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.
