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Viburnum :: Viburnum (n.) A genus of shrubs having opposite, petiolate leaves and cymose flowers, several species of which are cultivated as ornamental, as the laurestine and the guelder-rose..

Pique :: Pique (n.) In piquet, the right of the elder hand to count thirty in hand, or to play before the adversary counts one..

Guelderrose'' :: Guelderrose' (n.) A cultivated variety of a species of Viburnum (V. Opulus), bearing large bunches of white flowers; -- called also snowball tree..

Sambucus :: Sambucus (n.) A genus of shrubs and trees; the elder.

Scout :: Scout (n.) A fielder in a game for practice.

Field :: Field (v. t.) To catch, stop, throw, etc. (the ball), as a fielder..

Ancient :: Ancient (n.) A senior; an elder; a predecessor.

Eldern :: Eldern (a.) Made of elder.

Gatten Tree :: Gatten tree () A name given to the small trees called guelder-rose (Viburnum Opulus), cornel (Cornus sanguinea), and spindle tree (Euonymus Europaeus)..

Gelder :: Gelder (n.) One who gelds or castrates.

Matronal :: Matronal (a.) Of or pertaining to a matron; suitable to an elderly lady or to a married woman; grave; motherly.

Elder :: Elder (a.) Born before another; prior in years; senior; earlier; older; as, his elder brother died in infancy; -- opposed to younger, and now commonly applied to a son, daughter, child, brother, etc..

Water Elder :: Water elder () The guelder-rose.

Priest :: Priest (n.) A presbyter elder; a ministe.

Elder :: Elder (a.) An aged person; one who lived at an earlier period; a predecessor.

Deacon :: Deacon (n.) An officer in Christian churches appointed to perform certain subordinate duties varying in different communions. In the Roman Catholic and Episcopal churches, a person admitted to the lowest order in the ministry, subordinate to the bishops and priests. In Presbyterian churches, he is subordinate to the minister and elders, and has charge of certain duties connected with the communion service and the care of the poor. In Congregational churches, he is subordinate to the pastor, and

Mulier :: Mulier (n.) Lawful issue born in wedlock, in distinction from an elder brother born of the same parents before their marriage; a lawful son..

Presbyter :: Presbyter (n.) An elder in the early Christian church. See 2d Citation under Bishop, n., 1..

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..

Matronly :: Matronly (a.) Advanced in years; elderly.

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