n. (Zool.) One of the Chiroptera; -- an older spelling of chiropter. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]
‖prop. n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr.
a. (Zool.) chiropterous; belonging to the Chiroptera, or Bat family. [ 1913 Webster ]
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n. A joint heir; one of two or more heirs; one of several entitled to an inheritance. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A female heir who inherits with other heiresses; a joint heiress. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The state of being a coheir. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. [ Cf. Disherit. ] To disinherit. [ Obs. ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ OE. heir, eir, hair, OF. heir, eir, F. hoir, L. heres; of uncertain origin. Cf. Hereditary, Heritage. ]
I am my father's heir and only son. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
And I his heir in misery alone. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]
Heir apparent. (Law.)
Heir at law,
Heir presumptive,
v. t. To inherit; to succeed to. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
One only daughter heired the royal state. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The state of an heir; succession by inheritance. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A female heir. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Destitute of an heir. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Heir + loom, in its earlier sense of
Woe to him whose daring hand profanes
The honored heirlooms of his ancestors. Moir. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The state, character, or privileges of an heir; right of inheriting. [ 1913 Webster ]
Heirship movables,
peop. n. A genus of giant crabs of Japan.
pron. & a. [ OE. thair, fr. Icel. þeirra, þeira, of them, but properly gen. pl. of the definite article; akin to AS. ðāra, ð&aemacr_;ra, gen. pl. of the definite article, or fr. AS. ð&aemacr_;ra, influenced by the Scandinavian use. See That. ] The possessive case of the personal pronoun they;
☞ The possessive takes the form theirs (&unr_;) when the noun to which it refers is not expressed, but implied or understood; as, our land is richest, but theirs is best cultivated. [ 1913 Webster ]
Nothing but the name of zeal appears
'Twixt our best actions and the worst of theirs. Denham. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Destitute of an heir. [ 1913 Webster ]
To leave him utterly unheired. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]