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Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent.

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of Begin

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A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source.

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The relationship of a son or child to a parent, esp. to a father.

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An account or history of the descent of a person or family from an ancestor; enumeration of ancestors and their children in the natural order of succ…

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The act, state, or place of intersecting.

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Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; race; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.

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To appoint.

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The act of rising; a rise; an ascent.

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The town, city, or country, where a person is born; place of origin or birth, in its more general sense.

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That which produces or effects a result; that from which anything proceeds, and without which it would not exist.

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A bed or cot for a baby, oscillating on rockers or swinging on pivots; hence, the place of origin, or in which anything is nurtured or protected in t…

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A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source.

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The act of flowing or proceeding from a fountain head or origin.

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The collective body of persons who live in one house, and under one head or manager; a household, including parents, children, and servants, and, as…

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Alt. of Folks

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The process of germinating; the beginning of vegetation or growth in a seed or plant; the first development of germs, either animal or vegetable.

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The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the c…

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Fountain; source.

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See Homelyn.

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Relatives; kindred; kin; persons of the same family or closely or closely related families.

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An opening or aperture; a recess; a recess; a chamber.

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A subdivision of a phyle, or tribe, in Athens.

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The quality or state of being plebeian.

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Introductory; previous; preceding the main discourse or business; prefatory; as, preliminary observations to a discourse or book; preliminary article…

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An introductory performance, preceding and preparing for the principal matter; a preliminary part, movement, strain, etc.; especially (Mus.), a strai…

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The act of proceeding, moving on, advancing, or issuing; regular, orderly, or ceremonious progress; continuous course.

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To move from a lower position to a higher; to ascend; to mount up. Specifically: -- (a) To go upward by walking, climbing, flying, or any other volun…

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A clan, tribe, or family, proceeding from a common progenitor; -- used especially of the ancient clans in Ireland.

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The margin, edge, verge, or border of a surface; especially (when the thing spoken of is somewhat oblong in shape), one of the longer edges as distin…

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To leap; to bound; to jump.

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A source, spring, or fountain.

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A fountain; a spring; a source of continual supply.

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To give an origin or beginning to; to cause to be; to bring into existence; to produce as new.

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To give an origin or beginning to; to cause to be; to bring into existence; to produce as new.

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Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent.

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of Begin

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The fluid which circulates in the principal vascular system of animals, carrying nourishment to all parts of the body, and bringing away waste produc…

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The act of descending, or passing downward; change of place from higher to lower.

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The act of extracting, or drawing out; as, the extraction of a tooth, of a bone or an arrow from the body, of a stump from earth, of a passage from a…

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Beginning; commencement; initiation.

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Flax; linen.

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Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; race; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.

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The act or process of bringing or coming into existence; first production.

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Descent from parents or ancestors; parents or ancestors considered with respect to their rank or character; extraction; birth; as, a man of noble par…

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A line of ancestors; descent; lineage; genealogy; a register or record of a line of ancestors.

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To turn up the earth with the snout, as swine.

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The act of rising; a rise; an ascent.

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One of the ocelli of an insect. See Ocellus.

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The stem, or main body, of a tree or plant; the fixed, strong, firm part; the trunk.

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