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Excitation; instigation; encouragement. Dishonest fomentation of your pride. Young.

A fountain; a spring; a source. Bathing forever in the font of bliss. Young.

ervals between the incompleted angles of the parietal and neighboring bones of a fetal or young skull; -- so called because it exhibits a rhythmical pulsation.

e oak for nothing ill, The osier good for twigs, the poplar for the mill. Spenser. It was young counsel for the persons, and violent counsel for the matters. Bacon. Shall I think the worls was made for one, And men are born for kings, as beasts for men, Not for protection, but to be devoured Dryden. For he writes not f…

The milk secreted just before, or directly after, the birth of a child or of the young of an animal; colostrum.

religion. As far a formalist from wisdom sits, In judging eyes, as libertines from wits. Young.

arth, where they deposit their eggs, with the bodies of other insects for the food of the young when hatched. [Written also Fossoria.]

r fountain. See under Air. -- Fountain heead, primary source; original; first principle. Young. -- Fountain inkstand, an inkstand having a continual supply of ink, as from elevated reservoir. -- Fountain lamp, a lamp fed with oil from an elevated reservoir. -- Fountain pen, a pen with a reservoir in the handle whic…

In Germany, a young lady; an unmarried woman; -- as a title, equivalent to Miss.

ff, adv., and From afar, under Afar, adv. Sudden partings such as press The life from out young hearts. Byron.

The produce of animals; offspring; young; as, the fruit of the womb, of the loins, of the body. King Edward's fruit, true heir to the English crown. Shak.

The young of any fish.

A plump young person or child. [Obs.] Smart.

will fume away most of the scent. Montimer. How vicious hearts fume frenzy to the brain! Young.

A man of mettle or spirit; a gay; fashionable man; a young blood. Shak.

A neglected and untrained city boy; a young street Arab. In Japan, the gamins run after you, and say, 'Look at the Chinaman.' L. Oliphant.

Expressing a desire for food; as, young birds gape. Dryden.

A disease of young poultry and other birds, attended with much gaping. It is caused by a parasitic nematode worm (Syngamus trachealis), in the windpipe, which obstructs the breathing. See Gapeworm.

One who is an object of open-mouthed wonder. I was to be a gapingstock and a scorn to the young volunteers. Godwin.

Having gates. Young.