Definitions
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- adjective Of a young
bird , that has its first flyingplumage . - noun A juvenal bird.
- noun obsolete A
juvenile .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I looked again and, now, the two smaller birds were on the back of yet another, medium sized juvenal roadrunner (fifth bird not previously seen).
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“I am she, O most bucolical juvenal, under whose charge are placed the milky mothers of the herd.”
The Monastery 2008
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I have been so haunted by diabolical deceptions in this matter, that what do I know but that the devil may assume the form of this rustical juvenal, in order to procure me farther vexation? —
The Monastery 2008
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Let it suffice thee, kind juvenal, that thou hast the
The Monastery 2008
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“By Heaven, it cannot!” said the knight, “unless the juvenal hath slain himself and buried himself, in order to place me in the predicament of his murderer.”
The Monastery 2008
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Maybe we can all trade our juvenal and childishness for suffering in sconce.
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I spoke it, tender juvenal, as a congruent epitheton appertaining to thy young days, which we may nominate tender.
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How canst thou part sadness and melancholy, my tender juvenal?
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I was never manned with an agate till now: but I will inset you neither in gold nor silver, but in vile apparel, and send you back again to your master, for a jewel, — the juvenal, the prince your master, whose chin is not yet fledged.
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“It is even as the juvenal hath said,” added the masker who spoke first; “Our major devil — for this is but our minor one — is even now at Lucina, fer opem, within that very Tugurium.”
Kenilworth 2004
reesetee commented on the word juvenal
In birds, the first covering of true feathers following the downy stage.
October 13, 2007