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Company; herd; breed. For do but note a wild and wanton herd, Or race of youthful and unhandled colts, Fetching mad bounds. Shak .

Reproduced. The earthly author of my blood, Whose youthful spirit, in me regenerate, Doth with a twofold vigor lift me up. Shak.

Hence, a memorial; anything preserved in remembrance; as, relics of youthful days or friendships. The pearis were split; Some lost, some stolen, some as relics kept. Tennyson.

o seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off. Till time shall rifle every youthful grace. Pope.

n or other sports are performed; an arena. Place me. O, place me in the dusty ring, Where youthful charioteers contened for glory. E. Smith.

t of the leg from the knee to the foot; the shin; the shin bone; also, the whole leg. His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank. Shak.

In a sprunt manner; smartly; vigorously; youthfully. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

To loose or free from a yoke. "Like youthful steers unyoked, they take their courses." Shak.

Young; youthful. Wordsworth.

Like a young person or thing; young; youthful. [Obs.] Shak.

Pertaining to, or resembling, youth; youthful. [Obs.] Spenser.

The quality or state of being young; youthfulness; juvenility. "In my flower of youth." Milton. Such as in his face Youth smiled celestial. Milton.

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

Youthful. [Obs.] Pepys.