Brewer's: Juvenal

(Latin, from juvenis). A youth; common in Shakespeare, thus—

“The juvenal the prince your master, whose chin is not yet fledged.” —2 Henry IV., i. 2.

Juvenal

The English Juvenal. John Oldham (1653-1683). The Juvenal of Painters. William Hogarth (1697-1764).

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