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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Y | (pron.) I. |
| Y level | () See under Y, n. |
| Y- | () A prefix of obscure meaning, originally used with verbs, adverbs, adjectives, nouns, and pronouns. In the Middle English period, it was little employed except with verbs, being chiefly used with past participles, though occasionally with the infinitive |
| Y- | () Alt. of I- |
| Y | () Y, the twenty-fifth letter of the English alphabet, at the beginning of a word or syllable, except when a prefix (see Y-), is usually a fricative vocal consonant; as a prefix, and usually in the middle or at the end of a syllable, it is a vowel. See Gu |
| Y | (n.) A forked or bifurcated pipe fitting. |
| Y | (n.) A portion of track consisting of two diverging tracks connected by a cross track. |
| Y | (n.) One of the forked holders for supporting the telescope of a leveling instrument, or the axis of a theodolite; a wye. |
| Y | (n.) Something shaped like the letter Y; a forked piece resembling in form the letter Y. |
| Ya | (adv.) Yea. |
| Yacare | (n.) A South American crocodilian (Jacare sclerops) resembling the alligator in size and habits. The eye orbits are connected together, and surrounded by prominent bony ridges. Called also spectacled alligator, and spectacled cayman. |
| Yacca | (n.) A West Indian name for two large timber trees (Podocarpus coriaceus, and P. Purdicanus) of the Yew family. The wood, which is much used, is pale brownish with darker streaks. |
| Yacht | (n.) A light and elegantly furnished vessel, used either for private parties of pleasure, or as a vessel of state to convey distinguished persons from one place to another; a seagoing vessel used only for pleasure trips, racing, etc. |
| Yacht | (v. i.) To manage a yacht; to voyage in a yacht. |
| Yachter | (n.) One engaged in sailing a jacht. |
| Yachting | (n.) Sailing for pleasure in a yacht. |
| Yachtman | (n.) See Yachtsman. |
| Yachtsman | (n.) One who owns or sails a yacht; a yachter. |
| Yachtsmen | (pl. ) of Yachtsman |
| Yaf | (imp.) Gave. See Give. |
| Yaffingale | (n.) The yaffle. |
| Yaffle | (n.) The European green woodpecker (Picus, / Genius, viridis). It is noted for its loud laughlike note. Called also eccle, hewhole, highhoe, laughing bird, popinjay, rain bird, yaffil, yaffler, yaffingale, yappingale, yackel, and woodhack. |
| Yager | (n.) In the German army, one belonging to a body of light infantry armed with rifles, resembling the chasseur of the French army. |
| Yaguarundi | (n.) Same as Jaguarondi. |
| Yajur-Veda | (n.) See Veda. |
| Yak | (n.) A bovine mammal (Poephagus grunnies) native of the high plains of Central Asia. Its neck, the outer side of its legs, and its flanks, are covered with long, flowing, fine hair. Its tail is long and bushy, often white, and is valued as an ornament and |
| Yakamilk | (n.) See Trumpeter, 3 (a). |
| Yakare | (n.) Same as Yacare. |
| Yakin | (n.) A large Asiatic antelope (Budorcas taxicolor) native of the higher parts of the Himalayas and other lofty mountains. Its head and neck resemble those of the ox, and its tail is like that of the goat. Called also budorcas. |
| Yakoots | (n. pl.) (Ethnol.) A nomadic Mongolian tribe native of Northern Siberia, and supposed to be of Turkish stock. They are mainly pastoral in their habits. |
| Yaksha | (n.) A kind of demigod attendant on Kuvera, the god of wealth. |
| Yalah | (n.) The oil of the mahwa tree. |
| Yam | (n.) A large, esculent, farinaceous tuber of various climbing plants of the genus Dioscorea; also, the plants themselves. Mostly natives of warm climates. The plants have netted-veined, petioled leaves, and pods with three broad wings. The commonest speci |
| Yama | (n.) The king of the infernal regions, corresponding to the Greek Pluto, and also the judge of departed souls. In later times he is more exclusively considered the dire judge of all, and the tormentor of the wicked. He is represented as of a green color, |
| Yamma | (n.) The llama. |
| Yamp | (n.) An umbelliferous plant (Carum Gairdneri); also, its small fleshy roots, which are eaten by the Indians from Idaho to California. |
| Yang | (n.) The cry of the wild goose; a honk. |
| Yang | (v. i.) To make the cry of the wild goose. |
| Yank | (v. t.)To twitch; to jerk. |
| Yank | (n.) A jerk or twitch. |
| Yank | (n.) An abbreviation of Yankee. |
| Yanked | (imp. & p. p.) of Yank |
| Yankee | (a.) Of or pertaining to a Yankee; characteristic of the Yankees. |
| Yankee | (n.) A nickname for a native or citizen of New England, especially one descended from old New England stock; by extension, an inhabitant of the Northern States as distinguished from a Southerner; also, applied sometimes by foreigners to any inhabitant of |
| Yankee-Doodle | (n.) Humorously, a Yankee. |
