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stock, of the estate left by a person deceased and the amounts advanced to any particular child or children, for the purpose of a more equal division, or of equalizing the shares of all the children; the property advanced being accounted for at its value when given. Bouvier. Tomlins.

A childish play, in which one covers his eyes, and guesses who strikes him or his hand placed behind him.

phaloid affection (Med.), the group of symptoms which follow exhausting diarrhea in young children, resembling those of acute hydrocephalus, or tubercular meningitis.

To love to excess; to love or reverence to adoration; as, to idolize gold, children, a hero.

Unlawfully begotten; born out of wedlock; bastard; as, an illegitimate child.

An offspring; progeny; child; scion. [Obs.] The tender imp was weaned. Fairfax.

expected; restlessness; chafing of spirit; fretfulness; passion; as, the impatience of a child or an invalid. I then, . . . Out of my grief and my impatience, Answered neglectingly. Shak. With huge impatience he inly swelt More for great sorrow that he could not pass, Than for the burning torment which he felt. Spense…

ntary organ that is essential to successful or normal activity. He . . . stammered like a child, or an amazed, imperfect person. Jer. Taylor.

leness; inability; imbecility. Some were poor by impotency of nature; as young fatherless children, old decrepit persons, idiots, and cripples. Hayward. O, impotence of mind in body strong! Milton.

To make pregnant; to cause to conceive; to render prolific; to get with child or young.

cal, intellectual, or moral ability; insufficiency; inadequacy; as, the incompetency of a child hard labor, or of an idiot for intellectual efforts. "Some inherent incompetency." Gladstone.

ive; careless; negligent; heedless. Carelessnesses and incurious deportments toward their children. Jer. Taylor.

desire of; to gratify by compliance; to humor; to withhold restraint from; as, to indulge children in their caprices or willfulness; to indulge one's self with a rest or in pleasure. Hope in another life implies that we indulge ourselves in the gratifications of this very sparingly. Atterbury.

The state or period of being an infant; the first part of life; early childhood. The babe yet lies in smiling infancy. Milton. Their love in early infancy began. Dryden.

A child in the first period of life, beginning at his birth; a young babe; sometimes, a child several years of age. And tender cries of infants pierce the ear. C. Pitt.

Of or pertaining to infanticide; engaged in, or guilty of, child murder.

The murder of an infant born alive; the murder or killing of a newly born or young child; child murder.

f or pertaining to infancy, or to an infant; similar to, or characteristic of, an infant; childish; as, infantile behavior.

Infantile; childish. A degree of credulity next infantine. Burke.

A body of children. [Obs.] B. Jonson.