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To burst with a loud report; to explode. "Disploding engines." Young.

Explosion. The vast displosion dissipates the clouds. Young.

Having two kinds of young, as certain annelids.

A young squire, or knight's attendant; a page. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

The Baltic or variable cod (Gadus callarias), by some believed to be the young of the common codfish.

A young or small dove. Booth.

To cover, ornament, line, or stuff with down. [R.] Young.

ng; quiet. "A downy shower." Keble. "Downy pillow." Pope. Time steals on with downy feet. Young.

or apprehension; causing terror; frightful; dreadful. A dread eternity! how surely mine. Young.

A young or little duck. Gay.

olding a station between a governess and companion, and appointed to have charge over the younger ladies in a Spanish or a Portuguese family. Brande & C.

A young eagle, or a diminutive eagle.

To bring forth, as young; to yean. "In eaning time." Shak.

The state or quality of being earnest; intentness; anxiety. An honest earnestness in the young man's manner. W. Irving.

e miser earths his treasure, and the thief, Watching the mole, half beggars him ere noon. Young. Why this in earthing up a carcass R. Blair.

Like ebony, especially in color; black; dark. Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne. Young.

usual course; irregular; anomalous; odd; as, eccentric conduct. "This brave and eccentric young man." Macaulay. He shines eccentric, like a comet's blaze. Savage. Eccentric anomaly. (Astron.) See Anomaly. -- Eccentric chuck (Mach.), a lathe chuck so constructed that the work held by it may be altered as to its center…

The younger or prose Edda, called also the Edda of Snorri, is the work of several writers, though usually ascribed to Snorri Sturleson, who was born in 1178.

A European fish (Zoarces viviparus), remarkable for producing living young; -- called also greenbone, guffer, bard, and Maroona eel. Also, an American species (Z. anguillaris), -- called also mutton fish, and, erroneously, congo eel, ling, and lamper eel. Both are edible, but of little value.

No longer capable of producing young, as an animal, or fruit, as the earth; hence, worn out with age; exhausted of energy; incapable of efficient action; no longer productive; barren; sterile. Effete results from virile efforts. Mrs. Browning If they find the old governments effete, worn out, . . . they may seek new on…