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• Child

  ·noun A female infant. II. Child ·vi To give birth; to produce young. III. Child ·noun A noble you...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Child

  This word has considerable latitude of meaning in Scripture. Thus Joseph is called a child at the ti...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• Child study

  ·add. ·- A scientific study of children, undertaken for the purpose of discovering the laws of devel...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• sow child

  A female child. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• Child, Francis J.

  (1825-1896) English scholar, b. at Boston, Mass., was a prof. at Harvard, one of the foremost stude...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• love begotten child

  A bastard. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• bating with child

  breeding, gravid. N. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• beating with child

  breeding. York. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• cry'd no-child

  a woman cried down by her husband. Lane. NO-CHILD is supposed to be a corruption of NICHIL, i. e. NI...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• Child, Mrs. Lydia Maria (Francis)

  (1802-1880) Was the author of many once popular tales, Hobomok, The Rebels, Philothes, etc. ...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• Eagle and Child Alley

  East out of Shoe Lane at No. 39 to Fleet Market at No. 61, in Farringdon Ward Without (Elmes, 1831)....

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• Eagle and Child Court

  West of Panier Ally, in Farringdon Ward Within (Strype, ed. 1720 and 1755). No later mention. ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• Eagle and Child Alley, St. Katherine's

  See Bleek's [Black's Rents?] Rents. ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.