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Bringing forth, or about to bring forth, young; fruitful. Jer. Tailor.

The act of bringing forth, or being delivered of, young; the act of giving birth; delivery; childbirth.

, or musical composition; a paragraph; a clause. How commentators each dark passage shun. Young.

To make a path in, or on (something), or for (some one). [R.] "Pathing young Henry's unadvised ways." Drayton.

A teacher of children; one whose occupation is to teach the young; a schoolmaster.

The cry of a young chicken; a chirp.

A chicken just breaking the shell; a young bird.

A saclike involucre which incloses the young fruit in most hepatic mosses. See Illust. of Hepatica.

A layer of thin-walled young cells in a growing stem, in which layer certain new vessels originate.

o be guilty of; as, to perpetrate a foul deed. What the worst perpetrate, or best endure. Young.

an being; body; outward appearance; as, of comely person. A fair persone, and strong, and young of age. Chaucer. If it assume my noble father's person. Shak. Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person shined. Milton.

Petted; indulged; admired; cherished; as, a pet child; a pet lamb; a pet theory. Some young lady's pet curate. F. Harrison. Pet cock. Etym: [Perh. for petty cock.] (Mach.) A little faucet in a water pipe or pump, to let air out, or at the end of a steam cylinder, to drain it.

ate; to stupefy; to paralyze; to transform; as by petrifaction; as, to petrify the heart. Young. "Petrifying accuracy." Sir W. Scott. And petrify a genius to a dunce. Pope. The poor, petrified journeyman, quite unconscious of what he was doing. De Quincey. A hideous fatalism, which ought, logically, to petrify your vol…

The tissue of young cells which produces cork cells.

An international, interdenominational organization of Bible classes of young women.

A young or small pike. [Obs.] Bet [better] is, quoth he, a pike than a pickerel. Chaucer.

y extension, a figure; a model. Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects. Bacon. The young king's picture . . . in virgin wax. Howell.

The young of swine, male or female; also, any swine; a hog. "Two pigges in a poke." Chaucer.

hat-shaped larva of certain nemertean worms. It has no resemblance to its parent, and the young worm develops in its interior.

A moth of the genus Lithophane, as L. antennata, whose larva bores large holes in young peaches and apples.