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That which promotes injury, decay, or destruction. The errors of young men are the ruin of business. Bacon.

dead stump of a tree; also, the stem of a plant. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. Neither young poles nor old runts are durable. Holland.

Hatch from the egg, that soon, Bursting with kindly rupture, forth disclosed Their callow young. Milton.

A mouring garment; a funeral robe; -- generally in the plural. "Sables wove by destiny." Young.

rn Asia. -- Salmon ladder, salmon stair. See Fish ladder, under Fish. -- Salmon peel, a young salmon. -- Salmon pipe, a certain device for catching salmon. Crabb. -- Salmon trout. (Zoöl.) (a) The European sea trout (Salmo trutta). It resembles the salmon, but is smaller, and has smaller and more numerous scales. (b…

Example; pattern. [Obs.] Spenser. "A sample to the youngest." Shak. Thus he concludes, and every hardy knight His sample followed. Fairfax.

A young tree. Shak.

Hence, young, not firm; weak, feeble. When he had passed this weak and sapy age. Hayward.

ine (Clupea sagax) is similar. The American sardines of the Atlantic coast are mostly the young of the common herring and of the menhaden.

Insatiable. [R.] Young.

A sauntering, or a sauntering place. That wheel of fops, that saunter of the town. Young.

es found among grass and moss, especially Thombidium holosericeum and allied species. The young are parasitic upon spiders and insects. -- Scarlet oak (Bot.), a species of oak (Quercus coccinea) of the United States; -- so called from the scarlet color of its leaves in autumn. -- Scarlet runner (Bot.), the scarlet be…

The young of any gull. [Written also scaurie.] [prov. Eng.]

ear; safe. Do as much for this purpose, and thou shalt pass scot-free. Sir W. Scott. Then young Hay escaped scot-free to Holland. A. Lang.

öl.), a North Atlantic whalebone whale (Agaphelus giddosus). By some it is considered the young of the right whale.

A young codfish, especially when cut open on the back and dressed. [Written also escrod.] [Local, U.S.]

The young attached larva of Discophora in the stage when it resembles a hydroid, or actinian.

A young pollock.

taint. "Who by his tutor being seasoned with the love of the truth." Fuller. Season their younger years with prudent and pious principles. Jer. Taylor.

time, rank, importance, excellence, or power. Man an angel's second, nor his second long. Young.