Definition of infant

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Infant (n.) A child in the first period of life, beginning at his birth; a young babe; sometimes, a child several years of age..

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Bantling :: Bantling (n.) A young or small child; an infant. [Slightly contemptuous or depreciatory..
Infant :: Infant (n.) A person who is not of full age, or who has not attained the age of legal capacity; a person under the age of twenty-one years; a minor..
Voltigeur :: Voltigeur (n.) One of a picked company of irregular riflemen in each regiment of the French infantry.
Infanthood :: Infanthood (n.) Infancy.
Infantlike :: Infantlike (a.) Like an infant.
Overlie :: Overlie (v. t.) To lie over or upon; specifically, to suffocate by lying upon; as, to overlie an infant..
Swaddle :: Swaddle (v. t.) To bind as with a bandage; to bind or warp tightly with clothes; to swathe; -- used esp. of infants; as, to swaddle a baby..
Helpless :: Helpless (a.) Destitute of help or strength; unable to help or defend one's self; needing help; feeble; weak; as, a helpless infant..
Snug :: Snug (superl.) Close and warm; as, an infant lies snug..
Yager :: Yager (n.) In the German army, one belonging to a body of light infantry armed with rifles, resembling the chasseur of the French army..
Phalanx :: Phalanx (n.) 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..
Nursing :: Nursing (a.) Supplying or taking nourishment from, or as from, the breast; as, a nursing mother; a nursing infant..
Janizary :: "Janizary (n.) A soldier of a privileged military class, which formed the nucleus of the Turkish infantry, but was suppressed in 1826..
Orb :: Orb (n.) A body of soldiers drawn up in a circle, as for defense, esp. infantry to repel cavalry..
Musket :: Musket (n.) A species of firearm formerly carried by the infantry of an army. It was originally fired by means of a match, or matchlock, for which several mechanical appliances (including the flintlock, and finally the percussion lock) were successively substituted. This arm has been generally superseded by the rifle..
Suckle :: Sucking (a.) Drawing milk from the mother or dam; hence, colloquially, young, inexperienced, as, a sucking infant; a sucking calf..
Division :: Division (n.) Two companies of infantry maneuvering as one subdivision of a battalion.
Tyrotoxicon :: Tyrotoxicon (n.) A ptomaine discovered by Vaughan 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..
Infantile :: Infantile (a.) Of or pertaining to infancy, or to an infant; similar to, or characteristic of, an infant; childish; as, infantile behavior..
Smegma :: Smegma (n.) The soapy substance covering the skin of newborn infants.
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