Stepchild: alternatives and connections

To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be…

The act of adopting, or state of being adopted; voluntary acceptance of a child of other parents to be the same as one's own child.

One born in Africa, the offspring of a white father and a "colored" mother. Also, and now commonly in Southern Africa, a native born o…

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.

The sister of one's father or mother; -- correlative to nephew or niece. Also applied to an uncle's wife.

A "natural" child; a child begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate child; one born of an illicit union.

The state of being bereaved; deprivation; esp., the loss of a relative by death.

A male person who has the same father and mother with another person, or who has one of them only. In the latter case he is more defin…

A brother by both the father's and mother's side, in contradistinction to a uterine brother, one by the mother only.

Disconsolateness.

To feed; to nourish; to support; to bring up.

The aunt of one's father or mother.

A father's or mother's father; an ancestor in the next degree above the father or mother in lineal ascent.

The mother of one's father or mother.

A father's or mother's uncle.

The relation between persons born of the same father or of the same mother, but not of both; as, a brother or sister of the half blood…

Parted with unwillingly or unintentionally; not to be found; missing; as, a lost book or sheep.

A child born of a white father and Indian mother.