| Yankee-Doodle | (n.) The name of a tune adopted popularly as one of the national airs of the United States. |
| Yankeeism | (n.) A Yankee idiom, word, custom, or the like. |
| Yanking | (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Yank |
| Yaourt | (n.) A fermented drink, or milk beer, made by the Turks. |
| Yap | (n.) A bark; a yelp. |
| Yap | (v. i.) To bark; to yelp. |
| Yapock | (n.) A South American aquatic opossum (Chironectes variegatus) found in Guiana and Brazil. Its hind feet are webbed, and its fore feet do not have an opposable thumb for climbing. Called also water opossum. |
| Yapon | (n.) Same as Yaupon. |
| Yarage | (a.) The power of moving, or being managed, at sea; -- said with reference to a ship. |
| Yard | (v. t.)To confine (cattle) to the yard; to shut up, or keep, in a yard; as, to yard cows. |
| Yard | (n.) An inclosure within which any work or business is carried on; as, a dockyard; a shipyard. |
| Yard | (n.) An inclosure; usually, a small inclosed place in front of, or around, a house or barn; as, a courtyard; a cowyard; a barnyard. |
| Yard | (v. i.) A branch; a twig. |
| Yard | (v. i.) A long piece of timber, as a rafter, etc. |
| Yard | (v. i.) A long piece of timber, nearly cylindrical, tapering toward the ends, and designed to support and extend a square sail. A yard is usually hung by the center to the mast. See Illust. of Ship. |
| Yard | (v. i.) A measure of length, equaling three feet, or thirty-six inches, being the standard of English and American measure. |
| Yard | (v. i.) A rod; a stick; a staff. |
| Yard | (v. i.) The penis. |
| Yardarm | (n.) Either half of a square-rigged vessel's yard, from the center or mast to the end. |
| Yardful | (n.) As much as a yard will contain; enough to fill a yard. |
| Yardfuls | (pl. ) of Yardful |
| Yardland | (n.) A measure of land of uncertain quantity, varying from fifteen to forty acres; a virgate. |
| Yardstick | (n.) A stick three feet, or a yard, in length, used as a measure of cloth, etc. |
| Yardwand | (n.) A yardstick. |
| Yare | (adv.) Soon. |
| Yare | (n.) Ready; dexterous; eager; lively; quick to move. |
| Yarely | (adv.) In a yare manner. |
| Yark | (v. t. & i.) To yerk. |
| Yarke | (n.) Same as Saki. |
| Yarn | (n.) A story told by a sailor for the amusement of his companions; a story or tale; as, to spin a yarn. |
| Yarn | (n.) One of the threads of which the strands of a rope are composed. |
| Yarn | (n.) Spun wool; woolen thread; also, thread of other material, as of cotton, flax, hemp, or silk; material spun and prepared for use in weaving, knitting, manufacturing sewing thread, or the like. |
| Yarnen | (a.) Made of yarn; consisting of yarn. |
| Yarnut | (n.) See Yernut. |
| Yarr | (v. i.) To growl or snarl as a dog. |
| Yarrish | (a.) Having a rough, dry taste. |
| Yarrow | (n.) An American and European composite plant (Achillea Millefolium) with very finely dissected leaves and small white corymbed flowers. It has a strong, and somewhat aromatic, odor and taste, and is sometimes used in making beer, or is dried for smoking. |
| Yarwhip | (n.) The European bar-tailed godwit; -- called also yardkeep, and yarwhelp. See Godwit. |
| Yataghan | (n.) A long knife, or short saber, common among Mohammedan nations, usually having a double curve, sometimes nearly straight. |
| Yate | (n.) A gate. See 1st Gate. |
| Yaud | (n.) See Yawd. |
| Yaul | (n.) See Yawl. |
| Yaulp | (v. i.) To yaup. |
| Yaup | (n.) A cry of distress, rage, or the like, as the cry of a sickly bird, or of a child in pain. |
| Yaup | (n.) The blue titmouse. |
| Yaup | (v. i.) To cry out like a child; to yelp. |
| Yauper | (n.) One who, or that which, yaups. |
| Yaupon | (n.) A shrub (Ilex Cassine) of the Holly family, native from Virginia to Florida. The smooth elliptical leaves are used as a substitute for tea, and were formerly used in preparing the black drink of the Indians of North Carolina. Called also South-Sea te |
| Yaw | (v. i. & t.) To steer wild, or out of the line of her course; to deviate from her course, as when struck by a heavy sea; -- said of a ship. |
| Yaw | (n.) A movement of a vessel by which she temporarily alters her course; a deviation from a straight course in steering. |
| Yaw | (v. i.) To rise in blisters, breaking in white froth, as cane juice in the clarifiers in sugar works. |
| Yawd | (n.) A jade; an old horse or mare. |
| Yawed | (imp. & p. p.) of Yaw |
| Yawing | (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Yaw |
| Yawl | (n.) A small ship's boat, usually rowed by four or six oars. |
| Yawl | (v. i.) To cry out like a dog or cat; to howl; to yell. |
| Yawl-rigged | (a.) Having two masts with fore-and-aft sails, but differing from a schooner in that the after mast is very small, and stepped as far aft as possible. See Illustration in Appendix. |
| Yawn | (n.) A chasm, mouth, or passageway. |
