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To feed; to nourish; to support; to bring up. Some say that ravens foster forlorn children. Shak.

The care of a foster child; the charge of nursing. Sir W. Raleigh.

A foster child.

A deserted or exposed infant; a child found without a parent or owner. Foundling hospital, a hospital for foundlings.

One of four children born at the same time.

Without charge; as, children admitted free.

skeptics in the eighteenth century. Atheist is an old-fashioned word: I'm a freethinker, child. Addison.

To devour. [Obs.] The sow frete the child right in the cradle. Chaucer.

outer garment; especially, a gown forming a part of European modern costume for women and children; also, a coarse hirtlike garment worn by some workmen over their ther clothes; a smock frock; as, a marketman's frock.

pIy with what is required or is reasonable; perverse; disobedient; peevish; as, a froward child. A froward man soweth strife. Prov. xvi. 28. A froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as innovation. Bacon.

swarm or crowd, especially of little fishes; young or small things in general. The fry of children young. Spenser. To sever . . . the good fish from the other fry. Milton. We have burned two frigates, and a hundred and twenty small fry. Walpole.

A plump young person or child. [Obs.] Smart.

; to make full or complete. [Obs.] "Fulfill her week" Gen. xxix. 27. Suffer thou that the children be fulfilled first, for it is not good to take the bread of children and give to hounds. Wyclif (Mark vii. 27).

To handle much; to play childishly; to turn over and over. I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with flowers. Shak.

The valley of Hinnom, near Jerusalem, where some of the Israelites sacrificed their children to Moloch, which, on this account, was afterward regarded as a place of abomination, and made a receptacle for all the refuse of the city, perpetual fires being kept up in order to prevent pestilential effluvia. In the New Test…

of the descent of a person or family from an ancestor; enumeration of ancestors and their children in the natural order of succession; a pedigree.

the ordinary period of time at which one rank follows another, or father is succeeded by child, usually assumed to be one third of a century; an age. This is the book of the generations of Adam. Gen. v. 1. Ye shall remain there [in Babylon] many years, and for a long season, namely, seven generations. Baruch vi. 3. Al…

To beget; to procreate; to generate. I had rather to adopt a child than get it. Shak.

efend us from our ghostly enemies. Book of Common Prayer [Ch. of Eng. ] One of the gostly children of St. Jerome. Jer. Taylor.

times would go; All kinds of gibberish he had learnt to known. Drayton. Such gibberish as children may be heard amusing themselves with. Hawthorne.