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Freya :: Freya (n.) The daughter of Njord, and goddess of love and beauty; the Scandinavian Venus; -- in Teutonic myths confounded with Frigga, but in Scandinavian, distinct..

D :: D () The fourth letter of the English alphabet, and a vocal consonant. The English letter is from Latin, which is from Greek, which took it from Ph/nician, the probable ultimate origin being Egyptian. It is related most nearly to t and th; as, Eng. deep, G. tief; Eng. daughter, G. tochter, Gr. qyga`thr, Skr. duhitr. See Guide to Pronunciation, Ã178, 179, 229..

Circean :: Circean (a.) Having the characteristics of Circe, daughter of Sol and Perseis, a mythological enchantress, who first charmed her victims and then changed them to the forms of beasts; pleasing, but noxious; as, a Circean draught..

Marian :: Marian (a.) Pertaining to the Virgin Mary, or sometimes to Mary, Queen of England, daughter of Henry VIII..

Daughter :: Daughter (n.) The female offspring of the human species; a female child of any age; -- applied also to the lower animals.

Daughter :: Daughter (n.) A term of address indicating parental interest.

Ceres :: Ceres (n.) The daughter of Saturn and Ops or Rhea, the goddess of corn and tillage..

Niobe :: Niobe (n.) The daughter of Tantalus, and wife of Amphion, king of Thebes. Her pride in her children provoked Apollo and Diana, who slew them all. Niobe herself was changed by the gods into stone..

Karyokinesis :: Karyokinesis (n.) The indirect division of cells in which, prior to division of the cell protoplasm, complicated changes take place in the nucleus, attended with movement of the nuclear fibrils; -- opposed to karyostenosis. The nucleus becomes enlarged and convoluted, and finally the threads are separated into two groups which ultimately become disconnected and constitute the daughter nuclei. Called also mitosis. See Cell development, under Cell..

Character :: Character (n.) Quality, position, rank, or capacity; quality or conduct with respect to a certain office or duty; as, in the miserable character of a slave; in his character as a magistrate; her character as a daughter..

Mother :: Mother (v. t.) To adopt as a son or daughter; to perform the duties of a mother to.

Goddaughter :: Goddaughter (n.) A female for whom one becomes sponsor at baptism.

Filiate :: Filiate (v. t.) To adopt as son or daughter; to establish filiation between.

Daughters :: Daughters (pl. ) of Daughte.

Urania :: Urania (n.) One of the nine Muses, daughter of Zeus by Mnemosyne, and patron of astronomy..

Daughter :: Daughter (n.) A son's wife; a daughter-in-law.

Grandniece :: Grandniece (n.) The granddaughter of one's brother or sister.

Diaster :: Diaster (n.) A double star; -- applied to the nucleus of a cell, when, during cell division, the loops of the nuclear network separate into two groups, preparatory to the formation of two daughter nuclei. See Karyokinesis..

Daughters-in-law :: Daughters-in-law (pl. ) of Daughter-in-la.

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

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