Foundling: alternatives and connections

leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch; "The mother deserted her children"

Forsaken, deserted.

A mode of acquiring property, by which the owner of a corporeal substance which receives an addition by growth, or by labor, has a rig…

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

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

Property given, usually by a parent to a child, in advance of a future distribution.

A child or baby; esp., a representation in art of the infant Christ wrapped in swaddling clothes.

A young or small child; an infant. [Slightly contemptuous or depreciatory.]

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

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

The right of taking a profit in the land of another, in common either with the owner or with other persons; -- so called from the comm…

The fertilized egg cell or parent cell, from the development of which the child or other organism is formed.

A deserted or forsaken region; a barren tract incapable of supporting population, as the vast sand plains of Asia and Africa are desti…

A deserted condition.

Destitute or deprived of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited; hence, gloomy; as, a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate hou…

To refuse to own or acknowledge as belonging to one's self; to disavow or deny, as connected with one's self personally; as, a parent…

To set free from the power of another; to liberate; as: (a) To set free, as a minor from a parent; as, a father may emancipate a child…

A child of a European parent on the one side and an Asiatic on the other.