Related by marriage; from the same source.
Used in the same subject area: Sociology, Culture and identity.
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Consanguinity by a line of males only, as distinguished from cognation.
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Used in the same subject area: Sociology, Culture and identity.Relationship by marriage (as between a husband and his wife's blood relations, or between a wife and her husband's blood relations); -…
Used in the same subject area: Sociology, Culture and identity.The science of the structure and functions of the human body.
Used in the same subject area: Sociology, Culture and identity.(anthropology) the condition of being related by blood
Used in the same subject area: Sociology, Culture and identity.Relationship by blood; descent from the same original; kindred.
Used in the same subject area: Sociology, Culture and identity.The relation of persons by blood, in distinction from affinity or relation by marriage; blood relationship; as, lineal consanguinity;…
Used in the same subject area: Sociology, Culture and identity.(anthropology) the distinctive expression of the cognitive or intellectual character of a culture or a social group
Used in the same subject area: Sociology, Culture and identity.(anthropology) the distinctive spirit of a culture or an era; "the Greek ethos"
Used in the same subject area: Sociology, Culture and identity.(anthropology) relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption
Used in the same subject area: Sociology, Culture and identity.Family relationship.
Used in the same subject area: Sociology, Culture and identity.(anthropology) the system of social relationships that constitute kinship in a particular culture, including the terminology that is u…
Used in the same subject area: Sociology, Culture and identity.The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance.
Used in the same subject area: Sociology, Culture and identity.That service which a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the work beasts of the tenant, as the carriage of wheat, turf, etc.
Used in the same subject area: Sociology, Culture and identity.Assent to a proposition or affirmation, or the acceptance of a fact, opinion, or assertion as real or true, without immediate personal…
Used in the same subject area: Sociology, Culture and identity.of Belong
Used in the same subject area: Sociology, Culture and identity.Common possession or enjoyment; participation; as, a community of goods.
Used in the same subject area: Sociology, Culture and identity.The act or practice of cultivating, or of preparing the earth for seed and raising crops by tillage; as, the culture of the soil.
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To adjust or form to a line; to range or form in line; to bring into line; to aline.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: consanguinity, line, males, distinguished, cognation.The act of adjusting to a line; arrangement in a line or lines; the state of being so adjusted; a formation in a straight line; also,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: consanguinity, line, males, distinguished, cognation.The spotted deer (Cervus axis or Axis maculata) of India, where it is called hog deer and parrah (Moorish name).
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: consanguinity, line, males, distinguished, cognation.The fluid which circulates in the principal vascular system of animals, carrying nourishment to all parts of the body, and bringing aw…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: consanguinity, line, males, distinguished, cognation.A shoot or secondary stem growing from the main stem, or from a principal limb or bough of a tree or other plant.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: consanguinity, line, males, distinguished, cognation.A person connected through cognation.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: consanguinity, line, males, distinguished, cognation.Collateral relationship or kindred by blood; consanguinity.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: consanguinity, line, males, distinguished, cognation.The act of descending, or passing downward; change of place from higher to lower.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: consanguinity, line, males, distinguished, cognation.The act of directing, of aiming, regulating, guiding, or ordering; guidance; management; superintendence; administration; as, the dire…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: consanguinity, line, males, distinguished, cognation.A directress.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: consanguinity, line, males, distinguished, cognation.Separated; having an intervening space; at a distance; away.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: consanguinity, line, males, distinguished, cognation.One who, or that which, gives food or supplies nourishment; steward.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: consanguinity, line, males, distinguished, cognation.The act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of animals.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: consanguinity, line, males, distinguished, cognation.A logarithmic line on Gunter's scale, used for performing the multiplication and division of numbers mechanically by the dividers; --…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: consanguinity, line, males, distinguished, cognation.Spiral; curved, like the spire of a univalve shell.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: consanguinity, line, males, distinguished, cognation.Having females very unlike the males in form and structure; -- as certain insects, the males of which are winged, and the females wing…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: consanguinity, line, males, distinguished, cognation.The act of indenting or state of being indented.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: consanguinity, line, males, distinguished, cognation.A large, green, arboreal, orthopterous insect (Cyrtophyllus concavus) of the family Locustidae, common in the United States. The males…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: consanguinity, line, males, distinguished, cognation.
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