Definition of familiar

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Familiar (n.) A confidential officer employed in the service of the tribunal, especially in apprehending and imprisoning the accused..

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Jenny :: Jenny (n.) A familiar name of the European wren.
Conversant :: Conversant (a.) Having frequent or customary intercourse; familiary associated; intimately acquainted.
Use :: Use (v. t.) To accustom; to habituate; to render familiar by practice; to inure; -- employed chiefly in the passive participle; as, men used to cold and hunger; soldiers used to hardships and danger..
Bub :: Bub (n.) A young brother; a little boy; -- a familiar term of address of a small boy.
Obversant :: Obversant (a.) Conversant; familiar.
Codger :: Codger (n.) A singular or odd person; -- a familiar, humorous, or depreciatory appellation..
Coyness :: Coyness (n.) The quality of being coy; feigned o/ bashful unwillingness to become familiar; reserve.
Strait :: Strait (superl.) Close; intimate; near; familiar.
Familiar :: Familiar (a.) Closely acquainted or intimate, as a friend or companion; well versed in, as any subject of study; as, familiar with the Scriptures..
Proverb :: Proverb (n.) A familiar illustration; a subject of contemptuous reference.
Ferrotype :: Ferrotype (n.) A photographic picture taken on an iron plate by a collodion process; -- familiarly called tintype.
Accustomed :: Accustomed (a.) Familiar through use; usual; customary.
Chatty :: Chatty (a.) Given to light, familiar talk; talkative..
Fly :: Fly (v. i.) A familiar spirit; a witch's attendant.
Fellowship :: Fellowship (n.) Companionship of persons on equal and friendly terms; frequent and familiar intercourse.
Familiary :: Familiary (a.) Of or pertaining to a family or household; domestic.
Man :: Man (n.) A term of familiar address often implying on the part of the speaker some degree of authority, impatience, or haste; as, Come, man, we 've no time to lose!.
Sirrah :: Sirrah (n.) A term of address implying inferiority and used in anger, contempt, reproach, or disrespectful familiarity, addressed to a man or boy, but sometimes to a woman. In sililoquies often preceded by ah. Not used in the plural..
Coterie :: Coterie (n.) A set or circle of persons who meet familiarly, as for social, literary, or other purposes; a clique..
New :: New (superl.) Not habituated; not familiar; unaccustomed.
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