new-yeaned, ppl. a.
[new adv. 3.]
Newly born or dropped.
| 1567 Golding Ovid's Met. vii. 85 The bleating of a new yeand Lambe. 1598 Sylvester Du Bartas ii. i. i. Eden 5/3 Their bodies..Of new-yeand Lambs have full the form and guise. 1649 Ogilby Virg. Bucolicks vii. 17 Phyllis..might at home Shut up my new-yean'd Lambs. a 1711 Ken Sion Poet. Wks. 1721 IV. 322 The new-yean'd Lambs he'll in his Bosom lay. 1849 C. Brontë Shirley II. xi. 263 Some little new-yeaned lambs. |