| Yawn | (n.) An involuntary act, excited by drowsiness, etc., consisting of a deep and long inspiration following several successive attempts at inspiration, the mouth, fauces, etc., being wide open. |
| Yawn | (n.) The act of opening wide, or of gaping. |
| Yawn | (v. i.) To be eager; to desire to swallow anything; to express desire by yawning; as, to yawn for fat livings. |
| Yawn | (v. i.) To open the mouth involuntarily through drowsiness, dullness, or fatigue; to gape; to oscitate. |
| Yawn | (v. i.) To open the mouth, or to gape, through surprise or bewilderment. |
| Yawn | (v. i.) To open wide; to gape, as if to allow the entrance or exit of anything. |
| Yawned | (imp. & p. p.) of Yawn |
| Yawning | (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Yawn |
| Yawningly | (adv.) In a yawning manner. |
| Yawp | (v. & n.) See Yaup. |
| Yaws | (n.) A disease, occurring in the Antilles and in Africa, characterized by yellowish or reddish tumors, of a contagious character, which, in shape and appearance, often resemble currants, strawberries, or raspberries. There are several varieties of this di |
| Yaw-weed | (n.) A low, shrubby, rubiaceous plant (Morinda Royoc) growing along the seacoast of the West Indies. It has small, white, odorous flowers. |
| Ybe | (p. p.) Been. |
| Ycleped | (p. p.) Called; named; -- obsolete, except in archaic or humorous writings. |
| Ycleped | () of Clepe |
| Ydo | (p. p.) Done. |
| Ydrad | (p. p.) Dreaded. |
| Ye | (pron.) The plural of the pronoun of the second person in the nominative case. |
| Ye | () Alt. of Ye |
| Ye | () an old method of printing the article the (AS. /e), the "y" being used in place of the Anglo-Saxon thorn (/). It is sometimes incorrectly pronounced ye. See The, and Thorn, n., 4. |
| Ye | (adv.) Yea; yes. |
| Ye | (n.) An eye. |
| Yea | (adv.) More than this; not only so, but; -- used to mark the addition of a more specific or more emphatic clause. Cf. Nay, adv., 2. |
| Yea | (adv.) Yes; ay; a word expressing assent, or an affirmative, or an affirmative answer to a question, now superseded by yes. See Yes. |
| Yea | (n.) An affirmative vote; one who votes in the affirmative; as, a vote by yeas and nays. |
| Yead | (v. i.) Properly, a variant of the defective imperfect yode, but sometimes mistaken for a present. See the Note under Yede. |
| Yean | (v. t. & i.) To bring forth young, as a goat or a sheep; to ean. |
| Yeaned | (imp. & p. p.) of Yean |
| Yeaning | (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Yean |
| Yeanling | (n.) A lamb or a kid; an eanling. |
| Year | (n.) Age, or old age; as, a man in years. |
| Year | (n.) The time in which any planet completes a revolution about the sun; as, the year of Jupiter or of Saturn. |
| Year | (n.) The time of the apparent revolution of the sun trough the ecliptic; the period occupied by the earth in making its revolution around the sun, called the astronomical year; also, a period more or less nearly agreeing with this, adopted by various nati |
| Yeara | (n.) The California poison oak (Rhus diversiloba). See under Poison, a. |
| Yearbook | (n.) A book containing annual reports of cases adjudged in the courts of England. |
| Yearbook | (n.) A book published yearly; any annual report or summary of the statistics or facts of a year, designed to be used as a reference book; as, the Congregational Yearbook. |
| Yeared | (a.) Containing years; having existed or continued many years; aged. |
| Yearling | (a.) Being a year old. |
| Yearling | (n.) An animal one year old, or in the second year of its age; -- applied chiefly to cattle, sheep, and horses. |
| Yearly | (a.) Accomplished in a year; as, the yearly circuit, or revolution, of the earth. |
| Yearly | (a.) Happening, accruing, or coming every year; annual; as, a yearly income; a yearly feast. |
| Yearly | (a.) Lasting a year; as, a yearly plant. |
| Yearly | (adv.) Annually; once a year to year; as, blessings yearly bestowed. |
| Yearn | (v. i. & t.) To curdle, as milk. |
| Yearn | (v. t.)To pain; to grieve; to vex. |
| Yearn | (v. i.) To be filled with longing desire; to be harassed or rendered uneasy with longing, or feeling the want of a thing; to strain with emotions of affection or tenderness; to long; to be eager. |
| Yearn | (v. i.) To be pained or distressed; to grieve; to mourn. |
| Yearned | (imp. & p. p.) of Yearn |
| Yearnful | (a.) Desirous. |
| Yearning | (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Yearn |
| Yearningly | (adv.) With yearning. |
| Yearnings | (n. pl.) The maws, or stomachs, of young calves, used as a rennet for curdling milk. |
| Yearth | (n.) The earth. |
| Yeast | (n.) A form of fungus which grows as indvidual rounded cells, rather than in a mycelium, and reproduces by budding; esp. members of the orders Endomycetales and Moniliales. Some fungi may grow both as a yeast or as a mycelium, depending on the conditions |
