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The outfit of clothing, blankets, etc., prepared for a newborn infant, and placed ready for used.

are supported when beginning to walk. -- To be in leading strings, to be in a state of infancy or dependence, or under the guidance of others. -- Leading wheel, a wheel situated before the driving wheels of a locomotive engine.

A goddess who protected newborn infants.

sness vanished all at once, and a spirit of liberty and libertinism, of infidelity and profaneness, started up in the room of it. Atterbury.

Animation; spirit; vivacity; vigor; energy. No notion of life and fire in fancy and in words. Felton. That gives thy gestures grace and life. Wordsworth.

n; a light mind. There is no greater argument of a light and inconsiderate person than profanely to scoff at religion. Tillotson.

The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry, artillery, etc.

(Zoöl.), the puma or cougar. -- Lion ant (Zoöl.), the ant-lion. -- Lion dog (Zoöl.), a fancy dog with a flowing mane, usually clipped to resemble a lion's mane. -- Lion lizard (Zoöl.), the basilisk. -- Lion's share, all, or nearly all; the best or largest part; -- from Æsop's fable of the lion hunting in company w…

A genus of labiate plants (Leonurus); -- so called from a fancied resemblance of its flower spikes to the tuft of a lion's tail. L. Cardiaca is the common motherwort.

he collective body of literary productions, embracing the entire results of knowledge and fancy preserved in writing; also, the whole body of literary productions or writings upon a given subject, or in reference to a particular science or branch of knowledge, or of a given country or period; as, the literature of Bibl…

food; a little air or water. Conceited of their little wisdoms, and doting upon their own fancies. Barrow.

A morbid suspension of good sense or judgment, as through fanaticism. Dr. H. More.

To play on a lute, or as on a lute. Knaves are men That lute and flute fantastic tenderness. Tennyson.

A whim; an odd fancy. Hudibras. Tennyson.

Full of whims or fancies; maggoty.

Belief in the coming of the Mahdi; fanatical devotion to the cause of the Mahdi or a pretender to that title. -- Mah"dist (#), n.

e grain used in making malt; -used as a fertilizer. " Malt dust consists chiefly of the infant radicle separated from the grain." Sir H. Davy. -- Malt floor, a floor for drying malt. -- Malt house, or Malthouse, a house in which malt is made. -- Malt kiln, a heated chamber for drying malt.

tleth on her perch. Spenser. Or tend his sparhawk mantling in her mew. Bp. Hall. My frail fancy fed with full delight. Doth bathe in bliss, and mantleth most at ease. Spenser.

Adhering to facts; not turning aside from absolute realities; not fanciful or imaginative; commonplace; dry.

A wild fancy; a confused notion. [Obs.] Chaucer.