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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Man child(e, n. Also: chyld(e, cheild. Plur. men childer, -dren(e, -dring, -dryng. [ME. and e.m.E. manchilde (1535), plur. man-chylderyn (a 1400), -chylder (c 1430), men-children (1471).] A male child, a son.(a) 1533 Boece vi. vii. 200 b.
Of this newe mariage ane fare man chylde was producit a1538 Abell 74 a. 1581 Digest Justiciary Proc. K. 24.
The said Jonet being greit with quick man chyld 1583 St. A. Test. II. 5 b. 1587 Acts III. 508/1.
Fourty pundis … for ilk man cheild and twenty pund for ilk madin 1657 Edinb. Test. LXIX. 26.
Incaice the said chyld … being ane man chyld sould deceise without aires 1660 Dumfr. & Galloway Soc. 3 Ser. XXI. 143.
For ilk manchyld they sall abstract the said schoole(b) 1513 Doug. viii. x. 83.
The twa twynnys, smal men childer [E. -dring] ȝyng 1533 Boece vii. viii. 236.
Dioneth … had twa onelie dochteris … and nane vthir men childer c1552 Lynd. Mon. 1161.
Off men childryng thretty and two 1584 Dysart Rec. 41.
Decessit of twa men childrene sam day born —1586 Edinb. Test. XVI. 128 (see Maidin-barne n.). — 1590 Edinb. Test. XXI. 365 b.
My sex men children