Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One distantly or indirectly related to another; a remote or putative cousin.

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Examples

  • Robin, and little Jenny -- though she's but a side-cousin -- and all on our knees, we pray you to kill the Queen further off, Sir Thomas.

    Queen Mary and Harold Alfred Tennyson Tennyson 1850

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