yought

noun

1. (alt-of, countable, obsolete, uncountable)Obsolete form of youth.

   “Now for yᵉ moſt part of yought they nether knowe what god, what the deuell, what good, oꝛ what euell meanes.”

   “As touching monaſticall vowes, the kyng ſupposeth that it might be obteined of the byſhop, that none ſhould be taken in yong, and befoꝛe the vowers were of rype yeares […] And thinketh not good to deface theyꝛ houſes, but to conuerte them in to Colleges, wherein yought may be brought vp in learnyng and vertue.”

   “Before I anſwer to the queſtion, you muſt vnderſtand, that wee make foure differences in the age of beaſts, that is to ſay, the time of ſucking, of yought, of middle age, of old age.”