child (fig. uses of the ordinary senses are common)
1.
female infant
Wint. III. iii. 71
“A boy or a child, I
wonder”
; so “my child”
is always used by S. of a daughter Tp. V. i. 198, Ado IV. i. 77, Lr. IV. vii. 70.
2.
youth of noble birth;
used in ballads as a kind of title Lr. III. IV. 185
“Child Rowland to the
dark tower came.”
