Definition of children

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Children (n.) pl. of Child.

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Affection :: Affection (n.) A settled good will; kind feeling; love; zealous or tender attachment; -- often in the pl. Formerly followed by to, but now more generally by for or towards; as, filial, social, or conjugal affections; to have an affection for or towards children..
Child :: Child (n.) A descendant, however remote; -- used esp. in the plural; as, the children of Israel; the children of Edom..
Settlement :: Settlement (n.) A disposition of property for the benefit of some person or persons, usually through the medium of trustees, and for the benefit of a wife, children, or other relatives; jointure granted to a wife, or the act of granting it..
Babyhouse :: Babyhouse (a.) A place for children's dolls and dolls' furniture.
Porringer :: Porringer (n.) A porridge dish; esp., a bowl or cup from which children eat or are fed; as, a silver porringer..
Rocking-horse :: Rocking-horse (n.) The figure of a horse, mounted upon rockers, for children to ride..
Meritot :: Meritot (n.) A play of children, in swinging on ropes, or the like, till they are dizzy..
Childlike :: Childlike (a.) Resembling a child, or that which belongs to children; becoming a child; meek; submissive; dutiful..
Susception :: Susceptible (a.) Capable of impression; having nice sensibility; impressible; tender; sensitive; as, children are more susceptible than adults; a man of a susceptible heart..
Fescue :: Fescue (n.) A straw, wire, stick, etc., used chiefly to point out letters to children when learning to read..
Philoprogenitiveness :: Philoprogenitiveness (n.) The love of offspring; fondness for children.
Playhouse :: Playhouse (n.) A house for children to play in; a toyhouse.
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
Children :: Children (n.) pl. of Child.
Marble :: Marble (n.) A little ball of marble, or of some other hard substance, used as a plaything by children; or, in the plural, a child's game played with marbles..
Oblati :: Oblati (n. pl.) Children dedicated in their early years to the monastic state.
Pantalet :: Pantalet (n.) One of the legs of the loose drawers worn by children and women; particularly, the lower part of such a garment, coming below the knee, often made in a separate piece; -- chiefly in the plural..
Orthopedy :: Orthopedy (n.) The art or practice of curing the deformities of children, or, by extension, any deformities of the human body..
Nursery :: Nursery (n.) The place, or apartment, in a house, appropriated to the care of children..
Seesaw :: Seesaw (n.) A play among children in which they are seated upon the opposite ends of a plank which is balanced in the middle, and move alternately up and down..
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