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Brother :: Brother (n.) A male person who has the same father and mother with another person, or who has one of them only. In the latter case he is more definitely called a half brother, or brother of the half blood..

Gavelkind :: Gavelkind (n.) A tenure by which land descended from the father to all his sons in equal portions, and the land of a brother, dying without issue, descended equally to his brothers. It still prevails in the county of Kent..

Putative :: Putative (a.) Commonly thought or deemed; supposed; reputed; as, the putative father of a child..

Heteroousian :: Heteroousian (n.) One of those Arians who held that the Son was of a different substance from the Father.

Tradition :: Tradition (n.) Hence, that which is transmitted orally from father to son, or from ancestors to posterity; knowledge or belief transmitted without the aid of written memorials; custom or practice long observed..

Fatherly :: Fatherly (a.) Like a father in affection and care; paternal; tender; protecting; careful.

Grandsire :: Grandsire (n.) Specifically, a grandfather; more generally, any ancestor..

Grandfatherly :: Grandfatherly (a.) Like a grandfather in age or manner; kind; benignant; indulgent.

Stepbrother :: Step- () A prefix used before father, mother, brother, sister, son, daughter, child, etc., to indicate that the person thus spoken of is not a blood relative, but is a relative by the marriage of a parent; as, a stepmother to X is the wife of the father of X, married by him after the death of the mother of X. See Stepchild, Stepdaughter, Stepson, etc..

Daddy Longlegs :: Daddy longlegs () An arachnidan of the genus Phalangium, and allied genera, having a small body and four pairs of long legs; -- called also harvestman, carter, and grandfather longlegs..

Mameluco :: Mameluco (n.) A child born of a white father and Indian mother.

Father :: Father (v. t.) To take as one's own child; to adopt; hence, to assume as one's own work; to acknowledge one's self author of or responsible for (a statement, policy, etc.)..

Procreator :: Procreator (n.) One who begets; a father or sire; a generator.

Paternal :: Paternal (a.) Received or derived from a father; hereditary; as, a paternal estate..

Parent :: Parent (n.) One who begets, or brings forth, offspring; a father or a mother..

Father :: Father (n.) One who has begotten a child, whether son or daughter; a generator; a male parent..

Legitim :: Legitim (a.) The portion of movable estate to which the children are entitled upon the death of the father.

Emancipate :: Emancipate (v. t.) To set free from the power of another; to liberate; as: (a) To set free, as a minor from a parent; as, a father may emancipate a child. (b) To set free from bondage; to give freedom to; to manumit; as, to emancipate a slave, or a country..

Correlate :: Correlate (n.) One who, or that which, stands in a reciprocal relation to something else, as father to son; a correlative..

Generation :: Generation (n.) A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or remove in genealogy. Hence: The body of those who are of the same genealogical rank or remove from an ancestor; the mass of beings living at one period; also, the average lifetime of man, or the ordinary period of time at which one rank follows another, or father is succeeded by child, usually assumed to be one third of a century; an age..

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