Definition of child

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Child (n.) A descendant, however remote; -- used esp. in the plural; as, the children of Israel; the children of Edom..

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Doll :: Doll (n.) A child's puppet; a toy baby for a little girl.
"""bastard " :: Bastard (n.) A natural child; a child begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate child; one born of an illicit union..
Bastardy :: Bastardy (n.) The procreation of a bastard child.
Adoptive :: Adoptive (a.) Pertaining to adoption; made or acquired by adoption; fitted to adopt; as, an adoptive father, an child; an adoptive language..
Battledoor :: Battledoor (n.) A child's hornbook.
Papa :: Papa (n.) A child's word for father.
Tot :: Tot (n.) Anything small; -- frequently applied as a term of endearment to a little child.
Babe :: Babe (n.) An infant; a young child of either sex; a baby.
Pedobaptism :: Pedobaptism (n.) The baptism of infants or of small children.
Hornbook :: Hornbook (n.) The first book for children, or that from which in former times they learned their letters and rudiments; -- so called because a sheet of horn covered the small, thin board of oak, or the slip of paper, on which the alphabet, digits, and often the Lord's Prayer, were written or printed; a primer..
Teeter :: Teeter (v. i. & t.) To move up and down on the ends of a balanced plank, or the like, as children do for sport; to seesaw; to titter; to titter-totter..
Bawl :: Bawl (v. i.) To cry loudly, as a child from pain or vexation..
Puerility :: Puerility (n.) That which is puerile or childish; especially, an expression which is flat, insipid, or silly..
Travail :: Travail (n.) To suffer the pangs of childbirth; to be in labor.
Abuse :: Abuse (v. t.) Violation; rape; as, abuse of a female child..
Pinworm :: Pinworm (n.) A small nematoid worm (Oxyurus vermicularis), which is parasitic chiefly in the rectum of man. It is most common in children and aged persons..
Pickle :: Pickle (v. t.) A troublesome child; as, a little pickle..
Minder :: Minder (n.) One to be attended; specif., a pauper child intrusted to the care of a private person..
Restitution :: Restitution (v.) The movement of rotetion which usually occurs in childbirth after the head has been delivered, and which causes the latter to point towards the side to which it was directed at the beginning of labor..
Stillborn :: Stillborn (a.) Dead at the birth; as, a stillborn child..
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