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61squat — 1. to defecate The posture adopted and perhaps referring to the dialect meaning, to squirt: The authorities were trying to teach the people not to squat behind their huts. (M. McCarthy, 1967) For females, a squat may mean urination… …
62bona vacantia — [ˌbəʊnə və kantɪə] noun Law (in the UK) goods without an apparent owner, to which the Crown may have right. Origin L., ownerless goods …
63owner — noun a person who owns something. Derivatives ownerless adjective …
64unowned — a. 1. Ownerless. 2. Unacknowledged, unadmitted, unavowed …
65bona vacantia — Goods without an apparent owner. An example could be the possessions of a person with no living relatives who has died intestate. The Crown is entitled to any personal property without an apparent owner. The prerogative may also be extended to… …
66bona vacantia — Goods without an apparent owner. An example could be the possessions of a person with no living relatives who has died intestate. The Crown is entitled to any personal property without an apparent owner. The prerogative may also be extended to… …
67pye-dog — [[t]ˈpaɪˌdɔg, ˌdɒg[/t]] n. dch raj an ownerless half wild dog frequenting villages and towns, esp. in Asia • Etymology: 1860–65; pye said to be < Hindi pāhī outsider …
68derelict — [adj1] careless, negligent behindhand, delinquent, disregardful, irresponsible, lax, regardless, remiss, slack, undependable, unreliable, untrustworthy; concept 542 Ant. careful, caring derelict [adj2] deserted, forsaken abandoned, castoff,… …
69waive — [13] To waive something is etymologically to make a ‘waif’ of it. The word comes from Anglo Norman weyver, a derivative of the noun weif (source of English waif [14]). This originally meant ‘ownerless property’, and so the verb came to be used… …
70own — [ōn] adj. [ME owen < OE agen, pp. of agan, to possess: see OWE] 1. belonging, relating, or peculiar to oneself or itself: used to strengthen a preceding possessive [his own book, her own idea] 2. Now Rare related by blood rather than by… …
