geriatrics, nostology|. 
     V. be aged &c. adj.; grow old, get old &c. adj.; age; decline, wane,
dodder; senesce. 
     Adj. aged; old &c. 124; elderly, geriatric, senile; matronly, anile|;
in years; ripe, mellow, run to seed, declining, waning, past one’s prime; gray, gray-headed; hoar, hoary; venerable, time-worn, antiquated, passe, effete, decrepit, superannuated; advanced in life, advanced in years; stricken in years; wrinkled, marked with the crow’s foot; having one foot in the grave; doting &c. (imbecile) 499; like the last of pea time.
     older, elder, eldest; senior; firstborn.
     turned of, years old; of a certain age, no chicken, old as Methuselah;
ancestral, patriarchal, &c. (ancient) 124; gerontic. 
     Phr. “give me a staff of honor for my age” [Titus Andronicus]; bis
pueri senes [Lat]; peu de gens savent elre vieux[Fr]; plenus annis abiit plenus honoribus [Lat][Pliny the Younger]; “old age is creeping on apace” [Byron]; “slow-consuming age” [Gray]; “the hoary head is a crown of glory” [Proverbs xvi, 31]; “the silver livery of advised age” [II Henry vi]; to grow old gracefully; “to vanish in the chinks that Time has made” [Rogers].

     #129.  Infant.—­ N. infant, babe, baby, babe in arms; nurseling,
suckling, yearling, weanling; papoose, bambino; kid; vagitus.
     child, bairn, little one, brat, chit, pickaninny, urchin; bantling,
bratling[obs3]; elf; youth, boy, lad, stripling, youngster, youngun, younker[obs3], callant[obs3], whipster[obs3], whippersnapper, whiffet [obs3][U.S.], schoolboy, hobbledehoy, hopeful, cadet, minor, master; scion; sap, seedling; tendril, olive branch, nestling, chicken, larva, chrysalis, tadpole, whelp, cub, pullet, fry, callow; codlin, codling; foetus, calf, colt, pup, foal, kitten; lamb, lambkin[obs3]; aurelia[obs3], caterpillar, cocoon, nymph, nympha[obs3], orphan, pupa, staddle[obs3].
     girl; lass, lassie; wench, miss, damsel, demoiselle; maid, maiden;
virgin; hoyden. 
     Adj. infantine[obs3], infantile; puerile; boyish, girlish, childish,
babyish, kittenish; baby; newborn, unfledged, new-fledged, callow.
     in the cradle, in swaddling clothes, in long clothes, in arms, in
leading strings; at the breast; in one’s teens.

     #130.  Veteran.—­ N. veteran, old man, seer, patriarch, graybeard;
grandfather, grandsire; grandam; gaffer, gammer; crone; pantaloon; sexagenarian, octogenarian, nonagenarian, centenarian; old stager; dotard &c. 501.
     preadamite[obs3], Methuselah, Nestor, old Parr; elders; forefathers
&c. (paternity) 166. 
     Phr. “superfluous lags the veteran on the stage” [Johnson].

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