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178 words match “ROTHER”

ROTHER a. 3 definitions
A bovine beast. [Obs.] Shak. Rother beasts, cattle of the bovine genus; black cattle. [Obs.] Golding. -- Rother soil, the dung of rother beasts.
AEROTHERAPENTICS n.
Treatment of disease by the use of air or other gases.
BAROTHERMOGRAPH n.
An instrument for recording both pressure and temperature, as of the atmosphere.
BROTHER n. 4 definitions
son, or who has one of them only. In the latter case he is more definitely called a half brother, or brother of the half blood. Two of us in the churchyard lie, My sister and my brother. Wordsworth.
BROTHER GERMAN n.
A brother by both the father's and mother's side, in contradistinction to a uterine brother, one by the mother only. Bouvier.
BROTHER-IN-LAW n.
The brother of one's husband or wife; also, the husband of one's sister; sometimes, the husband of one's wife's sister.
BROTHERHOOD n. 4 definitions
The state of being brothers or a brother.
BROTHERLINESS n.
The state or quality of being brotherly.
BROTHERLY a. 2 definitions
Of or pertaining to brothers; such as is natural for brothers; becoming to brothers; kind; affectionate; as, brotherly love.
CHEIROTHERIUM n.
A genus of extinct animals, so named from fossil footprints rudely resembling impressions of the human hand, and believed to have been made by labyrinthodont reptiles. See Illustration in Appendix.
HALF-BROTHER n.
A brother by one parent, but not by both.
HYDROTHERAPEUTICS n.
A system of treating disease by baths and mineral waters.
HYDROTHERAPY n.
See Hydropathy.
HYDROTHERMAL a.
Of or pertaining to hot water; -- used esp. with reference to the action of heated waters in dissolving, redepositing, and otherwise producing mineral changes within the crust of the globe.
SEROTHERAPY n. 2 definitions
Serum-therapy.
STEPBROTHER n.
A brother by the marriage of one's father with the mother of another, or of one's mother with the father of another.
ADELPHIA n.
A "brotherhood," or collection of stamens in a bundle; -- used in composition, as in the class names, Monadelphia, Diadelphia, etc.
ADMONISH v.
fy of a fault; to reprove gently or kindly, but seriously; to exhort. "Admonish him as a brother." 2 Thess. iii. 15.
AFFECTIONATE a.
Having affection or warm regard; loving; fond; as, an affectionate brother.
AGGRAVATE v.
sperate; to provoke; to irritate. [Colloq.] If both were to aggravate her parents, as my brother and sister do mine. Richardson (Clarissa).
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