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Member

MEM'BER, n. [L. membrum.]
1. A limb of animal bodies, as a leg, an arm, an ear, a finger, that is, a subordinate part of the main body.
2. A part of a discourse, or of a period or sentence; a clause; a part of a verse. Harmony in poetry is produced by a proportion between the members of the same verse, or between the members of different verses.
3. In architecture, a subordinate part of a building, as a frieze or cornice; sometimes a molding.
4. An individual of a community or society. Every citizen is a member of the state or body politic. So the individuals of a club, a corporation or confederacy, are called its members. Students of an academy or college are its members. Professed christians are called members of the church.
5. The appetites and passions, considered as tempting to sin. Rom 7. Col 3.
member appears in definitions for these words:
Abacus Absolute Academian Academician Academist Academy Adjunct Admonish Advocate Affiliate Aggregate Agreeably Agreement Anger Annulet Antimetathesis Apophthegm Areopagite Areopagus Assent Attendance Aularian Balancer Band Baron Bedmate Bencher Binomial Bishop Body Both Boultin Branch Brest Brother Burg Cabinet-council Call Can Capitulary Captivity Cavetto Censure Chair-man Church-discipline Church-member Civil Civilly Clanish Class Clause Climax Cofferer Collegiate Colon Comma Committee Commoner Communion Conge Congress Continuance Contortion Contrast Conversion Cornice Corona Corporation Corporator Councilor Counselor Covenant Covetousness Crowning Cyma Cymatium Deacon Disciplinable Disconnection Dismember Dismembered Dissident Drip Echinus Embryo Enter Erastian Faculty Fascia Fellow Fellow-member Fillet Finger Frieze Function Gibbous Good Government Gula Hebdomadal Honor Honorary Hustings Inquisitor Involution It Jacobin Keeper Law Limb Liveryman Lord Maim Mason Matriculate Matriculation Member Membership Mortify Motion Mutilation Neither Nominate Not Ogee Ogive One Oppose Order Organize Page Part Plinth Point Political Posture Prerogative Privilege Privy-counselor Profile Propound Protection Provided Punctuation Quarter Quorum Receive Regent Relative Representative Resolution Rule Scholar See Self-contradiction Semicolon Session Sightly Sit Socle Speech Squib Strophe Strophy Symmetry Synneurosis Table Tax Taxation Templar Term That This Thum Toe Tringle Tutor Unanimity Unanimous Undergraduate Union Unmutilated Unpointed Valedictory Vice-chancellor Without

 

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