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wildness, or Ant: levity. If sometimes he appears too gray, yet a secret gracefulness of youth accompanies his writings, though the staidness and sobriety of age wanting. Dryden.

Having lost the life or graces of youth; worn out; decayed. "A stale virgin." Spectator.

Habitual silence or quiet; taciturnity. The gravity and stillness of your youth The world hath noted. Shak.

f judgment. All his [Samson's] strength in his hairs were. Chaucer. Thou must outlive Thy youth, thy strength, thy beauty. Milton.

A youth in the state of adolescence, or just passing from boyhood to manhood; a lad. Inquire thou whose son the stripling is. 1 Sam. xvii. 56.

To seduce; to prompt to evil; to tempt. [Obs.] Knowing that tender youth is soon suggested. Shak.

To subdue; to conquer; to repress; as, to tame the pride or passions of youth.

To take sparingly. For age but tastes of pleasures, youth devours. Dryden.

paring; frugal. Her chaffer was so thrifty and so new. Chaucer. I am glad he hath so much youth and vigor left, of which he hath not been thrifty. Swift.

An effort; a violent sally. [Obs.] Your youth admires The throws and swellings of a Roman soul. Addison.

d for a crop; culture; as, land is good tilth. The tilth and rank fertility of its golden youth. De Quincey.

ly to do or learn; compliant with duty; not froward; apt; docile; tractable; as, a toward youth.

ch confidence is reposed; ground of reliance; hope. O Lord God, thou art my trust from my youth. Ps. lxxi. 5.

Fidelity; constancy; steadfastness; faithfulness. Alas! they had been friends in youth, But whispering tongues can poison truth. Coleridge.

t bold or forward; not arrogant or presuming; humble; modest; retiring; as, an unassuming youth; unassuming manners.

Not thinking; not heedful; thoughtless; inconsiderate; as, unthinking youth.

To loose or free from a yoke. "Like youthful steers unyoked, they take their courses." Shak.

presumed to go up unto the hilltop. Num. xiv. 44. I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up. Ps. lxxxviii. 15. Up rose the sun, and up rose Emelye. Chaucer. We have wrought ourselves up into this degree of Christian indifference. Atterbury.

exercise; to inure; to accustom by practice. [Obs.] The French soldiers . . . from their youth have been practiced and ured in feats of arms. Sir T. More.

aulted on a tree. Dryden. Lucan vaulted upon Pegasus with all the heat and intrepidity of youth. Addison.