Word Meanings - QUATER-COUSIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A cousin within the first four degrees of kindred.

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• COUSINRY
  A body or collection of cousins; the whole number of persons who stand in the relation of cousins to a given person or persons.
• 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,
• COUSINLY
  Like or becoming a cousin.
• FIRST-CLASS
  Of the best class; of the highest rank; in the first division; of the best quality; first-rate; as, a first-class telescope. First- class car or First-class railway carriage, any passenger car of the highest regular class, and intended
• KINDRED
  d), fr. AS. cunn kin, race + the termination to advise, G. rathen. 1. Relationship by birth or marriage; consanguinity; affinity; kin. Like her, of equal kindred to the throne. Dryden. 2. Relatives by blood or marriage, more properly the former;
• WITHIN
  with, against, toward + innan in, inwardly, within, from in in. See 1. In the inner or interior part of; inside of; not without; as, within doors. O, unhappy youth! Come not within these doors; within this roof The enemy of all your graces lives.
• FIRST-RATE
  Of the highest excellence; preëminent in quality, size, or estimation. Our only first-rate body of contemporary poetry is the German. M. Arnold. Hermocrates . . . a man of first-rate ability. Jowett .
• WITHINSIDE
  In the inner parts; inside. Graves.
• FIRSTLY
  In the first place; before anything else; -- sometimes improperly used for first.
• FIRSTLING
  1. The first produce or offspring; -- said of animals, especially domestic animals; as, the firstlings of his flock. Milton. 2. The thing first thought or done. The very firstlings of my heart shall be The firstlings of my hand. Shak.
• COUSIN
  from L. consobrinus the child of a mother's sister, cousin; con- + sobrinus a cousin by the mother's side, a form derived fr. soror 1. One collaterally related more remotely than a brother or sister; especially, the son or daughter of an uncle
• FIRST-HAND
  Obtained directly from the first or original source; hence, without the intervention of an agent. One sphere there is . . . where the apprehension of him is first-hand and direct; and that is the sphere of our own mind. J. Martineau.
• FIRSTBORN
  First brought forth; first in the order of nativity; eldest; hence, most excellent; most distinguished or exalted.
• COUSINAGE
  Relationship; kinship. Wyclif.
• COUSINHOOD
  The state or condition of a cousin; also, the collective body of cousins; kinsfolk.
• COUSINSHIP
  The relationship of cousins; state of being cousins; cousinhood. G. Eliot.
• WITHINFORTH
  Within; inside; inwardly. Wyclif. labor for to withinforth call into mind, without sight of the eye withoutforth upon images, what he before knew and thought upon. Bp. Peacock.
• COUSIN-GERMAN
  A first cousin. See Note under Cousin, 1.
• UNKINDRED
  Not kindred; not of the same kin. Rowe. -- Un*kin"dred*ly, a.
• HEADFIRST; HEADFOREMOST
  With the head foremost.
• CATER-COUSIN
  A remote relation. See Quater-cousin. Shak.
• QUATER-COUSIN
  A cousin within the first four degrees of kindred.
• COUNTRY COUSIN
  A relative from the country visiting the city and unfamiliar with city manners and sights.