noun

• (broadly) A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority).
  "Go easy on him: he is but a child."
• (broadly) A person who has not yet reached adulthood, whether natural (puberty), cultural (initiation), or legal (majority).
• (with possessive) One's direct descendant by birth, regardless of age; one's offspring; a son or daughter.
  "My youngest child is forty-three this year."
• (cartomancy) The thirteenth Lenormand card.

verb

• (archaic, ambitransitive) To give birth; to beget or procreate.
  "My liefe (ſayd ſhe) ye know, that long ygo, Whileſt ye in durance dwelt, ye to me gaue A little mayde, the which ye chylded tho ; The ſame againe if now ye liſt to haue, The ſame is yonder Lady, whom high God did ſaue."