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juvenculus [LL] 1 (as adj.) young: a (of animal); b (of person). a ~i ‥ animalis carnis humiditas est naturalis et viscosa Quaest. Salern. N 63.  b Julianus cum ~o filio Aldh. VirgP 36; virgo ~a Bede Hom. I 4. 15; monialem ~am formosam et famosam Gir. GE II 17. 249; dum uxorem ~am vehementius emulatur W. Newb. HA I 31; Henrico jam militi ~o Gerv. Cant. Chr. I 142; ne sponsum vel sponsam ~am ‥ exprobret G. Herw. f. 323. 2 (as sb. m.) young male animal: a bullock. b fawn. a 1316 de coriis ‥ v juvencorum, ij ~orum MinAc Wistow 45; a styrke, ~us, juvencula CathA.  b 1494 interfecit unum ~um dictum la fowne cum barselettis (DL Forest Proc. 3/16) Pickering I 146. 3 young man, lad, youth. quidam ~us rabidis molosi rictibus in vesaniam versus Aldh. VirgP 37; non ~os sed adultos ‥ in comitatu ducant RegulC 11; ~um violenter e cubiculo abstraxit W. Malm. GR II 147; nec fuit qui adjuvaret nisi ~us quidam puer portarii de Melros et nuntius J. Furness Walth. 77; ~us annorum sex decim Oxnead Chr. 8; 1318 in cervisis misso [sic] infirmario et juvencullis die Innocentium xij d. Comp. Swith. 404; Blakman Hen. VI 12 (v. expedire 4b).

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