Uncle

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A Pawnbroker.

II. Uncle ·noun The brother of one's father or mother; also applied to an aunt's husband;

— the correlative of aunt in sex, and of nephew and niece in relationship.

III. Uncle ·add. ·noun An eldery man;

— used chiefly as a kindly or familiar appellation, ·esp. (Southern U. S.) for a worthy old negro; as, "Uncle Remus.".

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