youth 
Therfore take hede bothe iiyst & day 
How fast 3oure ^mithe douth asswage. 
Hymns to Virgin, etc. (E. E. T. S.X p. 79. 
3. A young person ; especially, a young man. 
In this sense it has a plural. 
I gave it to a youth, 
A kind of boy. Shak., M. of V., v. 1. 161. 
Seven youths from Athens yearly sent. 
Dryden, ^neid, vi. 27. 
For what in nature's dawn the cliild admired, 
The youth endeavoured, and the man acquired. 
Dryden, To Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1. 144. 
Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth, 
Wlien thought is speech, and speecli is truth. 
Scott, Marmion, ii.. Int. 
I had hardly ever seen a handsome youth; never in my 
life spoken to oue. Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, xii. 
4. Young persons collectively. 
Forget tlie present Flame, indulge a new, 
Single the loveliest of the am'rous Youth. 
Prior, Henry and Emma. 
Eren when our youth, leaving schools and universities, 
enter that most important period of life. 
Burke, Rev. in France. 
ye ! who teach the ingenuous youth of nations, . . . 
1 pray ye flog them upon all occisions. 
Byron, Don Juan, ii. 1. 
5t. Recentness ; freshness ; brief date. [Kare.J 
Welcome hither; 
If tliat the youth of my uew interest liere 
Have power tu bid you welcome. 
Shak., SI. of v., iii. 2. 224. 
youthedef, «. A Middle English form of yoiitli- 
IicikI. 
youthful (yoth'fiil), a. [< youth + -/«/.] 1. 
Possessing or characterized by youth'; not yet 
aged; not yet arrived at mature years; being 
in the early stage of life ; young ; juvenile. 
It was a youthful knight 
Lov d a gallant laily. 
Constance of Cleveland (Child's Ballads, IV. 226). 
As Clifford's young manhooil had been lost, he was 
loud of feeling hnuself comparatively youthful, now, iu 
apposition with the patriarchal age of llncle Venner. 
Hawthorne, .Seven Gables, x. 
2. Pertaining or belonging or suitable to the 
early part of life: as,^OMf/i/M;days; youthful a,ge. 
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide 
Fur his shrunk shuiik. 
Shak., As you Like it, ii. 7. 160. 
Now no more shall these smooth brows be begirt 
With youthful coronals, and lead the dance. 
Fletcher, Faithful Shepherdess, i. 1. 
The discrepancy . . . Iietweenherage, which was al>out 
seventy, and her dress, which wouM havo been youthful 
for twenty-seven. Dickens, Dombey and .Son, xxi. 
S'^metimes . . . the youthful spirit has come over me 
in such a rush of young blc..>d tliat it has surprised me 
88 much as the slaughtered Duncan's niauifestntion sur- 
prised Lady Macljeth. 
O. W. Holmes, Over the Teacups, xii. 
3. Fresh and vigorous, as in youth. 
Perfect felicity, suih as after millions of millions of 
ages is still youthful and flourishing. Bentley. 
4. Early in time. 
Here, as I point my swiird, the sun arises, 
Which is a great way growing on the south, 
Weighing the youthful seasoji of the year. 
Shak., J. C, ii. 1. 108. 
Nor of the larger stature & cubites of men in those 
youthful! times ami age of the world. 
Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 39. 
=Syn.l-S. youthful, Juvenile, Boyish, Puerile. Youth- 
ful is generally used in a good sense: as, youthful looks 
or spurts; juvenile indifferently, but if in a l)ad sense 
not strongly so: as. the iwem was a rather juvenile per- 
formance ; hoyish rather more often, but not necessarily, 
in some contempt: as, a f/oyish manner; boyish entlmsi- 
asm ; puerile always in marked contempt, as a synonym 
for silly. 
youthfullity (yoth'fiil-i-ti), n. [< youthful + 
-/<y.] Youtlifulncss. [Nonce-word.] 
You see my impetuosity does not abate' nnich; no, nor 
my yottthfiUlily. H'oipote, I.etters(1763),II. 461. (Davies.) 
youthfully (yoth'ful-i), mli: In a youthful 
manner. 
Your attire . . . not «o»f*/«^'y wiinton. 
Bp. llall. Works, I. 314. (Richardson.) 
youthfulness (yoth'fiil-ncs), «. The state or 
character of being youthful. 
Lusly youthfulness. Holland, tr. of Plutarch, p. 764. 
youthhead (yiith'hed), n. [< ME. youthetk, 
Ziiuth<:de, etc. ; < ijoutlt + -head. Cf . yo'uthhood.j 
Youth. [Obsolete or archaic] 
In gret perel is set youthedc, 
Uelite so d.)th his lirldil Icedc. 
Jtom. of the Itnse, 1. 4931. 
A sharft Adversitie. 
Danting the Rage of .routh-heid furious. 
Ramsay, Vertue and Vyce, st. 37. 
In j/""'A*™<f, happy season. Svulhey. (Imp, Diet.) 
youthhood (yOth'hud), «. [< ME. " i/ouf)icho(l 
guwcthchiMl, < A.S. <ico<iuthh(hl (= 08. )u//u(lhcd) ; 
as youth + -hood. Cf. tjouthhcad.'] Youth. 
