Word Meanings - CAGELING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A bird confined in a cage; esp. a young bird. Tennyson.
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- YOUNGISH
Somewhat young. Tatler. - 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 - CONFINABLE
Capable of being confined, restricted, or limited. Not confinable to any limits. Bp. Hall. - YOUNGTH
Youth. Youngth is a bubble blown up with breath. Spenser. - YOUNGNESS
The quality or state of being young. - YOUNG ONE
A young human being; a child; also, a young animal, as a colt. - CONFINELESS
Without limitation or end; boundless. Shak. - YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
An organization for promoting the spiritual, intellectual, social, and economic welfare of young women, originating in 1855 with Lady Kinnaird's home for young women, and Miss Emma Robert's prayer union for young women,in England, which - CONFINEMENT
1. Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion. The mind hates restraint, and is apt to fancy itself under confinement when the sight is pent up. Addison. 2. Restraint within doors by sickness, esp. that caused by - CONFINITY
Community of limits; contiguity. Bailey. - TENNYSONIAN
Of or pertaining to Alfred Tennyson, the English poet ; resembling, or having some of the characteristics of, his poetry, as simplicity, pictorial quality, sensuousness, etc. - YOUNGLING
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. - CONFINER
One who, or that which, limits or restrains. - YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
An organization for promoting the spiritual, intellectual, social, and physical welfare of young men, founded, June 6, 1844, by George Williams in London. In 1851 it extended to the United States and Canada, and in 1855 representatives of similar - CONFINE
To restrain within limits; to restrict; to limit; to bound; to shut up; to inclose; to keep close. Now let not nature's hand Keep the wild flood confined! let order die! Shak. He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of - YOUNGGER
One who is younger; an inferior in age; a junior. "The elder shall serve the younger." Rom. ix. 12. - YOUNGLY
Like a young person or thing; young; youthful. Shak. - YOUNGTHLY
Pertaining to, or resembling, youth; youthful. Spenser. - YOUNGSTER
A young person; a youngling; a lad. "He felt himself quite a youngster, with a long life before him." G. Eliot. - DUYOUNG
See DUGONG