DAUGHTER (Saxon, dochter; Ger. tochter); a female child. In the Old Testament, the word daughter is used in a variety of other senses: as, for example, to designate a uterine sister, niece, or any female descendant; women, as natives, or professing the religion of certain places, as the "Daughter of Zion," "Daughters of the Philistines;" also to denote small towns or colonies belonging to or derived from large cities, &c. This metaphor is illustrated by the almost universal custom of representing towns under the figure of a woman.