FOUNDLING

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

foundling
    n 1: a child who has been abandoned and whose parents are
         unknown [syn: {foundling}, {abandoned infant}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Foundling \Found"ling\, n. [OE. foundling, fundling; finden to
   find + -ling; cf. f["u]ndling, findling. See {Find}, v. t.,
   and {-ling}.]
   A deserted or exposed infant; a child found without a parent
   or owner.
   [1913 Webster]

   {Foundling hospital}, a hospital for foundlings.
      [1913 Webster]

from Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

FOUNDLING. A new-born child, abandoned by, its parents, who are unknown. The 
settlement of, such a child is in the place where found.

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

33 Moby Thesaurus words for "foundling":
      bonus, buried treasure, castaway, castoff, derelict, discard,
      discovery, dogie, find, finding, flotsam, flotsam and jetsam,
      gravy, jetsam, junk, lagan, orphan, outcast, refuse, reject,
      rubbish, stray, trash, treasure trove, trouvaille, trove, waif,
      waifs, waifs and strays, wastrel, windfall, windfall money,
      windfall profit

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