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m danger or injury; to defend; to guard; to preserve in safety; as, a father protects his children. The gods of Greece protect you! Shak.

o retaliate. Obey his voice, provoke him not. Ex. xxiii. 21. Ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath. Eph. vi. 4. Such acts Of contumacy will provoke the Highest To make death in us live. Milton. Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust Gray. To the poet the meaning is what he pleases to make it, what it provok…

The earliest age at which persons are capable of begetting or bearing children, usually considered, in temperate climates, to be about fourteen years in males and twelve in females.

Bearing children. [R.]

To procure; to get. I mean to purvey me a wife after the fashion of the children of Benjamin. Sir W. Scot.

pl. Four children born in the same labor.

pl. Five children born in the same labor.

The voluntary failure of the members of a race or people to have a number of children sufficient to keep the birth rate equal to the death rate.

(Bot.), prince's feather (Polygonum orientale). -- Ragged school, a free school for poor children, where they are taught and in part fed; -- a name given at first because they came in their common clothing. [Eng.] -- Rag"ged*ly, adv. -- Rag"ged*ness, n.

The act of carrying away by force or against consent; abduction; as, the ravishment of children from their parents, or a ward from his guardian, or of a wife from her husband. Blackstone.

A specter mentioned to frighten children; as, rawhead and bloodybones.

te to; to pierce, or cut, as far as. If these examples of grown men reach not the case of children, let them examine. Locke.

son, it is reasonable; it is right. [Obs.] Yet it were great reason, that those that have children should have greatest care of future times. Bacon.

o has escaped after arrest; reprisal; the retaking of one's own goods, chattels, wife, or children, without force or violence, from one who has taken them and who wrongfully detains them. Blackstone. Writ of recaption (Law), a writ to recover damages for him whose goods, being distrained for rent or service, are distra…

itish army, a school for the instruction of the private soldiers of a regiment, and their children, in the rudimentary branches of education.

s have rejected to their butchers. Robynson (More's Utopia). Reject me not from among thy children. Wisdom ix. 4.

tion by consanguinity or affinity; kinship; relationship; as, the relation of parents and children. Relations dear, and all the charities Of father, son, and brother, first were known. Milton.

raw; to take away; -- sometimes used reflexively. He . . . retired himself, his wife, and children into a forest. Sir P. Sidney. As when the sun is present all the year, And never doth retire his golden ray. Sir J. Davies.

em came. Milton. They must give good example and reverend deportment in the face of their children. Jer. Taylor.

A disease which affects children, and which is characterized by a bulky head, crooked spine and limbs, depressed ribs, enlarged and spongy articular epiphyses, tumid abdomen, and short stature, together with clear and often premature mental faculties. The essential cause of the disease appears to be the nondeposition o…