Definition of infant

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Infant (n.) A person who is not of full age, or who has not attained the age of legal capacity; a person under the age of twenty-one years; a minor..

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Baby :: Baby (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, an infant; young or little; as, baby swans..
Engouled :: Engouled (a.) Partly swallowed; disappearing in the jaws of anything; as, an infant engouled by a serpent; said also of an ordinary, when its two ends to issue from the mouths of lions, or the like; as, a bend engouled..
Infantile :: Infantile (a.) Of or pertaining to infancy, or to an infant; similar to, or characteristic of, an infant; childish; as, infantile behavior..
Bantling :: Bantling (n.) A young or small child; an infant. [Slightly contemptuous or depreciatory..
Baptist :: Baptist (n.) One of a denomination of Christians who deny the validity of infant baptism and of sprinkling, and maintain that baptism should be administered to believers alone, and should be by immersion. See Anabaptist..
Tyrotoxicon :: Tyrotoxicon (n.) A ptomaine discovered by Vaughan in putrid cheese and other dairy products, and producing symptoms similar to cholera infantum. Chemically, it appears to be related to, or identical with, diazobenzol..
Infancy :: Infancy (n.) The state or period of being an infant; the first part of life; early childhood.
Nurse :: Nurse (v. t.) To nourish at the breast; to suckle; to feed and tend, as an infant..
Spnsorial :: Sponsor (n.) One who at the baptism of an infant professore the christian faith in its name, and guarantees its religious education; a godfather or godmother..
Nurse :: Nurse (n.) One who nourishes; a person who supplies food, tends, or brings up; as: (a) A woman who has the care of young children; especially, one who suckles an infant not her own. (b) A person, especially a woman, who has the care of the sick or infirm..
Baptize :: Baptize (v. t.) To christen ( because a name is given to infants at their baptism); to give a name to; to name.
Nursing :: Nursing (a.) Supplying or taking nourishment from, or as from, the breast; as, a nursing mother; a nursing infant..
Infant :: Infant (n.) A person who is not of full age, or who has not attained the age of legal capacity; a person under the age of twenty-one years; a minor..
Equipment :: Equipment (n.) Whatever is used in equipping; necessaries for an expedition or voyage; the collective designation for the articles comprising an outfit; equipage; as, a railroad equipment (locomotives, cars, etc. ; for carrying on business); horse equipments; infantry equipments; naval equipments; laboratory equipments..
Hoplite :: Hoplite (n.) A heavy-armed infantry soldier.
Next :: Next (superl.) Nearest in degree, quality, rank, right, or relation; as, the next heir was an infant..
Spook :: Spontoon (n.) A kind of half-pike, or halberd, formerly borne by inferior officers of the British infantry, and used in giving signals to the soldiers..
Musket :: Musket (n.) A species of firearm formerly carried by the infantry of an army. It was originally fired by means of a match, or matchlock, for which several mechanical appliances (including the flintlock, and finally the percussion lock) were successively substituted. This arm has been generally superseded by the rifle..
Overlie :: Overlie (v. t.) To lie over or upon; specifically, to suffocate by lying upon; as, to overlie an infant..
Infantry :: Infantry (n.) A body of soldiers serving on foot; foot soldiers, in distinction from cavalry..
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