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miNOCk, on the coaft of North Carolina, lies between 
Roanoke ifland and the northern entrance into Pamlico 
found. 
CHIHOHOE'KI, an Indian nation of America who 
were confederates of the Lenopi or .Delawares, and inha¬ 
bited the weltern bank of Delaware river, which was an¬ 
ciently called by their name. Their fouthern boundary 
was Duck creek, in Newcatlle county. 
CH 1 LAPAN', a town in New Spain, in the country of 
the Coluiixeas. Between this and Tcoiltylan is an entire 
mountain of loadftone. 
CHILA'RE, a river of Italy, in the kingdom of Naples, 
which runs into the Candelaro. 
CHIL'BLAINS, f Sores made by froft.—Chilblains 
are occafioned by exceflive cold flopping the motion of 
the blood in the capillary arteries. For the cure, fee the 
article Medicine. 
CHIL'CA, a town in the jurifdiftion of Canette in 
Peru, South America, celebrated for its excellent falt- 
petie, of which gunpowder is made in the metropolis. It 
abounds with plenty of fifh, fruits, pulfe, and poultry, in 
which it carries on a considerable trade with Lima, ten 
leagues diftant. Lat. 12.31. S. Ion.76. 5. W. 
CHILD,/ in the plural children ; [cilb, Sax.] An in¬ 
fant, or very young perfon.—The Stroke of death is no¬ 
thing : children endure it, and the greateft cowards find 
it no pain. IVake. —We (hould no more*be kinder to one 
child than to another, than we are tender of one eye more 
than of the other. L'Eflrange. 
In age, to wilh for youth is full as vain, 
As for a youth to turn a child again. Denham. 
One in the line of filiation, oppofed to the parent: 
He, in a fruitful wife’s embraces old, 
A long increale of children's children told. Addifon. 
The defendants of a man, how remote foever, are called 
children ; as the children of Edom, the children of Ifrael. 
In the language of lcripture: One weak in knowledge. 
1 Corinth. —Such as are young in grace. 1 John. —Such as 
are humble and docile. Matthe-w. —The children of light, 
the children -of darknels ; who follow light, who remain in 
darknefs. The eleft, the blelfed, are alfo called the chil¬ 
dren of God.—How is he numbered among the children 
of God, and his lot is among the faints! WiJ'dom. —In the 
New Teftament, believers are commonly called children 
of God.—Ye are all the children of God, by faith in Jefus 
Chrift. Gal. iii. 26.—Any thing the produft or effeft of 
another : 
Macduff, this noble pafiion. 
Child of integrity, hath from my foul 
Wip’d the black fcruples. Shahefpeare. 
“ Children are certain cares, uncertain comforts.” The 
truth of this proverb, it is to be feared, is but too well 
grounded. 
To be with CHILD. To be pregnant: 
If it mult Hand (till, let wives with child 
Pray that their burthen may not fall this day, 
Left that their hopes prodigioufiy be croft. Sfoakef. 
‘To CHILD, <v. n. To bring children : 
The fpring, the fununer, 
The childing autumn, angry winter, change 
Their wonted liveries. Shahefpeare, 
Mr. Derham computes, that marriages, one with another, 
produce four children, not only in England, but upon the 
fame average in every part of the world. In the genea¬ 
logical hiftory of Tufcany, wrote by Gamarini, mention 
is made of a nobleman of Sienna, named Pichi, who of 
three wives had 150 children ; and that, being lent am- 
baflirdor to the pope and the emperor, he had forty-eight 
of his fons in his retinue. In a monument in the church- 
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yard.of St. Innocent, at Paris, ereded to a woman who 
died at eighty-eight years of age, it is recorded, that fhe 
might have feen 288 children diredly iffued from her. 
This exceeds what Hakewell relates of Mrs. Honeywood, 
a gentlewoman of Kent, born in 1527, and married at 
fixteen to her only hulband R. Honeywood, of Charing, 
efq. and died in her ninety-third year. She had fixteen 
children of her own body; of which three died young, 
and a fourth had no iflue : yet her grandchildren, in the 
fecond generation, amounted to 114; in the third, to 228; 
though, in the fourth, they fell to nine. The whole 
number Ihe might have feen in her.life-time, being 367. 
16 + 1144-228-1-9=367. 
With regard to the duties of children to their parents, 
they arife from a principle of natural juftice and retri¬ 
bution. To tiiofe who gave us exiftence, we naturally, 
owe fubjeftion and obedience during our minority,, 
and honour and reverence ever after: they who pro¬ 
tected the weaknefs of our infancy, are intitled to onr 
protection in the infirmity of their age; they who, by 
fuftenance and education, have enabled their offspring to 
profper, ought, in return, to be liipported by that ofr~ 
fpring, in cafe they Hand in need of afliftance. Upon,this 
principle proceed the duties of children to their parents, 
w'hich are enjoined by all laws human and divine. As 
the vexations which parents too often receive from their 
children, fallen the approach of age, and double the force 
of years, i'o the comforts which they reap from them, are 
balm to all other lorrows, and difappoint the injuries eft 
time. Parents repeat their lives in their offspring, and 
their concern for them is fo fenfible and acute, that they 
feel all their fufferings, and talte all their enjoyments. 
Hence arife the comforts and bleflings which parents de¬ 
rive from dutiful and affectionate children ! 
C’HILD'BEARING, part.fubf The aft of bearing chil¬ 
dren.—The timorous and irrefolute Sylvia has demurred 
till file is paft childbearing. Addifon. 
CHILD'BED,/ The flate of a w'otnan bringing a child, 
or being in labour : 
Yet thefe, tho’ poor, the pain of childbed bear. Dry den. 
CHILD'BIRTH,/ Travail; labour; the time of bring¬ 
ing forth; the aft of bringing forth.—In the w'hole fex 
of women, God hath decreed the fharpeft pains of child¬ 
birth ; to fliew, that there is no flate exempt from for- 
row. Taylor. 
CHILD'ED, adf Furnifiied with a child: 
How light and portable my pain feerns now, 
When that which makes me bend, makes the king bow f j 
He childed as I father’d. Shahefpeare. 
CHIL'DERMAS DAY, f. The day of the week, 
throughout the year, anfwering to the day on which tfte 
feaft of the Holy Innocents is folemnized, which weak 
and fuperftitious perfons were wont to think an unlucky 
day.—To talk of hares, or fuch uncouth things, proves 
"as ominous to the fifherman, as the beginning of a voy¬ 
age on the day when childermas-day fell, doth to the ma¬ 
riner. Car&w. 
CHILD'HOOD, f. [cilbhab, Sax.] The ftate of chil¬ 
dren ; or, the time in which we are children : it includes 
infancy, but is continued to puberty.—The fame autho¬ 
rity that the aftions of a man have with us in our child¬ 
hood, the fame, in every period of life, has the praftice of 
all whom we regard as our fuperiors. Rogers .—The time 
of life between infancy and puberty.—Infancy and child¬ 
hood demand thin, copious, nourifhing, aliment. Arbuth- 
not .—The properties of a child : 
Their love in early infancy began, 
And rofe as childhood ripen’d into man. Dryden. 
CHILD'ISH, adj. Having the qualities of a child; tri¬ 
fling} ignorant} Ample.—Learning hath its infancy, when 
