stripling

A young man in the state of adolescence, or just passing from boyhood to manhood; a lad. .

And the king ſaid, Enquire thou whoſe ſonne the ſtripling is.

And now, I suppose, my Striplings are formally clad, and togated, newly arrived at the Vniversities

A seedling with most of the leaves stripped off.

For there upon the narrow new-made road, between the stripling pines, was a mediæval friar, fighting with a barrowful of turfs.

A surname.