Word Meanings - URANUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The son or husband of Gaia , and father of Chronos and the Titans.

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• FATHER-LASHER
  A European marine fish , allied to the sculpin; -- called also lucky proach.
• HUSBANDABLE
  Capable of being husbanded, or managed with economy. Sherwood.
• HUSBANDLESS
  Destitute of a husband. Shak.
• FATHERLESSNESS
  The state of being without a father.
• FATHERLAND
  One's native land; the native land of one's fathers or ancestors.
• HUSBANDRY
  1. Care of domestic affairs; economy; domestic management; thrift. There's husbandry in heaven; Their candles are all out. Shak. 2. The business of a husbandman, comprehending the various branches of agriculture; farming. Husbandry supplieth all
• 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.
• HUSBANDLY
  Frugal; thrifty. Tusser.
• FATHERLESS
  1. Destitute of a living father; as, a fatherless child. 2. Without a known author. Beau. & Fl.
• FATHERLY
  1. Like a father in affection and care; paternal; tender; protecting; careful. You have showed a tender, fatherly regard. Shak. 2. Of or pertaining to a father.
• FATHER LONGLEGS
  See 2
• HUSBANDAGE
  The commission or compensation allowed to a ship's husband.
• CHRONOSCOPE
  An instrument for measuring minute intervals of time; used in determining the velocity of projectiles, the duration of short-lived luminous phenomena, etc.
• HUSBAND
  the house or family, AS. h master of the house; h house + bunda, bonda, householder, husband; prob. fr. Icel. h house master, husband; h house + b dwelling, inhabiting, p.pr. of b to dwell; akin to AS. b, 1. The male head of a household; one who
• FATHERLINESS
  The qualities of a father; parantal kindness, care, etc.
• HUSBANDMAN
  1. The master of a family. Chaucer. 2. A farmer; a cultivator or tiller of the ground.
• FATHERHOOD
  The state of being a father; the character or authority of a father; paternity.
• FATHERSHIP
  The state of being a father; fatherhood; paternity.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• GODFATHER
  A man who becomes sponsor for a child at baptism, and makes himself a surety for its Christian training and instruction. There shall be for every Male-child to be baptized, when they can be had, two Godfathers and one Godmother; and for
• FOREFATHER
  One who precedes another in the line of genealogy in any degree, but usually in a remote degree; an ancestor. Respecting your forefathers, you would have been taught to respect yourselves. Burke. Forefathers' Day, the anniversary of the day on
• STEPFATHER
  The husband of one's mother by a subsequent marriage.
• GRANDFATHER
  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.