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Youth

of Youth

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Narrower term 7

Blade 76% connected

Properly, the leaf, or flat part of the leaf, of any plant, especially of gramineous plants. The term is sometimes applied to the spire of grasses.

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Hobbledehoy 76% connected

Alt. of Hobbletehoy

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Pup 76% connected

A young dog; a puppy.

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Pupil 76% connected

The aperture in the iris; the sight, apple, or black of the eye. See the Note under Eye, and Iris.

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Puppy 76% connected

The young of a canine animal, esp. of the common dog; a whelp.

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Rejuvenescence 76% connected

A renewing of youth; the state of being or growing young again.

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Slip 76% connected

To move along the surface of a thing without bounding, rolling, or stepping; to slide; to glide.

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Cohort 76% connected

A body of about five or six hundred soldiers; the tenth part of a legion.

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Juvenile 76% connected

Young; youthful; as, a juvenile appearance.

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Matureness 76% connected

The state or quality of being mature; maturity.

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Maturity 76% connected

The state or quality of being mature; ripeness; full development; as, the maturity of corn or of grass; maturity of judgment; the maturity of a plan.

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Period 76% connected

A portion of time as limited and determined by some recurring phenomenon, as by the completion of a revolution of one of the heavenly bodies; a divis…

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Youngness 76% connected

The quality or state of being young.

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Juvenile 74% connected

Young; youthful; as, a juvenile appearance.

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Juvenile 74% connected

Young; youthful; as, a juvenile appearance.

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Adolescence 70% connected

The state of growing up from childhood to manhood or womanhood; youth, or the period of life between puberty and maturity, generally considered to be…

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Bloom 70% connected

A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud; flowers, collectively.

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Juvenility 92% connected

Youthfulness; adolescence.

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Young 92% connected

Not long born; still in the first part of life; not yet arrived at adolescence, maturity, or age; not old; juvenile; -- said of animals; as, a young…

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Younker 92% connected

A young person; a stripling; a yonker.

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