CHILD

CHILD. The son and heir in noble and royal families. The word was emploved by Spenser, and in the old ballads, as the " Childe of Elle," " Child Waters," &c. See Eng. Surn. i. 214. InDomesd.the epithet Cild or Cilt is applied to several persons of distinction. Le Child. H.R.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.