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Ridley.

Young"ling, a. Young; youthful. Wordsworth.

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

Young"ly, adv. 1. In a young manner; in the period of youth; early in life. [Obs.] Shak.

2. Ignorantly; weakly. [R.]

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

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 (?), n. Youth. [Obs.]

Youngth is a bubble blown up with breath.

Spenser.

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

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.

You"pon (?), n. (Bot.) Same as Yaupon.

Your (r), pron. & a. [OE. your, our, eowr, eower, AS. eówer, originally used as the gen. of ge, g, ye; akin to OFries. iuwer your, OS. iuwar, D. uw, OHG. iuwr, G. euer, Icel. yðar, Goth. izwara, izwar, and E. you. √189. 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 (ürz), pron. See the Note under Your.

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, alone in the predicate, either in the nominative or objective case; as, you have injured yourself.

Of which right now ye han yourselve heard.

Chaucer.

If yourselves are old, make it your cause.

Shak.

Why should you be so cruel to yourself ?

Milton.

The religious movement which you yourself, as well as I, so faithfully followed from first to last.

J. H. Newman.

Youth (th), n.; pl. Youths (ths; 264) or collectively Youth. [OE. youthe, youhþe, uheðe, uweðe, eoeðe, AS. geoguð, geogoð; akin to OS. jugð, D. jeugd, OHG. jugund, G. jugend, Goth. junda. √281. See Young.]