Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
the father of your spouse;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Father-in-law \Fa"ther-in-law`\, n.; pl. Fathers-in-law.
The father of one's husband or wife; -- correlative to
son-in-law and daughter-in-law.
[1913 Webster]
Note: A man who marries a woman having children already, is
sometimes, though erroneously, called their
father-in-law.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
father-in-law
n 1: the father of your spouse
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856):
FATHER-IN-LAW. In latin, socer, is the father of one's wife, or of one's
husband.