INFANT

n. a. v.

6 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A child in the first period of life, beginning at his birth; a young babe; sometimes, a child several years of age. And tender cries of infants pierce the ear. C. Pitt.

2.
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.

3.
n.

Same as Infante. [Obs.] Spenser.

4.
a.

Of or pertaining to infancy, or the first period of life; tender; not mature; as, infant strength.

5.
a.

Intended for young children; as, an infant school.

6.
v.

To bear or bring forth, as a child; hence, to produce, in general. [Obs.] This worthy motto, "No bishop, no king," is . . . infanted out of the same fears. Milton.


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