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Of or pertaining to a family; domestic. "Familiar feuds." Byron.

The state of being familiar; intimate and frequent converse, or association; unconstrained intercourse; freedom from ceremony and constraint; intimacy; as, to live in remarkable familiarity.

The act or process of making familiar; the result of becoming familiar; as, familiarization with scenes of blood.

To make familiar or intimate; to habituate; to accustom; to make well known by practice or converse; as, to familiarize one's self with scenes of distress.

In a familiar manner.

Familiarity. [R.]

Of or pertaining to a family or household; domestic. [Obs.] Milton.

To make familiar by use; to habituate, familiarize, or inure; - - with to. I shall always fear that he who accustoms himself to fraud in little things, wants only opportunity to practice it in greater. Adventurer.

Familiar through use; usual; customary. "An accustomed action." Shak.

To furnish or give experimental knowledge of; to make (one) to know; to make familiar; -- followed by with. Before a man can speak on any subject, it is necessary to be acquainted with it. Locke. A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. Isa. liii. 3.

Personally known; familiar. See To be acquainted with, under Acquaint, v. t.

up of Coelenterata, comprising the Anthozoa Ctenophora. The sea anemone, or actinia, is a familiar example.

eep at a distance (literally or figuratively); not to allow to come into close contact or familiar intercourse. -- To work at arm's length, to work disadvantageously.

A familiar name for an aunt. In the southern United States a familiar term applied to aged negro women.

ed as an unguent and cosmetic by the Turks. The fragrant herb Dracocephalum Canariense is familiarly called balm of Gilead, and so are the American trees, Populus balsamifera, variety candicans (balsam poplar), and Abies balsamea (balsam fir).

To drive out, as from a home or familiar place; -- used with from and out of. How the ancient Celtic tongue came to be banished from the Low Countries in Scotland. Blair.

A clergyman; -- familiarly so called, as a soldier is sometimes called a redcoat or a bluecoat.

Intimate; confidential; familiar; trusted; cherished; beloved; as, a bosom friend.

A cow or calf; -- familiarly so called. [U. S.]

A pair; a couple; as, a brace of ducks; now rarely applied to persons, except familiarly or with some contempt. "A brace of greyhounds." Shak. He is said to have shot . . . fifty brace of pheasants. Addison. A brace of brethren, both bishops, both eminent for learning and religion, now appeared in the church. Fuller. B…