Definition of child

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Child (n.) A young person of either sex. esp. one between infancy and youth; hence, one who exhibits the characteristics of a very young person, as innocence, obedience, trustfulness, limited understanding, etc..

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Hotchpotch :: Hotchpotch (n.) A blending of property for equality of division, as when lands given in frank-marriage to one daughter were, after the death of the ancestor, blended with the lands descending to her and to her sisters from the same ancestor, and then divided in equal portions among all the daughters. In modern usage, a mixing together, or throwing into a common mass or stock, of the estate left by a person deceased and the amounts advanced to any particular child or children, for the purpose of
Tetter-totter :: Tetter-totter (n.) A certain game of children; seesaw; -- called also titter-totter, and titter-cum-totter..
Infancy :: Infancy (n.) The state or period of being an infant; the first part of life; early childhood.
Piddle :: Piddle (v. i.) To urinate; -- child's word.
Make-believe :: Make-believe (n.) A feigning to believe, as in the play of children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention..
Disobey :: Disobey (v. t.) Not to obey; to neglect or refuse to obey (a superior or his commands, the laws, etc.); to transgress the commands of (one in authority); to violate, as an order; as, refractory children disobey their parents; men disobey their Maker and the laws..
Pedotrophy :: Pedotrophy (n.) The art of nourishing children properly.
Creep :: Creep (v. t.) To move along the ground, or on any other surface, on the belly, as a worm or reptile; to move as a child on the hands and knees; to crawl..
Intertrigo :: Intertrigo (n.) A rubbing or chafing of the skin; especially, an abrasion or excoriation of the skin between folds, as in fat or neglected children..
Dill :: Dill (n.) An herb (Peucedanum graveolens), the seeds of which are moderately warming, pungent, and aromatic, and were formerly used as a soothing medicine for children; -- called also dillseed..
Suck :: Suck (v. i.) To draw milk from the breast or udder; as, a child, or the young of an animal, is first nourished by sucking..
Misnurture :: Misnurture (v. t.) To nurture or train wrongly; as, to misnurture children..
Plummet :: Plummet (n.) A piece of lead formerly used by school children to rule paper for writing.
Lisp :: Lisp (v. i.) To pronounce the sibilant letter s imperfectly; to give s and z the sound of th; -- a defect common among children.
Boyism :: Boyism (n.) The nature of a boy; childishness.
Story-telling :: Story-teller (n.) A euphemism or child's word fo.
Whimling :: Whimling (n.) One given to whims; hence, a weak, childish person; a child..
Diddle :: Diddle (v. i.) To totter, as a child in walking..
Nursery :: Nursery (n.) The place, or apartment, in a house, appropriated to the care of children..
Parturifacient :: Parturifacient (n.) A medicine tending to cause parturition, or to give relief in childbearing..
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