youthedet

A Middle English form of youth youthful (yöth'fül), a. [ It was a youthful knight Lov'd a youth + -ne .] Youth; youthfulne . Off his wickedne e don consentyngly, And that he had don in his youthne e soo, With sore hert contrite all confe ed thoo. Rom . of Partenay (E. E. T. S.), 1. 5221. youthsome (yöth's um), a. [ youth + -some .] Having the vigor, freshne , feelings, tastes, or appearance of youth; youthful; young. [Rare.] him drinking, and very jolly and youthsome . To my uncle Fenner's, when at the alehouse I found Pepys , Diary, Oct. 31, 1661. youthwortt (yöth'wert), n. An old name of the sundew, Drosera rotund i folia. Con stance of call and's Ballads, IV. 226), youthy (yö'thi), a. [ youth + -y1.] Young; As Clifford's young manhood had been lost, he was fond of feeling himself comparatively youthful , now, in apposition with the patriarchal age of Uncle Venner. Hawthorne, Seven Gables, x. 2. Pertaining or belonging or suitable to the early part of life: as, youthful days; youthful age. His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank. youthful. [Rare.] Affecting a youthier turn than is consistent with my time of day. Steele , Spectator, No. 296. When at college, Sterling had venerated and defended Shelley as a moralist as well as a poet, "being rather youthy." Caroline Fox, Journal, p. 133.