Youngger
(Young"ger) n. One who is younger; an inferior in age; a junior. "The elder shall serve the younger." Rom. ix. 12.

Youngish
(Young"ish) a. Somewhat young. Tatler.

Youngling
(Young"ling) n. [AS. geongling.] A young person; a youth; also, any animal in its early life. "More dear . . . than younglings to their dam." Spenser.

He will not be so willing, I think, to join with you as with us younglings.
Ridley.

Youngling
(Young"ling), a. Young; youthful. Wordsworth.

Youngly
(Young"ly), a. [AS. geonglic.] Like a young person or thing; young; youthful. [Obs.] Shak.

Youngly
(Young"ly), adv.

1. In a young manner; in the period of youth; early in life. [Obs.] Shak.

2. Ignorantly; weakly. [R.]

Youngness
(Young"ness), n. The quality or state of being young.

Youngster
(Young"ster) n. A young person; a youngling; a lad. [Colloq.] "He felt himself quite a youngster, with a long life before him." G. Eliot.

Youngth
(Youngth) n. Youth. [Obs.]

Youngth is a bubble blown up with breath.
Spenser.

Youngthly
(Youngth"ly), a. Pertaining to, or resembling, youth; youthful. [Obs.] Spenser.

Younker
(Youn"ker) n. [D. jonker, jonkeer; jong young + heer a lord, sir, gentleman. See Young, a.] A young person; a stripling; a yonker. [Obs. or Colloq.]

That same younker soon was overthrown.
Spenser.

Youpon
(You"pon) n. (Bot.) Same as Yaupon.

Your
(Your) pron. & a. [OE. your, &yoghour, eowr, eower, AS. eówer, originally used as the gen. of ge, ge, ye; akin to OFries. iuwer your, OS. iuwar, D. uw, OHG. iuwer, G. euer, Icel. yðar, Goth. izwara, izwar, and E. you. &radic189. See You.] The form of the possessive case of the personal pronoun you.

The possessive takes the form yours when the noun to which it refers is not expressed, but implied; as, this book is yours. "An old fellow of yours." Chaucer.

Yours
(Yours) pron. See the Note under Your.

Yourself
(Your*self") pron.; pl. Yourselves [Your + self.] An emphasized or reflexive form of the pronoun of the second person; — used as a subject commonly with you; as, you yourself shall see it; also,


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