Word Meanings - YOUNGLING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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.
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- YOUNGISH
Somewhat young. Tatler. - THINKING
Having the faculty of thought; cogitative; capable of a regular train of ideas; as, man is a thinking being. -- Think"ing*ly, adv. - WILLOWER
A willow. See Willow, n., 2. - ANIMALIZATION
1. The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties. 2. Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation. Owen. - ANIMALCULISM
The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological by means of animalcules. - PERSONNEL
The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from matériel. - PERSONIFICATION
A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopas, the floods clap their hands. "Confusion heards his voice." Milton. (more info) 1. The act of personifying; - ANIMALITY
Animal existence or nature. Locke. - WILLING
1. Free to do or to grant; having the mind inclined; not opposed in mind; not choosing to refuse; disposed; not averse; desirous; consenting; complying; ready. Felix, willing to show the Jews a pleasure, left Paul bound. Acts xxiv. 27. With wearied - YOUNG
, , AS. geong; akin to OFries. iung, iong, D. joing, OS., OHG., & G. jung, Icel. ungr, Sw. & Dan. ung, Goth. juggs, Lith. jaunas, Russ. iunuii, L. juvencus, juvenis, Skr. juva, juven. Junior, Juniper, 1. Not long born; still in the first part of - ANIMALLY
Physically. G. Eliot. - ANIMALNESS
Animality. - YOUNGTH
Youth. Youngth is a bubble blown up with breath. Spenser. - WILLIWAW; WILLYWAW
A whirlwind, or whirlwind squall, encountered in the Straits of Magellan. W. C. Russell. - WILLINGLY
In a willing manner; with free will; without reluctance; cheerfully. Chaucer. The condition of that people is not so much to be envied as some would willingly represent it. Addison. - PERSONIZE
To personify. Milton has personized them. J. Richardson. - WILLOW-WORT
Same as Willow-weed. Any plant of the order Salicaceæ, or the Willow family. - WILLEMITE
A silicate of zinc, usually occurring massive and of a greenish yellow color, also in reddish crystals containing manganese. - WILLY NILLY
See WILL - YOUNGNESS
The quality or state of being young. - CLEARLY
In a clear manner. - YOUNGLY
Like a young person or thing; young; youthful. Shak. - SWILLINGS
See 1 - MISTHINK
To think wrongly. "Adam misthought of her." Milton. - TOWILLY
The sanderling; -- so called from its cry. - HALF-YEARLY
Two in a year; semiannual. -- adv. Twice in a year; semiannually. - SWILL
To drink in great draughts; to swallow greedily. Well-dressed people, of both sexes, . . . devouring sliced beef, and swilling pork, and punch, and cider. Smollett. 3. To inebriate; to fill with drink. I should be loth To meet the rudeness - UNIPERSONAL
Used in only one person, especially only in the third person, as some verbs; impersonal. (more info) 1. Existing as one, and only one, person; as, a unipersonal God.