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Definition of Cousins

1. cousin [n] - See also: cousin

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cousins

Literary usage of Cousins

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1887)
"1824 cousins wrote He engraved likewise for the ' Art Journal ' tolerably good plate, and I am to have mjr ' Labour ' and ' Rest ' after John Linnell, ..."

2. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register by Henry Fritz-Gilbert Waters (1847)
"Half-cousins. The children of a half-brother or half-sister are 22. Second cousins. The children of cousins are second cousins; as half-cousins to each ..."

3. A Treatise on Wills by Thomas Jarman, Leopold George Gordon Robbins, Melville Madison Bigelow (1893)
"Abingdon (a), where by will the bequest •was to "my cousins living at iny death and the children of my cousins then dead," and by codicil the testator ..."

4. A Treatise on the Law of Executors and Administrators by Edward Vaughan Williams, Roland Lomax Vaughan Williams, Joseph Fitz Randolph, William Talcott (1895)
"In this case it is pointed out that the doubt on the construction of these gifts to cousins has arisen through a misunderstanding of the decision in the ..."

5. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1845)
"DEVISE to a son, recommending him to continue his cousins A. and B. in the ... A trust for the cousins; who had been tenants at will; and the son, ..."

6. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1887)
"1824 cousins wrote He engraved likewise for the ' Art Journal ' tolerably good plate, and I am to have mjr ' Labour ' and ' Rest ' after John Linnell, ..."

7. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register by Henry Fritz-Gilbert Waters (1847)
"Half-cousins. The children of a half-brother or half-sister are 22. Second cousins. The children of cousins are second cousins; as half-cousins to each ..."

8. A Treatise on Wills by Thomas Jarman, Leopold George Gordon Robbins, Melville Madison Bigelow (1893)
"Abingdon (a), where by will the bequest •was to "my cousins living at iny death and the children of my cousins then dead," and by codicil the testator ..."

9. A Treatise on the Law of Executors and Administrators by Edward Vaughan Williams, Roland Lomax Vaughan Williams, Joseph Fitz Randolph, William Talcott (1895)
"In this case it is pointed out that the doubt on the construction of these gifts to cousins has arisen through a misunderstanding of the decision in the ..."

10. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1845)
"DEVISE to a son, recommending him to continue his cousins A. and B. in the ... A trust for the cousins; who had been tenants at will; and the son, ..."

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