Word Meanings - DAUGHTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

doughter, doghter, dohter, AS. dohtor, dohter; akin to OS. dohtar, D. dochter, G. tochter, Icel. d, Sw. dotter, Dan. dotter, datter, Goth. daúhtar,, OSlav. d, Russ. doche, Lith. dukt, Gr. , Zendughdhar, Skr. duhit; possibly originally, the milker,

Additional info about word: DAUGHTER

doughter, doghter, dohter, AS. dohtor, dohter; akin to OS. dohtar, D. dochter, G. tochter, Icel. d, Sw. dotter, Dan. dotter, datter, Goth. daúhtar,, OSlav. d, Russ. doche, Lith. dukt, Gr. , Zendughdhar, Skr. duhit; possibly originally, the milker, cf. Skr. duh to milk. sq. 1. The female offspring of the human species; a female child of any age; -- applied also to the lower animals. 2. A female descendant; a woman. This woman, being a daughter of Abraham. Luke xiii. 16. Dinah, the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughter of the land. Gen. xxxiv. 1. 3. A son's wife; a daughter-in-law. And Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters. Ruth. i. 11. 4. A term of adress indicating parental interest. Daughter, be of good comfort. Matt. ix. 22. Daughter cell , one of the cells formed by cell division. See Cell division, under Division.

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• DOTTEREL
  Decayed. "Some old dotterel trees." Ascham.
• POSSIBLY
  In a possible manner; by possible means; especially, by extreme, remote, or improbable intervention, change, or exercise of power; by a chance; perhaps; as, possibly he may recover. Can we . . . possibly his love desert Milton. When possibly I can,
• MILKER
  1. One who milks; also, a mechanical apparatus for milking cows. 2. A cow or other animal that gives milk.
• ORIGINALLY
  1. In the original time, or in an original manner; primarily; from the beginning or origin; not by derivation, or imitation. God is originally holy in himself. Bp. Pearson. 2. At first; at the origin; at the time of formation or costruction; as,
• ABORIGINALLY
  Primarily.
• SEA DOTTEREL
  The turnstone.
• SYNECDOCHE
  A figure or trope by which a part of a thing is put for the whole , or the whole for a part (as, the smiling year for spring), the species for the genus (as, cutthroat for assassin), the genus for the species (as, a creature for a man), the name
• PROSLAVERY
  Favoring slavery. -- n.
• IMPOSSIBLY
  Not possibly. Sir. T. North.