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The son of a brother or a sister, or of a brother-in-law or sister-in-law. Chaucer.

A daughter of one's brother or sister, or of one's brother-in-law or sister-in-law.

To displease; to make angry; to affront. A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city. Prov. xviii. 19.

ng under a common rule; as, the Order of the Bath; the Franciscan order. Find a barefoot brother out, One of our order, to associate me. Shak. The venerable order of the Knights Templars. Sir W. Scott.

One of the principal divinities of Egypt, the brother and husband of Isis. He was figured as a mummy wearing the royal cap of Upper Egypt, and was symbolized by the sacred bull, called Apis. Cf. Serapis. -- O*sir"i*an, a.

An official warrant of remission of penalty. Sign me a present pardon for my brother. Shak.

For he that is not against us is on our part. Mark ix. 40. Make whole kingdoms take her brother's part. Waller.

ance; to act the part of; hence, to counterfeit; to feign; as, he tried to personate his brother; a personated devotion. Hammond.

s; devout; godly. "Pious hearts." Milton. "Pious poetry." Johnson. Where was the martial brother's pious care Pope.

The son of Saturn and Rhea, brother of Jupiter and Neptune; the dark and gloomy god of the Lower World. Pluto monkey (Zoöl.), a long- tailed African monkey (Cercopithecus pluto), having side whiskers. The general color is black, more or less grizzled; the frontal band is white.

To quarrel with. [R.] "I had quarelled my brother purposely." B. Jonson.

l or cascade; -- usually in the plural; as, the Lachine rapids in the St. Lawrence. Row, brothers, row the stream runs fast, The rapids are near, and the daylight's past. Moore.

To bring or lead back to any former place or condition. [Obs.] And to his brother's house reduced his wife. Chapman. The sheep must of necessity be scattered, unless the great Shephered of souls oppose, or some of his delegates reduce and direct us. Evelyn.

ation of parents and children. Relations dear, and all the charities Of father, son, and brother, first were known. Milton.

out issue, Jacob was obbliged by law to marry his relict, and so to raise up seed to his brother Eli. South.

e or similar to; to bear the similitude of, either in appearance or qualities; as, these brothers resemble each other. We will resemble you in that. Shak.

Involved in ruin; ruined. My brother Edward lives in pomp and state, I in a mansion here all ruinate. J. Webster.

t which, defends or protects; defense; protection. Shak. Thy sword, the safeguard of thy brother's throne. Granwille.

very science that mote be. Spenser. Noble Boyle, not less in nature seen, Than his great brother read in states and men. Dryden.

Guard; watch, as by a sentinel. Here toils, and death, and death's half-brother, sleep, Forms terrible to view, their sentry keep. Dryden. Sentry box, a small house or box to cover a sentinel at his post, and shelter him from the weather.