up, to confess fully and unreservedly; make a 
clean breast " of a matter : usually implying confession 
as the result of pressure or when brought to bay. [Collon 1 
= SJJP-. ?. Admit, Confess, etc. See acknowledge. 
II. intrant. To confess : with to : as, to own 
to a fault. [Colloq.] 
May did not own to the possession of the bond. 
, Mrs. Crowe. 
Ownat, bame as ound*. 
owner (6'ner), n. [< ME. ownere, ogenere (= 
D. eigenaar = Q. eigner) < own 1 + -er 1 .] One 
who owns; the rightful proprietor; one who 
has the legal or rightful title, whether he is the 
possessor or not; in a general sense, one who 
has or possesses. When used alone it does not neces- 
sarily imply exclusive or absolute ownership. One who Skeleton of o* (Bus t au r,, s ). 
>lds subject to a mortgage, or otherwise has only a qual- ./' f 'n<al : '"". mandible ; c, cervical vertebra ; D, dorsal verte- 
ified fee, is generally termed owner if he has a right to "*?-' L " lumbar vertebra ; sc, scapula; hu, humerus ; / ulna- "a 
possession. 1S; "" roetacarpal ; fe, pelvis ; ft. femur ; lib, tibia j ca. cat 
caneum ; mtl, metatarsus ; cf, carpus ; tar, tarsus. 
(as brethren) confined 
to a limited and non-vernacular use.] 1. The 
adult male of the domestic Bos taiirus, known 
Oxalis 
in the natural state as a bull, whose female is a 
<, and whose young is a calf; in a wider 
sense, an animal of the family Bovidas and sub- 
family Bovinte or Ovibovituv; a bovine. The sev- 
eral animals of this kind have each of them specific des- 
ignations, as buffalo, bison, aurochs, zebu, musk-ox, etc.: 
the word is commonly restricted to the varieties of Bos 
taunts, the common ox, which is one of the most valuable 
of domestic animals. Its flesh is the principal article of 
animal food, and there is scarcely any part of the animal 
that is not useful to mankind : the skin, the horns, the 
bones, the blood, the hair, and the refuse of all these, have 
their separate uses. Having been specially domesticated 
by man from a stock which it is probably impossible to 
trace, the result has been the formation of very many 
breeds, races, or permanent varieties, some of which are 
valued for their flesh and hides, some for the richness and 
abundance of their milk, while others are in great repute 
for both beef and milk. Among the first class may be 
mentioned the Durham or shorthorn, the polled Aber- 
deen or Angus, and the West Highland or kyloe. Among 
the most celebrated for dairy purposes are the Jersey, 
Guernsey, Holstein-Friesian, Ayrshire, and Suffolk dun. 
For the purposes both of the dairy-farmer and of the 
grazier, the Hereford and a cross between a shorthorn and 
an Ayrshire are much fancied. The ox is used in many 
parts of the world as a beast of draft. The " wild ox," now 
surviving in only a few parks, as at Chillingham Park in 
Northumberland, and at Cadzow Forest in Lanarkshire, 
seems, whatever its origin, to have been formerly an inhabi- 
tant of many forest-districts in Great Britain, particularly 
in the north of England and the south of Scotland. 
2. In a restricted sense, the castrated male of 
-Bo* taurus, at least 4 years old and full-grown 
or nearly so. (See steer.) Such animals are 
most used as draft-animals and for beef Galla 
ox, the sanga, a kind of ox found in the Galla country. 
Hamilton Smith. Indian OX, the brahminy bull. To 
have the black ox tread on one's foott, to know what 
sorrow or adversity is. 
When the blacke Crowe's foote shall appeare in their 
eie, or the black oxe tread on their foote who will like 
them in their age who liked none in their youth ? 
Lyly, Euphues and his England, p. 1. 
OX-acid (oks'as'id), n. Same as oxyacid. 
oxalamide (ok-sal'a-niid or -mid), n. [< oxal-ic 
+ amide.] Same as oxamide. 
oxalate (ok'sa-lat), n. [< oxal-ic + -ate 1 .] In 
chem., a salt formed by a combination of oxalic 
acid with a base : as, potassium oxalate. 
oxalemia, oxalaemia (ok-sa-le'mi-a), n. [NL., 
< oxal-ic + Gr. al/ia, blood!} Excess of oxalic 
acid or oxalates in the blood. 
oxalic (ok-sal'ik), a. [< NL. oxalieus, < L. 
oxalis, < Gr. bt-aMc, sorrel: see Oxalis.] Of or 
pertaining to sorrel. -Oxalic add, (COOHfe, the 
acid of sorrel, first discovered in the juice of the Oxalis 
acetosella. It is widely distributed in the vegetable king- 
dom in the form of potassium, 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 
is used largely in calico-printing, dyeing, and the bleach- 
ing of flax and straw. Oxalic-acid diathesis, the con- 
dition of the system when there is marked oxalemia. 
Oxalidaceae (ok-sal-i-da'se-e), n. pi. [NL. 
(Lindley, 1845), < Oxalis (-id-) + -acece.] Same 
as Oxalidece, regarded by Lindley as an order. 
Oxalideae (ok-sa-lid'e-e), n. pi. [NL. (A. P. de 
Candolle, 1824)'J < Oxalis (-id-) + -ew.] A tribe 
of plants of the polypetalous order Geraniacece, 
the geranium family, distinguished by the reg- 
ular flowers, imbricate sepals, and capitate 
Stigmas. It includes five genera, of which Oxalis is the 
type. They are herbs or trees, usually with compound 
leaves and ten stamens. 
Oxalis (ok'sa-lis), n. [NL. (Linnaeus, 1737), < L 
oxalis, < Gr. ofa/Uf, sorrel, also sour wine, < 
offcf, sharp, pun- 
fent, acid, sour.] 
. A genus of orna- 
mental plants, type 
of the tribe Oxa- 
lidece of the order 
Geraniacece. it is 
characterized by the 
ten perfect stamens, 
five distinct styles, and 
flve-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 
rootstockorbulb. The 
characteristic leaves 
are of three radiating 
inversely heart-shaped 
leaflets ; others are pin- 
nate or undivided. The flowers are yellow, pink, or white, 
usually in long-stalked umbels, with additional minute 
Flowering Plant of Oxalis violacea 
(wood-sorrel), a, pistil with some of 
