GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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   Changeling, n. [Change + -ling.]
   One who, or that which, is left or taken in the place of another, as a child exchanged by fairies.
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   Such, men do changelings call, so changed by fairies' theft.
   Spenser.
   
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   The changeling [a substituted writing] never known.
   Shak.
   
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   A simpleton; an idiot.
   Macaulay.
   
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   Changelings and fools of heaven, and thence shut out.
   
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   Wildly we roam in discontent about.
   Dryden.
   
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   One apt to change; a waverer. “Fickle changelings.”  
   Shak.
   
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   Changeling, a.
   Taken or left in place of another; changed. “A little changeling boy.”  
   Shak.
   
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   Given to change; inconstant. [Obs.]
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   Some are so studiously changeling.
   Boyle.
   
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