Definition of proper

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Proper (a.) Represented in its natural color; -- said of any object used as a charge.

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Secundo-geniture :: Secundo-geniture (n.) A right of inheritance belonging to a second son; a property or possession so inherited.
Only :: Only (conj.) Save or except (that); -- an adversative used elliptically with or without that, and properly introducing a single fact or consideration..
File :: File (v. t.) To bring before a court or legislative body by presenting proper papers in a regular way; as, to file a petition or bill..
Real :: Real (a.) Pertaining to things fixed, permanent, or immovable, as to lands and tenements; as, real property, in distinction from personal or movable property..
Devise :: Devise (n.) Property devised, or given by will..
Distribution :: Distribution (n.) The sorting of types and placing them in their proper boxes in the cases.
Adjustment :: Adjustment (n.) The act of adjusting, or condition of being adjusted; act of bringing into proper relations; regulation..
Personalty :: Personalty (n.) Personal property, as distinguished from realty or real property..
They :: They (obj.) The plural of he, she, or it. They is never used adjectively, but always as a pronoun proper, and sometimes refers to persons without an antecedent expressed..
Timocracy :: Timocracy (n.) A state in which honors are distributed according to a rating of property.
Forwarding :: Forwarding (n.) The act of one who forwards; the act or occupation of transmitting merchandise or other property for others.
Contact :: Contact (n.) The property of two curves, or surfaces, which meet, and at the point of meeting have a common direction..
Loco :: Loco (adv.) A direction in written or printed music to return to the proper pitch after having played an octave higher.
Fault :: Fault (n.) Failure to serve the ball into the proper court.
Vise :: Vise (n.) An indorsement made on a passport by the proper authorities of certain countries on the continent of Europe, denoting that it has been examined, and that the person who bears it is permitted to proceed on his journey; a visa..
Levy :: Levy (v. i.) To seize property, real or personal, or subject it to the operation of an execution; to make a levy; as, to levy on property; the usual mode of levying, in England, is by seizing the goods..
Plesimorphism :: Plesimorphism (n.) The property possessed by some substances of crystallizing in closely similar forms while unlike in chemical composition.
Glucose :: Glucose (n.) Any one of a large class of sugars, isometric with glucose proper, and including levulose, galactose, etc..
Bearing :: Bearing (n.) Improperly, the unsupported span; as, the beam has twenty feet of bearing between its supports..
Individualize :: Individualize (v. t.) The mark as an individual, or to distinguish from others by peculiar properties; to invest with individuality..
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