Word Finder - orphan

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A person, especially a minor, both or (rarely) one of whose parents have died.

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A person, especially a minor, whose parents have permanently abandoned them.

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A young animal with no mother.

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Anything that is unsupported, as by its source, provider or caretaker, by reason of the supporter's demise or decision to abandon.

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A single line of type, beginning a paragraph, at the bottom of a column or page.

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Any unreferenced object.

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To deprive of parents (used almost exclusively in the passive)

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What do you do when you come across two orphaned polar bear cubs?

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To make unavailable, as by removing the last remaining pointer or reference to.

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Removing categories orphans pages from the main category tree.

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Deprived of parents (also orphaned).

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She is an orphan child.

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(by extension) Remaining after the removal of some form of support.

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With its government funding curtailed, the gun registry became an orphan program.

He was left an orphan at an early age, his mother dying in 1880 and his father four years later.

There is an orphan asylum in the district of Parapatna.

Then they'll bounce me to some other place in Denver, like Little Orphan Annie.

Although left an orphan at nine, he was by no means lonely or unprotected.

Left an orphan at the age of eleven, he worked for a time at his father's trade.

These seem to have been worked up later into a compilation called The Orphan Lectures (1657).

Annie was a rags to riches tale of a little orphan child.

He was the son of a tailor, and was left an orphan in his eighth year; but, through the kindness of a friend, admission was gained for him into the military school of his native town, which was then under the direction of the Benedictines of Saint-Maur.

The Royal Hibernian military school in Phoenix Park (1765) provides for soldiers' orphan sons.

The college dates from 1735, when it was founded as an asylum for orphan boys destined for the Church.

There are 12 hospitals (3 of them city institutions), 6 orphan asylums, 4 homes for the aged, a foundlings' home and a state industrial school for girls.

Perhaps the most famous of these is the Schuyler mansion (now St Francis de Sales Orphan Asylum), built in 1760-1761.

Her "Presbyterian Orphan Society" undertakes the support of every poor orphan child throughout the Church.

Wakefield was for a short time at Westminster School, and was brought up to his father's profession, which he relinquished on occasion of his elopement at the age of twenty with Miss Pattle, the orphan daughter of an Indian civil servant.

The "orphan of the Temple," as the princess was called, was in prison for three years, ' The responsibility of Marie Antoinette for the policy of the king before and during the Revolution has been the subject of much controversy.

It was then surrounded by strong fortifications, and contained a number of important buildings, such as the town-house (built in 1652 and restored in 1706), the exchange, the infirmary and orphan asylum, and the European churches.

Within the state are also sixteen orphan asylums, and though these are private institutions, in all but one of them children are boarded at county or city expense.

It has a Carnegie library, and is the seat of an Evangelical Lutheran theological seminary (1865), of Lutheran homes for the aged and orphan, of the Milwaukee county hospital for the insane, of the Milwaukee sanatorium for nervous diseases, and of the north-western branch of the national soldiers' home, which has grounds covering 385 acres and with main building and barracks affording quarters for over 2000 disabled veterans, and has a hospital, a theatre, and a library of 15,000 volumes.

At Manitowoc are the county insane asylum and a Polish orphan asylum.

He could have been abused, or …" "Maybe he would be an orphan.

The Crossley almshouses were erected and endowed by Sir Francis and Mr Joseph Crossley, who also endowed the Crossley orphan home and school.

Many of these still remain in another form (the district hospital, the lunatic asylum, the gaol, two asylums for the infirm and destitute, the Protestant and Catholic orphan schools), involving a government expenditure which partly sustains the business of the town.

As the result of the general campaign against child labour, an act was passed in 1906 providing that no child under 10 shall be employed or allowed to labour in or about any factory, under any circumstances; after the 1st of January 1907 no child under 12 shall be so employed, unless an orphan with no other means of support, or unless a widowed mother or disabled or aged father is dependent on the child's labour, in which case a certificate to the facts, holding good for one year only, is required; after the 1st of January 1908 no child under 14 shall be employed in a factory between the hours of 7 P.M.

Charitable schools for orphan girls (hence called Faustinianae) were founded in her honour, like those established by her father Antoninus in honour of his wife, the elder Faustina.

The release Springer, A73, the orphan baby orca, finally made it back to her home waters last Saturday!

They cannot take pity on a widow or do good to an orphan.

Kepler's second courtship forms the subject of a highly characteristic letter addressed by him to Baron Stralendorf, in which he reviews the qualifications of eleven candidates for his hand, and explains the reasons which decided his choice in favour of a portionless orphan girl named Susanna Reutlinger.

Among the charitable institutions are the Home for the Friendless, the Buffalo, St Vincent's and St Joseph's orphan asylums, St John's orphan home, St Mary's asylum for widows and foundlings, and the Ingleside home for erring women.

Hampstead has numerous charitable institutions, amongst which are the North London consumptive hospital, the Orphan Working School, Haverstock Hill (1758), the general hospital and the north-western fever hospital.

His father fell at the battle of Pinkie (1547), fighting in the van of the Scottish army, and, his wife having died soon after, the orphan was cared for by his eldest brother Richard (1522-1575).

Among the principal buildings are the county court house, city hall, commercial building, United States naval hospital, post office building, high school and the Portsmouth orphan asylum, King's Daughters' hospital and the old Trinity Church (1762).

Being left an orphan he was taken into his own house by Lorenzo the Magnificent and educated with his sons.

There are also a Protestant church, St Anne's, a school of arts, a polytechnic institution, a picture gallery in the former monastery of St Catherine, a museum, observatory, botanical gardens, an exchange, gymnasium, deafmute institution, orphan asylum, several remarkable fountains dating from the 16th century, &c. Augsburg is particularly well provided with special and technical schools.

From his childhood the orphan grand duke was kept in the strictest seclusion.

Left an orphan at the age of nine, he early entered journalism, and, in banking and railway enterprises, accumulated a considerable fortune.

There are 255 orphan asylums, with 40,588 inmates.

He found a patron in Mary Fitzroy, duchess of Richmond, and having been ordained deacon by Ridley in 1550, he settled at Reigate Castle, where he acted as tutor to the duchess's nephews, the orphan children of Henry Howard, earl of Surrey.

He might, perhaps, have given alms to the poor, or helped the orphan children of the town.

Primates Investigate the changing group dynamics of captive orphan chimpanzees in a sanctuary situation.

In addition, the European Commission granted TransMID TM orphan designation in March 2002.

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The Drummond Institution, Chapelizod, for the orphan daughters of soldiers, was established in 1864 by John Drummond,alderman,who left £20,000 to found the asylum.

Confucius says truly, "Virtue does not remain as an abandoned orphan; it must of necessity have neighbors."

The agency you choose should also be familiar with the orphan visa law, as well as any responsibilities and risks that might be involved with the adoption.

French orphan Hugo lives at a train station and spends all of his extra time trying to get a tiny little robot that used to be his father's to operate and move.

Daughter Zahara was adopted in 2005 as an AIDs orphan from Ethiopia.

The public buildings include the town hall, court house and orphan hospital; and the industries are mainly connected with the cattle trade and the distilling of whisky.

The Oxford Orphan Asylum at Oxford (1872) is supported partly by the Masonic Order and partly by the state.

Cleveland has also its orphan asylums, homes for the aged, homes for incurables, and day nurseries, besides a home for sailors, homes for young working women, and retreats for unfortunate girls.

Auburn has a city hall, the large Burtis Auditorium, the Auburn hospital, two orphan asylums, and the Seymour library in the Case Memorial building.