Definition of uncle

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Uncle (n.) The brother of one's father or mother; also applied to an aunt's husband; -- the correlative of aunt in sex, and of nephew and niece in relationship..

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Impure :: Impure (a.) Unchaste; lewd; unclean; obscene; as, impure language or ideas..
Water Cock :: Water cock () A large gallinule (Gallicrex cristatus) native of Australia, India, and the East Indies. In the breeding season the male is black and has a fleshy red caruncle, or horn, on the top of its head. Called also kora..
Uncleship :: Uncleship (n.) The office or position of an uncle.
Eme :: Eme (n.) An uncle.
Strophulus :: Strophiole (n.) A crestlike excrescence about the hilum of certain seeds; a caruncle.
Ruby :: Ruby (n.) That which has the color of the ruby, as red wine. Hence, a red blain or carbuncle..
Petiole :: Petiole (n.) A stalk or peduncle.
Soil :: Soil (n.) To make dirty or unclean on the surface; to foul; to dirty; to defile; as, to soil a garment with dust..
Grubby :: Grubby (a.) Dirty; unclean.
Uncle :: Uncle (n.) The brother of one's father or mother; also applied to an aunt's husband; -- the correlative of aunt in sex, and of nephew and niece in relationship..
Gier-eagle :: Gier-eagle (n.) A bird referred to in the Bible (Lev. xi. 18and Deut. xiv. 17) as unclean, probably the Egyptian vulture (Neophron percnopterus)..
Stalk :: Stalk (n.) A stem or peduncle, as of certain barnacles and crinoids..
Eyestalk :: Eyestalk (n.) One of the movable peduncles which, in the decapod Crustacea, bear the eyes at the tip..
Pennatulacea :: Pennatulacea (n. pl.) A division of alcyonoid corals, including the seapens and related kinds. They are able to move about by means of the hollow muscular peduncle, which also serves to support them upright in the mud. See Pennatula, and Illust. under Alcyonaria..
Supraglotic :: Suprafoliaceous (a.) Inserted into the stem above the leaf, petiole, or axil, as a peduncle or flower..
Scape :: Scape (n.) A peduncle rising from the ground or from a subterranean stem, as in the stemless violets, the bloodroot, and the like..
Unclean :: Unclean (a.) Morally impure.
Stalk :: Stalk (n.) The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle, of a plant..
Flocculus :: Flocculus (n.) A small lobe in the under surface of the cerebellum, near the middle peduncle; the subpeduncular lobe..
Glossanthrax :: Glossanthrax (n.) A disease of horses and cattle accompanied by carbuncles in the mouth and on the tongue.
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