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A sum total of rents; as, an estate that yields a rental of ten thousand dollars a year.

Of or pertaining to a parent or to parents; as, parental authority; parental obligations.

In a parental manner.

An office and mass for the dead on the thirtieth day after death or burial. "Their trentals and their shrifts." Spenser.

ning or regulating influence; superintendence; government; as, children should be under parental control. The House of Commons should exercise a control over all the departments of the executive administration. Macaulay. Board of control. See under Board.

A term of adress indicating parental interest. Daughter, be of good comfort. Matt. ix. 22. Daughter cell (Biol.), one of the cells formed by cell division. See Cell division, under Division.

usually by the deflection of a magnetic needle. Differential galvanometer. See under Differental, a. -- Sine galvanometer, Cosine galvanometer, Tangent galvanometer (Elec.), a galvanometer in which the sine, cosine, or tangent respectively, of the angle through which the needle is deflected, is proportional to the str…

uman race. Woman has, in general, much stronger propensity than man to the discharge of parental duties. Cowper.

Parental affection; the instinctive affection which animals have for their young.

A trental.