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Nearest in degree, quality, rank, right, or relation; as, the next heir was an infant. The man is near of kin unto us, one of our next kinsmen. Ruth ii. 20.

nnection; tie. Man is doubtless one by some subtile nexus ... extending from the new-born infant to the superannuated dotard. De Quincey.

gs 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.

lying or taking nourishment from, or as from, the breast; as, a nursing mother; a nursing infant.

One who, or that which, is nursed; an infant; a fondling. I was his nursling once, and choice delight. Milton.

ving (a certain) length of existence; -- designating the age of a person or thing; as, an infant a few hours old; a cathedral centuries old. And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou Cen. xlvii. 8.

A body of soldiers drawn up in a circle, as for defense, esp. infantry to repel cavalry.

To lie over or upon; specifically, to suffocate by lying upon; as, to overlie an infant. Quain. A woman by negligence overlieth her child in her sleeping. Chaucer.

A soft food for infants, made of bread boiled or softtened in milk or water.

The baptism of infants or of small children. [Written also pædobaptism.]

One who advocates or practices infant baptism. [Written also pædobaptist.]

A body of heavy-armed infantry formed in ranks and files close and deep. There were several different arrangements, the phalanx varying in depth from four to twenty-five or more ranks of men. "In cubic phalanx firm advanced." Milton. The Grecian phalanx, moveless as a tower. Pope.

A small child; especially, a negro or mulatto infant. [U.S. & West Indies]

After birth; subsequent to birth; as, postnatal infanticide; postnatal diseases.

rus so as to be perceptible to the finger in vaginal examination; -- said of a part of an infant during labor.

ve to action; to instigate; to incite. God first . . . prompted on the infirmities of the infant world by temporal prosperity. Jer. Taylor.

To eject the contests of the stomach; to vomit; to spew. The infant Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms. Shak.

, smell, or feelings; pricking; biting; acrid; as, a pungent spice. Pungent radish biting infant's tongue. Shenstone. The pungent grains of titillating dust. Pope.

etc. See under Cabbage, China, etc. -- Corn rose (Bot.) See Corn poppy, under Corn. -- Infantile rose (Med.), a variety of roseola. -- Jamaica rose. (Bot.) See under Jamaica. -- Rose acacia (Bot.), a low American leguminous shrub (Robinia hispida) with handsome clusters of rose-colored blossoms. -- Rose aniline.…

covered with leather, with sometimes an iron rim; -- carried chiefly by the heavy- armed infantry.