cherub int (cherobin)

and a. [ A sompnour was ther with us in that place, That hadde a fyr-reed cherubynes face. Chaucer , Gen. Prol. to C. T., 1. 624. cherubin 950 chesten me age of peace from the wings of those his Cherubins, that fanne his Mercy-seat. Milton, Reformation in Eng., ii. Whose face is paradise, but fenc'd from sin, For God in either eye hath plac'd a cherubin . Dryden , To the Duche of Ormond. II. a. Cherubic; angelic:: as, "her cherubin look," Shak ., T. of A., iv. 3.