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Disposed to pour out freely; prodigal. [Obs.] Young.

A simple cell, from the development of which the young of animals are formed; ovum; germ cell.

To produce with labor They in full joy elaborate a sigh, Young.

Obs. or Archaic] As sooth is said, eelde hath great avantage. Chaucer. Great Nature, ever young, yet full of eld. Spenser.

years; senior; earlier; older; as, his elder brother died in infancy; -- opposed to Ant: younger, and now commonly applied to a son, daughter, child, brother, etc. The elder shall serve the younger. Gen. xxv. 23. But ask of elder days, earth's vernal hour. Keble. Elder hand (Card Playing), the hand playing, or having…

liberty. Eliminate my spirit, give it range Through provinces of thought yet unexplored. Young.

A young eel; a young conger or sea eel; -- called also elvene.

The young of an animal in the womb, or more specifically, before its parts are developed and it becomes a fetus (see Fetus).

mployment of government. Cares are employments, and without employ The soul is on a rack. Young.

To absorb or swallow up as in a gulf. It quite engulfs all human thought. Young.

To treat with tenderness. [R.] Young.

astic lover of art. "Enthusiastical raptures." Calamy. -- En*thu`si*as"tic*al*ly, adv. A young man . . . of a visionary and enthusiastic character. W. Irving.

A religious organization of Methodist young people, founded in 1889 at Cleveland, Ohio, and taking its name from John Wesley's birthplace, Epworth, Lincolnshire, England.

A genus of dipterous insects whose young (called rat-tailed larvæ) are remarkable for their long tapering tail, which spiracles at the tip, and for their ability to live in very impure and salt waters; -- also called drone fly.

literature or criticism, as distinct from the sciences; scholarship. The management of a young lady's person is not be overlooked, but the erudition of her mind is much more to be regarded. Steele. The gay young gentleman whose erudition sat so easily upon him. Macaulay.

See Scrod, a young cod.

Having an escutcheon; furnished with a coat of arms or ensign. Young.

hus essay to sing Byron. Essaying nothing she can not perform. Emerson. A danger lest the young enthusiast . . . should essay the impossible. J. C. Shairp.

That which is endless and immortal. Young.

peration, or series of operations, terminates. Dark doubts between the promise and event. Young.