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pposed to be so far apart that the affect of their mutual attraction is insensible. C. A. Young. Insulated wire, wire wound with silk, or covered with other nonconducting material, for electrical use.

That can not be suppressed or concealed; irrepressible. Young. -- In`sup*press"i*bly, adv.

tion, or judgment; knowing; sensible; skilled; marked by intelligence; as, an intelligent young man; an intelligent architect; an intelligent answer.

tensil made of iron; -- chiefly in composition; as, a flatiron, a smoothing iron, etc. My young soldier, put up your iron. Shak.

he nut of a species of palm, the Phytephas macroarpa, often as large as a hen's egg. When young the seed contains a fluid, which gradually hardness into a whitish, close- grained, albuminous substance, resembling the finest ivory in texture and color, whence it is called vegetable ivory. It is wrought into various arti…

A young pike; a pickerel.

A coxcomb; an impertinent or conceited fellow. A young upstart jackanapes. Arbuthnot.

A young man living as an apprentice on a sheep station, or otherwise engaged in acquainting himself with colonial life. [Colloq., Australia]

A young woman; -- generally so called in irony or slight contempt. A souple jade she was, and strang. Burns.

ck. Chaucer. I have not been putting a jape upon you. Sir W. Scott. The coy giggle of the young lady to whom he has imparted his latest merry jape. W. Besant.

A young hawk. Booth.

Lit., gilded youth; young people of wealth and fashion, esp. if given to prodigal living; -- in the French Revolution, applied to young men of the upper classes who aided in suppressing the Jacobins after the Reign of Terror.

A young woman; a sweetheart. See Gill. Beau. & Fl.

Less advanced in age than another; younger.

A young German noble or squire; esp., a member of the aristocratic party in Prussia.

A growing young.

Growing or becoming young.

Young; youthful; as, a juvenile appearance. "A juvenile exercitation." Glanvill.

A young goat. The . . . leopard shall lie down with the kid. Is. xi. 6 .

A young fellow; formerly, a low thief. [Slang, Eng.]