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ittance; entrance; access; power to approach. What numbers groan for sad admission there! Young.

A preëminently beautiful young man; a dandy.

Coming; any important arrival; approach. Death's dreadful advent. Young. Expecting still his advent home. Tennyson.

A flowing to or towards; a concourse; an influx. The affluence of young nobles from hence into Spain. Wotton. There is an unusual affluence of strangers this year. Carlyle.

Lightness of spirits; gayety; levity; as, the airiness of young persons.

Brisk; nimble; moving with celerity. An alert young fellow. Addison.

Young fish; fry.

line, as of two planets with the sun. Whewell. The allineation of the two planets. C. A. Young.

Nursers, -- a term applied to those birds whose young are hatched in a very immature and helpless condition, so as to require the care of their parents for some time; -- opposed to præcoces.

Of or pertaining to the United States. "A young officer of the American navy." Lyell. American ivy. See Virginia creeper. -- American Party (U. S. Politics), a party, about 1854, which opposed the influence of foreign-born citizens, and those supposed to owe allegiance to a foreign power. -- Native american Party (U.…

A journey or expedition up from the coast, like that of the younger Cyrus into Central Asia, described by Xenophon in his work called "The Anabasis." The anabasis of Napoleon. De Quincey.

Experienced; versed. [Obs.] Though [he] was the youngest brother, yet he was the most ancient in the business of the realm. Berners.

us. [Obs.] God had provided a severe and angry education to chastise the forwardness of a young spirit. Jer. Taylor.

The record of a single event or item. "In deathless annal." Young.

which consists in repeating the same word in a different sense; as, Learn some craft when young, that when old you may live without craft.

Being or occurring before the creation of the world. Young.

The portion of land assigned by a sovereign prince for the subsistence of his younger sons.

garments; dress; garb; external habiliments or array. Fresh in his new apparel, proud and young. Denham. At public devotion his resigned carriage made religion appear in the natural apparel of simplicity. Tatler.

An instinctive inclination or propensity in animals to perform certain actions, as in the young to suck, in aquatic fowls to enter into water and to swim; the tendency of an organized body to seek what satisfies the wants of its organism. These lacteals have mouths, and by animal selection or appetency the absorb such…

Knowing; conscious; cognizant. [R.] A man that has spent his younger years in vanity and folly, and is, by the grace of God, apprehensive of it. Jer. Taylor.