Definition of brother

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Brother (n.) One related or closely united to another by some common tie or interest, as of rank, profession, membership in a society, toil, suffering, etc.; -- used among judges, clergymen, monks, physicians, lawyers, professors of religion, etc..

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Cross :: Cross (a.) Made in an opposite direction, or an inverse relation; mutually inverse; interchanged; as, cross interrogatories; cross marriages, as when a brother and sister marry persons standing in the same relation to each other..
Edomite :: Edomite (n.) One of the descendants of Esau or Edom, the brother of Jacob; an Idumean..
Half-brother :: Half-brother (n.) A brother by one parent, but not by both..
Personate :: Personate (v. t.) To assume the character of; to represent by a fictitious appearance; to act the part of; hence, to counterfeit; to feign; as, he tried to personate his brother; a personated devotion..
Brother :: Brother (n.) One who, or that which, resembles another in distinctive qualities or traits of character..
Twin :: Twin (a.) Being one of two born at a birth; as, a twin brother or sister..
Brotherhood :: Brotherhood (n.) Persons, and, poetically, things, of a like kind..
Mulier :: Mulier (n.) Lawful issue born in wedlock, in distinction from an elder brother born of the same parents before their marriage; a lawful son..
Lay :: Lay (a.) Of or pertaining to the laity, as distinct from the clergy; as, a lay person; a lay preacher; a lay brother..
Brother :: Brother (n.) 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 definitely called a half brother, or brother of the half blood..
Leviratical :: Leviratical (a.) Of, pertaining to, or in accordance with, a law of the ancient Israelites and other tribes and races, according to which a woman, whose husband died without issue, was married to the husband's brother..
Brotherly :: Brotherly (adv.) Like a brother; affectionately; kindly.
Brother-in-law :: Brother-in-law (n.) The brother of one's husband or wife; also, the husband of one's sister; sometimes, the husband of one's wife's sister..
Fratrage :: Fratrage (n.) A sharing among brothers, or brothers' kin..
Brotherliness :: Brotherliness (n.) The state or quality of being brotherly.
Erebus :: Erebus (n.) The son of Chaos and brother of Nox, who dwelt in Erebus..
Brother German :: Brother german () A brother by both the father's and mother's side, in contradistinction to a uterine brother, one by the mother only..
Brothers-in-law :: Brothers-in-law (pl. ) of Brother-in-la.
Fraternal :: Fraternal (a.) Pf, pertaining to, or involving, brethren; becoming to brothers; brotherly; as, fraternal affection; a fraternal embrace..
Bub :: Bub (n.) A young brother; a little boy; -- a familiar term of address of a small boy.
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