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One who frequents brothels.

Lewdness; obscenity; a brothel. B. Jonson.

A male person who has the same father and mother with another person, or who has one of them only. In the latter case he is more definitely called a half brother, or brother of the half blood. Two of us in the churchyard lie, My sister and my brother. Wordsworth.

A brother by both the father's and mother's side, in contradistinction to a uterine brother, one by the mother only. Bouvier.

The brother of one's husband or wife; also, the husband of one's sister; sometimes, the husband of one's wife's sister.

The state of being brothers or a brother.

The state or quality of being brotherly.

Of or pertaining to brothers; such as is natural for brothers; becoming to brothers; kind; affectionate; as, brotherly love.

See Burden. [Archaic]

A bad custom or habit; an insatiable desire; as, cacoëthes scribendi, "The itch for writing". Addison.

A gymnasium; esp. one for light physical exercise by women and children.

Of or pertaining to calisthenics.

The science, art, or practice of healthful exercise of the body and limbs, to promote strength and gracefulness; light gymnastics.

See Calisthenic, Calisthenics.

A projecting piece of timber or iron near the bow of vessel, to which the anchor is hoisted and secured.

The official chair or throne of a bishop, or of any person in high authority. Ex cathedra Etym: [L., from the chair], in the exercise of one's office; with authority. The Vatican Council declares that the Pope, is infallible "when he speaks ex cathedra." Addis & Arnold's Cath. Dict.

The principal church in a diocese, so called because in it the bishop has his official chair (Cathedra) or throne.

Cathedral. [R.]

Relating to the chair or office of a teacher. [Obs.]

A mild kind caustic used to reduce warts and other excrescences. Dunglison.