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

The quality of being adolescent; youthfulness.

Any natural recess analogous to an alcove or recess in an apartment. The youthful wanderers found a wild alcove. Falconer.

Without a beard. Hence: Not having arrived at puberty or manhood; youthful.

rfect or superfluous tooth in young horses. -- To cast one's colt's tooth, to cease from youthful wantonness. "Your colt's tooth is not cast yet." Shak. -- To have a colt's tooth, to be wanton. Chaucer.

give in charge; to commit; to intrust. Atrides, parting for the Trojan war, Consigned the youthful consort to his care. Pope. The four evangelists consigned to writing that history. Addison.

Way of escape; vent. [R.] An escapement for youthful high spirits. G. Eliot.

To exercise; to train by practice. The youthful sailors thus with early care Their arms experience, and for sea prepare. Harte. To experience religion (Theol.), to become a convert to the diatribes of Christianity; to yield to the power of religions truth.

rest condition. Their lusty and flowering age. Robynson (More's Utopia). When flowered my youthful spring. Spenser.

p; soft and downy. "The carpets were fluffy." Thackeray. The present Barnacle . . . had a youthful aspect, and the fluffiest little whisker, perhaps, that ever was seen. Dickens. -- Fluff"i*ness, n.

Liability to error and sin; frailty. [Obs.] The fragility and youthful folly of Qu. Fabius. Holland.

Youthful; florid; as, these fresh nymphs. Shak.

State of being gracilent; slenderness. Milman. "Youthful gracility." W. D. Howells.

in their coats, their hosen, and their hats, and their other garments. Dan. iii. 21. His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank. Shak.

Young; youthful; as, a juvenile appearance. "A juvenile exercitation." Glanvill.

Youthfulness; adolescence. Glanvill.

vivacious; active; as, a lively youth. But wherefore comes old Manoa in such haste, With youthful steps Much livelier than erewhile He seems. Milton.

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.

of future distinction; as, a youth of great promise. Shak. My native country was full of youthful promise. W. Irving.