youpon (yopon)

Same as yapon. your (yör), pron. [(a) zure, iour, cower, Goth. izwara ), gen. of ge (dat. acc. eów ), you: see yel, you. (b) genitive of yel, you. Sitthen I am youre alre hefd (i. e., head of you all], ich am youre alre hele [salvation). Piers Plowman (C), xxii. 478. 3. A novice; a new-comer; a beginner. This Naaman was but an youngling in God's religion. J. Bradford , Works (Parker Soc., 1853), II. 338. II. a. Youthful; young. The mountain raven's youngling brood Have left the mother and the nest. Words worth, Idle Shepherd-boys. The frequent chequer of a youngling tree. Keats , I Stood Tiptoe upon a Little Hill. youngly (yung'li), a. [ geonglic , geong , young, + -lic , E. -ly1.] Youthful. Sum men clepen it the Welle of Zouthe: for the i that often drynken there of semen alle weys Zongly , and lyven with outen Sykene e. Mandeville, Travels, p. 169. I wolde permute [change] my penaunce with zowre . Piers Plowman (B), xiii. 110. I... mot ben youre whil that my lyf may dure. Chaucer , Parliament of Fowls, 1. 642. And she ansuerde, "I am youre and the childe youre , therfore do with me and with hym youre will." Merlin (E. E. T. S.), i. 89. 2. Belonging to you: po e ive and adjective in use, preceding the noun. While plural in form and original meaning, it is now commonly also used, like the nominative you, in addre ing an individual. "I haue no kynde knowyng," quod I, "to conceyne alle zoure wordes." Piers Plowman (B), viii. 57. Promise unto the Lord your God, and keep it, all ye that are round about him. Book of Common Prayer, Psalter, Ps. lxxvi. 11. youth I leave it [the poem] to your honourable survey, and your honour to your heart's content. Shak., Venus and Adonis, Ded. to the Earl of Southampton. [Your was used formerly to denote a cla or species well known. This use survives as an archaism, and now often adds a slurring or humorous significance. Your serpent of Egypt is bred now of your mud by the operation of your sun. Shak . , A. and C., ii. 7. 29.