Any of several devices for carrying babies or very young children within a sling or framework worn as a backpack or on the front of the body

(law) A child who would likely stand to inherit under a will, except that the testator did not know of the child at the time the will was written, usually because the child was not yet born.

Pornographic material depicting minors; sexually explicit (or suggestive) images of children.

(informal) Short for child pornography.

Alternative spelling of Christ child

(crime) Sexual abuse of a child by an adult or older child.

(medicine, archaic) A nervous affection with spasm of the muscles closing the glottis.

(yoga) A yoga pose in which a person kneels, and then folds their body forward so that their thighs rest on their calves and their head rests on the floor.

(education, chiefly attributive) A child seen not only as a client of the education system but also as a person whose play habits, home life, etc. contribute to their development.

(historical) A person who was sent as a child from the United Kingdom to one of its colonies, under a migration scheme founded in 1869.