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A youth woman; a girl; a sweetheart.

Less. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A young girl; a lass. [Scot.]

The corporeal instruments of action being strained to a high pitch . . . will soon feel a lassitude. Barrow.

Forsaken by a lass. Shak.

pe or long thong of leather with, a running noose, used for catching horses, cattle, etc. Lasso cell (Zoöl.), one of a peculiar kind of defensive and offensive stinging cells, found in great numbers in all coelenterates, and in a few animals of other groups. They are most highly developed in the tentacles of jellyfishe…

A "bonny lass"; a beautiful girl. [Obs.] Spenser.

p of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the educated class; the lower classes.

American colleges and universities, a day of the commencement season on which the senior class celebrates the completion of its course by exercises conducted by the members, such as the reading of the class histories and poem, the delivery of the class oration, the planting of the class ivy, etc.

Capable of being classed.

ike character in any language. In is once raised him to the rank of a legitimate English classic. Macaulay.

Of or relating to the first class or rank, especially in literature or art. Give, as thy last memorial to the age, One classic drama, and reform the stage. Byron. Mr. Greaves may justly be reckoned a classical author on this subject [Roman weights and coins]. Arbuthnot.

A classical idiom, style, or expression; a classicism.

One who adheres to what he thinks the classical canons of art. Ruskin.

The quality of being classical.

In a classical manner; according to the manner of classical authors.

A classic idiom or expression; a classicalism. C. Kingsley.

One learned in the classics; an advocate for the classics.

Capable of being classified.

Characterizing a class or classes; relating to classification.