Definition of family

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Family (v. t.) Honorable descent; noble or respectable stock; as, a man of family..

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Octodont :: Octodont (a.) Of or pertaining to the Octodontidae, a family of rodents which includes the coypu, and many other South American species..
Stock :: Stock (n.) The original progenitor; also, the race or line of a family; the progenitor of a family and his direct descendants; lineage; family..
Family :: Family (v. t.) Course of descent; genealogy; line of ancestors; lineage.
Zostera :: Zostera (n.) A genus of plants of the Naiadaceae, or Pondweed family. Zostera marina is commonly known as sea wrack, and eelgrass..
Cotinga :: Cotinga (n.) A bird of the family Cotingidae, including numerous bright-colored South American species; -- called also chatterers..
Domestic :: Domestic (n.) One who lives in the family of an other, as hired household assistant; a house servant..
House :: House (v. t.) To take or put into a house; to shelter under a roof; to cover from the inclemencies of the weather; to protect by covering; as, to house one's family in a comfortable home; to house farming utensils; to house cattle..
Maioid :: Maioid (a.) Of or pertaining to the genus Maia, or family Maiadeae..
Horsefly :: Horsefly (n.) Any dipterous fly of the family Tabanidae, that stings horses, and sucks their blood..
Gentleman :: Gentleman (n.) A man well born; one of good family; one above the condition of a yeoman.
Vermetus :: Vermetus (n.) Any one of many species of marine gastropods belonging to Vermetus and allied genera, of the family Vermetidae. Their shells are regularly spiral when young, but later in life the whorls become separate, and the shell is often irregularly bent and contorted like a worm tube..
Manakin :: Manakin (n.) Any one of numerous small birds belonging to Pipra, Manacus, and other genera of the family Pipridae. They are mostly natives of Central and South America. some are bright-colored, and others have the wings and tail curiously ornamented. The name is sometimes applied to related birds of other families..
Pearlwort :: Pearlwort (n.) A name given to several species of Sagina, low and inconspicuous herbs of the Chickweed family..
Cornet :: Cornet (n.) An obsolete rude reed instrument (Ger. Zinken), of the oboe family..
Tonality :: Tonality (n.) The principle of key in music; the character which a composition has by virtue of the key in which it is written, or through the family relationship of all its tones and chords to the keynote, or tonic, of the whole..
Rail :: Rail (v.) Any one of numerous species of limicoline birds of the family Rallidae, especially those of the genus Rallus, and of closely allied genera. They are prized as game birds..
Timaline :: Timaline (a.) Of or pertaining to the genus Timalus or family Timalidae, which includes the babblers thrushes, and bulbuls..
Discomfort :: Discomfort (v. t.) To destroy or disturb the comfort of; to deprive o/ quiet enjoyment; to make uneasy; to pain; as, a smoky chimney discomforts a family..
Broadmouth :: Broadmouth (n.) One of the Eurylaimidae, a family of East Indian passerine birds..
Sunbird :: Sunbird (n.) Any one of numerous species of small brilliantly colored birds of the family Nectariniidae, native of Africa, Southern Asia, the East Indies, and Australia. In external appearance and habits they somewhat resemble humming birds, but they are true singing birds (Oscines)..
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