Category:Pedigree

Ped"i*gree, n. Etym: [of unknown origin; possibly fr. F. par degrés By degrees, -- for a pedigree is properly a genealogical table which Records the relationship of families by degrees; or, perh., fr. F. Pied de grue crane's foot, from the shape of the heraldic Genealogical trees.]

1. A line of ancestors; descent; lineage; genealogy; a register or Record of a line of ancestors. Alterations of surnames. . . have obscured the truth of our Pedigrees. Camden. His vanity labored to contrive us a pedigree. Milton. I am no herald to inquire of men's pedigrees. Sir p. Sidney. The jews preserved the pedigrees of their tribes. Atterbury.

2. (stock breeding)

Defn: a record of the lineage or strain of an animal, as of a horse.