Word Meanings - COUSINRY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A body or collection of cousins; the whole number of persons who stand in the relation of cousins to a given person or persons.
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- RELATIONSHIP
The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason. - NUMBERFUL
Numerous. - PERSONNEL
The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from matériel. - PERSONIFICATION
A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopas, the floods clap their hands. "Confusion heards his voice." Milton. (more info) 1. The act of personifying; - STANDARD
The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established by authority. By the present standard of the coinage, sixty-two shillings is coined out of one pound weight of silver. Arbuthnot. (more info) extendere to spread out, extend, - STANDPOINT
A fixed point or station; a basis or fundamental principle; a position from which objects or principles are viewed, and according to which they are compared and judged. - PERSONIZE
To personify. Milton has personized them. J. Richardson. - STANDPIPE
A vertical pipe, open at the top, between a hydrant and a reservoir, to equalize the flow of water; also, a large vertical pipe, near a pumping engine, into which water is forced up, so as to give it sufficient head to rise to the required level - PERSONATE
To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise. In fable, hymn, or song so personating Their gods ridiculous. Milton. - WHOLENESS
The quality or state of being whole, entire, or sound; entireness; totality; completeness. - PERSONATOR
One who personates. "The personators of these actions." B. Jonson. - WHOLE-HOOFED
Having an undivided hoof, as the horse. - PERSONAL
Denoting person; as, a personal pronoun. Personal action , a suit or action by which a man claims a debt or personal duty, or damages in lieu of it; or wherein he claims satisfaction in damages for an injury to his person or property, - PERSONIFY
1. To regard, treat, or represent as a person; to represent as a rational being. The poets take the liberty of personifying inanimate things. Chesterfield. 2. To be the embodiment or personification of; to impersonate; as, he personifies the law. - STANDAGE
A reservior in which water accumulates at the bottom of a mine. - PERSONIFIER
One who personifies. - PERSONA
See 8 - STANDER-BY
One who stands near; one who is present; a bystander. - STANDERGRASS
A plant ; -- called also standerwort, and long purple. See Long purple, under Long. - WHOLE-SOULED
Thoroughly imbued with a right spirit; noble-minded; devoted. - BYSTANDER
One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting. He addressed the bystanders and scattered pamphlets among them. Palfrey. Syn. -- Looker on; spectator; beholder; observer. - MISRELATION
Erroneous relation or narration. Abp. Bramhall. - AGAINSTAND
To withstand. - UNIPERSONAL
Used in only one person, especially only in the third person, as some verbs; impersonal. (more info) 1. Existing as one, and only one, person; as, a unipersonal God. - UNDERSTANDINGLY
In an understanding manner; intelligibly; with full knowledge or comprehension; intelligently; as, to vote upon a question understandingly; to act or judge understandingly. The gospel may be neglected, but in can not be understandingly disbelieved. - STILLSTAND
A standstill. Shak. - BOOKSTAND
1. A place or stand for the sale of books in the streets; a bookstall. 2. A stand to hold books for reading or reference. - UNIPERSONALIST
One who believes that the Deity is unipersonal. - WASHSTAND
A piece of furniture holding the ewer or pitcher, basin, and other requisites for washing the person.