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A looking aside or askance. [Obs.] These blenches gave my heart another youth. Shak.

n opening to higher perfection, analogous to that of buds into blossoms; as, the bloom of youth. Every successive mother has transmitted a fainter bloom, a more delicate and briefer beauty. Hawthorne.

Thriving in health, beauty, and vigor; indicating the freshness and beauties of youth or health.

Full of bloom; flowery; flourishing with the vigor of youth; as, a bloomy spray. But all the bloomy flush of life is fled. Goldsmith.

d or stage of development; something lovely that gives rich promise. In the blossom of my youth. Massinger.

To take care of in infancy, and through the age of youth; to bring up; to nurse and foster. To bring thee forth with pain, with care to breed. Dryden. Born and bred on the verge of the wilderness. Everett.

To cheat; to deceive. She has bubbled him out of his youth. Addison. The great Locke, who was seldom outwitted by false sounds, was nevertheless bubbled here. Sterne.

To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise; as, a budding virgin. Shak.

A youth; especially, a student in a german university.

Tendency to fall; the feebleness of old age; senility. [R.] [A] jumble of youth and caducity. Chesterfield.

Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play [1675].

cut capers; to skip; to spring; to prance; to dance. He capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth. Shak.

A man or boy; a youth; a fellow. [Colloq.]

A noble youth. See Childe. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To bespeak; to indicate. [Obs.] Aged honor cites a virtuous youth. Shak.

gether or collected in one place; a crowd; a mob. As bees . . . Pour forth their populous youth about the hive In clusters. Milton. We loved him; but, like beasts And cowardly nobles, gave way unto your clusters, Who did hoot him out o' the city. Shak.

rfect or superfluous tooth in young horses. -- To cast one's colt's tooth, to cease from youthful wantonness. "Your colt's tooth is not cast yet." Shak. -- To have a colt's tooth, to be wanton. Chaucer.

give in charge; to commit; to intrust. Atrides, parting for the Trojan war, Consigned the youthful consort to his care. Pope. The four evangelists consigned to writing that history. Addison.

Friendship; concord. [Obs.] By the consonancy of our youth. Shak.

opposed to contemplative. She chose . . . to endue him with the conversative qualities of youth. Sir H. Wotton.