A country bumpkin.

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

Same as Yokefellow.

Yielded.

Yielded.

To yell.

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.

Yonder.

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.

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

A young fellow; a younker.

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

A tice.

A county in the north of England.

To unite closely.

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

The pronoun of the second person, in the nominative, dative, and objective case, indicating the person or persons addressed. See the Note under Ye.

To yell; to yowl.

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

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

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.

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

Somewhat young.

Young; youthful.

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

The quality or state of being young.

A young person; a youngling; a lad.

Youth.

Pertaining to, or resembling, youth; youthful.

A young person; a stripling; a yonker.

Same as Yaupon.

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

See the Note under Your.

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.

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.

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

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

Young; youthful.

Youthful.

Young.

The cheetah.

You.

A ewe.

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

The European yellow-hammer.

See Yex.

See Pight.

Hippocras.

Resembling the / in appearance; -- said of the germinal spot in the ripe egg at one of the stages of fecundation.

In the form of the letter Y; Y-shaped.

Bereft.

Iron.

Run.

Together.

p. p. of Throw.

Pertaining to, or derived from, ytterbium; containing ytterbium.

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.

The oxide, Y2O3, or earth, of yttrium.

Bearing or containing yttrium or the allied elements; as, gadolinite is one of the yttriferous minerals.

Same as Yttric.

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 number 39. Atomic weight, 88.9.

A mineral of a violet-blue color, inclining to gray and white. It is a hydrous fluoride of cerium, yttrium, and calcium.

A tantalate of uranium, yttrium, and calcium, of a brown or black color.

Jade.

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.

To scratch.

a laugh; also, a joke or gag; -- usually used in the plural, as, the skit got lots of yucks.

a reaction of repugnance or distaste; -- used in discussion of acceptability of proposed new foods, medicines, etc. among potential consumers or patients.

Same as Yockel.

Repugnant or distasteful.

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 with a white band around the face. The females are yellowish white, with a dark spot on the breast and another on the crown. Called also wooyen, and wooyen ape.

Russia leather.

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.

a native or inhabitant of Yugoslavia.

Of or pertaining to Yugoslavia; as, Yugoslavian wine.

a native or inhabitant of Yugoslavia.

Same as Yuck.

A species of Magnolia (Magnolia conspicua) with large white blossoms that open before the leaves. See the Note under Magnolia.

Christmas or Christmastide; the feast of the Nativity of our Savior.

Christmas time; Christmastide; the season of Christmas.

Designating, or pertaining to, an important linguistic stock of North American Indians of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, nearly all agriculturists and adept potters and basket makers. Their usual dwelling is the brush wikiup, and in their native state they wear little clothing. The Yuma, Maricopa, Mohave, Walapi, and Yavapai are among the chief tribes, all of fine physique.

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.

Very pleasing or attractive; especially, pleasing to the taste; delicious; scrumptious.

An Indian of a linguistic stock of tribes of the Peruvian coast who had a developed agricultural civilization at the advent of the Spaniards, before which they had been conquered by the Incas. They constructed irrigation canals which are still in use, adorned their buildings with bas-reliefs and frescoes, and were skilled goldsmiths and silversmiths.

A genus of birds comprising the wrynecks.

Same as Yaupon.

an ambitious young adult, usually college-educated, living in or near a large city, with a professional career and an affluent lifestyle. The "u" in the word is sometimes interpreted as meaning /upwardly mobile/.

See Yex, n.

Evil; ill.

Aware; wary.

Certainly; most likely; truly; probably.

An old solfeggio name for B flat; the seventh harmonic, as heard in the or aeolian string; -- so called by Tartini. It was long considered a false, but is the true note of the chord of the flat seventh.

See Sabian.

See Sabianism.

See Zocco.

An oil pressed by the Arabs from the fruit of a small thorny tree (Balanites Aegyptiaca), and sold to piligrims for a healing ointment.

A European bream (Abramis vimba).

A pigment obtained, usually by roasting cobalt glance with sand or quartz, as a dark earthy powder. It consists of crude cobalt oxide, or of an impure cobalt arseniate. It is used in porcelain painting, and in enameling pottery, to produce a blue color, and is often confounded with smalt, from which, however, it is distinct, as it contains no potash. The name is often loosely applied to mixtures of zaffer proper with silica, or oxides of iron, manganese, etc.

A Turkish chief who supports a mounted militia bearing the same name.

A district from which a Zaim draws his revenue.

A horse of a dark color, neither gray nor white, and having no spots.

One of the Zalambdodonta. The tenrec, solenodon, and golden moles are examples.

the battle in 202 BC in which Scipio decisively defeated Hannibal at the end of the second Punic War.

A large ornamental tropical American tree (Albizia saman) with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and sweet-pulp seed pods eaten by cattle.

An immense leguminous tree (Pithecolobium Saman) of Venezuela. Its branches form a hemispherical mass, often one hundred and eighty feet across. The sweet pulpy pods are used commonly for feeding cattle. Also called rain tree.

of or pertaining to Zambia; as, Zambian cities.

The child of a mulatto and a negro; also, the child of an Indian and a negro; colloquially or humorously, a negro; a sambo.

A genus of cycadaceous plants, having the appearance of low palms, but with exogenous wood. See Coontie, and Illust. of Strobile.

A landowner; also, a collector of land revenue; now, usually, a kind of feudatory recognized as an actual proprietor so long as he pays to the government a certain fixed revenue.

The jurisdiction of a zamindar; the land possessed by a zamindar.

A fossil cycad of the genus Zamia.

A West African buffalo (Bubalus brachyceros) having short horns depressed at the base, and large ears fringed internally with three rows of long hairs. It is destitute of a dewlap. Called also short-horned buffalo, and bush cow.

A sort of bagpipe formerly in use among Italian peasants. It is now almost obsolete.

A European pike perch (Stizostedion lucioperca) allied to the wall-eye; -- called also sandari, sander, sannat, schill, and zant.

The sand mole.

See Zantewood.

A yellow dyewood; fustet; -- called also zante, and zante fustic. See Fustet, and the Note under Fustic. Satinwood (Chloroxylon Swietenia).

A native or inhabitant of Zante, one of the Ionian Islands.