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Any species of fly of the genus Musca that deposits its eggs or young larvæ (called flyblows and maggots) upon meat or other animal products.

The hero of a mediæval French nursery legend, who, leaving home, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in his castle. She entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his former wives. -- Also used adjectively of a subject which it is forbidden to investigate. The Bluebeard chamber of his mind, into which…

her blushing like the morn. Milton. In the presence of the shameless and unblushing, the young offender is ashamed to blush. Buckminster. He would stroke The head of modest and ingenuous worth, That blushed at its own praise. Cowper.

ng; vainglorious speaking; ostentatious display. When boasting ends, then dignity begins. Young.

(F., prop. good woman.) A female servant charged with the care of a young child.

A custom, as in some ancient boroughs, by which lands and tenements descend to the youngest son, instead of the eldest; or, if the owner have no issue, to the youngest brother. Blackstone.

A rudimental antler of a young male of the red deer.

To mark with, or as with, botches. Young Hylas, botched with stains. Garth.

A young salmon; a grilse.

Stout; plump and healthy; lusty; buxom. Many tall and bouncing young ladies. Thackeray.

A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest. [Obs.]

Brisk; full of spirits; boasting; pretentious; conceited. [Arhaic] A brag young fellow. B. Jonson.

e stock; any descendant in such a line; as, the English branch of a family. His father, a younger branch of the ancient stock. Carew.

A young hawk when it begins to leave the nest and take to the branches.

A young salmon or parr, in the stage in which it has transverse black bands, as if burned by a gridiron.

The young of an animal. [Obs.] L'Estrange.

e of man and of some other mammalia, in which milk is secreted for the nourishment of the young; a mammma; a teat. My brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother. Cant. viii. 1.

nto, or clothe with, breeches. A great man . . . anxious to know whether the blacksmith's youngest boy was breeched. Macaulay.

To bear and nourish young; to reproduce or multiply itself; to be pregnant. That they breed abundantly in the earth. Gen. viii. 17. The mother had never bred before. Carpenter. Ant. Is your gold and silver ewes and rams Shy. I can not tell. I make it breed as fast. Shak.

the house, to cause tremendous applause. [Colloq.] -- To bring forth. (a) To produce, as young fruit. (b) To bring to light; to make manifest. -- To bring forward (a) To exhibit; to introduce; to produce to view. (b) To hasten; to promote; to forward. (c) To propose; to adduce; as, to bring forward arguments. -- To…