A female child.
I saw a little girl feeding, brushing, and talking to a heifer.
A woman, especially a young and often attractive woman.
He has a crush on a girl at work. We were kidding with him yesterday about his work crush.
To feminize or girlify; to gender as a girl or as for girls.
Quite different is the way in which the tomboy girled the rebel narrative. In recent years, queer theorists have taken a deep interest in the tomboy as a prefigure for the butch dyke.
To staff with or as a girl or girls.
A Chinese constellation located near Aquarius, one of the 28 lunar mansions and part of the Black Turtle.
From Middle English gerle, girle, gyrle (“young person (boy or girl)”), perhaps from Old English *gyrele, from Proto-West Germanic *gurilā, from a zero-grade diminutive of *gaurā (“young child”) + *-i...
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Making our way past a one-girl switchboard temporarily girled by two frantic operators, we found the victorious president, Elliott A. Bowles, barely visible behind a heap of telegrams [...]