Definition of Orphen
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.
Or"phan, a. Bereaved of parents,
or (sometimes) of one parent.
Or"phan, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Orphaned (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Orphaning.] To cause to become an orphan; to deprive of
parents. Young.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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.
- 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
- a person one or both of whose parents have died, especially a minor
- child without living parents
- a young animal with no mother
- (typography) a single line of type, beginning a paragraph, at the bottom of a column or page
- (computing) a computer image without an associated an associated file
- deprived of parents
- intended for orphans
- to deprive of parents (used almost exclusively in the passive)
What do you do when you come across two orphaned polar bear cubs?
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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