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son or grandchild, or remoter lineal descendant. [Obs.] But if any widow have children or nephews [Rev. Ver. grandchildren,]. 1 Tim. v. 4. If naturalists say true that nephews are often liker to their grandfathers than to their fathers. Jer. Taylor.

The grandson of one's brother or sister.

ings unfavorable; distrust or fear at the prospect of future evil. After the death of his nephew Caligula, Claudius was in no small apprehension for his own life. Addison.

The sister of one's father or mother; -- correlative to nephew or niece. Also applied to an uncle's wife.

ight reverend father. Robynson (More's Utopia). So much hath Oxford been beholding to her nephews, or sister's children. Fuller.

To provide for; to supply; to furnish; as, to find food for workemen; he finds his nephew in money. Wages £14 and all found. London Times. Nothing a day and find yourself. Dickens.

Of or relating to a nephew.

Nephew. [Obs.] haucer.

e Greeks and Ilians they rapt The whirring chariot. Chapman. From Oxford I was rapt by my nephew, Sir Edmund Bacon, to Redgrove. Sir H. Wotton.

gments when the surface is scratched or the tail broken; -- so called from Prince Rupert, nephew of Charles I., by whom they were first brought to England. Called also Rupert's ball, and glass tear.

A descendant of Mohammed through his daughter Fatima and nephew Ali.

a successful use of medicine; a successful experiment; a successful enterprise. Welcome, nephews, from successful wars. Shak.

r or mother; also applied to an aunt's husband; -- the correlative of aunt in sex, and of nephew and niece in relationship.

ll one's estate to a child; also, to order or direct by testament; as, he willed that his nephew should have his watch.