Infant

in′fant, n. a babe: ( Eng. law ) a person under twenty-one years of age.— adj. belonging to infants or to infancy: tender: intended for infants.— v.t. ( obs. ) to have as an infant: to give rise to.— n. In′fancy , the state or time of being an infant: childhood: the beginning of anything: ( Milt. ) want of distinct utterance.— adjs. Infantile (in′fant-īl, or -il), Infantine (in′fant-īn, or -in), pertaining to infancy or to an infant. [L. infans , -antis — in , not, fans , pr.p. of fāri , to speak; Gr. phēmi .]