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Boy

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

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Carrier 76% connected

One who, or that which, carries or conveys; a messenger.

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Catamite 76% connected

A boy kept for unnatural purposes.

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Cub 76% connected

A young animal, esp. the young of the bear.

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Junior 76% connected

Less advanced in age than another; younger.

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Lad 76% connected

p. p. of Lead, to guide.

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Laddie 76% connected

A lad; a male sweetheart.

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newsboy 76% connected

A boy who distributes or sells newspaper.

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Ploughboy 76% connected

A boy that drives or guides a team in plowing; a young rustic.

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Plowboy 76% connected

Alt. of Ploughboy

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Schoolboy 76% connected

A boy belonging to, or attending, a school.

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Male 76% connected

Evil; wicked; bad.

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Man 76% connected

A human being; -- opposed tobeast.

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Son 92% connected

A male child; the male issue, or offspring, of a parent, father or mother.

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Daughter 94% connected

The female offspring of the human species; a female child of any age; -- applied also to the lower animals.

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Daughter 94% connected

The female offspring of the human species; a female child of any age; -- applied also to the lower animals.

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Accouchement noun · 78% connection

the parturition process in human beings; having a baby; the process of giving birth to a child

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Adolescence noun · 78% connection

The state of growing up from childhood to manhood or womanhood; youth, or the period of life between puberty and maturity, generally c…

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Adopt verb · 78% connection

To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be…

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Adoption noun · 78% connection

a legal proceeding that creates a parent-child relation between persons not related by blood; the adopted child is entitled to all pri…

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Babe noun · 78% connection

a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk; "the baby began to cry again"; "she held the baby in her a…

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Bastard noun · 78% connection

A "natural" child; a child begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate child; one born of an illicit union.

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Beardless adjective · 78% connection

Without a beard. Hence: Not having arrived at puberty or manhood; youthful.

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Birth noun · 78% connection

the time when something begins (especially life); "they divorced after the birth of the child"; "his election signaled the birth of a…

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Born verb · 78% connection

Having from birth a certain character; by or from birth; by nature; innate; as, a born liar.

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Bull noun · 78% connection

The male of any species of cattle (Bovidae); hence, the male of any large quadruped, as the elephant; also, the male of the whale.

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Caul noun · 78% connection

A part of the amnion, one of the membranes enveloping the fetus, which sometimes is round the head of a child at its birth.

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Child noun · 78% connection

One who, by character of practice, shows signs of relationship to, or of the influence of, another; one closely connected with a place…

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Childhood noun · 78% connection

The state of being a child; the time in which persons are children; the condition or time from infancy to puberty.

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Congenital adjective · 78% connection

Existing at, or dating from, birth; pertaining to one from birth; born with one; connate; constitutional; natural; as, a congenital de…

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Couvade noun · 78% connection

A custom, among certain barbarous tribes, that when a woman gives birth to a child her husband takes to his bed, as if ill.

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Female adjective · 78% connection

Belonging to the sex which conceives and gives birth to young, or (in a wider sense) which produces ova; not male.

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Foremilk noun · 78% connection

The milk secreted just before, or directly after, the birth of a child or of the young of an animal; colostrum.

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Gentry adjective · 78% connection

Birth; condition; rank by birth.

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