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To rejuvenate them with the vigor of his own immortal 
youthhood. G. D. Boardman, Creative Week, p. 135. 
The youthhood of Derry and Enniskillen determined to 
protect themselves. 
W. S. Greg!/, Irish Hist, for Eng. Readers, p. 76. 
youthlike (yoth'Uk), a. Having the charac- 
teristics of youth. [Rare.] 
All such whom either youthful age or youthlike minds 
didtill with unlimited desires. Sir P. A'tdncy, Arcadia, iii. 
youthlyt (yoth'li), a. [< youth + -///I.] Per- 
taining to youth; characteristic of youth; 
youthful. 
The knight was fiers, and full of youthly heat. 
Spenser, F. Q., I. v. 7. 
Tliat sooth'd you in your sins and youthly pomp. 
Greene, James IV., v. 
As touching my residence and abiding heere in Naples, 
my youthlye affections, my sportes and pleasures, . . . 
to me they bring more comfort and ioye then care and 
griefe. Lyly, Enphues, Anat. of Wit, p. 42. 
youthlyt (yoth'li), «df. i< youth + -hfi.'] Youth- 
fully. 
And deckt himselfe with fethers youthly gay. 
Spenser, F. Q., I. xi. 34. 
youthnesst (yoth'nes), n. [< WE. ynuthncsi<c ; 
< youth + -nes8.'\ Youth; youthfulness. 
Otf his wickednesse don consentyngly, 
And that he had don in his yrmthnexse soo. 
With sore hert contrite all confessed thoo. 
Rom. of Partenay (E. E. T. S.), 1. 5221. 
youthsome (yoth'sum), a. [< youth + -sonie.2 
Having the vigor, freshness, feelings, tastes, or 
appearance of youth; youthful: young. [Rare.] 
To my uncle Fenner's, when at the alehouse I found 
him drinking, and very jolly and youthsovie. 
Pepys, Diary, Oct. 31, 1661. 
youthwortt (yoth'w^rt), H. An old name of 
the sundew, Drosera rotutidifolia. 
youthy (yo'thi), a. [< youth + -y^.] Young : 
youthful. [Rare.] 
Affecting a youthier turn than is consistent with my 
time of day. Steele, Spectator, No. 296. 
When at college. Sterling had venerated and defended 
Shelley as a moralist as well as a poet, "being rather 
youthy." Caroline Fox, Journal, p. 133. 
youze, ". See you.fe. 
yo'vet. A Middle English form of gave, preterit 
of yUc^. 
yow (you), n. A dialectal form of cwc^. Sec 
the quotation under shearhotj. 
yowet, ". An obsolete form of yeic'^. 
yO'Wl (yoi'l), t'. i. [Also yotd; < ME. yoickti, 
Zotden, also gaulcu. < Icel. gaulo. howl: see 
yawl^. Cf. tjell.'\ To give a long distressful or 
mournful cry, as a dog; howl; hence, of per- 
sons, to yell; bawl. 
The grete tour 
Resouneth of his youling and clamour. 
Chaucer, Knight's Tale, 1.420. 
The man [milkman] comes yowling regularly at the 
stroke of seven. Carlyle, in Friiude, Life in London, I. iii. 
yowl (youl), H. [<you't,v.] A long distressful 
or mournful cr\-, as that of a dog. 
yowley (you'li), «. [One of numerous variant 
forms (see below), ult. < AS. i/co!u, yellow : see 
yclloic] The yellow btinting, Emberi-a eitri- 
iiillti : more fully called, by reduplication, yel- 
low yowley. Also yeldriny, y'cldrin, yeldrock; yold- 
iiit/, yohlriiif/, yoldriii, yoll'inp, yorlUig; also yite. 
yoit. See cut under yellowhamiiier. [Scotland 
and North of Ireland.] 
yowling (you'ling), II. [< ME. gowlyiig; verbal 
n. of yowl, r.] A howling; crying. 
And with a greet ^owlyng he wepte. 
Wyclif, Gen. xxvii. 38. 
Then the wind set up a howling, 
And the poodle-dog a yowlinij. 
Thaekern'y, White .S(iuall. 
yowp, t'. >. A dialectal fonn of ,i/«h;)2. IJalliwell. 
yoxt, r. '. A Middle English form of ycx. 
Yphantes, ". SeeByphautes,!. Vie'illot, IHICt. 
ypightt. Same as pight, an obsolete past par- 
ticiple oi pitdA. 
ypikedt, n. Same as piled torpiclrd'^. 
ypocritet, «. An old spelling of hypocrite. 
Srpointing (i-point'ing), it. [< ;/-, ('-. -f /minting. 
Like Sliakspere's yruri.sh, an infelicitous at- 
temiit at archaism, the prcfi,\ ;/- being confined 
to ME. use and there to words of AS. origin 
(or to verbs from early OF., some of which, in 
the ])p., have »/-); there may have been a ME. 
'yjHiinti (I, \mt there could be no ^W..*yjniintinii. 
