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A young whiting. [Prov. Eng.]

A young full trout during its second season. [Prov. Eng.]

s our fate, who serve in the state. Addison. Who cheapens life, abates the fear of death. Young. The brace of large greyhounds, who were the companions of his sports. Sir W. Scott.

A young heifer. [Prov. Eng.] Grose.

The young, either larva or pupa, of the mosquito; -- called also wiggletail.

assistance in running or swimming. As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings. Deut. xxxii. 11.

To keep, feed or manage, during the winter; as, to winter young cattle on straw.

ate wits will spare neither friend nor foe. L'Estrange. A wit herself, Amelia weds a wit. Young. The five wits, the five senses; also, sometimes, the five qualities or faculties, common wit, imagination, fantasy, estimation, and memory. Chaucer. Nares. But my five wits nor my five senses can Dissuade one foolish heart…

A little or young wolf. Tennyson.

A young wolf. Carlyle.

A young oak, or other timber plant, laid down in a hedge among the whitethorn or other plants used in hedges.

Any one of several species of ticks of the genus Ixodes whose young cling to bushes, but quickly fasten themselves upon the bodies of any animal with which they come in contact. When they attach themselves to the human body they often produce troublesome sores. The common species of the Northern United States is Ixodes…

n, to be wholly engrossed in; to be entirely dependent on; to be covered with. Leontine's young wife, in whom all his happiness was wrapped up, died in a few days after the death of her daughter. Addison. Things reflected on in gross and transiently . . . are thought to be wrapped up in impenetrable obscurity. Locke.…

To bring forth young, as a goat or a sheep; to ean. Shak.

The maws, or stomachs, of young calves, used a rennet for curdling milk. [Scot.]

A Jew. [Slang or Colloq.] "Almost any young Yid who goes out from among her people." John Corbin.

A young fellow; a younker. [Obs. or Colloq.] Sir W. Scott.

A young person; a stripling; a yonker. [Obs. or Colloq.] That same younker soon was overthrown. Spenser.

The quality or state of being young; youthfulness; juvenility. "In my flower of youth." Milton. Such as in his face Youth smiled celestial. Milton.

Not yet mature or aged; young. "Two youthful knights." Dryden.