Encroacher: alternatives and connections

Holding some office or valuable possession, in subordination to another; holding under a feudal or other superior; having a dependent…

An agent employed to effect bargains and contracts, as a middleman or negotiator, between other persons, for a compensation commonly c…

To give, transfer, or deliver, in a formal manner, as if by signing over into the possession of another, or into a different state, wi…

(architecture) a gable having corbie-steps or corbel steps

A perverse fancy; a whim which takes possession of the mind; a conceit.

Having steps; -- said of a cross each of whose extremities finishes in steps growing larger as they leave the center; -- termed also o…

The act of developing or disclosing that which is unknown; a gradual unfolding process by which anything is developed, as a plan or me…

The putting out of possession, wrongfully or otherwise, of one who is in possession of a freehold, no matter in what title; -- called…

To deprive of seizin or possession; to dispossess or oust wrongfully (one in freehold possession of land); -- followed by of; as, to d…

To enter by gradual steps or by stealth into the possessions or rights of another; to trespass; to intrude; to trench; -- commonly wit…

The condition of enjoying anything; pleasure or satisfaction, as in the possession or occupancy of anything; possession and use; as, t…

To get admission; to introduce one's self; to penetrate; to form or constitute a part; to become a partaker or participant; to share;…

A certain property of a body, expressed as a measurable quantity, such that when there is no communication of heat the quantity remain…

Anything which takes possession of the minds of people as an epidemic does of their bodies; as, an epidemic of terror.

A general name for the history of the steps by which any living organism has acquired the morphological and physiological characters w…

To put out of one's possession; to surrender the ownership of; also, to deprive of possession or proprietary rights.

Use or possession of anything, especially such as is accompanied with pleasure or satisfaction; pleasure derived from possession or us…

Proceeding by steps or degrees; advancing, step by step, as in ascent or descent or from one state to another; regularly progressive;…