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Typhon :: Typhon (n.) According to Hesiod, the son of Typhoeus, and father of the winds, but later identified with him..

Arms :: Arms (n.) The ensigns armorial of a family, consisting of figures and colors borne in shields, banners, etc., as marks of dignity and distinction, and descending from father to son..

Succeed :: Succeed (v. t.) To follow in order; to come next after; hence, to take the place of; as, the king's eldest son succeeds his father on the throne; autumn succeeds summer..

After :: After (prep.) In imitation of; in conformity with; after the manner of; as, to make a thing after a model; a picture after Rubens; the boy takes after his father..

Grandaunt :: Grandaunt (n.) The aunt of one's father or mother.

Papa :: Papa (n.) A child's word for father.

Collation :: Collation (v. t.) A collection of the Lives of the Fathers or other devout work read daily in monasteries.

Half Blood :: Half blood (n.) A person whose father and mother are of different races; a half-breed.

Favor :: Favor (n.) To resemble in features; to have the aspect or looks of; as, the child favors his father..

Father :: Father (v. t.) To provide with a father.

Testimony :: Testimony (n.) Affirmation; declaration; as, these doctrines are supported by the uniform testimony of the fathers; the belief of past facts must depend on the evidence of human testimony, or the testimony of historians..

Great-grandmother :: Great-grandmother (n.) The mother of one's grandfather or grandmother.

Inherit :: Inherit (v. t.) To take by descent from an ancestor; to take by inheritance; to take as heir on the death of an ancestor or other person to whose estate one succeeds; to receive as a right or title descendible by law from an ancestor at his decease; as, the heir inherits the land or real estate of his father; the eldest son of a nobleman inherits his father's title; the eldest son of a king inherits the crown..

Father-lasher :: Father-lasher (n.) A European marine fish (Cottus bubalis), allied to the sculpin; -- called also lucky proach..

Stepchild :: Stepbrother (n.) A brother by the marriage of one's father with the mother of another, or of one's mother with the father of another..

Father Longlegs :: Father longlegs () See Daddy longlegs, 2..

Fathers-in-law :: Fathers-in-law (pl. ) of Father-in-la.

Fatherless :: Fatherless (a.) Destitute of a living father; as, a fatherless child..

Porphyrogenitism :: Porphyrogenitism (n.) The principle of succession in royal families, especially among the Eastern Roman emperors, by which a younger son, if born after the accession of his father to the throne, was preferred to an elder son who was not so born..

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..

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