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Boast :: Boast (v. t.) To possess or have; as, to boast a name..

Prepossessing :: Prepossessing (a.) Tending to invite favor; attracting confidence, favor, esteem, or love; attractive; as, a prepossessing manner..

Hold :: Hold (v. t.) To retain in one's keeping; to maintain possession of, or authority over; not to give up or relinquish; to keep; to defend..

Replevin :: Replevin (n.) A personal action which lies to recover possession of goods and chattle wrongfully taken or detained. Originally, it was a remedy peculiar to cases for wrongful distress, but it may generally now be brought in all cases of wrongful taking or detention..

Prepossession :: Prepossession (n.) Preoccupation; prior possession.

Virtuous :: Virtuous (a.) Possessing or exhibiting virtue.

Bear :: Bear (v. t.) To possess mentally; to carry or hold in the mind; to entertain; to harbo.

In-going :: In-going (a.) Going; entering, as upon an office or a possession; as, an in-going tenant..

Handicap :: Handicap (n.) An allowance of a certain amount of time or distance in starting, granted in a race to the competitor possessing inferior advantages; or an additional weight or other hindrance imposed upon the one possessing superior advantages, in order to equalize, as much as possible, the chances of success; as, the handicap was five seconds, or ten pounds, and the like..

Have :: Have (v. t.) To get possession of; to obtain; to get.

Disseizee :: Disseizee (n.) A person disseized, or put out of possession of an estate unlawfully; -- correlative to disseizor..

Have :: Have (v. t.) To possess, as something which appertains to, is connected with, or affects, one..

Seizure :: Seizure (n.) The act of seizing, or the state of being seized; sudden and violent grasp or gripe; a taking into possession; as, the seizure of a thief, a property, a throne, etc..

Divestiture :: Divestiture (n.) The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc..

Stranger :: Stranger (n.) One not privy or party an act, contract, or title; a mere intruder or intermeddler; one who interferes without right; as, actual possession of land gives a good title against a stranger having no title; as to strangers, a mortgage is considered merely as a pledge; a mere stranger to the levy..

Prepossessed :: Prepossessed (imp. & p. p.) of Preposses.

Weak :: Weak (v. i.) Not possessing or manifesting intellectual, logical, moral, or political strength, vigor, etc..

Deprivation :: Deprivation (n.) The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity..

Learned :: Learned (a.) Of or pertaining to learning; possessing, or characterized by, learning, esp. scholastic learning; erudite; well-informed; as, a learned scholar, writer, or lawyer; a learned book; a learned theory..

Confuse :: Confuse (v. t.) To perplex; to disconcert; to abash; to cause to lose self-possession.

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