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 27:15. 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 Shakespeare, is not legitimate.

One weak in knowledge, experience, judgment or attainments; as, he is a mere child. Behold, I cannot speak, for I am a child]eremiah 1:6.

One young in grace. 7 John 2. One who is unfixed in principles. Ephesians 4:14.

One who is born again, spiritually renewed and adopted; as a child of God.

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.

In the plural, the descendants of a man however remote; as the children of Israel; the children of Edom.

The inhabitants of a country; as the children of Seir. 2 Chronicles 25:11. To be with child, to be pregnant. Genesis 16:11.

To bring children.