(v. t.) To grant; to acknowledge; to admit to be true; to confess; to recognize in a particular character; as, we own that we have forfeited your love.

(a.) Belonging to; belonging exclusively or especially to; peculiar; -- most frequently following a possessive pronoun, as my, our, thy, your, his, her, its, their, in order to emphasize or intensify the idea of property, peculiar interest, or exclusive ownership; as, my own father; my own composition; my own idea; at my own price.

(v.) To possess; to have, as the rightful owner; to own.

(v.) To have or possess, as something derived or bestowed; to be obliged to ascribe (something to some source); to be indebted or obliged for; as, he owed his wealth to his father; he owed his victory to his lieutenants.

(v.) Hence: To have or be under an obigation to restore, pay, or render (something) in return or compensation for something received; to be indebted in the sum of; as, the subject owes allegiance; the fortunate owe assistance to the unfortunate.

(v.) To have an obligation to (some one) on account of something done or received; to be indebted to; as, to iwe the grocer for supplies, or a laborer for services.

(n.) Any species of raptorial birds of the family Strigidae. They have large eyes and ears, and a conspicuous circle of feathers around each eye. They are mostly nocturnal in their habits.

(n.) A variety of the domestic pigeon.

(v. i.) To pry about; to prowl.

(v. i.) To carry wool or sheep out of England.

(v. i.) Hence, to carry on any contraband trade.

(a.) To hold as property; to have a legal or rightful title to; to be the proprietor or possessor of; to possess; as, to own a house.

(a.) Any.

(a.) Open.

(v. t. & i.) To open.

(a.) Being a single unit, or entire being or thing, and no more; not multifold; single; individual.

(a.) Denoting a person or thing conceived or spoken of indefinitely; a certain. "I am the sister of one Claudio" [Shak.], that is, of a certain man named Claudio.

(a.) Pointing out a contrast, or denoting a particular thing or person different from some other specified; -- used as a correlative adjective, with or without the.

(a.) Closely bound together; undivided; united; constituting a whole.

(a.) Single in kind; the same; a common.

(a.) Single; inmarried.

(n.) A single unit; as, one is the base of all numbers.

(n.) A symbol representing a unit, as 1, or i.

(a.) One.

(n.) A single person or thing.

(indef. pron.) Any person, indefinitely; a person or body; as, what one would have well done, one should do one's self.

(v. t.) To cause to become one; to gather into a single whole; to unite; to assimilite.

(interj.) An exclamation of surprise, etc.

(n.) Any one of a great variety of unctuous combustible substances, not miscible with water; as, olive oil, whale oil, rock oil, etc. They are of animal, vegetable, or mineral origin and of varied composition, and they are variously used for food, for solvents, for anointing, lubrication, illumination, etc. By extension, any substance of an oily consistency; as, oil of vitriol.

(v. t.) To smear or rub over with oil; to lubricate with oil; to anoint with oil.

(n.) A Turkish and Egyptian weight, equal to about 2/ pounds.

(n.) An Hungarian and Wallachian measure, equal to about 2/ pints.

(adv.) Often; frequently; not rarely; many times.

(a.) Frequent; often; repeated.

(pl. ) of I

(n.) A word or words omitted by the compositor in setting up copy; an omission.

(v. t.) To cause to be out; to eject; to expel.

(v. t.) To come out with; to make known.

(v. t.) To give out; to dispose of; to sell.

(v. i.) To come or go out; to get out or away; to become public.

(interj.) Expressing impatience, anger, a desire to be rid of; -- with the force of command; go out; begone; away; off.

(a.) In its original and strict sense, out means from the interior of something; beyond the limits or boundary of somethings; in a position or relation which is exterior to something; -- opposed to in or into. The something may be expressed after of, from, etc. (see Out of, below); or, if not expressed, it is implied; as, he is out; or, he is out of the house, office, business, etc.; he came out; or, he came out from the ship, meeting, sect, party, etc.