| Yeast | (n.) Spume, or foam, of water. |
| Yeast | (n.) The foam, or troth (top yeast), or the sediment (bottom yeast), of beer or other in fermentation, which contains the yeast plant or its spores, and under certain conditions produces fermentation in saccharine or farinaceous substances; a preparation |
| Yeast-bitten | (a.) A term used of beer when the froth of the yeast has reentered the body of the beer. |
| Yeastiness | (n.) The quality or state of being yeasty, or frothy. |
| Yeasty | (a.) Frothy; foamy; spumy, like yeast. |
| Yedding | (n.) The song of a minstrel; hence, any song. |
| Yede | (imp.) Went. See Yode. |
| Yeel | (n.) An eel. |
| Yeldhall | (n.) Guildhall. |
| Yeldrin | (n.) Alt. of Yeldrine |
| Yeldrine | (n.) The yellow-hammer; -- called also yeldrock, and yoldrin. |
| Yelk | (n.) Same as Yolk. |
| Yell | (v. t.)To utter or declare with a yell; to proclaim in a loud tone. |
| Yell | (n.) A sharp, loud, hideous outcry. |
| Yell | (v. i.) To cry out, or shriek, with a hideous noise; to cry or scream as with agony or horror. |
| Yelled | (imp. & p. p.) of Yell |
| Yelling | (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Yell |
| Yellow | (superl.) Being of a bright saffronlike color; of the color of gold or brass; having the hue of that part of the rainbow, or of the solar spectrum, which is between the orange and the green. |
| Yellow | (v. t.)To make yellow; to cause to have a yellow tinge or color; to dye yellow. |
| Yellow | (n.) A bright golden color, reflecting more light than any other except white; the color of that part of the spectrum which is between the orange and green. |
| Yellow | (n.) A yellow pigment. |
| Yellow | (v. i.) To become yellow or yellower. |
| Yellowammer | (n.) See Yellow-hammer. |
| Yellowbill | (n.) The American scoter. |
| Yellowbird | (n.) The American goldfinch, or thistle bird. See Goldfinch. |
| Yellowbird | (n.) The common yellow warbler; -- called also summer yellowbird. See Illust. of Yellow warbler, under Yellow, a. |
| Yellow-covered | (a.) Covered or bound in yellow paper. |
| Yellowed | (imp. & p. p.) of Yellow |
| Yellow-eyed | (a.) Having yellow eyes. |
| Yellowfin | (n.) A large squeteague. |
| Yellowfish | (n.) A rock trout (Pleurogrammus monopterygius) found on the coast of Alaska; -- called also striped fish, and Atka mackerel. |
| Yellow-golds | (n.) A certain plant, probably the yellow oxeye. |
| Yellowhammer | (n.) A common European finch (Emberiza citrinella). The color of the male is bright yellow on the breast, neck, and sides of the head, with the back yellow and brown, and the top of the head and the tail quills blackish. Called also yellow bunting, scribb |
| Yellowhammer | (n.) The flicker. |
| Yellowing | (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Yellow |
| Yellowing | (n.) The act or process of making yellow. |
| Yellowish | (a.) Somewhat yellow; as, amber is of a yellowish color. |
| Yellowlegs | (n.) Any one of several species of long-legged sandpipers of the genus Totanus, in which the legs are bright yellow; -- called also stone snipe, tattler, telltale, yellowshanks; and yellowshins. See Tattler, 2. |
| Yellowness | (n.) Jealousy. |
| Yellowness | (n.) The quality or state of being yellow; as, the yellowness of an orange. |
| Yellowroot | (n.) Any one of several plants with yellow roots. |
| Yellowroot | (n.) Same as Orangeroot. |
| Yellowroot | (n.) See Xanthorhiza. |
| Yellows | (n.) A disease of plants, esp. of peach trees, in which the leaves turn to a yellowish color; jeterus. |
| Yellows | (n.) A disease of the bile in horses, cattle, and sheep, causing yellowness of the eyes; jaundice. |
| Yellows | (n.) A group of butterflies in which the predominating color is yellow. It includes the common small yellow butterflies. Called also redhorns, and sulphurs. See Sulphur. |
| Yellowseed | (n.) A kind of pepper grass (Lepidium campestre). |
| Yellowshanks | (n.) Alt. of Yellowshins |
| Yellowshins | (n.) See Yellolegs. |
| Yellowtail | (n.) A California rockfish (Sebastodes flavidus). |
| Yellowtail | (n.) Any one of several species of marine carangoid fishes of the genus Seriola; especially, the large California species (S. dorsalis) which sometimes weighs thirty or forty pounds, and is highly esteemed as a food fish; -- called also cavasina, and whit |
| Yellowtail | (n.) The mademoiselle, or silver perch. |
| Yellowtail | (n.) The menhaden. |
| Yellowtail | (n.) The runner, 12. |
| Yellowtail | (n.) The sailor's choice (Diplodus rhomboides). |
| Yellowthroat | (n.) Any one of several species of American ground warblers of the genus Geothlypis, esp. the Maryland yellowthroat (G. trichas), which is a very common species. |
| Yellowtop | (n.) A kind of grass, perhaps a species of Agrostis. |
