childbed 
or the state of being in labor ; parturition : as, 
"women in child-bed," Arbuthnot, Aliments. 
Queen Elizabeth, who dieil in childbed in the Tower. 
Bacon. 
childbirth (child'berth), . [< child + birth*.] 
The act of bringing forth a child; travail; 
labor: as, "pains of child-birth," Jer. Taylor, 
Holy Living. 
child-crowing (child'kro'ing), n. In pathol., 
a nervous affection resulting in spasm of the 
muscles closing the glottis; laryngismus stri- 
dulus. 
childe, n. See child, 8. 
childedt (cliil'ded), . [< child, n., + -ed?.~\ Pro- 
vided with or having a child or children. 
How light and portable my pain seems now, 
When that, which makes me bend, makes the king bow ; 
He childed, as I father'd ! Shak., Lear, iii. 6. 
childer (chil'der), n. pi. The older plural of 
child. [Now only dialectal.] 
Thay ere lyke vn-to the childir that rynnes aftire but- 
tyrflyes. Uampole, Prose Treatises (E. E. T. S.), p. 39. 
Childermas (chil'der-mas), . [< ME. *childer- 
messe, < AS. cilda mcesse (-dag) : dlda, also cil- 
dra, gen. pi. of did, child; nuesse, mass: see 
child and woss 2 .] The popular name of Holy 
Innocents' day, a feast-day observed in the 
Roman Catholic and Anglican churches on the 
28th of December in commemoration of the 
slaughter of the children in and near Bethle- 
hem by order of Herod soon after the birth of 
Christ, as narrated in Mat. ii. 16-18. Also 
Childermas day. 
So according to them [monks], it is very unlucky to be- 
gin any Work upon ChUdermaes. 
Bourne's Pop. Antiq. (1777), p. 211. 
child-greatt (chlld'grat), a. Pregnant. Syl- 
vester. 
childhood (child 'hud), n. [< ME. childhod, 
-hode, -hade, -hede, < AS. dUhad (of. OHG. 
chindheit, Or. kindheit = D. kindsehheid), < did, 
child, + had, state: see child and -hood.'] The 
state of being a child, or the time during which 
a person is termed a child ; the time from birth 
to puberty ; in a more restricted sense, the state 
or time from infancy to boyhood or girlhood; 
the period during which constant maternal 
care continues to be needed. 
A very clere fontayne, . . . where o' blessyd Lady was 
wonte many tymes to wasshe y clothes of our blessyd 
Sauyour in his childehode. 
Sir Jt. Quylforde, Pylgrymage, p. 34. 
The childhood shows the man, 
As morning shows the day. Milton, P. R., iv. 220. 
childing (chil'ding), n. [< ME. childinge, < AS. 
cildung, verbal n. of "eildian, ME. childen, E. 
child: see child, v.~\ Child-bearing. 
Thilke ymage 
Which the goddesse of childing is, 
And cleped was by name Ysis. 
Gower, Conf. Amant., II. 69. 
childing (chil'ding), p. a. [Pp r - of child, v.~] 
1. Bearing children; with child; pregnant. 
Many a childiny mother then, 
And new-born baby died. 
Southey, Battle of Blenheim. 
2. Figuratively, productive ; fruitful: as, "the 
childing autumn," Shak., M. N. D., ii. 2. [Bare 
and archaic in both uses.] Childing cudweed. 
See cudweed. 
Childish (chil'dish), a. [< ME. childisch, < AS. 
cildisc (of. OS. kindisc = MD. kintsch, D. kindsch 
= MLG. kindesch, LG. kindsk, Tcindsch = OHG. 
chindisc, MHG. kindisch, kindesch, G. kindisch), 
childish, < did, child, + -isc : see child and -isfe 1 .] 
1 . Of or belonging to a child or to childhood : 
as, " sweet childish days," Wordsworth, To a But- 
terfly. 
" What is Charite?" quod I tho, " a childissh thinge," he 
seide. Piers Ploteman (B), xv. 145. 
2. Like or characteristic of a child or what is 
peculiar to childhood; especially, in disparag- 
ing use, trifling, puerile, silly, weak, etc. : as, 
childish amusements ; childish fear. 
A childish waste of philosophic pains. Cowper. 
= Syn, Childlike, Infantile, etc. See childlike. 
childishly (chil' dish -Ii), adv. In a childish 
manner ; like a child ; in a trifling way ; in a 
weak or foolish manner. 
childish-minded (chil'dish-min'ded), a. Of a 
childlike disposition; artless; simple. 
childish-mindedness (chil'dish-min'"ded-ne8), 
. The state of being childish-minded ; extreme 
simplicity. Bacon. 
childishness (ehil'dish-nes), n. The state or 
quality of being childish ; puerility; simplicity; 
weakness of intellect: most frequently used in 
a disparaging sense. 
958 
Speak thou, boy : 
Perhaps thy childishness will move him more 
Than can our reasons. Shak., Cor., v. 3. 
Child-killing (child'kiFing), n. Infanticide, 
child-learnt (child'lernt), a. Learned when a 
child. [Kare.] 
