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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…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: child, rocking-horse.
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…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: child, rocking-horse.
Affiliate
verb · 78% connection
To fix the paternity of; -- said of an illegitimate child; as, to affiliate the child to (or on or upon) one man rather than another.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: child, rocking-horse.
Amphidromical
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to an Attic festival at the naming of a child; -- so called because the friends of the parents carried the child around the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: child, rocking-horse.
Auf
noun · 78% connection
A changeling or elf child, -- that is, one left by fairies; a deformed or foolish child; a simpleton; an oaf.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: child, rocking-horse.
Bastard
noun · 78% connection
A "natural" child; a child begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate child; one born of an illicit union.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: child, rocking-horse.
Bayard
adjective · 78% connection
Properly, a bay horse, but often any horse. Commonly in the phrase blind bayard, an old blind horse.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: child, rocking-horse.
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…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: child, rocking-horse.
Childlike
adjective · 78% connection
Resembling a child, or that which belongs to children; becoming a child; meek; submissive; dutiful.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: child, rocking-horse.
Childly
adjective · 78% connection
Having the character of a child; belonging, or appropriate, to a child.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: child, rocking-horse.
Cradle
noun · 78% connection
A tool used in mezzotint engraving, which, by a rocking motion, raises burrs on the surface of the plate, so preparing the ground.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: child, rocking-horse.
Educate
verb · 78% connection
To bring /// or guide the powers of, as a child; to develop and cultivate, whether physically, mentally, or morally, but more commonly…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: child, rocking-horse.
Foster
verb · 78% connection
Relating to nourishment; affording, receiving, or sharing nourishment or nurture; -- applied to father, mother, child, brother, etc.,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: child, rocking-horse.
Grandchild
noun · 78% connection
A son's or daughter's child; a child in the second degree of descent.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: child, rocking-horse.
Hack
noun · 78% connection
A horse, hackneyed or let out for common hire; also, a horse used in all kinds of work, or a saddle horse, as distinguished from hunti…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: child, rocking-horse.
Handyy-dandy
noun · 78% connection
A child's play, one child guessing in which closed hand the other holds some small object, winning the object if right and forfeiting…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: child, rocking-horse.
Infant
noun · 78% connection
A child in the first period of life, beginning at his birth; a young babe; sometimes, a child several years of age.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: child, rocking-horse.
Infanticide
noun · 78% connection
The murder of an infant born alive; the murder or killing of a newly born or young child; child murder.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: child, rocking-horse.
