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The country of one's ancestors; -- same as fatherland.

One of the chitinous supports, or veins, in the wings of incests.

efeat; to make a ruin of; to destroy. When the walls of Thebes he overthrew. Dryden. [Gloucester] that seeks to overthrow religion. Shak.

To wax or grow too rapindly or too much. [Obs.] R. of Gloucester.

materials packed up with wonderful art. Addison. Where . . . the bones Of all my buried ancestors are packed. Shak.

That form of evolution in which the truly ancestral characters conserved by heredity are reproduced in development; original simple descent; -- distinguished from kenogenesis. Sometimes, in zoölogy, the abrupt metamorphosis of insects, crustaceans, etc.

Of, pertaining to, or including, all the Gothic races. "Ancestral Pangothic stock." Earle.

The holding or occupation of an inheritable estate which descends from the ancestor to two or more persons; coheirship.

Descent from parents or ancestors; parents or ancestors considered with respect to their rank or character; extraction; birth; as, a man of noble parentage. "Wilt thou deny thy parentage" Shak. Though men esteem thee low of parentage. Milton.

rders one's own father; in a wider sense, one who murders one's father or mother or any ancestor.

Of or pertaining to a patrimony; inherited from ancestors; as, a patrimonial estate.

A right or estate inherited from one's father; or, in a larger sense, from any ancestor. "'Reave the orphan of his patrimony." Shak.

Derived from ancestors; as, a patronymic denomination.

ilton. Pavement teeth (Zoöl.), flattened teeth which in certain fishes, as the skates and cestracionts, are arranged side by side, like tiles in a pavement.

A line of ancestors; descent; lineage; genealogy; a register or record of a line of ancestors. Alterations of surnames . . . have obscured the truth of our pedigrees. Camden. His vanity labored to contrive us a pedigree. Milton. I am no herald to inquire of men's pedigrees. Sir P. Sidney. The Jews preserved the pedigre…

One's ancestors or family; kindred; relations; as, my people were English.

A class of helminthes including the cestodes, or tapeworms, the trematodes, and the turbellarians. Called also flatworms.

A genus of marine annelids, believed to be an ancient or ancestral type. It is remarkable for its simplicity of structure and want of parapodia. It is the type of the order Archiannelida, or Gymnotoma. See Loeven's larva.

g to the furthest generation; the aggregate number of persons who are descended from an ancestor of a generation; descendants; -- contrasted with ancestry; as, the posterity of Abraham. If [the crown] should not stand in thy posterity. Shak.

A guide. [Cuba & Phil. Islands] D. C. Worcester.