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t it is treachery that makes it fester. South. Hatred . . . festered in the hearts of the children of the soil. Macaulay.

f food, formerly made of flour or meal; a sort of pap. Milk and flummery are very fit for children. Locke.

ost. Of fortune and of hope at once forlorn. Spenser. Some say that ravens foster forlorn children. Shak.

withdraw from; to leave; as, false friends and flatterers forsake us in adversity. If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments. Ps. lxxxix. 30.

ss; confidence; assurance; want of due reserve or modesty. In France it is usual to bring children into company, and cherish in them, from their infancy, a kind of forwardness and assurance. Addison.

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

One of four children born at the same time.

Without charge; as, children admitted free.

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.

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.

; 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).

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.

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.

A framework moving on casters, designed to support children while learning to walk.

thority to control and direct; especially, one intrusted with the care and instruction of children, -- usually in their homes.

ubstance; to engrave. Thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel. Ex. xxviii. 9.

A manager of a farm, or overseer of any work; a reeve; a manorial bailiff. [Scot.] Their children were horsewhipped by the grieve. Sir W. Scott.

erations. A. Hamilton. -- To grow up, to arrive at full stature or maturity; as, grown up children. -- To grow together, to close and adhere; to become united by growth, as flesh or the bark of a tree severed. Howells.