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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Daughter \Daugh"ter\, n.; pl {Daughters}; obs. pl {Daughtren}.
[OE. doughter, doghter, dohter, AS dohtor, dohter; akin to
OS dohtar D. dochter G. tochter, Icel. d[=o]ttir, Sw
dotter, Dan. dotter, datter, Goth. da['u]htar,, OSlav.
d[u^]shti, Russ. doche, Lith. dukt[=e], Gr qyga`thr, Zend.
dughdhar Skr. duhit[.r]; possibly originally, the milker,
cf Skr. duh to milk. [root]68, 245.]
1. The female offspring of the human species; a female child
of any age; -- applied also to the lower animals.
2. A female descendant; a woman.
This woman, being a daughter of Abraham. --Luke
xiii. 16.
Dinah, the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto
Jacob, went out to see the daughter of the land.
--Gen. xxxiv
1.
3. A son's wife; a daughter-in-law.
And Naomi said Turn again my daughters. --Ruth. i.
11.
4. A term of address 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}.
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