child

CHILD, noun 1. A son or a daughter; a male or female descendant, in the first degree; the immediate progeny of parents; applied to the human race, and chiefly to a person when young. The term is applied to infants from their birth; but the time when they cease ordinarily to be so called, is not defined by custom. In strictness, a child is the shoot, issue or produce of the parents, and a person of any age, in respect to the parents, is a child An infant. Hagar cast the child under one of the shrubs. Genesis 21:8. It signifies also a person of more advanced years. Jephthas daughter was his only child Judges 11:34. The child shall behave himself proudly. Isaiah 3:5. A curse will be on those who corrupt the morals of their children. The application of child to a female in opposition to a male, as in Shakspeare, is not legitimate. 2. One weak in knowledge, experience, judgment or attainments; as, he is a mere child Behold, I cannot speak, for I am a child Jeremiah 1:6. 3. One young in grace. 1 John 2:1. One who is unfixed in principles. Ephesians 4:1. 4. One who is born again, spiritually renewed and adopted; as a child of God. 5. One who is the product of another; or whose principles and morals are the product of another. Thou child of the devil. Acts 13:10. That which is the product or effect of something else. This noble passion, child of integrity. 6. In the plural, the descendants of a man however remote; as the children of Israel; the children of Edom. 7. The inhabitants of a country; as the children of Seir. 2 Chronicles 25:1. To be with child to be pregnant. Genesis 16:11, Gen 29:36. CHILD, verb intransitive To bring children.