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Power :: Power (n.) An authority enabling a person to dispose of an interest vested either in himself or in another person; ownership by appointment.

Count :: Count (v. i.) To number or be counted; to possess value or carry weight; hence, to increase or add to the strength or influence of some party or interest; as, every vote counts; accidents count for nothing..

Disinterest :: Disinterest (n.) Indifference to profit; want of regard to private advantage; disinterestedness.

Prick :: Prick (n.) To make sharp; to erect into a point; to raise, as something pointed; -- said especially of the ears of an animal, as a horse or dog; and usually followed by up; -- hence, to prick up the ears, to listen sharply; to have the attention and interest strongly engaged..

Fraud :: Fraud (n.) Deception deliberately practiced with a view to gaining an unlawful or unfair advantage; artifice by which the right or interest of another is injured; injurious stratagem; deceit; trick.

Eye-saint :: Eye-saint (n.) An object of interest to the eye; one worshiped with the eyes.

Habendum :: Habendum (n.) That part of a deed which follows the part called the premises, and determines the extent of the interest or estate granted; -- so called because it begins with the word Habendum..

Intervene :: Intervene (v. i.) In a suit to which one has not been made a party, to put forward a defense of one's interest in the subject matter..

Trade Union :: Trade union () An organized combination among workmen for the purpose of maintaining their rights, privileges, and interests with respect to wages, hours of labor, customs, etc..

Quietism :: Quietism (n.) The system of the Quietists, who maintained that religion consists in the withdrawal of the mind from worldly interests and anxieties and its constant employment in the passive contemplation of God and his attributes..

Usurer :: Usurer (n.) One who lends money at a rate of interest beyond that established by law; one who exacts an exorbitant rate of interest for the use of money.

Common :: Common (n.) The right of taking a profit in the land of another, in common either with the owner or with other persons; -- so called from the community of interest which arises between the claimant of the right and the owner of the soil, or between the claimants and other commoners entitled to the same right..

Produce :: Produce (v. t.) To yield or furnish; to gain; as, money at interest produces an income; capital produces profit..

Cleave :: Cleave (v. i. ) To unite or be united closely in interest or affection; to adhere with strong attachment.

Self-neglecting :: Self-neglecting (n.) A neglecting of one's self, or of one's own interests..

Maintainor :: Maintainor (n.) One who, not being interested, maintains a cause depending between others, by furnishing money, etc., to either party..

Possibility :: Possibility (n.) That which is possible; a contingency; a thing or event that may not happen; a contingent interest, as in real or personal estate..

Do :: Do (v. t. / auxiliary) To see or inspect; to explore; as, to do all the points of interest..

Bottomry :: Bottomry (n.) A contract in the nature of a mortgage, by which the owner of a ship, or the master as his agent, hypothecates and binds the ship (and sometimes the accruing freight) as security for the repayment of money advanced or lent for the use of the ship, if she terminates her voyage successfully. If the ship is lost by perils of the sea, the lender loses the money; but if the ship arrives safe, he is to receive the money lent, with the interest or premium stipulated, although it may, and

Expedient :: Expedient (a.) Hastening or forward; hence, tending to further or promote a proposed object; fit or proper under the circumstances; conducive to self-interest; desirable; advisable; advantageous; -- sometimes contradistinguished from right..

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