- (n.) A cutting; a scion.
- (n.) Those following a particular leader or authority or attached to a certain opinion; a company or set having a common belief or allegiance distinct from others; in religion, the believers in a particular creed or upholders of a particular practice; especially, in modern times, a party dissenting from an established church; a denomination; in philosophy, the disciples of a particular master; a school; in society and the state, an order, rank, class or party.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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