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l. In English writs, etc., issued by the crown, it signifies any earl. My noble lords and cousins, all, good morrow. Shak.

A first cousin. See Note under Cousin, 1.

Relationship; kinship. [Obs.] Wyclif.

The state or condition of a cousin; also, the collective body of cousins; kinsfolk.

Like or becoming a cousin.

A body or collection of cousins; the whole number of persons who stand in the relation of cousins to a given person or persons.

The relationship of cousins; state of being cousins; cousinhood. G. Eliot.

A remote relation. See Quater-cousin. Shak.

A relative from the country visiting the city and unfamiliar with city manners and sights.

A cousin within the first four degrees of kindred.

A contraction of cousin. Shak.

r fourth degree. In the 11th century an opinion began to gain ground in Italy, that third cousins might marry, being in the seventh degree according to the civil law. Hallam.

ou a leopard, thou wert german to the lion. Shak. Brother german. See Brother german. -- Cousins german. See the Note under Cousin.

emptuous name for Mohammed; hence, an evil spirit; a devil. [Obs.] Who's this, my mahound cousin Beau. & Fl.

May; must; might. He moot as well say one word as another Chaucer. The wordes mote be cousin to the deed. Chaucer. Men moot [i.e., one only] give silver to the poore freres. Chaucer. So mote it be, so be it; amen; -- a phrase in some rituals, as that of the Freemasons.

A cousin. [Obs.] Shak.

To speak; to converse. [Obs.] There shalt thou find my cousin Beatrice, Proposing with the prince and Claudio. Shak.

Distant by degrees in relationship; as, a cousin once removed. -- Re*mov"ed*ness (r, n. Shak.

A Daniel, still say I, a second Daniel! Shak. Second Adventist. See Adventist. -- Second cousin, the child of a cousin. -- Second-cut file. See under File. -- Second distance (Art), that part of a picture between the foreground and the background; -- called also middle ground, or middle distance. [R.] -- Second esta…

gans; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration. I'm stuffed, cousin; I can not smell. Shak.