||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.
||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.