Possession

1. v. t. To invest with property.
2. n. The act or state of possessing, or holding as one’s own.
3. n. The having, holding, or detention of property in one’s power or command; actual seizin or occupancy; ownership, whether rightful or wrongful.
4. n. The thing possessed; that which any one occupies, owns, or controls; in the plural, property in the aggregate; wealth; dominion; as, foreign possessions.
5. n. The state of being possessed or controlled, as by an evil spirit, or violent passions; madness; frenzy; as, demoniacal possession.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.