childt (child)

[ They were two harlots and dwelled together in one house, and it chanced within two daies they childed both. Latimer, 2d Sermon bef. Edw. VI. II. trans. To bring forth as a child. That yere childed she the secunde sonne truly. Rom. of Partenay (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1193. A little mayde, the which ye chylded . Spenser, F. Q., VI. xii. 17. child a get (chil'dāj), n. [ child + -age (or le prob. age?). Cf. nonage.] Childhood; infancy. For in your very chyldage there appeared in you a cer taine strange and marvellous towardne . J. Udall , On John, Pref. child-bearing (child'baring), n. [ The timorous and irresolute Sylvia has demurred till she is past childbearing . Add is on .