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Used as a synonym of “childe,” meaning a knight or squire as, “Childe Harold.” King Arthur is so called. (See also Spenser: Faërie Queene, book ii. canto viii. 56.)

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Indiarubber
Individualists
Indoors
Induction (Latin, the act of leading in)
Indulgence
Inertia
Inexorable Logic of Facts (The)
Infallibility (of the Church of Rome)
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Infant
Infant of Lubeck
Infanta
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Infantry
Infernal Column
Inferno
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Infralapsarians
Ingle (The)
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