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The child of one's grandson or granddaughter.

A son of one's grandson or granddaughter.

The sea bream. [Prov. Eng. or Irish] Gunner's daughter, the gun to which men or boys were lashed for punishment. [Sailor's slang] W. C. Russell.

The goddess of youth, daughter of Jupiter and Juno. She was believed to have the power of restoring youth and beauty to those who had lost them.

To inherit; to succeed to. [R.] One only daughter heired the royal state. Dryden.

The daughters of Hesperus, or Night (brother of Atlas), and fabled possessors of a garden producing golden apples, in Africa, at the western extremity of the known world. To slay the guarding dragon and get some of these apples was one of the labors of Hercules. Called also Atlantides.

ending of property for equality of division, as when lands given in frank-marriage to one daughter were, after the death of the ancestor, blended with the lands descending to her and to her sisters from the same ancestor, and then divided in equal portions among all the daughters. In modern usage, a mixing together, or…

The goddess of health, daughter of Esculapius.

To bathe; to wash freely; to immerce. And gave her to his daughters to imbathe In nectared lavers strewed with asphodel. Milton.

A title borne by every one of the daughters of the kings of Spain and Portugal, except the eldest.

to taint by the communication of anything noxious or pernicious. Cowper. Infected Ston's daughters with like heat. Milton.

attainted is so corrupted as to be rendered no longer inheritable. Blackstone. The eldest daughter of the king is also alone inheritable to the crown on failure of issue male. Blackstone. Inheritable blood, blood or relationship by which a person becomes qualified to be an heir, or to transmit possessions by inheritanc…

ssession which passes by descent. When the man dies, let the inheritance Descend unto the daughter. Shak.

Not well; feeble; infirm; sickly; as, he had an invalid daughter.

ads are separated into two groups which ultimately become disconnected and constitute the daughter nuclei. Called also mitosis. See Cell development, under Cell.

leads melodious days. Tennyson. You remember . . . the life he used to lead his wife and daughter. Dickens.

e., to court, to woo, to solicit union in marriage. Demetrius . . . Made love to Nedar's daughter, Helena, And won her soul. Shak.

" To lull him soft asleep." Spenser. Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie, To lull the daughters of necessity. Milton.

aw, a fine paid to the lord of the soil by a tenant upon the marriage of one the tenant's daughters.

Pertaining to the Virgin Mary, or sometimes to Mary, Queen of England, daughter of Henry VIII. Of all the Marian martyrs, Mr. Philpot was the best-born gentleman. Fuller. Maid Marian. See Maidmarian in the Vocabulary.