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The state of being a boy; the time during which one is a boy. Hood.

ame business, -- especially those of the same profession; as, the legal or medical brotherhood.

ren; the condition or time from infancy to puberty. I have walked before you from my childhood. 1. Sam. xii. 2.

Nothingness. [R.] Goodwin.

The state or condition of a cousin; also, the collective body of cousins; kinsfolk.

The state of being a cub. [Jocose] "From cubhood to old age." W. B. Dawkins.

The state of being a deacon; office of a deacon; deaconship.

State of the dead. [Obs.]

The want of likelihood; improbability. Sir W. Scott.

Affliction; dreariness. [Obs.] Spenser.

Fairness; beauty. [Obs.] Foxe.

ion; error; misrepresentation; falsity. Though it be a lie in the clock, it is but a falsehood in the hand of the dial when pointing at a wrong hour, if rightly following the direction of the wheel which moveth it. Fuller.

The state of being a father; the character or authority of a father; paternity.

ion of having a form of flesh; incarnation. [R.] Thou, who hast thyself Endured this fleshhood. Mrs. Browning.

Enmity. Br. Bedell.

The state of being foolhardy; foolhardiness.

The qualities or condition of a gentleman. [R.] Thackeray.

State or time of being a girl.

Divine nature or essence; deity; godhead.

Goodness; grace; goodliness. [Obs.] Spenser.