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at his birth; a young babe; sometimes, a child several years of age. And tender cries of infants pierce the ear. C. Pitt.

A title borne by every one of the daughters of the kings of Spain and Portugal, except the eldest.

A title given to every one of sons of the kings of Spain and Portugal, except the eldest or heir apparent.

Infancy. [R.]

Of or pertaining to infanticide; engaged in, or guilty of, child murder.

The murder of an infant born alive; the murder or killing of a newly born or young child; child murder.

Of or pertaining to 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.

Like an infant. Shak.

Like an infant. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

A body of children. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

the age limit. In equipment the organization of the army is into the three great arms of infantry, cavalry, and artillery, together with more or less numerous other branches, such as engineers, medical corps, etc., besides the staff organizations such as those of the pay and subsistence departments.…

An infant; a young child of either sex; a baby.

An infant or young child of either sex; a babe.

The quality of being a baby; the personality of an infant.

A child or baby; esp., a representation in art of the infant Christ wrapped in swaddling clothes.

A young or small child; an infant. [Slightly contemptuous or depreciatory.] In what out of the way corners genius produces her bantlings. W. Irving.

One of a denomination of Christians who deny the validity of infant baptism and of sprinkling, and maintain that baptism should be administered to believers alone, and should be by immersion. See Anabaptist.

To christen ( because a name is given to infants at their baptism); to give a name to; to name. I'll be new baptized; Henceforth I never will be Romeo. Shak.