Yorkist (yorkist)

and a. [ The next Henry Percy, fourth earl, was, however, restored by Edward IV. and became a Yorkist . Edinburgh Rev., CLXVIII. 379. II. a. In Eng . hist . , pertaining to the dukes or the royal house of York. The Yorkist kings were Edward IV., Edward V., and Richard III. (1461-85), and their claims to the crown rested on their descent from Lionel, Duke of Clarence, and Edmund, Duke of York, respectively the third and fifth sons of Edward III. See Lancastrian , and Wars of the Roses (under rosel ). IMG:content-2713.png:[blocks in formation] young God forbid I should be so bold to pre to heaven in my young days. Shak., Tit. And., iv. 3. 91. King Edward the sixt, being of young yeres, but olde in wit. Putten ham , Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 158. 7. Junior: applied to the younger of two persons, especially when they have the same name or title: as, young Mr. Thomas Ray called with a me age from his father. [Colloq.] - 8. Newly or lately arrived. [Australia.] So says I, "You're rather young there, a'n't you? I was by there a fortnight ago." H. Kingsley, Geoffry Hamlyn, p. 33. The Young Pretender. See pretender, 3.-Young America, the rising generation in the United States. [Colloq.]-Young beer. See schenk beer , under beer1. Young blood. See blood. - Young England, a group of Tory politicians, chiefly recruited from the younger members of the aristocracy, who, about 1844, opposed free trade and radicalism, and advocated the restoration of the supposed former condition of things. Among their leaders were Disraeli and Lord John Manners. - Young flood, fustic, hyson, ice. See the nouns. Young Ire land, a group of Irish politicians and agitators, active about 1840-50, who were at first adherents of O'Connell, but were separated from him through their advocacy of physical force, and took part in the rising of 1848.-Young Italy, an a ociation of Italian republican agitators, active about 1834, under the lead of Mazzini. Analogous republican groups in other countries were called Young Germany, Young Poland, and Young France, and these republican a ociations collectively were known as Young Europe. II. n. Offspring collectively. The egg that soon Bursting with kindly rupture forth disclosed Their callow young . Milton , P. L., vii. 420. The mother-linnet in the brake Bewails her ravish'd young. Burns, A Mother's Lament. With young, pregnant; gravid. So many days my ewes have been with young. Shak ., 3 Hen. VI., ii. 5. 35. Young of the year, in ornith., specifically, birds which have left the nest and acquired their first plumage. Most birds hatch in summer, and, after putting off the down feathers characteristic of the nestling, acquire a special first feathering; and as long as this is worn, or until the first true molt, they are young of the year, without regard to the length of time this plumage may be worn, as it is always replaced by the following spring.