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Youth
Youth is
represented in
Painting,
Sculpture
&c. by a young man, in the prime of his years, with his mouth bound,
(signifying that silence is not only commendable, but necessary in youth)
holding under one arm a hare (as a symbol of watchfulness) and in the other a
fish. Or, clad in blue, with a garland of flowers on his head, in a dancing
posture, and playing on a harp.
Definition taken from
The Universal Etymological English Dictionary,
edited by Nathan Bailey (1736)
Yoˊnker *
Yule of August