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Yerd

See 1st 2d Yard.

Yerk

A sudden or quick thrust or motion; a jerk.

Yern

Eager; brisk; quick; active.

Yerne

Eagerly; briskly; quickly.

Yernut

An earthnut, or groundnut. See Groundnut (d).

Yes

Ay; yea; -- a word which expresses affirmation or consent; -- opposed to no.

Yester

Last; last past; next before; of or pertaining to yesterday.

Yesterday

On the day last past; on the day preceding to-day; as, the affair took place yesterday.

Yestern

Of or pertaining to yesterday; relating to the day last past.

Yesternoon

The noon of yesterday; the noon last past.

Yestreen

Yester-evening; yesternight; last night.

Yet

Nevertheless; notwithstanding; however.

Yew

Of or pertaining to yew trees; made of the wood of a yew tree; as, a yew whipstock.

Yewen

Made of yew; as, yewen bows.

Yezdegerdian

Of or pertaining to Yezdegerd, the last Sassanian monarch of Persia, who was overthrown by the Muslims; as, the Yezdegerdian era, which began on the 16th of June, a. d. 632. The era is still used by the Parsees.

Yfere

Together. See Ifere.

Ygdrasyl

See in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.

Yid

A Jew; -- now (1998) usually considered offensive or contemptuous.

Yiddish

A language used by German and other Jews, being a Middle German dialect developed under Hebrew and Slavic influence. It is written in Hebrew characters.

Yield

Amount yielded; product; -- applied especially to products resulting from growth or cultivation.

Yieldance

The act of producing; yield; as, the yieldance of the earth.

Yielding

Inclined to give way, or comply; flexible; compliant; accommodating; as, a yielding temper.

Yin

one of the two fundamental principles. See yin and yang.

yin and yang

the two fundamental principles, one negative, dark, passive, cold, wet, and feminine (yin) and the other (yang) positive, bright, active, dry, hot and masculine. The interactions and balance of these forces in people and nature influence their behavior and fate.

Yite

The European yellow-hammer.

Ynambu

A South American tinamou (Rhynchotus rufescens); -- called also perdiz grande, and rufous tinamou. See Illust. of Tinamou.

Yode

Went; walked; proceeded.

Yodle Yodel

A song sung by yodeling, as by the Swiss mountaineers.

Yoga

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.

yogh

An obsolete letter (/) of the Old English alphabet, having a pronunciation similar to the modern /y/.

Yogi

A follower of the yoga philosophy; an ascetic.

Yoicks

A cry of encouragement to foxhounds.

Yoit

The European yellow-hammer.

Yojan

A measure of distance, varying from four to ten miles, but usually about five.

Yoke

To be joined or associated; to be intimately connected; to consort closely; to mate.

Yoke-toed

Having two toes in front and two behind, as the trogons and woodpeckers.

Yokefellow

An associate or companion in, or as in; a mate; a fellow; especially, a partner in marriage.

Yokelet

A small farm; -- so called as requiring but one yoke of oxen to till it.

Yom

Day; -- a Hebrew word used in the names of various Jewish feast days; as, Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement; Yom Teruah (lit., day of shouting), the Feast of Trumpets.

Yoncopin

A local name in parts of the Mississippi Valley for the American lotus (Nelumbo lutea).

Yonder

Being at a distance within view, or conceived of as within view; that or those there; yon.

Yoni

The symbol under which Sakti, or the personification of the female power in nature, is worshiped. Cf. Lingam.

Yonker

A young fellow; a younker.

Yore

In time long past; in old time; long since.

Yot

To unite closely.

Yote

To pour water on; to soak in, or mix with, water.

You

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

To yell; to yowl.

Young

The offspring of animals, either a single animal or offspring collectively.

young-bearing

being the sex that produces ova and carries the fetus to a point where it can live outside the parent; -- of animals.

young-begetting

Being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that perform the fertilizing function in generation, usually male. In contradistinction to female or androgynous.

Younger

One who is younger; an inferior in age; a junior.

Youngly

In a young manner; in the period of youth; early in life.

Youngness

The quality or state of being young.

Youngthly

Pertaining to, or resembling, youth; youthful.

Younker

A young person; a stripling; a yonker.

Your

The form of the possessive case of the personal pronoun you.

Yours

See the Note under Your.

Yourself

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.

youth-on-age

A vigorous perennial herb (Tolmiea menziesii) with flowers in erect racemes and having young plants develop at the junction of a leaf blade and the leafstalk.

Youthful

Not yet mature or aged; young. Also used figuratively.

Youthhood

The quality or state of being a youth; the period of youth.

Yowl

A loud, protracted, and mournful cry, as that of a dog; a howl.

Yowley

The European yellow-hammer.

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