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The system of distinguishing families, clans, etc., in a tribe by the totem.
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Any one of numerous small birds belonging to Pipra, Manacus, and other genera of the family Pipridae. They are mostly natives of Central and South America. some are bright-colored, and others have the wings and tail curiously ornamented. The name is sometimes applied to related birds of other families.
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An extensive division of gastropod mollusks in which the odontophore is long and narrow, and usually bears seven rows of teeth. It includes a large number of families both marine and fresh-water.
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Relatives; kindred; kin; persons of the same family or closely or closely related families.
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Any annelid resembling Nereis, or of the family Lycoridae or allied families.
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Any species of Nereis. The word is sometimes used for similar annelids of other families.
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Any one of numerous species of small singing birds belonging to the families Paridae and Leiotrichidae; a titmouse.
v. i.
To pass from one country or jurisdiction to another for the purpose of residence, as men or families; to migrate.
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An extensive tribe or suborder of fishes, including the true perches (Percidae); the pondfishes (Centrarchidae); the sciaenoids (Sciaenidae); the sparoids (Sparidae); the serranoids (Serranidae), and some other related families.
v. i.
To thrust one's self in; to come or go in without invitation, permission, or welcome; to encroach; to trespass; as, to intrude on families at unseasonable hours; to intrude on the lands of another.
v. t.
Hence, to join by a legal or moral bond, as families by marriage, nations by treaty, men by opinions; to join in interest, affection, fellowship, or the like; to cause to agree; to harmonize; to associate; to attach.
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To become connected by marriage between their members; to give and take mutually in marriage; -- said of families, ranks, castes, etc.
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An order of fishes including the blennioid and gobioid fishes, and other related families.
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One of the subdivisions, of more importance than genus, into which certain families are divided.
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Any aquatic carnivorous mammal of the families Phocidae and Otariidae.
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In the Middle Ages, the officer charged with the above duties, and also with the care of genealogies, of the rights and privileges of noble families, and especially of armorial bearings. In modern times, some vestiges of this office remain, especially in England. See Heralds' College (below), and King-at-Arms.
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The principle of succession in royal families, especially among the Eastern Roman emperors, by which a younger son, if born after the accession of his father to the throne, was preferred to an elder son who was not so born.
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Connection by marriage; reciprocal marriage; giving and taking in marriage, as between two families, tribes, castes, or nations.
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A history of noble families.
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A division of a country in England, supposed to have originally contained a hundred families, or freemen.
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