† faunt Obs.
Also 4 fant, fawnt.
[Aphetic form of OF. enfaunt, enfant: see infant. The shortened form has not been found in Fr., but It. has the corresponding fante boy, servant, foot-soldier, whence Ger. fant.]
An infant, a child, a young person.
| 13.. E.E. Allit. P. A. 161 At þe fote þer-of [i.e. of þe crystal clyffe] þer sete a faunt. 1382 Wyclif Lev. xii. 3 The eiȝt day the fawnt shal be circumcidid. a 1400–50 Alexander 4629 For quilk a frek is bot a fant þan is he first simple. |