Familiar, n.

    1. Intimate, intimate friend, bosom friend, boon companion, close acquaintance, near associate.
    2. Familiar spirit, demon or evil spirit at call.

Familiarity, n.

    1. Acquaintance, familiar knowledge, etc.
    2. Intimacy, fellowship, friendship, etc.
    3. Friendliness, sociability, etc.
    4. Informality, freedom, etc.
    5. Over-freedom, disrespect, etc.
    6. General recognition, etc. See familiar.

Familiarize, v. a. Accustom, habituate, inure, use, train.

Family, n.

    1. Household, parents and children.
    2. Lineage, race, tribe, clan, kindred, house, line of ancestors.
    3. Subdivision of an order, group of genera.

Family way. Pregnancy.

Famine, n. Dearth, scarcity of food.

Famish, v. a.

    1. Starve, kill or destroy with hunger.
    2. Distress with hunger, exhaust by hunger.

Famish, v. n.

    1. Starve, die of hunger, perish for want of food.

  By PanEris using Melati.

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