Ancestor

Webster's Practical Dictionary- A Practical Dictionary of the Englih Language · 1884 · p. 27

an's es-ter. n. One from whom a person is descended; progenitor. — Alices 'tre , n. A iemale ancestor. — Ancestral, -seslral, a. Relating to, or descending from, etc — An'cestry, -trl, n. A series of ancestors: lineage; birth or honorable descent.!