Definition of daughter

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Daughter (n.) A female descendant; a woman.

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Daughter :: Daughter (n.) The female offspring of the human species; a female child of any age; -- applied also to the lower animals.
Hotchpotch :: Hotchpotch (n.) A blending of property for equality of division, as when lands given in frank-marriage to one daughter were, after the death of the ancestor, blended with the lands descending to her and to her sisters from the same ancestor, and then divided in equal portions among all the daughters. In modern usage, a mixing together, or throwing into a common mass or stock, of the estate left by a person deceased and the amounts advanced to any particular child or children, for the purpose of
Matricide :: Matricide (n.) The murder of a mother by her son or daughter.
Invalid :: Invalid (n.) Not well; feeble; infirm; sickly; as, he had an invalid daughter..
Filicide :: Filicide (n.) The act of murdering a son or a daughter; also, parent who commits such a murder..
Elder :: Elder (a.) Born before another; prior in years; senior; earlier; older; as, his elder brother died in infancy; -- opposed to younger, and now commonly applied to a son, daughter, child, brother, etc..
Mother :: Mother (v. t.) To adopt as a son or daughter; to perform the duties of a mother to.
Hygeia :: Hygeia (n.) The goddess of health, daughter of Esculapius..
Venter :: Venter (n.) A pregnant woman; a mother; as, A has a son B by one venter, and a daughter C by another venter; children by different venters..
Daughterly :: Daughterly (a.) Becoming a daughter; filial.
Primogeniture :: Primogeniture (a.) The exclusive right of inheritance which belongs to the eldest son. Thus in England the right of inheriting the estate of the father belongs to the eldest son, and in the royal family the eldest son of the sovereign is entitled to the throne by primogeniture. In exceptional cases, among the female children, the crown descends by right of primogeniture to the eldest daughter only and her issue..
Echo :: Echo (n.) A nymph, the daughter of Air and Earth, who, for love of Narcissus, pined away until nothing was left of her but her voice..
Granddaughter :: Granddaughter (n.) The daughter of one's son or daughter.
Daughters :: Daughters (pl. ) of Daughte.
Godchild :: Godchild (n.) One for whom a person becomes sponsor at baptism, and whom he promises to see educated as a Christian; a godson or goddaughter. See Godfather..
Grandchild :: Grandchild (n.) A son's or daughter's child; a child in the second degree of descent.
Filiate :: Filiate (v. t.) To adopt as son or daughter; to establish filiation between.
Pleiades :: Pleiades (n. pl.) The seven daughters of Atlas and the nymph Pleione, fabled to have been made by Jupiter a constellation in the sky..
Son-in-law :: Son-in-law (n.) The husband of one's daughter; a man in his relationship to his wife's parents.
Grandniece :: Grandniece (n.) The granddaughter of one's brother or sister.
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