Meronyms: cohort, maniple, century

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

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

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.