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Boy

A male child from birth to the age of puberty a lad hence a son

Biggin

A childs cap a hood or something worn on the head

Bairn

A child

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Child study

A scientific study of children undertaken for the purpose of discovering the laws of development of the body and the mind from birth to manhood

Cockhorse

A childs rocking horse

Enseint

With child pregnant See Enceinte

Eurasian

A child of a European parent on the one side and an Asiatic on the other

firstborn

The first child born to a parent as his firstborn was showered with gifts from relatives

Children

Children. The word child in legal documents means a legitimate child unless otherwise declared by statute. See Morris v. Britannic Assurance Co., 1931 (2) KB 125. 'Child' is defined by the (English) Children and Young Persons...

Adoption

Adoption, an act by which a person adopts as his own the child of another. Until recently there was no law of adoption in this country though it exists in other countries, as France and Germany,...

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