Sire: alternatives and connections

One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a fore father.

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Going before in time; prior; anterior; preceding; as, an event antecedent to the Deluge; an antecedent cause.

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Ascent; height; elevation.

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Rising toward the zenith; above the horizon.

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Created; composed; begotten.

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A hump-backed person; -- so called sportively.

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A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.

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Evil; wicked; bad.

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Possessing eminence, elevation, dignity, etc.; above whatever is low, mean, degrading, or dishonorable; magnanimous; as, a noble nature or action; a…

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One of the nobility; a noble; a peer; one who enjoys rank above a commoner, either by virtue of birth, by office, or by patent.

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

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The father and ruler of a family; one who governs his family or descendants by paternal right; -- usually applied to heads of families in ancient his…

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To procreate, as a father or sire; to generate; -- commonly said of the father.

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To produce by the union of the sexes; to beget.

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One who has begotten a child, whether son or daughter; a generator; a male parent.

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One who precedes another in the line of genealogy in any degree, but usually in a remote degree; an ancestor.

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To beget; to procreate; to propagate; to produce (a being similar to the parent); to engender; as, every animal generates its own species.

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Jet, the mineral.

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A female parent; especially, one of the human race; a woman who has borne a child.

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