'Shizoku' definitions:
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Shizoku \Shi*zo"ku\, n. sing. & pl. [Jap. shi-zoku, fr. Chin.
ch' (chi) branch, posterity + tsu kindered, class.]
The Japanese warrior gentry or middle class, formerly called
samurai; also, any member of this class.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
