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In Utah, a legal holiday, July 24, commemorated the arrival, in 1847, of Brigham Young and his followers at the present site of Salt Lake City.

Belonging to planets. [R.] Young.

A bush, or young tree; a sapling; hence, a stick or staff. "A plant of stubborn oak." Dryden.

A young plant, or plant in embryo. E. Darwin.

The very young, free-swimming larva of the coelenterates. It usually has a flattened oval or oblong form, and is entirely covered with cilia.

A naked mobile mass of protoplasm, formed by the union of several amoebalike young, and constituting one of the stages in the life cycle of Mycetozoa and other low organisms.

Applauding; manifesting praise. Young.

A boy that drives or guides a team in plowing; a young rustic.

The first bud, or gemmule, of a young plant; the bud, or growing point, of the embryo, above the cotyledons. See Illust. of Radicle. Gray.

Producing several young at a birth; as, a pluriparous animal.

A young coalfish.

The root and berries have emetic and purgative properties, and are used in medicine. The young shoots are sometimes eaten as a substitute for asparagus, and the berries are said to be used in Europe to color wine.

skilled in polemics; a controversialist; a disputant. The sarcasms and invectives of the young polemic. Macaulay.

Passing through several distinct larval forms; -- having several distinct kinds of young.

Producing many or young.

A word variously explained as "a little puppet," "a little doll," or "a young butterfly." Cf. Popet. [Obs.] So gay a popelote, so sweet a wench. Chaucer.

A young hog; a pig. [R.] Dryden. W. Howitt.

of succession in royal families, especially among the Eastern Roman emperors, by which a younger son, if born after the accession of his father to the throne, was preferred to an elder son who was not so born. Sir T. Palgrave.

he plural, property in the aggregate; wealth; dominion; as, foreign possessions. When the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions. Matt. xix. 22. Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession. Acts v. 1. The house of Jacob shall possess their possessions. Ob. 17.…

The right of the youngest born. Mozley & W.