| Yellowwood | (n.) The wood of any one of several different kinds of trees; also, any one of the trees themselves. Among the trees so called are the Cladrastis tinctoria, an American leguminous tree; the several species of prickly ash (Xanthoxylum); the Australian Flin |
| Yellowwort | (n.) A European yellow-flowered, gentianaceous (Chlora perfoliata). The whole plant is intensely bitter, and is sometimes used as a tonic, and also in dyeing yellow. |
| Yelp | (n.) A sharp, quick cry; a bark. |
| Yelp | (v. i.) To boast. |
| Yelp | (v. i.) To utter a sharp, quick cry, as a hound; to bark shrilly with eagerness, pain, or fear; to yaup. |
| Yelped | (imp. & p. p.) of Yelp |
| Yelper | (n.) An animal that yelps, or makes a yelping noise. |
| Yelper | (n.) The avocet; -- so called from its sharp, shrill cry. |
| Yelper | (n.) The tattler. |
| Yelping | (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Yelp |
| Yeman | (n.) A yeoman. |
| Yen | (pl. ) of Ye |
| Yen | (n.) The unit of value and account in Japan. Since Japan's adoption of the gold standard, in 1897, the value of the yen has been about 50 cents. The yen is equal to 100 sen. |
| Yend | (v. t.)To throw; to cast. |
| Yenite | (n.) A silicate of iron and lime occurring in black prismatic crystals; -- also called ilvaite. |
| Yeoman | (n.) A common man, or one of the commonly of the first or most respectable class; a freeholder; a man free born. |
| Yeoman | (n.) A servant; a retainer. |
| Yeoman | (n.) A yeoman of the guard; also, a member of the yeomanry cavalry. |
| Yeoman | (n.) An interior officer under the boatswain, gunner, or carpenters, charged with the stowage, account, and distribution of the stores. |
| Yeomanlike | (a.) Resembling, or suitable to, a yeoman; yeomanly. |
| Yeomanly | (a.) Pertaining to a yeoman; becoming or suitable to, a yeoman; yeomanlike. |
| Yeomanry | (n.) The collective body of yeomen, or freeholders. |
| Yeomanry | (n.) The position or rank of a yeoman. |
| Yeomanry | (n.) The yeomanry cavalry. |
| Yeomen | (pl. ) of Yeoman |
| Yeorling | (n.) The European yellow-hammer. |
| Yer | (prep.) Ere; before. |
| Yerba | (n.) An herb; a plant. |
| Yerd | (n.) See 1st & 2d Yard. |
| Yerk | (v. t.)To strike or lash with a whip. |
| Yerk | (v. t.)To throw or thrust with a sudden, smart movement; to kick or strike suddenly; to jerk. |
| Yerk | (n.) A sudden or quick thrust or motion; a jerk. |
| Yerk | (v. i.) To move a quick, jerking motion. |
| Yerk | (v. i.) To throw out the heels; to kick; to jerk. |
| Yerked | (imp. & p. p.) of Yerk |
| Yerking | (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Yerk |
| Yern | (a.) Eager; brisk; quick; active. |
| Yern | (v. i.) See 3d Yearn. |
| Yerne | (a.) Eagerly; briskly; quickly. |
| Yernut | (n.) An earthnut, or groundnut. See Groundnut (d). |
| Yerst | (adv.) See Erst. |
| Yes | (adv.) Ay; yea; -- a word which expresses affirmation or consent; -- opposed to no. |
| Yest | (n.) See Yeast. |
| Yester | (a.) Last; last past; next before; of or pertaining to yesterday. |
| Yesterday | (adv.) On the day last past; on the day preceding to-day; as, the affair took place yesterday. |
| Yesterday | (n.) Fig. |
| Yesterday | (n.) The day last past; the day next before the present. |
| Yestereve | (n.) Alt. of Yester-evening |
| Yester-evening | (n.) The evening of yesterday; the evening last past. |
| Yestermorn | (n.) Alt. of Yester-morning |
| Yester-morning | (n.) The morning of yesterday. |
| Yestern | (a.) Of or pertaining to yesterday; relating to the day last past. |
| Yesternight | (adv.) On the last night. |
| Yesternight | (n.) The last night; the night last past. |
| Yesternoon | (n.) The noon of yesterday; the noon last past. |
| Yesterweek | (n.) The week last past; last week. |
| Yesteryear | (n.) The year last past; last year. |
| Yestreen | (n.) Yester-evening; yesternight; last night. |
| Yesty | (a.) See Yeasty. |
| Yet | (conj.) Before some future time; before the end; eventually; in time. |
| Yet | (conj.) Even; -- used emphatically. |
| Yet | (conj.) Nevertheless; notwithstanding; however. |
| Yet | (adv.) At the same time; by continuance from a former state; still. |
| Yet | (adv.) In addition; further; besides; over and above; still. |
| Yet | (adv.) Up to the present time; thus far; hitherto; until now; -- and with the negative, not yet, not up to the present time; not as soon as now; as, Is it time to go? Not yet. See As yet, under As, conj. |
| Yet | (n.) Any one of several species of large marine gastropods belonging to the genus Yetus, or Cymba; a boat shell. |
| Yeve | (v. i.) To give. |
| Yeven | (p. p.) Given. |
| Yew | (a.) Of or pertaining to yew trees; made of the wood of a yew tree; as, a yew whipstock. |
| Yew | (n.) A bow for shooting, made of the yew. |
