Word Meanings - DOLL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A child's puppet; a toy baby for a little girl. (more info) abbreviation of idol; or cf. OD. dol a whipping top, D. dollen to

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• CHILDSHIP
  The state or relation of being a child.
• CHILDISHNESS
  The state or quality of being childish; simplicity; harmlessness; weakness of intellect.
• CHILDED
  Furnished with a child.
• CHILDBIRTH
  The act of bringing forth a child; travail; labor. Jer. Taylor.
• WHIPPING
  a & n. from Whip, v. Whipping post, a post to which offenders are tied, to be legally whipped.
• CHILDISH
  1. Of, pertaining to, befitting, or resembling, a child. "Childish innocence." Macaulay. 2. Peurile; trifling; weak. Methinks that simplicity in her countenance is rather childish than innocent. Addison. Note: Childish, as applied tc persons who
• CHILD STUDY
  A scientific study of children, undertaken for the purpose of discovering the laws of development of the body and the mind from birth to manhood.
• LITTLENESS
  The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc. Syn. -- Smallness; slightness; inconsiderableness; narrowness; insignificance; meanness; penuriousness.
• LITTLE
  1. That which is little; a small quantity, amount, space, or the like. Much was in little writ. Dryden. There are many expressions, which carrying with them no clear ideas, are like to remove but little of my ignorance. Locke. 2. A small degree
• WHIPPLETREE
  The cornel tree. Chaucer. (more info) 1. The pivoted or swinging bar to which the traces, or tugs, of a harness are fastened, and by which a carriage, a plow, or other implement or vehicle, is drawn; a whiffletree; a swingletree; a singletree.
• ABBREVIATION
  One dash, or more, through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, or demi-semiquavers. Moore. (more info) 1. The act of shortening, or reducing. 2. The result of abbreviating; an abridgment. Tylor. 3. The form to
• CHILDCROWING
  The crowing noise made by children affected with spasm of the laryngeal muscles; false croup.
• PUPPET
  The upright support for the bearing of the spindle in a lathe. Puppet master. Same as Puppetman. -- Puppet play, a puppet show. -- Puppet player, one who manages the motions of puppets. -- Puppet show, a mock drama performed by puppets moved by
• LITTLE-EASE
  An old slang name for the pillory, stocks, etc., of a prison. Latimer.
• CHILDBED
  The state of a woman bringing forth a child, or being in labor; parturition.
• WHIPPER
  A kind of simple willow. (more info) 1. One who whips; especially, an officer who inflicts the penalty of legal whipping. 2. One who raises coal or merchandise with a tackle from a chip's hold.
• PUPPETRY
  Action or appearance resembling that of a puppet, or puppet show; hence, mere form or show; affectation. Puppetry of the English laws of divorce. Chambers.
• CHILDISHLY
  In the manner of a child; in a trifling way; in a weak or foolish manner.
• CHILDREN
  pl. of Child.
• CHILDING
  Bearing Children; productive; fruitful. Shak.
• GODCHILD
  One for whom a person becomes sponsor at baptism, and whom he promises to see educated as a Christian; a godson or goddaughter. See Godfather.
• DO-LITTLE
  One who performs little though professing much. Great talkers are commonly dolittles. Bp. Richardson.
• COAL-WHIPPER
  One who raises coal out of the hold of a ship. Dickens.
• STEPCHILD
  1. A bereaved child; one who has lost father or mother. 2. A son or daughter of one's wife or husband by a former marriage.
• GREAT-GRANDCHILD
  The child of one's grandson or granddaughter.