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Webster 1913 Edition

Girl

Girl

(gẽrl)
,
Noun.
[OE.
girle
,
gerle
,
gurle
, a girl (in sense 1): cf. LG.
gör
child.]
1.
A young person of either sex; a child.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
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.]

Webster 1828 Edition

Girl

GIRL

,
Noun.
gerl. [Low L. gerula, a young woman employed in tending children and carrying them about, from gero, to carry; a word probably received from the Romans while in England.]
1.
A female child, or young woman. In familiar language, any young unmarried woman.
2.
Among sportsmen, a roebuck of two years old.

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