| Yew | (n.) An evergreen tree (Taxus baccata) of Europe, allied to the pines, but having a peculiar berrylike fruit instead of a cone. It frequently grows in British churchyards. |
| Yew | (n.) The wood of the yew. It is light red in color, compact, fine-grained, and very elastic. It is preferred to all other kinds of wood for bows and whipstocks, the best for these purposes coming from Spain. |
| Yew | (v. i.) See Yaw. |
| Yewen | (a.) Made of yew; as, yewen bows. |
| Yex | (v. i.) A hiccough. |
| Yex | (v. i.) To hiccough. |
| Yezdegerdian | (a.) Of or pertaining to Yezdegerd, the last Sassanian monarch of Persia, who was overthrown by the Mohammedans; as, the Yezdegerdian era, which began on the 16th of June, a. d. 632. The era is still used by the Parsees. |
| Yezdi | (n.) Same as Izedi. |
| Yezidee | (n.) Alt. of Yezidi |
| Yezidi | (n.) Same as Izedi. |
| Yfere | (adv.) Together. See Ifere. |
| Ygdrasyl | (n.) See in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction. |
| Yghe | (n.) Eye. |
| Ygo | (p. p.) Gone. |
| Yground | () p. p. of Grind. |
| Yholde | () p. p. of Hold. |
| Yield | (v. t.)To admit to be true; to concede; to allow. |
| Yield | (v. t.)To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth. |
| Yield | (v. t.)To give a reward to; to bless. |
| Yield | (v. t.)To give in return for labor expended; to produce, as payment or interest on what is expended or invested; to pay; as, money at interest yields six or seven per cent. |
| Yield | (v. t.)To give up, as something that is claimed or demanded; to make over to one who has a claim or right; to resign; to surrender; to relinquish; as a city, an opinion, etc. |
| Yield | (v. t.)To permit; to grant; as, to yield passage. |
| Yield | (n.) Amount yielded; product; -- applied especially to products resulting from growth or cultivation. |
| Yield | (v. i.) To comply with; to assent; as, I yielded to his request. |
| Yield | (v. i.) To give place, as inferior in rank or excellence; as, they will yield to us in nothing. |
| Yield | (v. i.) To give up the contest; to submit; to surrender; to succumb. |
| Yield | (v. i.) To give way; to cease opposition; to be no longer a hindrance or an obstacle; as, men readily yield to the current of opinion, or to customs; the door yielded. |
| Yieldable | (a.) Disposed to yield or comply. |
| Yieldance | (n.) The act of producing; yield; as, the yieldance of the earth. |
| Yieldance | (n.) The act of yielding; concession. |
| Yielded | (imp. & p. p.) of Yield |
| Yielder | (n.) One who yields. |
| Yielding | (a.) Inclined to give way, or comply; flexible; compliant; accommodating; as, a yielding temper. |
| Yielding | (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Yield |
| Yieldless | (a.) Without yielding; unyielding. |
| Yift | (n.) Gift. |
| Yin | (n.) A Chinese weight of 2/ pounds. |
| Yis | (adv.) Yes. |
| Yit | (conj.) Yet. |
| Yite | (n.) The European yellow-hammer. |
| Yive | (v. t. & i.) To give. |
| -yl | () A suffix used as a characteristic termination of chemical radicals; as in ethyl, carbonyl, hydroxyl, etc. |
| Yle | (n.) Isle. |
| Yliche | (a. & adv.) Alt. of Ylike |
| Ylike | (a. & adv.) Like; alike. |
| Yllanraton | (n.) The agouara. |
| Ymaked | (p. p.) Made. |
| Ymel | (prep.) Among. |
| Ynambu | (n.) A South American tinamou (Rhynchotus rufescens); -- called also perdiz grande, and rufous tinamou. See Illust. of Tinamou. |
| Ynough | (a.) Alt. of Ynow |
| Ynow | (a.) Enough. |
| Yockel | (n.) The yaffle. |
| Yode | (imp.) Went; walked; proceeded. |
| Yodel | (v. t. & i.) Alt. of Yodle |
| Yodel | (n.) Alt. of Yodle |
| Yodeled | (imp. & p. p.) of Yodle |
| Yodeling | (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Yodle |
| Yodle | (v. t. & i.) To sing in a manner common among the Swiss and Tyrolese mountaineers, by suddenly changing from the head voice, or falsetto, to the chest voice, and the contrary; to warble. |
| Yodle | (n.) A song sung by yodeling, as by the Swiss mountaineers. |
| Yodled | () of Yodle |
| Yodler | (n.) One who yodels. |
| Yodling | () of Yodle |
| Yoga | (n.) A species of asceticism among the Hindoos, which consists in a complete abstraction from all worldly objects, by which the votary expects to obtain union with the universal spirit, and to acquire superhuman faculties. |
| Yogi | (n.) A follower of the yoga philosophy; an ascetic. |
| Yoicks | (interj.) A cry of encouragement to foxhounds. |
| Yoit | (n.) The European yellow-hammer. |
| Yojan | (n.) A measure of distance, varying from four to ten miles, but usually about five. |
| Yoke | (v. t.)To couple; to join with another. |
| Yoke | (v. t.)To enslave; to bring into bondage; to restrain; to confine. |
| Yoke | (v. t.)To put a yoke on; to join in or with a yoke; as, to yoke oxen, or pair of oxen. |
| Yoke | (n.) A band shaped to fit the shoulders or the hips, and joined to the upper full edge of the waist or the skirt. |
