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

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

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

Right-lined :: Right-lined (a.) Formed by right lines; rectilineal; as, a right-lined angle..

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..

Centrolineal :: Centrolineal (a.) Converging to a center; -- applied to lines drawn so as to meet in a point or center.

Lineal :: Lineal (a.) Composed of lines; delineated; as, lineal designs..

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

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

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..

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.

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

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..

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

Rectilineal :: Rectilineal (a.) Alt. of Rectilinea.

Covariant :: Covariant (n.) A function involving the coefficients and the variables of a quantic, and such that when the quantic is lineally transformed the same function of the new variables and coefficients shall be equal to the old function multiplied by a factor. An invariant is a like function involving only the coefficients of the quantic..

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..

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

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

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.

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