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calling or demanding loudly or urgently; vociferous; noisy; bawling; loud; turbulent. "My young ones were clamorous for a morning's excursion." Southey. -- Clam"or*ous*ly, adv. -- Clam"or*ous*ness, n.

With well-proportioned, unblemished limbs; as, a clean-limbed young fellow. Dickens.

A young herring. B. Jonson.

Abounding in cobwebs. "The cobwebbed cottage." Young.

Wearing a cockade. Young.

A young cock.

An effeminate person; a spoilt child. "A young heir or cockney, that is his mother's darling." Nash (1592). This great lubber, the world, will prove a cockney. Shak.

A young cod; also, a hake.

th colbertine. Swift. Difference rose between Mechlin, the queen of lace, and colbertine. Young.

Young cabbage, used as "greens"; esp. a kind cultivated for that purpose; colewort. [Colloq. Souther U. S.]

ction. Local is his throne . . . to fix a point, A central point, collective of his sons. Young.

The young of the equine genus or horse kind of animals; -- sometimes distinctively applied to the male, filly being the female. Cf. Foal.

A crinoid of the genus Antedon and related genera. When young they are fixed by a stem. When adult they become detached and cling to seaweeds, etc., by their dorsal cirri; -- called also feather stars.

n well. (i) To have sexual intercourse; -- with to or unto. Gen. xxxviii. 16. (j) To have young; to bring forth; as, the cow will come in next May. [U. S.] -- To come in for, to claim or receive. "The rest came in for subsidies." Swift. -- To come into, to join with; to take part in; to agree to; to comply with; as, t…

handsome. He that is comely when old and decrepit, surely was very beautiful when he was young. South. Not once perceive their foul disfigurement But boast themselves more comely than before. Milton.

trive with their own hearts and keep them down, In complaisance to all the fools in town. Young.

volved. How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful is man! Young.

Act of concerting; adjustment. [R.] Young.

l, In thy protection I confide. Byron. Judge before friendships, then confide till death. Young.

Junction; adaptation [R.] Consertion of design, how exquisite. Young.