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One who commits the crime of infanticide; one who kills an infant.

o infancy, or to an infant; similar to, or characteristic of, an infant; childish; as, infantile behavior.

An acute disease, almost exclusively infantile, characterized by inflammation of the anterior horns of the gray substance of the spinal cord. It is attended with febrile symptoms, motor paralysis, and muscular atrophy, often producing permanent deformities. Called also acute anterior poliomyelitis.

Infantile; childish. A degree of credulity next infantine. Burke.

Unsubstantial; not real or strong. "Insubstantial pageant." [R.] Shak.

Unsubstantiality; unreality. [R.]

See Jauntily.

See Jauntiness.

A follower of Kant; a Kantist.

The doctrine or theory of Kant; the Kantian philosophy.

A disciple or follower of Kant.

The manatee. [Written also lamentin, and lamantine.]

See Legatine.

Of or pertaining to the Levant. J. Spencer.

the condition of one inspired, or supposed to be inspired, by a deity; prophetic. [R.] "Mantic fury." Trench.

A lady's light cloak of cape of silk, velvet, lace, or the like.

Any one of numerous species of voracious orthopterous insects of the genus Mantis, and allied genera. They are remarkable for their slender grotesque forms, and for holding their stout anterior legs in a manner suggesting hands folded in prayer. The common American species is M. Carolina. Mantis shrimp. (Zoöl.) See Sgu…

Any neuropterous insect of the genus Mantispa, and allied genera. The larvæ feed on plant lice. Also used adjectively. See Illust. under Neuroptera.

The decimal part of a logarithm, as distinguished from the integral part, or characteristic.

The intervening time; as, in the meantime (or mean time).