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Kin

A unit of weight in Japan equivalent to 600 grams.

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Using court and notary records, Milanich focuses on families that took in kinless children, as well as the children themselves, to conclude that child circulation constituted a form of welfare provision for illegitimate children.

Nara B. Milanich, Children of Fate: Childhood, Class, and the State in Chile, 1850-1930

NONAGRAM: clink' clunk' kiln' kinless' kiss' lick' like' liken' link' luck' LUCKINESS' lunk' neck' nick' nickel' nuke' sick' sicken' sickle' silk' silken' sink' skein' skin' slick' slink' slunk' snick' snuck' suck' suckle' sulk' sunk' unlike.

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Penningroth begins in Africa, defining slavery as a "kinless" condition, noting that slaves were gradually absorbed into their owners' families.

The Claims of Kinfolk: African American Property and Community in the Nineteenth-Century South

The Anganen rawa man emerges in the image of the cassowary as the solitary, kinless, irrational, violent being of masculine excess.

Dangerous visions: the cassowary as good to think and good to remember among the Anganen

Developed as an alternative to genealogical connectedness when slave families were regularly broken up and scattered to a degree that made it impossible for individual members to maintain contact or look after the children, catching sense served as a way through which kinless individuals could acquire a respected place in the community.