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Girl   /gərl/   Listen
noun
Girl  n.  
1.
A young person of either sex; a child. (Obs.)
2.
A female child, from birth to the age of puberty; a young maiden.
3.
A female servant; a maidservant. (U. S.)
4.
(Zool.) A roebuck two years old. (Prov. Eng.)





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... at a distance.[25] Tommaseo, in the preface to his 'Canti Popolari,' mentions in particular a Beatrice di Pian degli Ontani, whose poetry was famous through the mountains of Pistoja; and Tigri records by name a little girl called Cherubina, who made rispetti by the dozen as she watched her sheep upon the hills. One of the songs in his collection (p. 181) contains a direct ...
— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete - Series I, II, and III • John Symonds
... mind and soul!" If he feels that to subscribe to all of the foregoing and then submit, though not as evidence, the work of his own hands is presumptuous, let him remember that a man is not always responsible for the wart on his face, or a girl for the bloom on her cheek, and as they walk out of a Sunday for an airing, people will see them—but they must have the air. He can remember with Plotinus, "that in every human soul there is the ray of the celestial ...
— Essays Before a Sonata • Charles Ives
... that sort of laugh before, and it always made me feel like a defenseless rabbit. Every time it sounded I saw Leta's fan flutter more furiously and her manner grow more nervously animated. Poor dear girl! I never in all my recollection wished a dinner at an end so earnestly so as to assure her of my support and sympathy, though without the faintest conception why ...
— The Lock And Key Library - Classic Mystery And Detective Stories, Modern English • Various
... can't always tell what a girl's going to do," said Jimmy sagely. "But I don't think Auntie Helen's going to marry a ...
— The Lady and the Pirate - Being the Plain Tale of a Diligent Pirate and a Fair Captive • Emerson Hough
... answered. "The girl has been a fool and still is; but the point is this. While she was all for him, Bond felt the going good; but now, along of your high-minded action and the way you've took it, and the way he's took ...
— The Torch and Other Tales • Eden Phillpotts


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