membering

Noun

member (plural members)

1. One who belongs to a group.
   • “Were it not for the fancy French and Latin in it, I'd have swore it was the sort of thing I do not print as a rule, but being as how the order was from one of the members upstairs...”2014 January 14, Roberta Rogow, The Problem of the Surly Servant, →ISBN, page 109
2. A part of a whole.
   • The I-beams were to become structural members of a pedestrian bridge.

   Synonyms:

   integrant

3. Part of an animal capable of performing a distinct office; an organ; a limb.
   • For as we haue many members in one body, and all members haue not the same office:1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Romans 12:4

   Synonyms:

   limb, lith

4. (euphemistic) The penis.
   • If your wife is old and your member is exhausted, eat onions in plenty.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 168

   Synonyms:

   pintle, tarse, virile member

5. One of the propositions making up a syllogism.

   Synonyms:

   premise, premiss

6. An element of a set.

   Synonyms:

   element

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