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To grumble or mutter like a froward child. [Obs.] E. Phillips.

A white cloth, anointed with chrism, or a white mantle thrown over a child when baptized or christened. [Obs.]

ite with in publicly returning thanks in church, as after deliverance from the dangers of childbirth; as, the churching of women.

Crying earnestly, beseeching clamorousky. "Clamant children." Thomson.

One who works upon the soil; a rustic; a churl. The clown, the child of nature, without guile. Cowper.

A petticoat. [Obs.] "A child in coats." Locke.

A game played by children with nuts.

called also huckle bone. [Obs.] Nares. A little transverse bone Which boys and bruckeled children call (Playing for points and pins) cockal. Herrick.

A venomous serpent which which cannot now be identified. The weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice's

Th treat with too great tenderness; to fondle; to indulge; to pamper. Cocker thy child and he shall make thee afraid. Ecclesiasticus xxx. 9. Poor folks cannot afford to cocker themselves up. J. Ingelow.

A child's rocking-horse. Ride a cockhorse to Banbury cross. Mother Goose.

An effeminate person; a spoilt child. "A young heir or cockney, that is his mother's darling." Nash (1592). This great lubber, the world, will prove a cockney. Shak.

the common people; one having no rank of nobility. All below them [the peers] even their children, were commoners, and in the eye law equal to each other. Hallam.

n. "Metaphorical compellations." Milton. He useth this endearing compellation, "My little children." Bp. Beveridge. The peculiar compellation of the kings in France is by "Sire," which is nothing else but father. Sir W. Temple.

Exculpation by testimony to one's veracity or innocence. He was privileged from his childhood from suspicion of incontinency and needed no compurgation. Bp. Hacket.

rah, the concubines of Abraham; and such concubines were allowed by the Roman laws. Their children were not heirs of their father.

It was conditioned between Saturn and Titan, that Saturn should put to death all his male children. Sir W. Raleigh.

self to the compass of numbers and the slavery of rhyme. Dryden. To be confined, to be in childbed.

Restraint within doors by sickness, esp. that caused by childbirth; lying-in.

Given to opposition; perverse; forward; wayward; as, a contrary disposition; a contrary child.