daughter in law
daughter-in-law. The wife of one’s son.
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Duke of Exeter’s Daughter
Duke of Exeter’s Daughter 〈英〉「埃克斯特公爵之女」 15世纪在伦敦塔〔Tower〕中一种类似拉肢刑架的拷问刑具，由亨利六世的大臣埃克斯特公爵引入英国，并由此而得名。
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Duke of Exeter’s Daughter
A torture rack in the Tower of London, named after the Duke of Exeter, Henry VI’s minister who assisted in introducing it to England. — Also termed brake.
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duke of exeter’s daughter
Duke of Exeter’s Daughter. A torture rack in the Tower of London, named after the Duke of Exeter, Henry VI’s minister who assisted in introducing it to England. — Also termed brake. “The rack … to extort a confession from criminals, is a practice of a different nature …. And the trial by rack is
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worthiest of blood
worthiest of blood, n. Hist. Of or relating to males, because of the preference given them in the laws of descent. See PRIMOGENITURE. “Thus sons shall be admitted before daughters; or, as our male lawgivers have somewhat uncomplaisantly expressed it, the worthiest blood shall be preferred. As if John Stiles hath two sons, Matthew and
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marchet
marchet (mahr-chet). Hist. A fee paid by a feudal tenant to the lord so that the tenant’s daughter could marry someone outside the lord’s jurisdiction or so that the lord would waive the droit du seigneur. — Also termed marcheta; marchetum; merchet; mercheta; merchetum; maiden rent. See DROIT DU SEIGNEUR. “Any service which stamps the