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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• THINKING
  Having the faculty of thought; cogitative; capable of a regular train of ideas; as, man is a thinking being. -- Think"ing*ly, adv.
• YOUNGISH
  Somewhat young. Tatler.
• 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.