*fant*

n. see fantod. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ } n. [ Cf. Fantigue. ] State of worry or excitement; fidget; fuss; also, indisposition; pet; sulks. [ Slang ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Zool.) (a) A variety of the domestic pigeon, so called from the shape of the tail. (b) Any bird of the Australian genus Rhipidura, in which the tail is spread in the form of a fan during flight. They belong to the family of flycatchers. (c) the fantail goldfish. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) a type of goldfish bred artificially, having a realtively short oval body and a tail with four lobes arrayed somewhat like a folding fan, as though forming a part of the surface of a cone. Called also fantail. [ PJC ]

n. [ It. See Fancy. ] (Mus.) A continuous composition, not divided into what are called movements, or governed by the ordinary rules of musical design, but in which the author's fancy roves unrestricted by set form. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ From Fantasy. ] Filled with fancies or imaginations. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Phantasm, Fancy. ] Same as Phantasm. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One whose manners or ideas are fantastic. [ R. ] Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. fantastique, fr. Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_; able to represent, fr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_; to make visible. See Fancy. ] 1. Existing only in imagination; fanciful; imaginary; not real; chimerical. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having the nature of a phantom; unreal. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Indulging the vagaries of imagination; whimsical; full of absurd fancies; capricious; as, fantastic minds; a fantastic mistress. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Resembling fantasies in irregularity, caprice, or eccentricity; irregular; oddly shaped; grotesque. [ 1913 Webster ]

There at the foot of yonder nodding beech,
That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high. T. Gray.

Syn. -- Fanciful; imaginative; ideal; visionary; capricious; chimerical; whimsical; queer. See Fanciful. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A person given to fantastic dress, manners, etc.; an eccentric person; a fop. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Our fantastics, who, having a fine watch, take all ocasions to draw it out to be seen. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Fanciful; unreal; whimsical; capricious; fantastic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Fantastically. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a fantastic manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

the letter A, in scarlet, fantastically embroidered with gold thread, upon her bosom. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being fantastic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being fantastical; fancifulness; whimsicality. Ruskin. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Fantastically. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Fantasticalness. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ It. ] A fantastic. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Fantasies [ See Fancy. ] 1. Fancy; imagination; especially, a whimsical or fanciful conception; a vagary of the imagination; whim; caprice; humor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Is not this something more than fantasy ? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

A thousand fantasies
Begin to throng into my memory. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fantastic designs. [ 1913 Webster ]

Embroidered with fantasies and flourishes of gold thread. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To have a fancy for; to be pleased with; to like; to fancy. [ Obs. ] Cavendish. [ 1913 Webster ]

Which he doth most fantasy. Robynson (More's Utopia). [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. [ Written also fanteague, fanteeg, etc. ] [ Cf. Fantod. ] State of worry or excitment; fidget; ill humor. [ Prov. Eng. ] Dickens. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. pl. [ It., dim. fr. fante child. ] Puppets caused to perform evolutions or dramatic scenes by means of machinery; also, the representations in which they are used. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Phantom. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fantom corn, phantom corn. Grose. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. infans; pref. in- not + fari to speak: cf. F. enfant, whence OE. enfaunt. See Fame, and cf. Infante, Infanta. ] 1. A child in the first period of life, beginning at his birth; a young babe; sometimes, a child several years of age. [ 1913 Webster ]

And tender cries of infants pierce the ear. C. Pitt. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ An infant under seven years of age is not penally responsible; between seven and fourteen years of age, he may be convicted of a malicious offense if malice be proved. He becomes of age on the day preceding his twenty-first birthday, previous to which time an infant has no capacity to contract. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Same as Infante. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Of or pertaining to infancy, or the first period of life; tender; not mature; as, infant strength. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Intended for young children; as, an infant school. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. F. enfanter. ] To bear or bring forth, as a child; hence, to produce, in general. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

This worthy motto, “No bishop, no king, ” is . . . infanted out of the same fears. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Sp. & Pg., fem. of infante. See Infante. ] A title borne by every one of the daughters of the kings of Spain and Portugal, except the eldest. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Sp. & Pg. See Infant. ] A title given to every one of sons of the kings of Spain and Portugal, except the eldest or heir apparent. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Infancy. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to infanticide; engaged in, or guilty of, child murder. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. infanticidium child murder; infans, -antis, child + caedere to kill: cf. F. infanticide. See Infant, and Homicide. ] The murder of an infant born alive; the murder or killing of a newly born or young child; child murder. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. infanticida: cf. F. infanticide. ] One who commits the crime of infanticide; one who kills an infant. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. infantilis: cf. F. infantile. See Infant. ] Of or pertaining to infancy, or to an infant; similar to, or characteristic of, an infant; childish; as, infantile behavior. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Med.) An acute viral disease, affecting almost exclusively infants and young adults, 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, poliomyelitis and polio. It is caused by any one of three polioviruses, and by the end of the twentieth century had been almost completely eradicated in developed countries by a widespread campaign of immunization. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

a. [ Cf. F. enfantin. ] Infantile; childish. [ 1913 Webster ]

A degree of credulity next infantine. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like an infant. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like an infant. [ Obs. ] Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. infanterie, It. infanteria, fr. infante infant, child, boy servant, foot soldier, fr. L. infans, -antis, child; foot soldiers being formerly the servants and followers of knights. See Infant. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A body of children. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mil.) A body of soldiers serving on foot; foot soldiers, in distinction from cavalry. [ 1913 Webster ]