orphan

orphan n.

[Unix] A process whose parent has died; one inherited by init(1). Compare zombie.

--The Jargon File version 4.3.1, ed. ESR, autonoded by rescdsk.

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.

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Or"phan, a.

Bereaved of parents, or (sometimes) of one parent.

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Or"phan, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Orphaned (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Orphaning.]

To cause to become an orphan; to deprive of parents.

Young.

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