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heal; to restore to health, soundness, or sanity; to make well; -- said of a patient. The child was cured from that very hour. Matt. xvii. 18.

The fertilized egg cell or parent cell, from the development of which the child or other organism is formed. Hæckel.

Father; -- a word sometimes used by children. I was never so bethumped withwords, Since I first called my brother's father dad. Shak.

To toddle; to walk unsteadily, like a child or an old man; hence, to do anything slowly or feebly.

To hold up by leading strings or by the hand, as a child while he toddles. [Obs.] Little children when they learn to go By painful mothers daded to and fro. Drayton.

To cast aside; to put off; to doff. [Obs.] Canst thou so daff me Thou hast killed my child. Shak.

To treat with fondness, as if a child; to fondle; to toy with; to pet. They have put me in a silk gown and gaudy fool's cap; I as ashamed to be dandled thus. Addison. The book, thus dandled into popularity by bishops and good ladies, contained many pieces of nursery eloquence. Jeffrey.

Defiance; challenge. Childish, unworthy dares Are not enought to part our powers. Chapman. Sextus Pompeius Hath given the dare to Cæsar. Shak.

The female offspring of the human species; a female child of any age; -- applied also to the lower animals.

Liability to be deceived or misled; as, the deceivableness of a child.

Abstraction of a child from its parents. Lamb.

ardship; feeble; frail; effeminate; -- said of constitution, health, etc.; as, a delicate child; delicate health. A delicate and tender prince. Shak.

To free from, or disburden of, young; to relieve of a child in childbirth; to bring forth; -- often with of. She was delivered safe and soon. Gower. Tully was long ere he could be delivered of a few verses, and those poor ones. Peacham.

Act of bringing forth children. [Archaic] Shak.

will; to bequeath. "Power to demise my lands." Swift. What honor Canst thou demise to any child of mine Shak.

of citizenship upon; to naturalize. [Obs.] There was a private act made for denizing the children of Richard HillStrype.

n; left and abandoned; as, derelict lands. The affections which these exposed or derelict children bear to their mothers, have no grounds of nature or assiduity but civility and opinion. Jer. Taylor.

tus, or soprano voice; the treble. Grove. Twenty doctors expound one text twenty ways, as children make descant upon plain song. Tyndale. She [the nightingale] all night long her amorous descant sung. Milton.

earnestly; to covet. Neither shall any man desire thy land. Ex. xxxiv. 24. Ye desire your child to live. Tennyson.

To put a diaper on (a child).