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Simple; not wise; weak; silly. [Obs.] He utters such single matter in so infantly a voice. Beau & Fl. Single ale, beer, or drink, small ale, etc., as contrasted with double ale, etc., which is stronger. [Obs.] Nares. -- Single bill (Law), a written engagement, generally under seal, for the payment of money, without a…

The soapy substance covering the skin of newborn infants.

Obstruction of the nose by mucus; nasal catarrh of infants or children. [Colloq.]

Close and warm; as, an infant lies snug.

degree; a little. Something yet of doubt remains. Milton. Something of it arises from our infant state. I. Watts.

ugh; to fix upon a spit; hence, to thrust through or impale; as, to spit a loin of veal. "Infants spitted upon pikes." Shak.

One who at the baptism of an infant professore the christian faith in its name, and guarantees its religious education; a godfather or godmother.

A kind of half-pike, or halberd, formerly borne by inferior officers of the British infantry, and used in giving signals to the soldiers.

scream or cry violently, as a woman frightened, or a child in anger or distress; as, the infant squalled.

ble idly or leisurely; to rove. These mothers stroll to beg sustenance for their helpless infants. Swift.

the breast, etc.) with the mouth; as, the young of an animal sucks the mother, or dam; an infant sucks the breast.

ing milk from the mother or dam; hence, colloquially, young, inexperienced, as, a sucking infant; a sucking calf. I suppose you are a young barrister, sucking lawyer, or that sort of thing. Thackeray. Sucking bottle, a feeding bottle. See under Bottle. -- Sucking fish (Zoöl.), the remora. See Remora. Baird. -- Suckin…

bind as with a bandage; to bind or warp tightly with clothes; to swathe; -- used esp. of infants; as, to swaddle a baby. They swaddled me up in my nightgown with long pieces of linen. Addison.

v. Swaddling band, Swaddling cloth, or Swaddling clout, a band or cloth wrapped round an infant, especially round a newborn infant. Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger. Luke ii. 12.

From that time; thenceforth; thereafter. There shall be no more thence an infant of days. Isa. lxv. 20.

ll rolls of dough, baked, cut in halves, and then browned in an oven, -- used as food for infants. 'T is said that her top-and-bottoms were gilt. Hood.

commanded by a captain; the unit of formation of cavalry, corresponding to the company in infantry. Formerly, also, a company of horse artillery; a battery.

ness or duty; loitering; idle, and shirking duty; as, a truant boy. While truant Jove, in infant pride, Played barefoot on Olympus' side. Trumbull.

ghan in putrid cheese and other dairy products, and producing symptoms similar to cholera infantum. Chemically, it appears to be related to, or identical with, diazobenzol.

opment of organs as to be capable of living; -- said of a newborn, or a prematurely born, infant.