By silly superstition's child-learnt fears. J. Baillie. 
childless (child'les), a. [< ME. childles; < child 
+ -less. Cf. childrenless.] Destitute of chil- 
dren or offspring. 
Childless thou art, childless remain. 
Milton, P. L., x. 989. 
The childless mother went to seek her child. 
Tennyson, Aylmer's Field. 
childlessness (child'les-nes), n. [< childless + 
-ness.'] The state of being without children. 
childlike (child'lik), a. [< child + like, a. Cf. 
childly.] Resembling a child or that which is 
proper to childhood; becoming to or charac- 
teristic of a child; hence, submissive, dutiful, 
trustful, artless, inexperienced, etc. 
Childlike obedience to her that hath more than motherly 
care. Hooker. 
There is something pathetic in the patient content with 
which Italians work, partly because the ways of the peo- 
ple are so childlike and simple in many things. 
Howells, Venetian Life, xx. 
= Syn. Childlike, Childish, Infantile, Infantine. Childlike 
and childish express that which is characteristic of a child, 
the former applying to that which is worthy of approba- 
tion, or at least does not merit disapproval, and the latter 
usually to that which is not : as, a childlike freedom from 
guile ; a childish petulance. To express that which be- 
longs to the period of childhood, without qualifying it as 
good or bad, child or childhood is often used in composi- 
tion : as, cAtW-toil, childhood-days. Infantile and infan- 
tine are applied to the first stages of childhood ; no clear 
distinction between them has yet been established. See 
youthful. 
Let any one ask himself what would be his thought if, 
in a state of child-like ignorance, he were to pass some spot 
and to hear repeated a shout which he uttered. 
U. Spencer, Prin. of Sociol., 58. 
It is, therefore, tme, as has been said, that antiquity is 
the real infancy of man ; it is then that he is immature, 
ignorant, wayward, childish. Sumner, Orations, I. 62. 
We cannot, it is true, follow with entire comprehension 
all the steps of evolution of the infantile and childish 
powers. W. D. Whitney, Life and Growth of Lang., ii. 
The peculiar simplicity [of the old Tuscan language] 
gives even to the most forcible reasoning and the most 
brilliant wit an infantine air. Macaulay, Machiavelli. 
childlikeness (chlld'Uk-nes), n. The state or 
quality of being childlike ; simplicity ; artless- 
ness. 
It sets forth childlikeness itself as one of the things with 
which none of us can dispense. The American, VII. 104. 
childly (child'li), a. [< ME. childly, childli, < 
AS. dldlic (cf. MLG. kindlich = OHG. chintKh, 
G. kindlich = D. kinderlijk), < did, child, + -lie : 
see child and -ly 1 .] Like a child; childlike; 
acquired or learned when a child. [Rare.] 
A childly way with children, and a laugh 
Ringing like proven golden coinage true. 
Tennyson, Aylmer's Field. 
There be who love not Nature, souls forlorn, . . . 
Not such the little child, nor such the youth 
Who has not done his childly nature wrong. 
S. H. Stoddard, Carmen Naturae Triumphale. 
childnesst (child'nes), n. [< child + -ness, ir- 
reg. suffixed to a noun.] Childish humor or 
playfulness ; sportive gayety of a child. 
He, . . . with his varying childness, cures in me 
Thoughts that would thick my blood. 
Shak., W. T., i. 2. 
children, n. Plural of child. 
childremte (chil'dren-it), n. [Named after J. G. 
Children, an Englisfi mineralogist (1777-1852).] 
A hydrous phosphate of aluminium and iron, 
with a little manganese, occurring in small 
brown implanted crystals at Tavistock in Dev- 
onshire, and at a few other localities. Eospho- 
rite (which see) is a related mineral. 
childrenlesst, . [ME. childrenles; < children + 
-less.~] Childless. 
childshipt (child'ship), n. [< child + -ship.] 
The condition of being a child; the relation- 
ship implied in the word child. 
child-wife (child'wif), n. 1. A very young 
wife. 2f. A woman who has borne children. 
But the law selfe doth openly discharge and deliver 
this holy Midwife from the band of the law, whan it 
sayeth in the third boke of Moses, entitled Leviticus : If a 
woman have conceived and borne a manchilde, &c. 
Paraphrase of Erasmus (1548), 
childwitt, w. [< child + wite^.] A fine or pen- 
alty imposed upon a bondwoman unlawfully 
with child. 
chile (chil'e), n. [Sp.] See chilli. 
Chilenite (chil'e-nit), . [< Sp. Chileno, Chil- 
ian, + -te 2 .] A silver- white massive mineral 
from Copiap6 in Chili, consisting of silver and 
bismuth. 
Chili (chil'i), n. See chilli. 
chill 
chiliad (Wl'i-ad), n. [< L. chilias (chiliad-), < 
Gr. x'faaf (x l ' /M &-), a thousand in the aggre- 
gate, < x'^ ot > dial. x^J-ioi, ei/U<u, xi^'oi, pl., a 
thousand, perhaps = Skt. sahdsra, a thousand. 
