February 16 2009

Own
1. of, pertaining to, or belonging to oneself or itself (usually used after a possessive to emphasize the idea of ownership, interest, or relation conveyed by the possessive): He spent only his own money.

2.	(used as an intensifier to indicate oneself as the sole agent of some activity or action, prec. by a possessive): He insists on being his own doctor.

–verb (used with object)

3.	to have or hold as one's own; possess: They own several homes.

4.	to acknowledge or admit: to own a fault.

5.	to acknowledge as one's own; recognize as having full claim, authority, power, dominion, etc.: He owned his child before the entire assembly. They owned the king as their lord.

–verb (used without object)

6.	to confess (often fol. by to, up, or up to): The one who did it had better own up. I own to being uncertain about that. Kristen

Rachel