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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Kid \Kid\ (k[i^]d), noun [Of Scand. origin; cf. Icel. ki[eth], Dan. & Sw. kid; akin to OHG. kizzi, G. kitz, kitzchen, kitzlein.]
1. (Zo["o]l.) A young goat.
The . . . leopard shall lie down with the kid. --Is. xi. 6.
2. A young child or infant; hence, a simple person, easily imposed on. [Slang] --Charles Reade.
3. A kind of leather made of the skin of the young goat, or of the skin of rats, etc.
4. pl. Gloves made of kid. [Colloq. & Low]
5. A small wooden mess tub; -- a name given by sailors to one in which they receive their food. --Cooper.
6. Among pugilists, thieves, gunfighters, etc., a youthful expert; -- chiefly used attributively; as, kid Jones. [Cant] [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Kid \Kid\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Kidded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Kidding}.] To bring forth a young goat.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Kid \Kid\, noun [Cf. W. cidysen.] A fagot; a bundle of heath and furze. [Prov. Eng.] --Wright.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Kid \Kid\, p. p. of {Kythe}. [Obs.] --Gower. --Chaucer.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Kid \Kid\, verb (used with an object) See {Kiddy}, verb (used with an object) [Slang]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
kid
noun
1: a young person of either sex; "she writes books for children"; "they're just kids"; "'tiddler' is a British term for youngsters" [syn: {child}, {youngster}, {minor}, {shaver}, {nipper}, {small fry}, {tiddler}, {tike}, {tyke}, {fry}, {nestling}]
2: soft smooth leather from the hide of a young goat; "kid gloves" [syn: {kidskin}]
3: English dramatist (1558-1594) [syn: {Kyd}, {Thomas Kyd}, {Thomas Kid}]
4: a human offspring (son or daughter) of any age; "they had three children"; "they were able to send their kids to college" [syn: {child}] [ant: {parent}]
5: young goat
verb
1: tell false information to for fun; "Are you pulling my leg?" [syn: {pull the leg of}]
2: be silly or tease one another; "After we relaxed, we just kidded around" [syn: {chaff}, {jolly}, {josh}, {banter}] [also: {kidding}, {kidded}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
160 Moby Thesaurus words for "kid": babyhood, bairn, bamboozle, banter, be merry with, befool, billy, billy goat, birdling, boyhood, breed, brood, buck, bud, calf, catling, chaff, cherub, chick, chickabiddy, chickling, chicky, child, childkind, children, chit, colt, crack a joke, crack wise, cub, darling, descendants, descent, doe, doeling, dogie, duckling, fake out, family, fawn, fledgling, fleer at, flimflam, foal, fool, fruit, fryer, fun, gibe at, girlhood, goat, gosling, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, gull, haze, he-goat, heirs, hoax, hoodwink, hostages to fortune, inheritors, innocent, issue, jape, jest, jive, joke, jolly, josh, juvenile, kid around, kids, kit, kitten, lamb, lambkin, lineage, litter, little bugger, little fellow, little guy, little innocent, little kids, little one, little ones, little tad, little tot, make a funny, make fun, make fun of, mite, mock, moppet, mountain goat, nanny, nanny goat, needle, nest, nestling, new generation, nipper, offspring, peewee, piglet, pigling, play on words, poke fun at, polliwog, posterity, progeny, pullet, pun, pup, puppy, put on, put one on, quip, rag, rally, razz, rib, ride, ridicule, rising generation, roast, scintillate, scoff at, seed, shaver, she-goat, shoat, small fry, sons, sparkle, spoof, succession, tad, tadpole, tease, tot, tots, treasures, trick, twit, utter a mot, weaner, wee tot, whelp, wisecrack, yeanling, young, young blood, young fry, young people, youngling, younglings, youngster, youngsters, youth
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
Kid {Kernel} language for {Id}. A refinement of {P-TAC}, used as an intermediate language for Id. {Lambda-calculus} with first-class {let}-blocks and {I-structure}s. ["A Syntactic Approach to Program Transformations", Z. Ariola et al, SIGPLAN Notices 26(9):116-129 (Sept 1991)]. (1996-07-22)
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Kid the young of the goat. It was much used for food (Gen. 27:9; 38:17; Judg. 6:19; 14:6). The Mosaic law forbade to dress a kid in the milk of its dam, a law which is thrice repeated (Ex. 23:19; 34:26; Deut. 14:21). Among the various reasons assigned for this law, that appears to be the most satisfactory which regards it as "a protest against cruelty and outraging the order of nature." A kid cooked in its mother's milk is "a gross, unwholesome dish, and calculated to kindle animal and ferocious passions, and on this account Moses may have forbidden it. Besides, it is even yet associated with immoderate feasting; and originally, I suspect," says Dr. Thomson (Land and the Book), "was connected with idolatrous sacrifices."
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