| Yoke | (n.) A bar or frame of wood by which two oxen are joined at the heads or necks for working together. |
| Yoke | (n.) A bent crosspiece connecting two other parts. |
| Yoke | (n.) A crosspiece upon the head of a boat's rudder. To its ends lines are attached which lead forward so that the boat can be steered from amidships. |
| Yoke | (n.) A frame of wood fitted to a person's shoulders for carrying pails, etc., suspended on each side; as, a milkmaid's yoke. |
| Yoke | (n.) A frame or convex piece by which a bell is hung for ringing it. See Illust. of Bell. |
| Yoke | (n.) A frame or piece resembling a yoke, as in use or shape. |
| Yoke | (n.) A frame worn on the neck of an animal, as a cow, a pig, a goose, to prevent passage through a fence. |
| Yoke | (n.) A mark of servitude; hence, servitude; slavery; bondage; service. |
| Yoke | (n.) A portion of the working day; as, to work two yokes, that is, to work both portions of the day, or morning and afternoon. |
| Yoke | (n.) A tie securing two timbers together, not used for part of a regular truss, but serving a temporary purpose, as to provide against unusual strain. |
| Yoke | (n.) Fig. |
| Yoke | (n.) The quantity of land plowed in a day by a yoke of oxen. |
| Yoke | (n.) Two animals yoked together; a couple; a pair that work together. |
| Yoke | (v. i.) To be joined or associated; to be intimately connected; to consort closely; to mate. |
| Yokeage | (n.) See Rokeage. |
| Yoked | (imp. & p. p.) of Yoke |
| Yokefellow | (n.) An associate or companion in, or as in; a mate; a fellow; especially, a partner in marriage. |
| Yokel | (n.) A country bumpkin. |
| Yokelet | (n.) A small farm; -- so called as requiring but one yoke of oxen to till it. |
| Yokemate | (n.) Same as Yokefellow. |
| Yoke-toed | (a.) Having two toes in front and two behind, as the trogons and woodpeckers. |
| Yoking | (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Yoke |
| Yold | (obs. p. p.) of Yield |
| Yold | (p. p.) Yielded. |
| Yolden | (p. p.) Yielded. |
| Yolk | (n.) An oily secretion which naturally covers the wool of sheep. |
| Yolk | (n.) The yellow part of an egg; the vitellus. |
| Yoll | (v. i.) To yell. |
| Yon | (a.) At a distance, but within view; yonder. |
| Yon | (adv.) Yonder. |
| Yoncopin | (n.) A local name in parts of the Mississippi Valley for the American lotus (Nelumbo lutea). |
| Yond | (a.) Furious; mad; angry; fierce. |
| Yond | (a.) Yonder. |
| Yonder | (a.) Being at a distance within view, or conceived of as within view; that or those there; yon. |
| Yonder | (adv.) At a distance, but within view. |
| Yoni | (n.) The symbol under which Sakti, or the personification of the female power in nature, is worshiped. Cf. Lingam. |
| Yonker | (n.) A young fellow; a younker. |
| Yore | (adv.) In time long past; in old time; long since. |
| York use | () The one of the three printed uses of England which was followed in the north. It was based on the Sarum use. See Use, n., 6. |
| Yorker | (n.) A tice. |
| Yorkshire | (n.) A county in the north of England. |
| Yot | (v. t.)To unite closely. |
| Yote | (v. t.)To pour water on; to soak in, or mix with, water. |
| You | (dat. & obj.) The pronoun of the second person, in the nominative, dative, and objective case, indicating the person or persons addressed. See the Note under Ye. |
| Youl | (v. i.) To yell; to yowl. |
| Young | (superl.) Being in the first part, pr period, of growth; as, a young plant; a young tree. |
| Young | (superl.) Having little experience; inexperienced; unpracticed; ignorant; weak. |
| Young | (superl.) Not long born; still in the first part of life; not yet arrived at adolescence, maturity, or age; not old; juvenile; -- said of animals; as, a young child; a young man; a young fawn. |
| Young | (n.) The offspring of animals, either a single animal or offspring collectively. |
| Youngger | (n.) One who is younger; an inferior in age; a junior. |
| Youngish | (a.) Somewhat young. |
| Youngling | (a.) Young; youthful. |
| Youngling | (n.) A young person; a youth; also, any animal in its early life. |
| Youngly | (a.) Like a young person or thing; young; youthful. |
| Youngly | (adv.) Ignorantly; weakly. |
| Youngly | (adv.) In a young manner; in the period of youth; early in life. |
| Youngness | (n.) The quality or state of being young. |
| Youngster | (n.) A young person; a youngling; a lad. |
| Youngth | (n.) Youth. |
| Youngthly | (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, youth; youthful. |
| Younker | (a.) A young person; a stripling; a yonker. |
| Youpon | (n.) Same as Yaupon. |
| Your | (pron. & a.) The form of the possessive case of the personal pronoun you. |
| Yours | (pron.) See the Note under Your. |
