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Issue :: Issue (n.) Progeny; a child or children; offspring. In law, sometimes, in a general sense, all persons descended from a common ancestor; all lineal descendants..

Lineal :: Lineal (a.) In the direction of a line; of or pertaining to a line; measured on, or ascertained by, a line; linear; as, lineal magnitude..

Scheme :: Scheme (n.) Any lineal or mathematical diagram; an outline.

Consanguinity :: Consanguinity (n.) The relation of persons by blood, in distinction from affinity or relation by marriage; blood relationship; as, lineal consanguinity; collateral consanguinity..

Palm :: Palm (n.) A lineal measure equal either to the breadth of the hand or to its length from the wrist to the ends of the fingers; a hand; -- used in measuring a horse's height.

Parabola :: Parabola (n.) One of a group of curves defined by the equation y = axn where n is a positive whole number or a positive fraction. For the cubical parabola n = 3; for the semicubical parabola n = /. See under Cubical, and Semicubical. The parabolas have infinite branches, but no rectilineal asymptotes..

Interlineal :: Interlineal (a.) Alt. of Interlinea.

Lineality :: Lineality (n.) The quality of being lineal.

Nephew :: Nephew (n.) A grandson or grandchild, or remoter lineal descendant..

Abscissa :: Abscissa (n.) One of the elements of reference by which a point, as of a curve, is referred to a system of fixed rectilineal coordinate axes..

Collaterally :: Collaterally (adv.) In collateral relation; not lineally.

Curvilineal :: Curvilineal (a.) Alt. of Curvilinea.

Multilineal :: Multilineal (a.) Having many lines.

Pyramid :: Pyramid (n.) A solid figure contained by a plane rectilineal figure as base and several triangles which have a common vertex and whose bases are sides of the base.

Square :: Square (a.) Having a shape broad for the height, with rectilineal and angular rather than curving outlines; as, a man of a square frame..

Mixtilineal :: Mixtilineal (a.) Alt. of Mixtilinea.

Lineal :: Lineal (a.) Inheriting by direct descent; having the right by direct descent to succeed (to).

Recti- :: Recti- () A combining form signifying straight; as, rectilineal, having straight lines; rectinerved..

Grandfather :: Grandfather (n.) A father's or mother's father; an ancestor in the next degree above the father or mother in lineal ascent.

Lineal :: Lineal (a.) Descending in a direct line from an ancestor; hereditary; derived from ancestors; -- opposed to collateral; as, a lineal descent or a lineal descendant..

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