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  • 61youth — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Condition of being young Nouns 1. youth, juvenility, juvenescence, immaturity, juniority; childhood, boyhood, maidenhood, girlhood, youthhood; minority, nonage, teenage, teens, tender age, bloom; prime… …

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  • 62strip — ‘narrow piece’ [15] and strip ‘remove covering’ [13] are distinct words. The former was perhaps borrowed from Middle Low German strippe ‘strap’, and may be related to English stripe [17], an acquisition from Middle Dutch strīfe. A stripling [13]… …

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  • 63strip — ‘narrow piece’ [15] and strip ‘remove covering’ [13] are distinct words. The former was perhaps borrowed from Middle Low German strippe ‘strap’, and may be related to English stripe [17], an acquisition from Middle Dutch strīfe. A stripling [13]… …

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  • 64Lad — (l[a^]d), n. [OE. ladde, of Celtic origin; cf. W. llawd, Ir. lath. [root]123. Cf. {Lass}.] 1. A boy; a youth; a stripling. Cupid is a knavish lad. Shak. [1913 Webster] There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves and two small fishes. John… …

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  • 65Lad's love — Lad Lad (l[a^]d), n. [OE. ladde, of Celtic origin; cf. W. llawd, Ir. lath. [root]123. Cf. {Lass}.] 1. A boy; a youth; a stripling. Cupid is a knavish lad. Shak. [1913 Webster] There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves and two small… …

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  • 66Wrap — Wrap, v. t. [A corrupt spelling of rap.] To snatch up; transport; chiefly used in the p. p. wrapt. [1913 Webster] Lo! where the stripling, wrapt in wonder, roves. Beattie. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 67Younker — 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.] [1913 Webster] That same younker soon was overthrown. Spenser. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 68miracidium — noun (plural miracidia) Etymology: New Latin, from Greek meirak , meirax youth, stripling + New Latin idium Date: 1898 the free swimming ciliated first larva of a digenetic trematode that seeks out and penetrates a suitable snail intermediate… …

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  • 69shaveling — noun Date: 1529 1. usually disparaging a tonsured clergyman ; priest 2. youth, stripling …

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  • 70springald — or springal noun Etymology: probably from Middle English, a kind of catapult, from Anglo French espringal Date: 1501 archaic ; a young man ; stripling …

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