noun. A country lad, especially a young shepherd.

noun. A young male suitor or lover.

noun. A young man or boy in service; a servant.

noun. A young man in attendance on a knight; a squire.

noun. A man dwelling in the country; a countryman employed in husbandry; a rustic.

noun. Hence A country gallant; a lover or sweetheart generally.

noun. A servant.

noun. A young man dwelling in the country; a rustic; esp., a cuntry gallant or lover; -- chiefly in poetry.

noun. A knight's servant; an attendant.

noun. A country labourer; a countryman, a rustic.

noun. A rural lover; a male sweetheart in a pastoral setting.

noun. a man who is the lover of a girl or young woman

"'I protest,' cried Sir Sedley to Camilla, tis your favourite swain from the Northwick assembly! wafted on some zephyr of Hope, he has pursued you to Tunbridge."