Godfather

1. v. t. To act as godfather to; to take under one’s fostering care.
2. n. A man who becomes sponsor for a child at baptism, and makes himself a surety for its Christian training and instruction.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.