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A higher school, in Europe, which prepares youths for the university.

Mastery; dominion; superior skill; superiority. Where noble youths for mastership should strive. Driden.

The early part or springtime of life. His May of youth, and bloom of lustihood. Shak.

sense, to take away the firmness of; to weaken. Thou would'st have . . . melted down thy youth. Shak. For pity melts the mind to love. Dryden.

stinct retention and recognition of past ideas in the mind; remembrance; as, in memory of youth; memories of foreign lands.

the god Mercury; swift; active; sprightly; fickle; volatile; changeable; as, a mercurial youth; a mercurial temperament. A mercurial man Who fluttered over all things like a fan. Byron.

approbation; as, his teacher gave him ten merits. Those laurel groves, the merits of thy youth. Prior.

Wrongly taught; as, a mistaught youth. L'Estrange.

A title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a man or youth. It is usually written in the abbreviated form Mr. To call your name, inquire your where, Or whet you think of Mister Some-one's book, Or Mister Other's marriage or decease. Mrs. Browning.

sumptious; rather retiring than pushing one's self forward; not obstructive; as, a modest youth; a modest man.

Like the moon; variable. Being but a moonish youth. Shak.

A beautiful youth fabled to have been enamored of his own image as seen in a fountain, and to have been changed into the flower called Narcissus.

Shining; elegant; spruce. [Obs.] "O sweet, nitty youth." Marston.

arty titles,the note of life -- a tough life and a vigorous. J. H. Newman. What a note of youth, of imagination, of impulsive eagerness, there was through it all ! Mrs. Humphry Ward.

nurse their parents in old age. Milton. Him in Egerian groves Aricia bore, And nursed his youth along the marshy shore. Dryden.

To present itself; to be at hand. The occasion offers, and the youth complies. Dryden.

Aged; antiquated; hence, wanting in the mental vigor or other qualities belonging to youth; -- used disparagingly as a term of reproach.

A serving boy; formerly, a youth attending a person of high degree, especially at courts, as a position of honor and education; now commonly, in England, a youth employed for doin errands, waiting on the door, and similar service in households; in the United States, a boy emploed to wait upon the members of a legislati…

An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group. This youthful parcel Of noble bachelors stand at my disposing. Shak.

ty theft; to filch; to steal little by little. And not a year but pilfers as he goes Some youthful grace that age would gladly keep. Cowper.