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Recently born. Shak.

l; as, to assault a reputation or an administration. Before the gates, the cries of babes newborn, . . . Assault his ears. Dryden.

An instrument for ascertaining the weight and length of a newborn infant.

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

A goddess who protected newborn infants.

tissue. Sclerema of adults. See Scleroderma. -- Sclerema neonatorum ( Etym: [NL., of the newborn], an affection characterized by a peculiar hardening and rigidity of the cutaneous and subcutaneous tissues in the newly born. It is usually fatal. Called also skinbound disease.

The soapy substance covering the skin of newborn infants.

issful yoke . . . Which that men clepeth spousal or wedlock. Chaucer. the spousals of the newborn year. Emerson.

ng 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.

A tumor, sometimes found in newborn children, which is made up of a heterigenous mixture of tissues, as of bone, cartilage and muscle.

ive and with such form and development of organs as to be capable of living; -- said of a newborn, or a prematurely born, infant.

The skin of a newborn seal; also, the seal itself. [Sealers' Cant]

ators . . . whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democraty. Milton. Her newborn power was wielded from the first by unprincipled and ambitions men. De Quincey.