Brother-in-law

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Brother-in-law \Broth"er-in-law`\, n.; pl. {Brothers-in-law}.
     The brother of one's husband or wife; also, the husband of
     one's sister; sometimes, the husband of one's wife's sister.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  brother-in-law
       n : a brother by marriage
       [also: {brothers-in-law} (pl)]

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  BROTHER-IN-LAW, domestic relat. The brother of a wife, or the husband of a 
  sister. There is no relationship, in the former case, between the husband 
  and the brother-in-law, nor in the latter, between the brother and the 
  husband of the sister; there is only affinity between them. See Vaughan's 
  Rep. 302, 329.