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One for whom a person becomes sponsor at baptism, and whom he promises to see educated as a Christian; a godson or goddaughter. See Godfather.

A son's or daughter's child; a child in the second degree of descent.

The child of one's grandson or granddaughter.

A bereaved child; one who has lost father or mother. [Obs.]

To bereave of children; to make childless. Shak.

ry leaving of a person to whom one is bound by a special relation, as a wife, husband, or child; desertion.

To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit.

wrongful, and usually the forcible, carrying off of a human being; as, the abduction of a child, the abduction of an heiress.

To childbed (in the phrase "brought abed," that is, delivered of a child). Shak.

The weaning of a child from the breast, or of young beasts from their dam. Blount.

Produced by abortion; born prematurely; as, an abortive child. [R.]

Violation; rape; as, abuse of a female child. [Obs.] Or is it some abuse, and no such thing Shak. Abuse of distress (Law), a wrongful using of an animal or chattel distrained, by the distrainer.

a day, a holiday having been voted by acclamation, an ordinary walk would not satisfy the children. Southey.

Delivery in childbed

A man who assists women in childbirth; a man midwife; an obstetrician.

Quick in physical movement; of an agile and vigorous body; nimble; as, an active child or animal. Active and nervous was his gait. Wordsworth.

The state of growing up from childhood to manhood or womanhood; youth, or the period of life between puberty and maturity, generally considered to be, in the male sex, from fourteen to twenty-one. Sometimes used with reference to the lower animals.

Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity. Schools, unless discipline were doubly strong, Detain their adolescent charge too long. Cowper.

To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc. ; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.

The act of adopting, or state of being adopted; voluntary acceptance of a child of other parents to be the same as one's own child.