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youngling arch.|ˈjʌŋlɪŋ|
Forms: see young.
[OE. ᵹeongling = OS. iungling (MLG., Du. jongelinc, Du. jongeling), OHG., MHG. jungeling (G. jüngling), whence Icel. unglingr: see young and -ling.]
1. One who is young; a young person, young man or woman, youth or child, youngster.
c900Wærferth Gregory's Dial. (1900) 89/2 Us utgangendum com onᵹean sum iungling. c1160Hatton Gosp. Matt. xviii. 2 Þa clypede se hælend enne ᵹeongling & sette on heora midlen. c1205Lay. 28681 Siȝen toward hirede ȝeonglinges snelle. a1300Floriz & Bl. 705 Floriz was so fair ȝongling, And blauncheflur so suete þing. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) I. 165 Dido..went oute of Phenicia wiþ a grete companye of ȝonglynges i-chose. c1450in Cov. Myst. (Shaks. Soc.) 414 This pore yongling For whom we do singe By, by, lully, lullay. 1481Churchw. Acc., Croscombe (Somerset Rec. Soc.) 9 Comes yonglens and presents in Rich. Costrell's hands..vjs. xd. 1513Douglas æneis x. xiii. 155 O douchty ȝingling [Virg. puer]. 1522Skelton Why not to Court 345 He is but an yonglyng, A stalworthy stryplyng. 1578H. Wotton Courtlie Controv. 95 This vertuous youngling..made hir hearing deafe vnto his sugred talke. 1620Quarles Feast for Wormes G 3, Like as a yongling that to schoole is set, (Scarce weaned from his dandling mothers tet). 1779Johnson Let. to Mrs. Thrale 16 Oct., You say nothing of the younglings; I hope they are not spoiled with the pleasures of Brighthelmston, a dangerous place, we were told, for children. 1837Hood in Mem. (1860) I. 280 Little Tom is a capital traveller,..our trouble was less than might have been expected with such a youngling. 1876Morris Sigurd i. 65 The smooth-lipped youngling's kiss.
fig.1812J. Jebb Corr. (1834) II. 116 He recommended me to publish. England I have looked to as the proper sphere in which to bring my youngling out. 1880W. Watson Prince's Quest ix, A grassy vale..Where..a pure stream ran, as yet A youngling.
b. A young animal; the young or offspring of an animal.
c1220Bestiary 667 Ðanne remen he alle a rem,..For here mikle reming rennande cumeð a ȝungling. 1576Baker Gesner's Jewell of Health 51 b, This druncke in lyke quantitie..expelleth the youngling dead. 1596Edw. III, iii. i. 119 Be like the fielde of Beares, When they defend their younglings in their Caues! 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iii. vi. 116 The parturition or very birth it selfe: wherein not only the Dam, but the younglings play their parts. 1772Mackenzie Man of World i. iii. (1773) 39 The linnet..was bringing out her younglings to their first imperfect flight. 1807Wordsw. White Doe vii. 256 A spotless Youngling white as foam. 1883Century Mag. XXVI. 487/1 If rain should come on,..the mother calls her younglings under her wings.
c. A young plant, sapling; a young shoot or blossom of a plant.
1559Morwyng Evonymus 382 The yonglinges or shoutes of bremble. 1818Keats Endym. i. 138 Each having a white wicker over brimm'd with April's tender younglings. a1822Shelley Coliseum Ess. (1840) I. 174 The shattered masses of precipitous ruin, overgrown with the younglings of the forest.
†2. A young scholar or student, a disciple; a beginner, novice, tiro; one who is unpractised or inexperienced (usually with implication of actual youth). Obs.
a1175Cott. Hom. 237 Þa apostles and hare iunglenges. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) I. 387 He seiþ þat Chadde was a ȝongelyng, and lerned the rule of monkes in Hibernia. 1548Udall Erasm. Par. N.T. To Rdr. B vj b, Younglynges in the feith. 1590Sir J. Smythe Disc. Weapons 34 b, Whose weapons of fire..doo..terrifie..yonglings and nouices of warre. 1649Ambrose Media x. (1652) 277 Let our Lord Iesus his tender-heartedness in Spiritual younglings, teach us mercy. 1682T. Flatman Heraclitus Ridens No. 78 (1713) II. 226 From the Seminary there, a small Detachment was made of Yonglings that were got as far as Asserit A, negat E.
3. attrib.
a. That is a ‘youngling’; young, youthful; † inexperienced (obs.).
1382Wyclif Judges xviii. 3 Knowynge the voys of the ȝonglynge Leuyte. 1595Markham Trag. Sir R. Grinuile Ep. Ded. A 2, Fier to my hart, & wings to my youngling Muse. 1664Power Exp. Philos. i. 15 The youngling Spiders (that were either hatching, or newly hatch'd). 1785Burns Cotter's Sat. Nt. xviii, The youngling Cottagers retire to rest. 1800Wordsw. Idle Sheph.-Boys 6 The mountain raven's youngling brood. 1880L. Morris Ode of Life 45 Since Artemia first trod the youngling earth.
b. Pertaining to or characteristic of a ‘youngling’; juvenile, immature; in quot. a 1616, belonging to the production or rearing of young.
1582T. Watson Cent. Love To Rdr. A 4, Idle toyes proceedinge from a youngling frenzie. 1615R. Brathwait Strappado (1878) 77 To thee (young youth) these youngling lines I write. a1616Beaum. & Fl. Wit at Sev. Weapons ii. i, You have built a Nest That will stand all storms,..and one day it may be The youngling season too, then I hope You'll ne'er fly out of sight. |