PU'BERTY, noun [Latin pubertas, from pubes.] The age at which persons are capable of procreating and bearing children. This age is different in different climates, but is with us considered to be at fourteen years in males, and twelve in females.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.