A boy or a child, I wonder?
Shak.
To be with child, to be pregnant. - - Child's play, light work; a trifling contest.
Child, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Childed; p. pr. & vb. n. Childing.] To give birth; to produce young.
This queen Genissa childing died.
Warner.
It chanced within two days they childed both.
Latimer.
Child"bear`ing (?), n. The act of producing or bringing forth children; parturition. Milton. Addison.
Child"bed (?), n. The state of a woman bringing forth a child, or being in labor; parturition.
Child"birth (?), n. The act of bringing forth a child; travail; labor. Jer. Taylor.
Child"crow`ing (?), n. (Med.) The crowing noise made by children affected with spasm of the laryngeal muscles; false croup.
Childe (?), n. A cognomen formerly prefixed to his name by the oldest son, until he succeeded to his ancestral titles, or was knighted; as, Childe Roland.