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A young dog; a puppy.

A division of Diptera in which the young are born in a stage like the pupa. It includes the sheep tick, horse tick, and other parasites. Called also Homaloptera.

The young of a canine animal, esp. of the common dog; a whelp.

The time or state of being a puppy; the time of being young and undisciplined.

A certain game at cards. Young.

f. Pygmies are pygmies still, though perched on Alps. And pyramids are pyramids in vales. Young.

The worship of fire. Young.

l; nice; neat. [Archaic] " The queynte ring." " His queynte spear." Chaucer. " A shepherd young quaint." Chapman. Every look was coy and wondrous quaint. Spenser. To show bow quaint an orator you are. Shak.

A woman; a young or unmarried woman; a girl. [Obs. or Scot.] Chaucer.

Thin brownish chaffy scales upon the leaves or young shoots of some plants, especially upon the petioles and leaves of ferns. Gray.

A wild, romping young person. [Low] Marrya

A rational being. Young.

To utter in madness or frenzy; to say wildly; as, to rave nonsense. Young.

To resolve again. Resolves, and re-resolves, then dies the same. Young.

To adopt again. Young.

To bring up to maturity, as young; to educate; to instruct; to foster; as, to rear offspring. He wants a father to protect his youth, And rear him up to virtue. Southern.

ss of; to mirror. Nature is the glass reflecting God, As by the sea reflected is the sun. Young.

vernment, for the confinement, instruction, and reformation of juvenile offenders, and of young persons of idle, vicious, and vagrant habits. [U. S.]

To import again; to import what has been exported; to bring back. Young.

To render young again.