Word Meanings - GRANDFATHER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A father's or mother's father; an ancestor in the next degree above the father or mother in lineal ascent. Grandfather longlegs. See Dady longlegs.

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• FATHER-LASHER
  A European marine fish , allied to the sculpin; -- called also lucky proach.
• ASCENT
  1. The act of rising; motion upward; rise; a mounting upward; as, he made a tedious ascent; the ascent of vapors from the earth. To him with swift ascent he up returned. Milton. 2. The way or means by which one ascends. 3. An eminence, hill, or
• MOTHER-OF-PEARL
  The hard pearly internal layer of several kinds of shells, esp. of pearl oysters, river mussels, and the abalone shells; nacre. See Pearl.
• MOTHER'S DAY
  A day appointed for the honor and uplift of motherhood by the loving remembrance of each person of his mother through the performance of some act of kindness, visit, tribute, or letter. The founder of the day is Anna Jarvis, of Philadelphia, who
• MOTHERING
  A rural custom in England, of visiting one's parents on Midlent Sunday, -- supposed to have been originally visiting the mother church to make offerings at the high altar.
• MOTHERLESS
  Destitute of a mother; having lost a mother; as, motherless children.
• MOTHER-OF-THYME
  An aromatic plant ; -- called also wild thyme.
• FATHERLESSNESS
  The state of being without a father.
• ABOVEBOARD
  Above the board or table. Hence: in open sight; without trick, concealment, or deception. "Fair and aboveboard." Burke. Note: This expression is said by Johnson to have been borrowed from gamesters, who, when they change their cards, put their hands
• MOTHERLINESS
  The state or quality of being motherly.
• FATHERLAND
  One's native land; the native land of one's fathers or ancestors.
• ABOVESAID
  Mentioned or recited before.
• MOTHER-IN-LAW
  The mother of one's husband or wife.
• FATHER
  OHG. fatar, G. vater, Icel. Fa Sw. & Dan. fader, OIr. athir, L. pater, Gr. pitr, perh. fr. Skr. pa protect. Papa, Paternal, Patriot, 1. One who has begotten a child, whether son or daughter; a generator; a male parent. A wise son maketh a glad
• FATHER-IN-LAW
  The father of one's husband or wife; -- correlative to son-in- law and daughter-in-law. Note: A man who marries a woman having children already, is sometimes, though erroneously, called their father-in-law.
• ABOVE-MENTIONED; ABOVE-NAMED
  Mentioned or named before; aforesaid.
• ANCESTORIALLY
  With regard to ancestors.
• MOTHER-NAKED
  Naked as when born.
• MOTHERHOOD
  The state of being a mother; the character or office of a mother.
• FATHERLESS
  1. Destitute of a living father; as, a fatherless child. 2. Without a known author. Beau. & Fl.
• RECTILINEAL; RECTILINEAR
  Straight; consisting of a straight line or lines; bounded by straight lines; as, a rectineal angle; a rectilinear figure or course. -- Rec`ti*lin"e*al*ly, adv. -- Rec`ti*lin"e*ar*ly, adv.
• SMOTHER
  Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick
• DEPASCENT
  Feeding.
• UNMOTHERED
  Deprived of a mother; motherless.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• EEL-MOTHER
  The eelpout.
• STEPMOTHER
  The wife of one's father by a subsequent marriage.
• ADNASCENT
  Growing to or on something else. "An adnascent plant." Evelyn.
• REASCENT
  A returning ascent or ascension; acclivity. Cowper.
• SMOTHERINESS
  The quality or state of being smothery.