Cut it out, Sis, an' lissen ter er wise crack. Will yer be nice if I pay yer fine?

She was feeling kind of crampish, so she went downstairs to lie down until dinner time.

For a structuralist like Edmund Leach, the structure is the meaning. Genesis, for example, is about incest taboos; all the rest is noise and mystification.

Meronyms: cohort, maniple, century