Word Meanings - COGNATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

That tie of consanguinity which exists between persons descended from the same mother; -- used in distinction from agnation. (more info) 1. Relationship by blood; descent from the same original; kindred. As by our cognation to the body of the first

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That tie of consanguinity which exists between persons descended from the same mother; -- used in distinction from agnation. (more info) 1. Relationship by blood; descent from the same original; kindred. As by our cognation to the body of the first Adam. Jer. Taylor. 2. Participation of the same nature. Sir T. Browne. A like temper and cognation. Sir K. Digby.

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• BLOODSUCKER
  Any animal that sucks blood; esp., the leech (Hirudo medicinalis), and related species. 2. One who sheds blood; a cruel, bloodthirsty man; one guilty of bloodshed; a murderer. Shak. 3. A hard and exacting master, landlord, or money lender; an
• CONSANGUINITY
  The relation of person by blood, is distinction from affinity or relation by marriage; blood relationship; as, lineal consanguinity; collateral consanguinity. Invoking aid by the ties of consanguinity. Prescott.
• BLOODSHEDDER
  One who sheds blood; a manslayer; a murderer.
• RELATIONSHIP
  The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
• FIRST
  Sw. & Dan. förste, OHG. furist, G. fürst prince; a superlatiye form 1. Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest; as, the first day of a month; the first year of a reign. 2. Foremost; in front of, or in advance of,
• BLOODULF
  The European bullfinch.
• BLOODROOT
  A plant , with a red root and red sap, and bearing a pretty, white flower in early spring; -- called also puccoon, redroot, bloodwort, tetterwort, turmeric, and Indian paint. It has acrid emetic properties, and the rootstock is used as a stimulant
• 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.
• DESCENDING
  Of or pertaining to descent; moving downwards. Descending constellations or signs , those through which the planets descent toward the south. -- Descending node , that point in a planet's orbit where it intersects the ecliptic in passing
• MOTHERLESS
  Destitute of a mother; having lost a mother; as, motherless children.
• DESCENDENT
  Descending; falling; proceeding from an ancestor or source. More than mortal grace Speaks thee descendent of ethereal race. Pope.
• MOTHER-OF-THYME
  An aromatic plant ; -- called also wild thyme.
• BLOODY-MINDED
  Having a cruel, ferocious disposition; bloodthirsty. Dryden.
• BLOODSHEDDING
  Bloodshed. Shak.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• DESCENDIBILITY
  The quality of being descendible; capability of being transmitted from ancestors; as, the descendibility of an estate.
• BLOODINESS
  1. The state of being bloody. 2. Disposition to shed blood; bloodthirstiness. All that bloodiness and savage cruelty which was in our nature. Holland.
• MOTHERLINESS
  The state or quality of being motherly.
• 'SBLOOD
  An abbreviation of God's blood; -- used as an oath. Shak.
• 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
• LAPIDESCENT
  Undergoing the process of becoming stone; having the capacity of being converted into stone; having the quality of petrifying bodies.
• ABORIGINALLY
  Primarily.
• UNMOTHERED
  Deprived of a mother; motherless.
• EEL-MOTHER
  The eelpout.
• INDISTINCTION
  Want of distinction or distinguishableness; confusion; uncertainty; indiscrimination. The indistinction of many of the same name . . . hath made some doubt. Sir T. Browne. An indistinction of all persons, or equality of all orders, is far from being
• STEPMOTHER
  The wife of one's father by a subsequent marriage.