puisne

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: puis=ne

CIDE DICTIONARY

puisne, a. [See Puny.].

•  Later in age, time, etc.; subsequent.  Sir M. Hale.  [1913 Webster]
•  Puny; petty; unskilled.  [1913 Webster]
•  Younger or inferior in rank; junior; associate; as, a chief justice and three puisne justices of the Court of Common Pleas; the puisne barons of the Court of Exchequer.  Blackstone.  [1913 Webster]

puisne, n. 

 One who is younger, or of inferior rank; a junior; esp., a judge of inferior rank.  [1913 Webster]
"It were not a work for puisnes and novices."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

puisne, adj. Law denoting a judge of a superior court inferior in rank to chief justices.

Etymology

OF f. puis f. L postea afterwards + n{eacute} born f. L natus: cf. PUNY

ROGET THESAURUS

puisne

Posteriority

N posteriority, succession, sequence, following, subsequence, supervention, futurity, successor, sequel, remainder, reversion, subsequent, posterior, following, after, later, succeeding, postliminious, postnate, postdiluvial, postdiluvian, puisne, posthumous, future, afterdinner, postprandial, subsequently, after, afterwards, since, later, at a subsequent, at a later period, at a later date, next, in the sequel, close upon, thereafter, thereupon, upon which, eftsoons, from that time, from that moment, after a while, after a time, in process of time.

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, young, youthful, juvenile, green, callow, budding, sappy, puisne, beardless, under age, in one's teens, in statu pupillari, younger, junior, hebetic, unfledged, youth on the prow and pleasure at the helm, youth a the glad season of life.