Definition of proper

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Proper (adv.) Properly; hence, to a great degree; very; as, proper good..

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Charge :: Charge (v. t.) Whatever constitutes a burden on property, as rents, taxes, lines, etc.; costs; expense incurred; -- usually in the plural..
Accept :: Accept (v. t.) In a deliberate body, to receive in acquittance of a duty imposed; as, to accept the report of a committee. [This makes it the property of the body, and the question is then on its adoption.].
Pseudomorphism :: Pseudomorphism (n.) The state of having, or the property of taking, a crystalline form unlike that which belongs to the species..
Glycol :: Glycol (n.) Any one of the large class of diacid alcohols, of which glycol proper is the type..
Electro-magnetism :: Electro-magnetism (n.) The magnetism developed by a current of electricity; the science which treats of the development of magnetism by means of voltaic electricity, and of the properties or actions of the currents evolved..
Eatable :: Eatable (a.) Capable of being eaten; fit to be eaten; proper for food; esculent; edible.
Property :: Property (a.) The exclusive right of possessing, enjoying, and disposing of a thing; ownership; title..
Attemperate :: Attemperate (a.) Tempered; proportioned; properly adapted.
Aliene :: Aliene (v. t.) To alien or alienate; to transfer, as title or property; as, to aliene an estate..
Punctuate :: Punctuate (v. t.) To mark with points; to separate into sentences, clauses, etc., by points or stops which mark the proper pauses in expressing the meaning..
Only :: Only (conj.) Save or except (that); -- an adversative used elliptically with or without that, and properly introducing a single fact or consideration..
Exchangeable :: Exchangeable (a.) Capable of being exchanged; fit or proper to be exchanged.
Summons :: Summons (v.) A warning or citation to appear in court; a written notification signed by the proper officer, to be served on a person, warning him to appear in court at a day specified, to answer to the plaintiff, testify as a witness, or the like..
Garnishee :: Garnishee (v. t.) To attach (the fund or property sought to be secured by garnishment); to trustee.
Pleomorphism :: Pleomorphism (n.) The property of crystallizing under two or more distinct fundamental forms, including dimorphism and trimorphism..
Alkalinity :: Alkalinity (n.) The quality which constitutes an alkali; alkaline property.
Metal :: Metal (n.) An elementary substance, as sodium, calcium, or copper, whose oxide or hydroxide has basic rather than acid properties, as contrasted with the nonmetals, or metalloids. No sharp line can be drawn between the metals and nonmetals, and certain elements partake of both acid and basic qualities, as chromium, manganese, bismuth, etc..
Intolerable :: Intolerable (a.) Not tolerable; not capable of being borne or endured; not proper or right to be allowed; insufferable; insupportable; unbearable; as, intolerable pain; intolerable heat or cold; an intolerable burden..
Domain :: Domain (n.) Landed property; estate; especially, the land about the mansion house of a lord, and in his immediate occupancy; demesne..
Pyrology :: Pyrology (n.) That branch of physical science which treats of the properties, phenomena, or effects of heat; also, a treatise on heat..
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