Bairn

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  • noun. A child.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A child; a son or daughter. See barn.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A child.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A child or baby.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a child: son or daughter
  • Word Usage
    "She heard herself remonstrating, "Sir, ye canna force your ain bairn, to make her meeserable," and the response, "What the deevil have you to do with it, if I make her meeserable or no?""