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With the head foremost.

Not firm or sound; weak; feeble; as, an infirm body; an infirm constitution. A poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man. Shak.

A person dwelling in, or having charge of, an infirmary, esp. in a monastic institution.

A hospital, or place where the infirm or sick are lodged and nursed gratuitously, or where out-patients are treated.

Weakening; annulling, or tending to make void. [Obs.]

An infirmary. [Obs.]

The state of being infirm; feebleness; an imperfection or weakness; esp., an unsound, unhealthy, or debilitated state; a disease; a malady; as, infirmity of body or mind. 'T is the infirmity of his age. Shak.

In an infirm manner.

Infirmity; feebleness. Boyle.

A genus (Ephedra) of leafless shrubs, with the stems conspicuously jointed; -- called also shrubby horsetail. There are about thirty species, of which two or three are found from Texas to California.

ed to the tribes living between Cape Colony and Natal; but the Zulus of Natal are true Kaffirs.

ade from fermented milk, used as a food and as a medicine in the northern Caucasus. -- Ke*fir"ic (#), a.

on, and containing various yeasts and bacteria. They are used as a ferment in preparing kefir.

. A bloomery fire. See Bloomery.

To affirm incorrectly.

To make firm; to harden in resolution. [Obs.] Bp. Hall. Sheldon.

Hardness of heart; obduracy. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

Having a firing pin to explode the cartridge; as, a pin-fire rifle.

A case of strong paper filled with a composition of niter, sulphur, and mealed powder, -- used principally to ignite the priming in proving guns, and as an incendiary material in shells.

A mount permitting easy and quick elevation or depression and training of the gun, and fitting with a device for taking up the recoil.