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English Dictionary: collateral	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for collateral
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
collateral adj descended from a common ancestor but through different lines; "cousins are collateral relatives"; "an indirect descendant of the Stuarts" Synonym(s): collateral, indirect Antonym(s): direct, lineal serving to support or corroborate; "collateral evidence" Synonym(s): collateral, confirmative, confirming, confirmatory, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying accompany, concomitant; "collateral target damage from a bombing run" situated or running side by side; "collateral ridges of mountains" n a security pledged for the repayment of a loan
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Collateral \Collat"eral\, n. 1. A collateral relative. --Ayliffe. 2. Collateral security; that which is pledged or deposited as collateral security.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Collateral \Collat"eral\, a. [LL. collateralis; col- + lateralis lateral. See {Lateral}.] 1. Coming from, being on, or directed toward, the side; as, collateral pressure. [bd]Collateral light.[b8] --Shak. 2. Acting in an indirect way. If by direct or by collateral hand They find us touched, we will our kingdom give . . . To you in satisfaction. --Shak. 3. Related to, but not strictly a part of, the main thing or matter under consideration; hence, subordinate; not chief or principal; as, collateral interest; collateral issues. That he [Attebury] was altogether in the wrong on the main question, and on all the collateral questions springing out of it, . . . is true. --Macaulay. 4. Tending toward the same conclusion or result as something else; additional; as, collateral evidence. Yet the attempt may give Collateral interest to this homely tale. --Wordsworth. 5. (Genealogy) Descending from the same stock or ancestor, but not in the same line or branch or one from the other; -- opposed to lineal. Note: Lineal descendants proceed one from another in a direct line; collateral relations spring from a common ancestor, but from different branches of that common stirps or stock. Thus the children of brothers are collateral relations, having different fathers, but a common grandfather. --Blackstone.