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huger of. If thine enemy hunger, feed him. Rom. xii. 20. Unreasonable reatures feed their young. Shak.

An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or (in a wider sense) which has an ovary and produces ova. The male and female of each living thing. Drayton.

Producing young, as animals.

The young or embryo of an animal in the womb, or in the egg; often restricted to the later stages in the development of viviparous and oviparous animals, embryo being applied to the earlier stages. [Written also foetus.]

A female foal or colt; a young mare. Cf. Colt, Foal. Neighing in likeness of a filly foal. Shak.

A young salmon. See Parr.

To animate; to give life or spirit to; as, to fire the genius of a young man.

ed in thought the mighty Stagirite. Pope. One eye on death, and one full fix'd on heaven. Young.

A young, flexible shoot of a plant; esp., the long trailing branch of a vine, or a slender branch in certain mosses.

lamed; glowing; burning; ardent. The beadle's lash still flagrant on their back. Prior. A young man yet flagrant from the lash of the executioner or the beadle. De Quincey. Flagrant desires and affections. Hooker.

A young bird just fledged.

To hasten over; to cause to pass away lighty, or in mirth and joy. Many young gentlemen flock to him, and fleet the time carelessly. Shak.

joy one's self to the full; to have a season of dissipation. J. H. Newman. "When I was as young as you, I had my fling. I led a life of pleasure." D. Jerrold.

specially, to play the coquette; to play at courtship; to coquet; as, they flirt with the young men.

A term applied to the bark obtained from young oak trees. McElrath.

A tuft of feathers on the head of young birds.

of the tide; the semidiurnal swell or rise of water in the ocean; -- opposed to ebb; as, young flood; high flood. There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Shak.

One of the eggs or young larvæ deposited by a flesh fly, or blowfly.

The young of any animal of the Horse family (Equidæ); a colt; a filly. Foal teeth (Zoöl.), the first set of teeth of a horse. -- In foal, With foal, being with young; pregnant; -- said of a mare or she ass.

The manner in which the young leaves are dispo The . . . foliation must be in relation to the stem. De Quincey.