Milton herein, like Thomson later, was imitat- 
ing Spenser, who archaized on principle but 
withotit knowledge.] Pointing. [Poetical.] 
What needs my Sliakspcarc, for his lionour'd bones, 
The labour of an age in piled stones'^ 
Or that bis ballow'd reliques should be hid 
I'ndcr a stiir.iry^(>i^in'/ pji.Tmid? 
Milton, Epitaph on William Shakspeare. 
Y-track 
Tponomeuta (i-pon-o-mii'ta), n. [NL. (La- 
treille, 1796), prop. Hyponomeitta, < Gr. vTrovofiev- 
eiv, undermine, < iirovo/ioc, going underground, 
underground, as a noun an underground pas- 
sage, < i-iTo, under, -1- vsfieiv, drive.] A notable 
genus of tineid moths, typical of the family 
Yponomeutidse, comprising a number of rather 
large slender-bodied species, usually white or 
gray, and often with many small black spots. 
The larvee live gregariously in a light web, and feed upon 
the foliage of diJf erent plants. About a dozen species are 
found in Europe and 7 in North America. Y. cognatella 
is exceedingly destructive to apple-trees, depriving tlieni 
of their leaves. 
Yponomeutidse (i-pon-0-mu'ti-de), n.pl. [NL. 
(Stephens, lyi'O), < Yponomeuta + -idle.'] A 
family of tineid moths, based chiefly upon ve- 
national characters, but having a recognizable 
facies. The larvse have 16 legs, .ind in general feed like 
those of the tyi)e genus. Those of Atemelia, however, 
bore into buds and young twigs. Some 14 genera Iiave 
been placed in this family by Standinger, but the impor- 
tant genus Argyresthia and its allies are removed to a 
distinct family, Argyresthiidie, by Heinemann and others. 
Also Uyponomeutidie. 
ypreisedt, a. An obsolete form of the past par- 
ticiple of praise. 
For the more a man may do by so that he do hit, 
The more is he worth and worthi of wyse and goode 
ypreised. Piers Plowman (C), xi. 310. 
Ypres lace. See Ince. 
ypsiliform (ip'si-li-fdi-m), a. [< Gr. v ipc/6v (see 
hypsiloid) + L. forma, form.] Shaped like the 
Greek capital letter T; Y-shaped. The figure 
is also called arietiform, the symbol of the zo- 
diacal sign Aries being the same. 
The T-sliaped [germinal spot] gradually passes into the 
ypsiliform figure, so called from its resenddance to the 
Greek Y. Encyc. Brit., XX. 417. 
ypsilo-. For words so beginning, see hypsilo-. 
ypsiloid, c Same as hypsiloid. 
Ypsilophus (ip-sil'o-fus), «. [NL. (Oken, 
1815).] Same as Yp.wloplius. 
Ypsipetes (ip-sip'e-tez), n. [NL. (Stephens, 
1829), prop. Hyp.s-ipetes. < Gr. iipi-mTy^, fallen 
from heaven. < i'l/v, on high, + mreadai, fly.] 
A genus of geometrid moths, of the family La- 
rentidie, of wide distribution, but having few 
sjiecies. 
Ygsolophus(ip-sol'6-fus),«. [NL. (Fabricins, 
1(98), Ypsilophus (Oken, ISlo). prop. Hypsilo- 
phus, < Gr. v\pi/.o<poc, having a high crest, < i'rpi, 
on high, -1- >6d)oc, crest.] A prominent genus 
of tineid moths, of the family deleehiidie, hav- 
ing ocelli, and both fore and hind wings turned 
forward at tip. The larvas are leaf-rollers. 
Nine species are known in Europe and thirteen 
in the United States. 
yr. An abbreviation («) of year; (h) of your; 
(<•) of younger. 
yravisht(i-rav'ish), V. t. A pseudo-archaic form 
of rnrish. Compare ypointing. 
The sum of this, 
Brought hither to Pentapolis, 
Y-ravished the regions round, 
And every one with cl.ips can sound, 
"Our heir-apparent is a king ! " 
Shak., I'ericles, iii., Prol., 1. 3^. 
yrent, yront, ». and a. Old spellings of iron. 
yrs. An abbreviation of years and of yours. 
yset, ". An old spelling of iee. 
ysenet, j>P- A Middle English form of seen. 
Ful Iniige were his legges and ful Icne, 
Ylik a staf ; tber was no calf i/sme. 
Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T., 1. 592. 
yslakedt. An obsolete preterit and past jiarti- 
ci])le of .flahe. 
Now sleep yslaked hath the rout. 
Shak., I'ericles, iii , Prol., 1. 1. 
ystlet, II. See islle. 
jrthe't, ". Same as itiie. 
ythe^t, '"'''. Same as cath. 
Y'-track ( wi'trak), u. A short track laid at right 
angles (or approximately so) to a line of rail- 
way, with which it is connected by two switches 
— the whole resembling the letter Y. It is used 
instead of a turn-table for rt versing engines or cars. In 
operating it, an engine or car advancing toward .i (beading 
as shown by the :inow) is switched at A to the track /.', 
and then backed up over the switch C to tlic main track 
.again, heading now in the reverse direction. 
