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A young person of either sex; a child. [Obs.] Chaucer.

State or time of being a girl.

Like, or characteristic of, a girl; of or pertaining to girlhood; innocent; artless; immature; weak; as, girlish ways; girlish grief. -- Girl"ish*ly, adv. -- Girl"ish*ness, n.

A garland; a prize. [Obs.] Chapman.

A girl belonging to, or attending, a school.

A girl employed in a shop.

An Egyptian dancing girl; an Alma. The Almehs lift their arms in dance. Bayard Taylor.

An amorous girl or woman; a wanton. [Obs.] J. Warton.

Expressing an indefinite comparison; -- with as or like. [Colloq. or Lowx] I fear your girl will grow as proud as anything. Richardson.

treet Arab, a homeless vagabond in the streets of a city, particularly and outcast boy or girl. Tylor. The ragged outcasts and street Arabs who are shivering in damp doorways. Lond. Sat. Rev.

A romping, saucy girl. [Playful] Goldsmith.

Having the head uncovered; as, a bareheaded girl.

A girl or woman who attends the customers of a bar, as in a tavern or beershop. A bouncing barmaid. W. Irving.

An Irish serving woman or girl. [Colloq.]

Fig.: A girl; a maiden. And by my word! the bonny bird In danger shall not tarry. Campbell. Arabian bird, the phenix. -- Bird of Jove, the eagle. -- Bird of Juno, the peacock. -- Bird louse (Zoöl.), a wingless insect of the group Mallophaga, of which the genera and species are very numerous and mostly parasitic upon…

A modest girl. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

An omen; a prognostic. [Obs.] This foolish, dreaming, superstitious girl Makes all these bodements. Shak.

A handsome girl. [Obs.]

A "bonny lass"; a beautiful girl. [Obs.] Spenser.

the wrist or the arm; in modern times, an ornament encircling the wrist, worn by women or girls.