Definition of parent

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Parent (n.) That which produces; cause; source; author; begetter; as, idleness is the parent of vice..

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Ocean :: Ocean (n.) An immense expanse; any vast space or quantity without apparent limits; as, the boundless ocean of eternity; an ocean of affairs..
Parenthesis :: Parenthesis (n.) One of the curved lines () which inclose a parenthetic word or phrase.
Meteoroscope :: Meteoroscope (n.) An instrument for measuring the position, length, and direction, of the apparent path of a shooting star..
Venerate :: Venerate (v. t.) To regard with reverential respect; to honor with mingled respect and awe; to reverence; to revere; as, we venerate parents and elders..
Parentless :: Parentless (a.) Deprived of parents.
Cytococcus :: Cytococcus (n.) The nucleus of the cytula or parent cell.
Hyaline :: Hyaline (a.) Glassy; resembling glass; consisting of glass; transparent, like crystal..
Cutose :: Cutose (n.) A variety of cellulose, occuring as a fine transparent membrane covering the aerial organs of plants, and forming an essential ingredient of cork; by oxidation it passes to suberic acid..
Legible :: Legible (a.) Capable of being discovered or understood by apparent marks or indications; as, the thoughts of men are often legible in their countenances..
Philostorgy :: Philostorgy (n.) Natural affection, as of parents for their children..
Hyalescence :: Hyalescence (n.) The process of becoming, or the state of being, transparent like glass..
Overt :: Overt (a.) Open to view; public; apparent; manifest.
Antanaclasis :: Antanaclasis (n.) A repetition of words beginning a sentence, after a long parenthesis; as, Shall that heart (which not only feels them, but which has all motions of life placed in them), shall that heart, etc..
Organdy :: Organdy (n.) A kind of transparent light muslin.
Heliostat :: Heliostat (n.) An instrument consisting of a mirror moved by clockwork, by which a sunbeam is made apparently stationary, by being steadily directed to one spot during the whole of its diurnal period; also, a geodetic heliotrope..
Humite :: Humite (n.) A mineral of a transparent vitreous brown color, found in the ejected masses of Vesuvius. It is a silicate of iron and magnesia, containing fluorine..
Infante :: Infante (n.) A title given to every one of sons of the kings of Spain and Portugal, except the eldest or heir apparent..
Fall :: Fall (n.) Lapse or declension from innocence or goodness. Specifically: The first apostasy; the act of our first parents in eating the forbidden fruit; also, the apostasy of the rebellious angels..
Interjectional :: Interjectional (a.) Thrown in between other words or phrases; parenthetical; ejaculatory; as, an interjectional remark..
Optics :: Optics (n.) That branch of physical science which treats of the nature and properties of light, the laws of its modification by opaque and transparent bodies, and the phenomena of vision..
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