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A shoot; a plant; a young tree; also, a grove of trees; woodland. [Obs.] Spenser. Milton.

An active, springly young man. [Obs.] "There came two springals of full tender years." Spenser. Joseph, when he was sold to Potiphar, that great man, was a fair young springall. Latimer.

A young plant. [Obs.] Evelyn.

Young coleworts; Brussels sprouts. Johnson. Brussels sprouts (Bot.) See under Brussels.

ick, dark-colored, bitterish, and acidulous liquid made by evaporating a decoction of the young branches of spruce. -- Hemlock spruce (Bot.), a graceful coniferous tree (Tsuga Canadensis) of North America. Its timber is valuable, and the bark is largely used in tanning leather. -- Spruce beer. Etym: [G. sprossenbier;…

A young chicken before it is fully fledged. [Prov. Eng.]

and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of pease. Not yet old enough for a man, nor young enough for a boy; as a squash is before 't is a peascod. Shak.

An instrument out of which a liquid is ejected in a small stream with force. Young.

Stagnant. [Obs.] "A stagnate mass of vapors." Young.

star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was. Matt. ii. 9.

A young tree, especially one reserved when others are cut. [Obs.] Fuller.

bodies; to bespangle; as, a robe starred with gems. "A sable curtain starred with gold." Young.

A young male of the ox kind; especially, a common ox; a castrated taurine male from two to four years old. See the Note under Ox.

A young small steer.

A small or young stem.

To cause to emit a disagreeable odor; to cause to stink. [Obs.] Young.

ccupation; as in spinster (originally, a woman who spins), songster, baxter (= bakester), youngster.

If on your fame our sex a bolt has thrown, 'T will ever stick through malice of your own. Young.

A young bullock or heifer. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

Young fresh cod.