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.

Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, 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.

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.

Comical in a clownish or buffoonish manner; whimsically comical.

To mimic.

State or character of a zany; buffoonery.

to shoot, destroy, or inactivate; my TV set was zapped by lightning.

See Army organization, above.

A cured olive which has spoiled or is on the verge of decomposition; loosely, an olive defective because of bruises, wormholes, or the like.

Zaffer.

An extinct genus of cyathophylloid corals common in the Paleozoic formations. It is cup-shaped with numerous septa, and with a deep pit in one side of the cup.

See Sapodilla.

A Turkish policeman.

The Persian name for Zoroaster.

Of or pertaining to Zarathustra, or Zoroaster; Zoroastrian.

See Zoroastrianism.

A hydrous carbonate of nickel occurring as an emerald-green incrustation on chromite; -- called also emerald nickel.

An improvised stockade; especially, one made of thorn bushes, etc.

A metallic cuplike stand used for holding a finjan.

Native sulphide of arsenic, including sandarach, or realgar, and orpiment.

Grooves or furrows formed in snow by the action of the wind, and running parallel with the direction of the wind. This formation results from the erosion of transverse waves previously formed.

A species of macaque (Macacus pileatus) native of India and Ceylon. It has a crown of long erect hair, and tuft of radiating hairs on the back of the head. Called also capped macaque.

A genus of flowering plants. Zauschneria Californica is a suffrutescent perennial, with showy red flowers much resembling those of the garden fuchsia.

A tool for trimming and puncturing roofing slates.

A public shed, or portico, for travelers, worshipers, etc.

A genus of large grasses of which the Indian corn (Zea Mays) is the only species known. Its origin is not yet ascertained. See Maize.

To be zealous.

One who is zealous; a zealot; an enthusiast.

Full of zeal; characterized by zeal.

Full of zeal.

Wanting zeal.

One who is zealous; one who engages warmly in any cause, and pursues his object with earnestness and ardor; especially, one who is overzealous, or carried away by his zeal; one absorbed in devotion to anything; an enthusiast; a fanatical partisan.

Like, or suitable to, a zealot; ardently zealous.

The character or conduct of a zealot; zealotry.

A zealot.

The character and behavior of a zealot; excess of zeal; fanatical devotion to a cause.

See Xebec.

Any member of three species of African wild horses remarkable for having the body white or yellowish white, and conspicuously marked with dark brown or brackish bands.

A lizard having a long tail with black bands (Callisaurus draconoides), which lives in the deserts of the southwestern U. S. and Mexico; called also gridiron-tailed lizard.

A kind of cabinet wood having beautiful black, brown, and whitish stripes, the timber of a tropical American tree (Connarus Guianensis). The wood of a small West Indian myrtaceous tree (Eugenia fragrans). The wood of an East Indian tree of the genus Guettarda.

Pertaining to, or resembling, the zebra.

A cross between a male horse and a female zebra.

A cross between a male zebra and a female horse.

A bovine mammal (Ros Indicus) extensively domesticated in India, China, the East Indies, and East Africa. It usually has short horns, large pendulous ears, slender legs, a large dewlap, and a large, prominent hump over the shoulders; but these characters vary in different domestic breeds, which range in size from that of the common ox to that of a large mastiff.

A large noxious fly of Abyssinia, which like the tsetse fly, is destructive to cattle.

See Sequin.

The upper division of the Permian (Dyas) of Europe. The prevailing rock is a magnesian limestone.

The letter Z; -- called also zee, and formerly izzard.