ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

Phr. midnight, the outpost of advancing day [Longfellow]; sable-vested Night [Milton];
this gorgeous arch with golden worlds inlay'd [Young].
127. Youth -- N. youth; juvenility, juvenescence † ; juniority † ; infancy; babyhood,
childhood, boyhood, girlhood, youthhood † ; incunabula; minority, nonage, teens, tender
age, bloom.
cradle, nursery, leading strings, pupilage, puberty, pucelage † .
prime of life, flower of life, springtide of life † , seedtime of life, golden season of life;
heyday of youth, school days; rising generation.
Adj. young, youthful, juvenile, green, callow, budding, sappy, puisne, beardless, under
age, in one's teens; in statu pupillari [Lat.]; younger, junior; hebetic † , unfledged.
Phr. youth on the prow and pleasure at the helm [Gray]; youth a the glad season of life
[Carlyle].
128. Age -- N. age; oldness † &c adj.; old age, advanced age, golden years; senility,
senescence; years, anility † , gray hairs, climacteric, grand climacteric, declining years,
decrepitude, hoary age, caducity † , superannuation; second childhood, second
childishness; dotage; vale of years, decline of life, sear and yellow leaf [Macbeth];
threescore years and ten; green old age, ripe age; longevity; time of life.
seniority, eldership; elders &c (veteran) 130; firstling; doyen, father; primogeniture.
[Science of old age.] geriatrics, nostology † .
V. be aged &c adj.; grow old, get old &c adj.; age; decline, wane, dodder; senesce.
Adj. aged; old &c 124; elderly, geriatric, senile; matronly, anile † ; in years; ripe, mellow,
run to seed, declining, waning, past one's prime; gray, gray-headed; hoar, hoary;
venerable, time-worn, antiquated, passe, effete, decrepit, superannuated; advanced in life,
advanced in years; stricken in years; wrinkled, marked withthe crow's foot; having one
foot in the grave; doting &c (imbecile) 499; like the last of pea time.
older, elder, eldest; senior; firstborn.
turned of, years old; of a certain age, no chicken, old as Methuselah; ancestral,
patriarchal, &c (ancient) 124; gerontic.
Phr. give me a staff of honor for my age [Titus Andronicus]; bis pueri senes [Lat.]; peu
de gens savent elre vieux [Fr.]; plenus annis abiit plenus honoribus [Lat.] [Pliny the
Younger]; old age is creeping on apace [Byron]; slow-consuming age [Gray]; the hoary
head is a crown of glory [Proverbs xvi, 31]; the silver livery of advised age [II Henry VI];
to grow old gracefully; to vanish in the chinks that Time has made [Rogers].
129. Infant -- N. infant, babe, baby, babe in arms; nurseling, suckling, yearling,
weanling; papoose, bambino; kid; vagitus.
child, bairn [Scot.], little one, brat, chit, pickaninny, urchin; bantling, bratling † ; elf.
youth, boy, lad, stripling, youngster, youngun, younker † , callant † , whipster † ,
whippersnapper, whiffet [U.S.], schoolboy, hobbledehoy, hopeful, cadet, minor, master.
scion; sap, seedling; tendril, olive branch, nestling, chicken, larva, chrysalis, tadpole,
whelp, cub, pullet, fry, callow; codlin, codling; foetus, calf, colt, pup, foal, kitten; lamb,
lambkin † ; aurelia † , caterpillar, cocoon, nymph, nympha † , orphan, pupa, staddle † .
girl; lass, lassie; wench, miss, damsel, demoiselle; maid, maiden; virgin; hoyden.