Definition of proper

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Proper (a.) Belonging to the natural or essential constitution; peculiar; not common; particular; as, every animal has his proper instincts and appetites..

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Time :: Time (v. t.) To appoint the time for; to bring, begin, or perform at the proper season or time; as, he timed his appearance rightly..
Risk :: Risk (n.) Hazard of loss; liabillity to loss in property.
Allotriophagy :: Allotriophagy (n.) A depraved appetite; a desire for improper food.
Self-defensive :: Self-defensive (a.) Defending, or tending to defend, one's own person, property, or reputation..
Acred :: Acred (a.) Possessing acres or landed property; -- used in composition; as, large-acred men..
Familiar :: Familiar (a.) Improperly acquainted; wrongly intimate.
Law :: Law (n.) Collectively, the whole body of rules relating to one subject, or emanating from one source; -- including usually the writings pertaining to them, and judicial proceedings under them; as, divine law; English law; Roman law; the law of real property; insurance law..
Molar :: Molar (a.) Of or pertaining to a mass of matter; -- said of the properties or motions of masses, as distinguished from those of molecules or atoms..
Stellular :: Stellionate (n.) Any fraud not distinguished by a more special name; -- chiefly applied to sales of the same property to two different persons, or selling that for one's own which belongs to another, etc..
Suit :: Suit (v. t.) To fit; to adapt; to make proper or suitable; as, to suit the action to the word..
Deformity :: Deformity (a.) The state of being deformed; want of proper form or symmetry; any unnatural form or shape; distortion; irregularity of shape or features; ugliness.
Proper :: Proper (a.) Becoming in appearance; well formed; handsome.
Acknowledgment :: Acknowledgment (n.) A declaration or avowal of one's own act, to give it legal validity; as, the acknowledgment of a deed before a proper officer. Also, the certificate of the officer attesting such declaration..
Propriety :: Propriety (n.) That which is proper or peculiar; an inherent property or quality; peculiarity.
Thrift :: Thrift (n.) A thriving state; good husbandry; economical management in regard to property; frugality.
Cheat :: Cheat (n.) The obtaining of property from another by an intentional active distortion of the truth.
Wrest :: Wrest (v. t.) To turn from truth; to twist from its natural or proper use or meaning by violence; to pervert; to distort.
Illtreat :: Illtreat (v. t.) To treat cruelly or improperly; to ill use; to maltreat.
Phthalimide :: Phthalimide (n.) An imido derivative of phthalic acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance, C6H4.(CO)2NH, which has itself (like succinimide) acid properties, and forms a series of salts. Cf. Imido acid, under Imido..
Sulphine :: Sulphindigotic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a sulphonic acid obtained, as a blue solution, by dissolving indigo in sulphuric acid; -- formerly called also cerulic sulphuric acid, but properly called indigo-disulphonic acid..
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