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Not yet mature or aged; young. "Two youthful knights." Dryden.

The quality or state of being a youth; the period of youth. Cheyne.

Young; youthful. [Obs.] "All my youthly days." Spenser.

Youthful. [Obs.] Pepys.

Young. [Obs.] Spectator.

The cheetah.

Wanting in muscle; without flesh.

Troublesome; annoying. [Obs.] Chaucer.

eptible movement except from tide and wind. [Southern U. S.] A dark slender thread of a bayou moves loiteringly northeastward into a swamp of huge cypresses. G. W. Cable.

Mississippi; -- a nickname, from its numerous bayous.

See Dugong.

Embryonic; undeveloped. [R.]

g or inspiring joy; with of before the word or words expressing the cause of joy. Is this your joyous city Is. xxiii. 7. They all as glad as birds of joyous prime. Spenser. And joyous of our conquest early won. Dryden.

Annoying; disagreeable. [Obs.] Watch the noyous night, and wait for Spenser.

A South American armadillo (Dasypus sexcinctus). Called also sixbanded armadillo.

See Troy ounce, under Troy weight, above, and under Ounce.

A test by which the fitness of a player or contestant to remain in a certain class is determined.

An expletive, void of sense, to fill up the meter A merry heart goes all the day, Your sad tires in a mile-a. Shak.

bs.] That he might . . . abandon them from him. Udall. Being all this time abandoned from your bed. Shak.

Forsaken, deserted. "Your abandoned streams." Thomson.