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reaved of both father and mother; sometimes, also, a child who has but one parent living. Orphans' court (Law), a court in some of the States of the Union, having jurisdiction over the estates and persons of orphans or other wards. Bouvier.

The state of being an orphan; orphanhood; orphans, collectively.

Orphanhood. Sir P. Sidney.

A little orphan. Drayton.

The state or condition of being an orphan; orphanage.

Orphanhood. [R.]

The care and support of orphans. [R.] Cotton Mather (1711).

A hospital for orphans. [R.] A. Chalmers.

rsons; as, an asylum for the aged, for the blind, or for the insane; a lunatic asylum; an orphan asylum.

To adorn with glittering embellishments. No weeping orphan saw his father's stores Our shrines irradiate, or emblaze the floors. Pope.

Foot of the Cross) devote themselves to the cause of education and the care of destitute orphans, their labors being chiefly confined to the Western United States.

A leguminous tree of Guiana and Trinidad (Dimorphandra excelsa); also, its timber, used in shipbuilding and making furniture.

burdens on others; one who harasses others with unjust laws or unreasonable severity. The orphan pines while the oppressor feeds. Shak. To relieve the oppressed and to punish the oppressor. Swift.

An orphan. [Obs.] Udcll.

estate inherited from one's father; or, in a larger sense, from any ancestor. "'Reave the orphan of his patrimony." Shak.

To endow with a portion or inheritance. Him portioned maids, apprenticed orphans, blest. Pope.

The act of seizing and carrying away by force; violent seizure; robbery. And ruined orphans of thy rapes complain. Sandys.

es raft of the dragon. Chaucer. By privy stratagem my life at home. Chapman. To reave the orphan of his patrimony. Shak. The heaven caught and reft him of his tongue. Tennyson.

Tear-filled. [R.] "Many an orphan's water-standing eye." Shak.