Search the Dictionary

Pregnant; big (with young). The ewes great with young. Ps. lxxviii. 71.

Immature in age or experience; young; raw; not trained; awkward; as, green in years or judgment. I might be angry with the officious zeal which supposes that its green conceptions can instruct my gray hairs. Sir W. Scott.

ve a small, wormlike body inclosing a nucleus, but without external organs; in one of the young stages, they are amoebiform; -- called also Gregarinida, and Gregarinaria.

A young salmon after its first return from the sea.

A French girl or young married woman of the lower class; more frequently, a young working woman who is fond of gallantry. Sterne.

A boy or young man; a waiter; a servant; especially, a man or boy who has charge of horses, or the stable. Spenser.

A young hog.

A reward; requital; recompense; -- used in both a good and a bad sense. Macaulay. So young as to regard men's frown or smile As loss or guerdon of a glorious lot. Byron. He shall, by thy revenging hand, at once receive the just guerdon of all his former villainies. Knolles.

s. Pure gurgling rills the lonely desert trace, And waste their music on the savage race. Young.

A young person of either sex. [Obs.] See Girl. Chaucer.

Having young that are naked when hatched; psilopædic; -- said of certain birds.

A young or untrained hawk or falcon.

imperfectly; partially; as, he halfway yielded. Temples proud to meet their gods halfway. Young.

in the morning, the first money taken at a shop newly opened, the first present sent to a young woman on her wedding day, etc. Their first good handsel of breath in this world. Fuller. Our present tears here, not our present laughter, Are but the handsels of our joys hereafter. Herrick.

To produce, as young, from an egg or eggs by incubation, or by artificial heat; to produce young from (eggs); as, the young when hatched. Paley. As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not. Jer. xvii. 11. For the hens do not sit upon the eggs; but by keeping them in a certain equal heat they [the husbandmen…

An Havana cigar. Young Frank Clavering stole his father's Havannahs, and . . . smoked them in the stable. Thackeray.

To bear, as young; as, she has just had a child.

A young hedgehog. Shak.

A young cow.

A young bib. See Bib, n., 2.