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Collateralness :: Collateralness (n.) The state of being collateral.

Collateral :: Collateral (a.) Tending toward the same conclusion or result as something else; additional; as, collateral evidence..

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

Side :: Side (a.) Hence, indirect; oblique; collateral; incidental; as, a side issue; a side view or remark..

Collateral :: Collateral (a.) Coming from, being on, or directed toward, the side; as, collateral pressure..

Collateral :: Collateral (a.) Acting in an indirect way.

Collateral :: Collateral (n.) A collateral relative.

By :: By (a.) Out of the common path; aside; -- used in composition, giving the meaning of something aside, secondary, or incidental, or collateral matter, a thing private or avoiding notice; as, by-line, by-place, by-play, by-street. It was formerly more freely used in composition than it is now; as, by-business, by-concernment, by-design, by-interest, etc..

Sub- :: Sub- () A prefix signifying under, below, beneath, and hence often, in an inferior position or degree, in an imperfect or partial state, as in subscribe, substruct, subserve, subject, subordinate, subacid, subastringent, subgranular, suborn. Sub- in Latin compounds often becomes sum- before m, sur before r, and regularly becomes suc-, suf-, sug-, and sup- before c, f, g, and p respectively. Before c, p, and t it sometimes takes form sus- (by the dropping of b from a collateral form, subs-)..

Concomitant :: Concomitant (n.) One who, or that which, accompanies, or is collaterally connected with another; a companion; an associate; an accompaniment..

Collateral :: Collateral (a.) Descending from the same stock or ancestor, but not in the same line or branch or one from the other; -- opposed to lineal..

Oblique :: Oblique (a.) Not direct in descent; not following the line of father and son; collateral.

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

Collateral :: Collateral (a.) Related to, but not strictly a part of, the main thing or matter under consideration; hence, subordinate; not chief or principal; as, collateral interest; collateral issues..

Incindental :: Incindental (a.) Happening, as an occasional event, without regularity; coming without design; casual; accidental; hence, not of prime concern; subordinate; collateral; as, an incidental conversation; an incidental occurrence; incidental expenses..

Cosinage :: Cosinage (n.) A writ to recover possession of an estate in lands, when a stranger has entered, after the death of the grandfather's grandfather, or other distant collateral relation..

Cosinage :: Cosinage (n.) Collateral relationship or kindred by blood; consanguinity.

Underplot :: Underplot (n.) A series of events in a play, proceeding collaterally with the main story, and subservient to it..

Collaterally :: Collaterally (adv.) Side by side; by the side.

Direct :: Direct (a.) In the line of descent; not collateral; as, a descendant in the direct line..

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