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To embark. [Obs.] Shak.

he condition, rank, post, or authority of a captain or chief commander. "To take the captainship." Shak.

Office if a chamberlain.

The office or business of a chaplain. The Bethesda of some knight's chaplainship. Milton.

The rank, dignity, or office of a chieftain.

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

Family relationship.

The condition of a swain.

Kinship generally; close agreement; relation; conformity; resemblance; connection; as, the affinity of sounds, of colors, or of languages. There is a close affinity between imposture and credulity. Sir G. C. Lewis.

Relationship by descent from a common ancestor; consanguinity; kinship. To share the blood of Saxon royalty. Sir W. Scott. A friend of our own blood. Waller. Half blood (Law), relationship through only one parent. -- Whole blood, relationship through both father and mother. In American Law, blood includes both half bl…

Power, or command, over a certain district; chieftainship. [Obs.]

Relationship; kinship. [Obs.] Wyclif.

Kinship. Thackeray.

to nicking sashes. Prior. The itch of his affection should not then Have nicked his captainship. Shak.

Kinship; parentage. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Connection by consanguinity or affinity; kinship; relationship; as, the relation of parents and children. Relations dear, and all the charities Of father, son, and brother, first were known. Milton.