(a.) Away; abroad; off; from home, or from a certain, or a usual, place; not in; not in a particular, or a usual, place; as, the proprietor is out, his team was taken out.

(a.) Beyond the limits of concealment, confinement, privacy, constraint, etc., actual of figurative; hence, not in concealment, constraint, etc., in, or into, a state of freedom, openness, disclosure, publicity, etc.; as, the sun shines out; he laughed out, to be out at the elbows; the secret has leaked out, or is out; the disease broke out on his face; the book is out.

(a.) Beyond the limit of existence, continuance, or supply; to the end; completely; hence, in, or into, a condition of extinction, exhaustion, completion; as, the fuel, or the fire, has burned out.

(a.) Beyond possession, control, or occupation; hence, in, or into, a state of want, loss, or deprivation; -- used of office, business, property, knowledge, etc.; as, the Democrats went out and the Whigs came in; he put his money out at interest.

(a.) Beyond the bounds of what is true, reasonable, correct, proper, common, etc.; in error or mistake; in a wrong or incorrect position or opinion; in a state of disagreement, opposition, etc.; in an inharmonious relation.

(a.) Not in the position to score in playing a game; not in the state or turn of the play for counting or gaining scores.

(n.) One who, or that which, is out; especially, one who is out of office; -- generally in the plural.

(n.) A place or space outside of something; a nook or corner; an angle projecting outward; an open space; -- chiefly used in the phrase ins and outs; as, the ins and outs of a question. See under In.

(adv.) Denoting a different direction; not on or towards: away; as, to look off.

(adv.) Denoting opposition or negation.

(interj.) Away; begone; -- a command to depart.

(prep.) Not on; away from; as, to be off one's legs or off the bed; two miles off the shore.

(a.) On the farther side; most distant; on the side of an animal or a team farthest from the driver when he is on foot; in the United States, the right side; as, the off horse or ox in a team, in distinction from the nigh or near horse or ox; the off leg.

(a.) Designating a time when one is not strictly attentive to business or affairs, or is absent from his post, and, hence, a time when affairs are not urgent; as, he took an off day for fishing: an off year in politics.

(n.) The side of the field that is on the right of the wicket keeper.

(adv.) In a general sense, denoting from or away from; as:

(adv.) Denoting distance or separation; as, the house is a mile off.

(adv.) Denoting the action of removing or separating; separation; as, to take off the hat or cloak; to cut off, to pare off, to clip off, to peel off, to tear off, to march off, to fly off, and the like.

(adv.) Denoting a leaving, abandonment, departure, abatement, interruption, or remission; as, the fever goes off; the pain goes off; the game is off; all bets are off.

(n.) The grampus.

(n.) Alt. of Orfe

(pl. ) of O

(n.) See Woad.

(n.) Originally, an elf's child; a changeling left by fairies or goblins; hence, a deformed or foolish child; a simpleton; an idiot.

(n) An implement for impelling a boat, being a slender piece of timber, usually ash or spruce, with a grip or handle at one end and a broad blade at the other. The part which rests in the rowlock is called the loom.

(n) An oarsman; a rower; as, he is a good oar.

(n) An oarlike swimming organ of various invertebrates.

(v. t. & i.) To row.

() A prefix signifying to, toward, before, against, reversely, etc.; also, as a simple intensive; as in oblige, to bind to; obstacle, something standing before; object, lit., to throw against; obovate, reversely, ovate. Ob- is commonly assimilated before c, f, g, and p, to oc-, of-, og-, and op-.

(n.) A species of sorcery, probably of African origin, practiced among the negroes of the West Indies.

(n.) A charm or fetich.

(possessive pron.) Of or pertaining to us; belonging to us; as, our country; our rights; our troops; our endeavors. See I.

(n.) A short poetical composition proper to be set to music or sung; a lyric poem; esp., now, a poem characterized by sustained noble sentiment and appropriate dignity of style.