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The home and appurtenant land and buildings owned by the head of a family, and occupied by him and his family. Homestead law. A law conferring special privileges or exemptions upon owners of homesteads; esp., a law exempting a homestead

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The home and appurtenant land and buildings owned by the head of a family, and occupied by him and his family. Homestead law. A law conferring special privileges or exemptions upon owners of homesteads; esp., a law exempting a homestead from attachment or sale under execution for general debts. Such laws, with limitations as to the extent or value of the property, exist in most of the States. Called also homestead exemption law. Also, a designation of an Act of Congress authorizing and regulating the sale of public lands, in parcels of 160 acres each, to actual settlers. (more info) 1. The home place; a home and the inclosure or ground immediately connected with it. Dryden. 2. The home or seat of a family; place of origin. We can trace them back to a homestead on the Rivers Volga and Ural. W. Tooke.

Related words: (words related to HOMESTEAD)

• OWNER
  One who owns; a rightful proprietor; one who has the legal or rightful title, whether he is the possessor or not. Shak.
• FAMILY
  A groupe of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In zoölogy
• EXEMPTIBLE
  That may be exempted.
• CONFERRABLE
  Capable of being conferred.
• OWNERLESS
  Without an owner.
• HOMESTEADER
  One who has entered upon a portion of the public land with the purpose of acquiring ownership of it under provisions of the homestead law, so called; one who has acquired a homestead in this manner.
• SPECIALLY
  1. In a special manner; partcularly; especially. Chaucer. 2. For a particular purpose; as, a meeting of the legislature is specially summoned.
• EXEMPTION
  The act of exempting; the state of being exempt; freedom from any charge, burden, evil, etc., to which others are subject; immunity; privilege; as, exemption of certain articles from seizure; exemption from military service; exemption from anxiety,
• HOMESTEAD
  The home and appurtenant land and buildings owned by the head of a family, and occupied by him and his family. Homestead law. A law conferring special privileges or exemptions upon owners of homesteads; esp., a law exempting a homestead
• SPECIALISM
  Devotion to a particular and restricted part or branch of knowledge, art, or science; as, medical specialism.
• SPECIALIZATION
  The setting spart of a particular organ for the performance of a particular function. Darwin. (more info) 1. The act of specializing, or the state of being spezialized.
• SPECIALIZE
  To supply with an organ or organs having a special function or functions. (more info) 1. To mention specialy; to particularize. 2. To apply to some specialty or limited object; to assign to a specific use; as, specialized knowledge.
• OCCUPIER
  1. One who occupies, or has possession. 2. One who follows an employment; hence, a tradesman. "Merchants and occupiers." Holland. The occupiers of thy merchandise. Ezek. xxvii. 27.
• OWNERSHIP
  The state of being an owner; the right to own; exclusive right of possession; legal or just claim or title; proprietorship.
• CONFERRER
  1. One who confers; one who converses. Johnson. 2. One who bestows; a giver.
• SPECIALITY
  See SPECIES (more info) 1. A particular or peculiar case; a particularity. Sir M. Hale.
• SPECIALIST
  One who devotes himself to some specialty; as, a medical specialist, one who devotes himself to diseases of particular parts of the body, as the eye, the ear, the nerves, etc.
• OWN
  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. The wakeful bloodhound rose, and shook his hide owns. Keats. (more info) unnan to grant; akin to OS.
• CONFERRUMINATE; CONFERRUMINATED
  Closely united by the coalescence, or sticking together, of contiguous faces, as in the case of the cotyledons of the live-oak acorn.
• EXEMPTITIOUS
  Separable. "Exemptitious from matter." Dr. H. More.
• DOWNWEED
  Cudweed, a species of Gnaphalium.
• CROWN SIDE
  See OFFICE
• DOWNPOUR
  A pouring or streaming downwards; esp., a heavy or continuous shower.
• TOWNWARD; TOWNWARDS
  Toward a town. Longfellow.
• TOWNLESS
  Having no town. Howell.
• CROWNED
  1. Having or wearing a crown; surmounted, invested, or adorned, with a crown, wreath, garland, etc.; honored; rewarded; completed; consummated; perfected. "Crowned with one crest." Shak. "Crowned with conquest." Milton. With surpassing
• LOOKDOWN
  See
• BROWNBACK
  The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See Dowitcher.
• CROWNER
  A coroner. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, crowns. Beau. & FL. 2. Etym:
• UNSPECIALIZED
  Not specialized; specifically , not adapted, or set apart, for any particular purpose or function; as, an unspecialized unicellular organism. W. K. Brooks.
• CLOWNAGE
  Behavior or manners of a clown; clownery. B. Jonson.
• RENOWNED
  Famous; celebrated for great achievements, for distinguished qualities, or for grandeur; eminent; as, a renowned king. "Some renowned metropolis with glistering spires." Milton. These were the renouwned of the congregation. Num. i. 61.
• STEP-DOWN
  Transforming or converting a current of high potential or pressure into one of low pressure; as, a step-down transformer.
• CROWNLAND
  In Austria-Hungary, one of the provinces, or largest administrative divisions of the monarchy; as, the crownland of Lower Austria.
• DOWNBEAR
  To bear down; to depress.
• TUMBLE-DOWN
  Ready to fall; dilapidated; ruinous; as, a tumble-down house.
• FULL-GROWN
  Having reached the limits of growth; mature. "Full-grown wings." Lowell.
• CROWN OFFICE
  The criminal branch of the Court of King's or Queen's Bench, commonly called the crown side of the court, which takes cognizance of all criminal cases. Burrill.
• JAMESTOWN WEED
  The poisonous thorn apple or stramonium , a rank weed early noticed at Jamestown, Virginia. See Datura. Note: This name is often corrupted into jimson, jimpson, and gympsum.