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  6  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Orphan  \Or"phan\,  n.  [L.  orphanus,  Gr  ?,  akin  to  L.  orbus.  Cf 
  {Orb}  a  blank  window.] 
  A  child  bereaved  of  both  father  and  mother;  sometimes  also 
  a  child  who  has  but  one  parent  living. 
 
  {Orphans'  court}  (Law),  a  court  in  some  of  the  States  of  the 
  Union,  having  jurisdiction  over  the  estates  and  persons  of 
  orphans  or  other  wards.  --Bouvier. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Orphan  \Or"phan\,  a. 
  Bereaved  of  parents,  or  sometimes  of  one  parent. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Orphan  \Or"phan\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Orphaned};  p.  pr  &  vb 
  n.  {Orphaning}.] 
  To  cause  to  become  an  orphan;  to  deprive  of  parents.  --Young. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  orphan 
  adj  :  deprived  of  parents  by  death  or  desertion  [syn:  {orphaned}] 
  n  :  a  child  who  has  lost  both  parents 
  v  :  deprive  of  parents 
 
  From  Jargon  File  (4.2.3,  23  NOV  2000)  [jargon]: 
 
  orphan  n.  [Unix]  A  process  whose  parent  has  died;  one 
  inherited  by  `init(1)'.  Compare  {zombie}. 
 
 
 
  From  THE  DEVIL'S  DICTIONARY  ((C)1911  Released  April  15  1993)  [devils]: 
 
  ORPHAN,  n.  A  living  person  whom  death  has  deprived  of  the  power  of 
  filial  ingratitude  --  a  privation  appealing  with  a  particular 
  eloquence  to  all  that  is  sympathetic  in  human  nature.  When  young  the 
  orphan  is  commonly  sent  to  an  asylum,  where  by  careful  cultivation  of 
  its  rudimentary  sense  of  locality  it  is  taught  to  know  its  place  It 
  is  then  instructed  in  the  arts  of  dependence  and  servitude  and 
  eventually  turned  loose  to  prey  upon  the  world  as  a  bootblack  or 
  scullery  maid. 
 
 




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