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Collateral :: Collateral (a.) Coming from, being on, or directed toward, the side; as, collateral pressure..

Cosinage :: Cosinage (n.) Collateral relationship or kindred by blood; consanguinity.

Lineal :: Lineal (a.) Descending in a direct line from an ancestor; hereditary; derived from ancestors; -- opposed to collateral; as, a lineal descent or a lineal descendant..

Collateral :: Collateral (a.) Descending from the same stock or ancestor, but not in the same line or branch or one from the other; -- opposed to lineal..

Margin :: Margin (n.) Collateral security deposited with a broker to secure him from loss on contracts entered into by him on behalf of his principial, as in the speculative buying and selling of stocks, wheat, etc..

Side :: Side (a.) Hence, indirect; oblique; collateral; incidental; as, a side issue; a side view or remark..

Underplot :: Underplot (n.) A series of events in a play, proceeding collaterally with the main story, and subservient to it..

Collaterally :: Collaterally (adv.) In an indirect or subordinate manner; indirectly.

Collateral :: Collateral (a.) Tending toward the same conclusion or result as something else; additional; as, collateral evidence..

Cosinage :: Cosinage (n.) A writ to recover possession of an estate in lands, when a stranger has entered, after the death of the grandfather's grandfather, or other distant collateral relation..

Collateral :: Collateral (a.) Related to, but not strictly a part of, the main thing or matter under consideration; hence, subordinate; not chief or principal; as, collateral interest; collateral issues..

Consanguinity :: Consanguinity (n.) The relation of persons by blood, in distinction from affinity or relation by marriage; blood relationship; as, lineal consanguinity; collateral consanguinity..

Oblique :: Oblique (a.) Not direct in descent; not following the line of father and son; collateral.

Collaterally :: Collaterally (adv.) In collateral relation; not lineally.

Collateral :: Collateral (n.) Collateral security; that which is pledged or deposited as collateral security.

Collateral :: Collateral (a.) Acting in an indirect way.

Collaterally :: Collaterally (adv.) Side by side; by the side.

Collateralness :: Collateralness (n.) The state of being collateral.

Concomitant :: Concomitant (n.) One who, or that which, accompanies, or is collaterally connected with another; a companion; an associate; an accompaniment..

Representation :: Representation (n.) Any collateral statement of fact, made orally or in writing, by which an estimate of the risk is affected, or either party is influenced..

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