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UNCLE |
Father’s brother |
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ORWELL |
Big brother’s father? |
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BROTHER GERMAN |
A brother by both the father's and mother's side, in
contradistinction to a uterine brother, one by the mother only. |
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STEPBROTHER |
A brother by the marriage of one's father with the
mother of another, or of one's mother with the father of another. |
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HALF BLOOD |
The relation between persons born of the same father or
of the same mother, but not of both; as, a brother or sister of the
half blood. See Blood, n., 2 and 4. |
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BROTHER |
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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GAVELKIND |
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 e... |
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FOSTER |
Relating to nourishment; affording, receiving, or
sharing nourishment or nurture; -- applied to father, mother, child,
brother, etc., to indica... |
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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 rel... |