Chil"dermas day` (?). [AS. cildamŠsse- dŠg; cild child +dŠg day.] (Eccl.) A day (December 28) observed by mass or festival in commemoration of the children slain by Herod at Bethlehem; -- called also Holy Innocent's Day.
Child"hood (chīld"h&oocr;d), n. [AS. cildhād; cild child + -hād. See Child, and -hood.] 1. The state of being a child; the time in which persons are children; the condition or time from infancy to puberty.
I have walked before you from my childhood.
1. Sam. xii. 2.