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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Familiarly :: Familiarly (adv.) In a familiar manner.
Familiarizing :: Familiarizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Familiariz.
Towser :: Towser (n.) A familiar name for a dog.
Disacquaint :: Disacquaint (v. t.) To render unacquainted; to make unfamiliar.
Bubby :: Bubby (n.) Bub; -- a term of familiar or affectionate address to a small boy.
Famular :: Famular (n.) Domestic; familiar.
Acquaint :: Acquaint (v. t.) To furnish or give experimental knowledge of; to make (one) to know; to make familiar; -- followed by with.
Proface :: Proface (interj.) Much good may it do you! -- a familiar salutation or welcome.
Bossy :: Bossy (n.) A cow or calf; -- familiarly so called.
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..
Jenny :: Jenny (n.) A familiar or pet form of the proper name Jane.
Familiarity :: Familiarity (n.) Anything said or done by one person to another unceremoniously and without constraint; esp., in the pl., such actions and words as propriety and courtesy do not warrant; liberties..
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..
Familiarize :: Familiarize (v. t.) To make familiar or intimate; to habituate; to accustom; to make well known by practice or converse; as, to familiarize one's self with scenes of distress..
Parlor :: Parlor (n.) In large private houses, a sitting room for the family and for familiar guests, -- a room for less formal uses than the drawing-room. Esp., in modern times, the dining room of a house having few apartments, as a London house, where the dining parlor is usually on the ground floor..
Shy :: Shy (superl.) Reserved; coy; disinclined to familiar approach.
Profanation :: Profanation (v. t.) The act of violating sacred things, or of treating them with contempt or irreverence; irreverent or too familiar treatment or use of what is sacred; desecration; as, the profanation of the Sabbath; the profanation of a sanctuary; the profanation of the name of God..
Commodore :: Commodore (n.) A familiar for the flagship, or for the principal vessel of a squadron or fleet..
Know :: Know (v. i.) To be acquainted with; to be no stranger to; to be more or less familiar with the person, character, etc., of; to possess experience of; as, to know an author; to know the rules of an organization..
Granny :: Granny (n.) A grandmother; a grandam; familiarly, an old woman..
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