See kilo-.] 1 . A thousand ; the numbers from 
one multiple of a thousand to the next. 
The logarithms of so many chiliads of absolute numbers. 
Brande and Cox. 
Specifically 2. The period of a thousand 
years. 
We make cycles and periods of years ; as, decads, cen- 
turies, chiliads. Holder, Time. 
The Arabian race planted their colonies with the Mosaic 
worship in Palestine and the Mysteries in Pha-nicia, and 
after chiliadal of years commissioned the destroyers to go 
over those lands like locusts to consume and eradicate the 
product of their own planting. 
A. Wilder, Knight's Anc. Art and Myth., 1876, p. xxvii. 
chiliaedron, chiliahedron (kil"i-a-e'drou, 
-he'dron), n. [A more correct form would be 
"chilie'dron; < Gr. %pMi, a thousand, + eSpa, a 
seat, base, < ef-edftw = E. sit.'] In geom., a 
solid having a thousand sides. [Rare.] 
If a man speaks of a chiliaedron, or a body of a thousand 
sides, the idea of the figure may be very confused, though 
that of the number be very distinct. Locke. 
chiliagon (kil'i-a-gon), n. [< Gr. x^^'wof, 
with a thousand angles, < xi' /Ml < a thousand, + 
yavio, an angle.] A plane figure of a thousand 
angles and sides. 
chiliahedron, See chiliaedron. 
Chilian (chil'i-an), a. and n. [< Chili + -an. 
Cf. Sp. Chileno, "Chilian.] I. a. Of or pertain- 
ing to Chili or to its inhabitants : as, a Chilian 
manufacture. Chilian pine. See pine. Chilian 
snail, Chilina puelcha. See Chilina, Chuiniace. 
II. n. An inhabitant or a native of Chili, a 
South American republic lying between the 
Pacific ocean and the watershed of the Andes, 
and west of the Argentine Republic. 
chiliarch (kil'i-ark), n. [< L. chiliarches, -archus, 
< Gr. x'hupX'Ki a PXft ^ xpMx-i a thousand, + 
apxeiv, rule, ap%6f, a leader.] The military 
commander or chief of a thousand men ; specifi- 
cally, an ancient Greek military officer of vary- 
ing rank ; in the modern Greek army, a colonel. 
chiliarchy (kil'i-ar-ki), n. ; pl. chiliarchies (-kiz). 
[< Gr. xifaapxia, < x'^' a PXf, a> chiliarch: see 
chiliarch.] A body consisting of a thousand 
men. 
The chiliarchits . , . or regiments ... of the Lamb. 
Dr. H. More, Mystery of Godliness, p. 196. 
chiliasm (kil'i-azm), n. [< Gr. x^' aa f io f, the 
doctrine of the millennium, < ;t*/mf civ , be a thou- 
sand years old, < x'^' 01 , a thousand.] The doc- 
trine, suggested by the 20th chapter of Revela- 
tion, of a visible and corporeal government of 
Christ and the saints on earth in the last days, 
continuing for a thousand years, preceded by 
a first resurrection of the righteous only, and 
succeeded by a final struggle between good and 
evil, a second resurrection, and the last judg- 
ment. See millenarianism. 
chiliast (kil'i-ast), n. [< Gr. ;t</Ua<rra, pl., < 
Xifaa^uv, be a thousand years old : see chiliasm.'] 
A believer in the chiliasm; a millenarian. 
chiliastic (kil-i-as'tik), a. [< chiliast + -ic.] 
Relating to the chiliasm or millennium ; mil- 
lenarian. 
chilifactive. a. See chylifactive. 
Chilina (ki-li'na), . [NL. (J. E. Gray, 1828), 
< Chili (see Chilian) + -ina 1 .] A genus of pond- 
snails, referred to the family Limna4d<e, or 
made typical of a family Chilinidce (which see). 
chilindret, n. An obsolete form of cylinder. 
chilinid (kil'i-nid), n. A gastropod of the fam- 
ily Chilinidfe. 
Chilinidse (M-lin'i-de), n. pl. [NL., < Chilina 
+ -ida;.] A family of basommatophorous pul- 
monate gastropods, with wide 
flattened tentacles, eyes ses- 
sile on the hinder surfaces of 
the tentacles, no jaw, pecu- 
liar lingual teeth (the median 
small, cuspidate, the marginal 
pectiniform or palmate, with 
an external superior prolonga- 
tion), and a spiral shell with 
rapidly increasing whorls and 
a plicated columella. The spe- 
cies are peculiar to the fresh 
waters of South America. 
Chill 1 (chil), n. and a. [< (1) 
ME. chil, chile (rare), < AS. 
dele, cele, cylc, n., cold, coldness, orig. *cali, < 
calan (= Icel. kala), be cold, whence also col, E. 
cool, and ceald, E. cold, q. v. ; mixed with (2) 
ME. chele, < AS. cele, n., cold, coldness (= OHG. 
chitoli, MHG. kiile, Q. kiihle, coolness, = Dan. 
Chilian Snail (Chi- 
lina puelcha}. 