| Yourself | (pron.) An emphasized or reflexive form of the pronoun of the second person; -- used as a subject commonly with you; as, you yourself shall see it; also, alone in the predicate, either in the nominative or objective case; as, you have injured yourself. |
| Yourselves | (pl. ) of Yourself |
| Youth | (pl. ) of Youth |
| Youth | (n.) A young person; especially, a young man. |
| Youth | (n.) The part of life that succeeds to childhood; the period of existence preceding maturity or age; the whole early part of life, from childhood, or, sometimes, from infancy, to manhood. |
| Youth | (n.) The quality or state of being young; youthfulness; juvenility. |
| Youth | (n.) Young persons, collectively. |
| Youthful | (a.) Also used figuratively. |
| Youthful | (a.) Fresh; vigorous, as in youth. |
| Youthful | (a.) Not yet mature or aged; young. |
| Youthful | (a.) Of or pertaining to the early part of life; suitable to early life; as, youthful days; youthful sports. |
| Youthhood | (n.) The quality or state of being a youth; the period of youth. |
| Youthly | (a.) Young; youthful. |
| Youths | (pl. ) of Youth |
| Youthsome | (a.) Youthful. |
| Youthy | (a.) Young. |
| Youze | (n.) The cheetah. |
| Yow | (pron.) You. |
| Yowe | (n.) A ewe. |
| Yowl | (n.) A loud, protracted, and mournful cry, as that of a dog; a howl. |
| Yowl | (v. i.) To utter a loud, long, and mournful cry, as a dog; to howl; to yell. |
| Yowley | (n.) The European yellow-hammer. |
| Yox | (v. i.) See Yex. |
| Ypight | (p. p.) See Pight. |
| Ypocras | (n.) Hippocras. |
| Ypres lace | () Fine bobbin lace made at Ypres in Belgium, usually exactly like Valenciennes lace. |
| Ypsiliform | (a.) Resembling the / in appearance; -- said of the germinal spot in the ripe egg at one of the stages of fecundation. |
| Ypsiloid | (a.) In the form of the letter Y; Y-shaped. |
| Yraft | (p. p.) Bereft. |
| Yren | (n.) Iron. |
| Yronne | (p. p.) Run. |
| Ys | (pl. ) of Y |
| Y's | (pl. ) of Y |
| Ysame | (adv.) Together. |
| Yt | () Alt. of Yt |
| Yt | () an old method of printing that (AS. /aet, /aet) the "y" taking the place of the old letter "thorn" (/). Cf. Ye, the. |
| Ythrowe | () p. p. of Throw. |
| Ytterbic | (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, ytterbium; containing ytterbium. |
| Ytterbium | (n.) A rare element of the boron group, sometimes associated with yttrium or other related elements, as in euxenite and gadolinite. Symbol Yb; provisional atomic weight 173.2. Cf. Yttrium. |
| Yttria | (n.) The oxide, Y2O3, or earth, of yttrium. |
| Yttric | (a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, yttrium. |
| Yttriferous | (a.) Bearing or containing yttrium or the allied elements; as, gadolinite is one of the yttriferous minerals. |
| Yttrious | (a.) Same as Yttric. |
| Yttrium | (n.) A rare metallic element of the boron-aluminium group, found in gadolinite and other rare minerals, and extracted as a dark gray powder. Symbol Y. Atomic weight, 89. |
| Yttro-cerite | (n.) A mineral of a violet-blue color, inclining to gray and white. It is a hydrous fluoride of cerium, yttrium, and calcium. |
| Yttro-columbite | (n.) Alt. of Yttro-tantalite |
| Yttro-tantalite | (n.) A tantalate of uranium, yttrium, and calcium, of a brown or black color. |
| Yu | (n.) Jade. |
| Yucca | (n.) A genus of American liliaceous, sometimes arborescent, plants having long, pointed, and often rigid, leaves at the top of a more or less woody stem, and bearing a large panicle of showy white blossoms. |
| Yucca | (n.) See Flicker, n., 2. |
| Yuck | (v. t.)To scratch. |
| Yuck | (v. i.) To itch. |
| Yuckel | (n.) Same as Yockel. |
| Yuen | (n.) The crowned gibbon (Hylobates pileatus), native of Siam, Southern China, and the Island of Hainan. It is entirely arboreal in its habits, and has very long arms. the males are dark brown or blackish, with a caplike mass of long dark hair, and usually |
| Yufts | (n.) Russia leather. |
| Yug | (n.) Alt. of Yuga |
| Yuga | (n.) Any one of the four ages, Krita, or Satya, Treta, Dwapara, and Kali, into which the Hindoos divide the duration or existence of the world. |
| Yuke | (v. i. & t.) Same as Yuck. |
| Yulan | (n.) A species of Magnolia (M. conspicua) with large white blossoms that open before the leaves. See the Note under Magnolia. |
| Yule | (n.) Christmas or Christmastide; the feast of the Nativity of our Savior. |
| Yuletide | (n.) Christmas time; Christmastide; the season of Christmas. |
| Yumas | (n. pl.) A tribe of Indians native of Arizona and the adjacent parts of Mexico and California. They are agricultural, and cultivate corn, wheat, barley, melons, etc. |
| Yunx | (n.) A genus of birds comprising the wrynecks. |
| Yupon | (n.) Same as Yaupon. |
| Yux | (n. & v.) .See Yex, n. |
| Yvel | (a. & adv.) Evil; ill. |
| Ywar | (a.) Aware; wary. |
| Ywis | (adv.) Certainly; most likely; truly; probably. |
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