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n. [ Auto- + infection. ] (Med.) Poisoning caused by a virus that originates and develops in the organism itself. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Full of disdain; expressing disdain; scornful; contemptuous; haughty. [ 1913 Webster ]

From these
Turning disdainful to an equal good. Akenside.

-- Dis*dain"ful*ly, adv. -- Dis*dain"ful*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Disinfected; p. pr. & vb. n. Disinfecting. ] To free from infectious or contagious matter; to destroy putrefaction; to purify; to make innocuous. [ 1913 Webster ]

When the infectious matter and the infectious matter and the odoriferous matter are one . . . then to deodorize is to disinfect. Ure. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. That which disinfects, especially an agent for killing or removing the microorganisms which cause infection. Commonly used disinfectants are chlorine, sodium hypochlorite solution, hydrogen peroxide, and alcohol. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. The act of disinfecting; purification from infecting matter. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, disinfects; an apparatus for applying disinfectants. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To divest of flame or ardor. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a reduction in the rate of price increases; a lessening of inflationary pressure. [ PJC ]

2. a reduction of the value of a currency in international exchange markets caused by a government; -- usually done as a means to improve the country's international balance of payments. [ PJC ]

n. either of two large slender food and game fish (Coryphaena equisetis or Coryphaena hippurus) of warm waters. They are highly esteemed as food fish, especially in Hawaii, where they are usually referred to as mahimahi. See also dolphin{ 2 }.
Syn. -- dolphin, mahimahi. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. (Zool.) (a) A finback whale. (b) (pl.) True fish, as distinguished from shellfish. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A South American bird (Heliornis fulica) allied to the grebes. The name is also applied to several related species of the genus Podica. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Profitable; advantageous; lucrative. “A gainful speculation.” Macaulay. -- Gain"ful*ly, adv. -- Gain"ful*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A field where grain is grown. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. an unusually rapid rate of monetary inflation, as when prices rise more than 100 per cent per year. A famous example occurred in Germany after the first World War, reaching its peak in the period 1923. When the hyperinflation ended by 1924, the value of the mark had decreased by more than one trillion times compared to its value in 1914. Periods of lesser hyperinflation have occurred in many other countries, as in Russia in 1994. [ PJC ]

a. Not fabricated; unwrought; not artificial; natural. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who accepts or maintains the dogma of papal infallibility. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. infaillibilité. ] The quality or state of being infallible, or exempt from error; inerrability. [ 1913 Webster ]

Infallibility is the highest perfection of the knowing faculty. Tillotson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Papal infallibility (R. C. Ch.), the dogma that the pope can not, when acting in his official character of supreme pontiff, err in defining a doctrine of Christian faith or rule of morals, to be held by the church. This was decreed by the Ecumenical Council at the Vatican, July 18, 1870. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. in- not + fallible: cf. F. infallible. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Not fallible; not capable of erring; entirely exempt from liability to mistake; unerring; inerrable. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not liable to fail, deceive, or disappoint; indubitable; sure; certain; as, infallible evidence; infallible success; an infallible remedy. [ 1913 Webster ]

To whom also he showed himself alive, after his passion, by many infallible proofs. Acts i. 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (R. C. Ch.) Incapable of error in defining doctrines touching faith or morals. See Papal infallibility, under Infallibility. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being infallible; infallibility. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an infallible manner; certainly; unfailingly; unerringly. Blair. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. infamare, fr. infamis infamous: cf. F. infamer, It. infamare. See Infamous. ] To defame; to make infamous. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Livia is infamed for the poisoning of her husband. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Infamized p. pr. & vb. n. Infamizing ] To make infamous; to defame. [ R. ] Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. in- not + famous: cf. L. infamis. See Infamy. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Of very bad report; having a reputation of the worst kind; held in abhorrence; guilty of something that exposes to infamy; base; notoriously vile; detestable; as, an infamous traitor; an infamous perjurer. [ 1913 Webster ]

False errant knight, infamous, and forsworn. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Causing or producing infamy; deserving detestation; scandalous to the last degree; as, an infamous act; infamous vices; infamous corruption. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) Branded with infamy by conviction of a crime; as, at common law, an infamous person can not be a witness. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Having a bad name as being the place where an odious crime was committed, or as being associated with something detestable; hence, unlucky; perilous; dangerous. “Infamous woods.” P. Fletcher. [ 1913 Webster ]

Infamous hills, and sandy perilous wilds. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

The piny shade
More infamous by cursed Lycaon made. Dryden.

Syn. -- Detestable; odious; scandalous; disgraceful; base; vile; shameful; ignominious. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an infamous manner or degree; scandalously; disgracefully; shamefully. [ 1913 Webster ]

The sealed fountain of royal bounty which had been infamously monopolized and huckstered. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being infamous; infamy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Infamies [ L. infamia, fr. infamis infamous; pref. in- not + fama fame: cf. F. infamie. See Fame. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Total loss of reputation; public disgrace; dishonor; ignominy; indignity. [ 1913 Webster ]

The afflicted queen would not yield, and said she would not . . . submit to such infamy. Bp. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A quality which exposes to disgrace; extreme baseness or vileness; as, the infamy of an action. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) That loss of character, or public disgrace, which a convict incurs, and by which he is at common law rendered incompetent as a witness. [ 1913 Webster ]

Yesterday, Dec. 7, 1941 -- a day which will live in infamy, . . . Franklin D. Roosevelt.

n. [ L. infantia: cf. F. enfance. See Infant. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The state or period of being an infant; the first part of life; early childhood. [ 1913 Webster ]

The babe yet lies in smiling infancy. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Their love in early infancy began. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The first age of anything; the beginning or early period of existence; as, the infancy of an art. [ 1913 Webster ]

The infancy and the grandeur of Rome. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) The state or condition of one under age, or under the age of twenty-one years; nonage; minority. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. infandus; pref. in- not + fari to speak. ] Too odious to be expressed or mentioned. [ Obs. ] Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. in-fangen-þeóf; in in, into + fangen taken (p. p. of fōn to take) + þeóf thief. ] (O. Eng. Law) The privilege granted to lords of certain manors to judge thieves taken within the seigniory of such lords. Cowell. [ 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 ]

v. t. [ L. infarcire: pref. in- in + farcire, fartum and farctum, to stuff, cram. ] To stuff; to swell. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The body is infarced with . . . watery humors. Sir T. Elyot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Infarce. ] 1. (Med.) An obstruction or embolus in one of the blood vessels. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. (Med.) The morbid condition of a limited area resulting from such obstruction; also, the localized necrotic (dead) tissue resulting from such obstruction; as, a hemorrhagic infarct. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ See Infarce. ] 1. The act of stuffing or filling; Specifically: (Med.) the formation of an infarct; an overloading and obstruction of any organ or vessel of the body; constipation. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An infarct{ 2 }; as, a cardiac infarction. [ PJC ]

n. [ AS. infær entrance. ] A house-warming; especially, a reception, party, or entertainment given by a newly married couple, or by the husband upon receiving the wife to his house. [ Written also infair. ] [ Scot., & Local, U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]