Rhymes for GRANDFATHERS

• the mother of your father or mother

• a skilled worker who is employed to restore or refinish buildings or antique furniture

• the founder of a family

• person from an earlier time who contributed to the tradition shared by some group

• the leader of a dance band

• a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)

• `Father' is a term of address for priests in some churches (especially the Roman Catholic Church or the Orthodox Catholic Church); `Padre' is frequently used in the military

• the founder of a family

• (Christianity) any of about 70 theologians in the period from the 2nd to the 7th century whose writing established and confirmed official church doctrine; in the Roman Catholic Church some were later declared saints and became Doctor of the Church; the best known Latin Church Fathers are Ambrose, Augustine, Gregory the Great, and Jerome; those who wrote in Greek include Athanasius, Basil, Gregory Nazianzen, and John Chrysostom

• God when considered as the first person in the Trinity

• a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization

• a person who founds or establishes some institution

• the head of an organized crime family

• make (offspring) by reproduction

• an expert who gives advice

• a smooth-textured sausage of minced beef or pork usually smoked; often served on a bread roll

• a semiconductor device capable of amplification

• a person who translates written messages from one language to another

• someone who mediates between speakers of different languages

• a program that translates one programming language into another

• a man in charge of children in an institution

• an act of gracious kindness

• an advantage to the benefit of someone or something

• an inclination to approve

• a feeling of favorable regard

• souvenir consisting of a small gift given to a guest at a party

• promote over another

• consider as the favorite

• treat gently or carefully

• bestow a privilege upon

• someone who explores an area for mineral deposits

• someone who marks a trail by leaving blazes on trees

• someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art

• someone who deceives you about his true nature or intent in order to take advantage of you

• pose a threat to; present a danger to

• put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position

• someone who provides an index

• someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art

• a breathing device for administering long-term artificial respiration

• a protective mask with a filter; protects the face and lungs against poisonous gases

• the person who leads a musical group

• a substance that readily conducts e.g. electricity and heat

• the person who collects fares on a public conveyance

• a device designed to transmit electricity, heat, etc.

• someone who expresses strong approval

• a person who transfers his ownership interest in something by signing a check or negotiable security

• a concave cut into a surface or edge (as in a coastline)

• formal agreement between the issuer of bonds and the bondholders as to terms of the debt

• a contract binding one party into the service of another for a specified term

• the space left between the margin and the start of an indented line

• bind by or as if by indentures, as of an apprentice or servant

• United States poet (1869-1950)

• a substance as germanium or silicon whose electrical conductivity is intermediate between that of a metal and an insulator; its conductivity increases with temperature and in the presence of impurities

• a conductor made with semiconducting material

• an expert who gives advice

• (when gas was used for streetlights) a person who lights and extinguishes streetlights

• A substance that has no resistance to conducting an electric current

• branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds

• turning an oar parallel to the water between pulls

• join tongue and groove, in carpentry

• cover or fit with feathers

• turn the paddle; in canoeing

• turn the oar, while rowing

• grow feathers

• someone whose business involves importing goods from outside (especially from a foreign country)

• a person who makes deceitful pretenses

• an artist who designs and makes prints

• a feeling of favorable regard

• an inclination to approve

• an advantage to the benefit of someone or something

• souvenir consisting of a small gift given to a guest at a party

• an act of gracious kindness

• treat gently or carefully

• bestow a privilege upon

• promote over another

• consider as the favorite

• a person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining

• a mechanical device that compresses gasses

• an electronic device that reduces the dynamic range of an audio signal.

• a machine for performing calculations automatically

• an expert at calculation (or at operating calculating machines)

• an electrical device that converts one form of energy into another

• someone who transmits a message

• any agent (person or animal or microorganism) that carries and transmits a disease

• set used to broadcast radio or tv signals

• only the rose-colored starlings; in some classifications considered a separate genus

• a person authorized to conduct religious worship

• a mainframe computer that is one of the most powerful available at a given time

• the degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment (corresponding to its molecular activity)

• the somatic sensation of cold or heat

• an oilman who drills exploratory wells in territory not known to be an oil field

• (used in the plural) an outdoor grandstand without a roof; patrons are exposed to the sun as linens are when they are bleached

• informal or slang terms for mentally irregular

• waves breaking on the shore

• a small digital computer based on a microprocessor and designed to be used by one person at a time

• a digital computer of medium size

• someone who responds

• the audience reached by television

• the right or chance to choose

• an illegal daily lottery

• the fourth book of the Old Testament; contains a record of the number of Israelites who followed Moses out of Egypt