Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter Y - Page 3
Yellowroot (n.) (Bot.) Same as Orangeroot.
Yellows (n.) (Far.) A disease of the bile in horses, cattle, and sheep, causing yellowness of the eyes; jaundice.
His horse . . . sped with spavins, rayed with the yellows. -- Shak.
Yellows (n.) (Bot.) A disease of plants, esp. of peach trees, in which the leaves turn to a yellowish color; jeterus.
Yellows (n.) (Zool.) 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.) (Bot.) A kind of pepper grass ({Lepidium campestre). Yellowshanks
Yellowlegs (n.) (Zool.) 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.
Yellowshanks, Yellowshins (n.) (Zool.) See Yellolegs.
Yellowlegs (n.) (Zool.) 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.
Yellowshins (n.) (Zool.) See Yellolegs.
Compare: Runner
Runner (n.) [From Run.] One who, or that which, runs; a racer.
Runner (n.) A detective. [Slang, Eng.] -- Dickens.
Runner (n.) A messenger. -- Swift.
Runner (n.) A smuggler. [Colloq.] -- R. North.
Runner (n.) One employed to solicit patronage, as for a steamboat, hotel, shop, etc. [Cant, U.S.]
Runner (n.) (Bot.) A slender trailing branch which takes root at the joints or end and there forms new plants, as in the strawberry and the common cinquefoil.
Runner (n.) The rotating stone of a set of millstones.
Runner (n.) (Naut.) A rope rove through a block and used to increase the mechanical power of a tackle. -- Totten.
Runner (n.) One of the pieces on which a sled or sleigh slides; also the part or blade of a skate which slides on the ice.
Runner (n.) (Founding) (a) A horizontal channel in a mold, through which the metal flows to the cavity formed by the pattern; also, the waste metal left in such a channel.
Runner (n.) (b) A trough or channel for leading molten metal from a furnace to a ladle, mold, or pig bed.
Runner (n.) The movable piece to which the ribs of an umbrella are attached.
Runner (n.) (Zool.) A food fish ({Elagatis pinnulatus) of Florida and the West Indies; -- called also skipjack, shoemaker, and yellowtail. The name alludes to its rapid successive leaps from the water.
Runner (n.) (Zool.) Any cursorial bird.
Runner (n.) (Mech.) (a) A movable slab or rubber used in grinding or polishing a surface of stone.
Runner (n.) (b) A tool on which lenses are fastened in a group, for polishing or grinding.
Compare: Sailor
Sailor (n.) One who follows the business of navigating ships or other vessels; one who understands the practical management of ships; one of the crew of a vessel; a mariner; a common seaman.
Syn: Mariner; seaman; seafarer.
Sailor's choice. (Zool.) (a) An excellent marine food fish ({Diplodus rhomboides, syn. Lagodon rhomboides) of the Southern United States; -- called also porgy, squirrel fish, yellowtail, and salt-water bream.
Sailor's choice. (Zool.) (b) A species of grunt ({Orthopristis chrysopterus syn. Pomadasys chrysopterus), an excellent food fish common on the southern coasts of the United States; -- called also hogfish, and pigfish.
Compare: Mademoiselle
Mademoiselle (n.; pl. Mesdemoiselles.) A French title of courtesy given to a girl or an unmarried lady, equivalent to the English Miss. -- Goldsmith.
Mademoiselle (n.) (Zool.) A marine food fish ({Sciaena chrysura), of the Southern United States; -- called also yellowtail, and silver perch.
Yellowtail (n.) (Zool.) 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 white salmon.
Yellowtail (n.) (Zool.) The mademoiselle, or silver perch.
Yellowtail (n.) (Zool.) The menhaden.
Yellowtail (n.) (Zool.) The runner, 12.
Yellowtail (n.) (Zool.) A California rockfish ({Sebastodes flavidus).
Yellowtail (n.) (Zool.) The sailor's choice ({Diplodus rhomboides).
Note: Several other fishes are also locally called yellowtail.
Yellowtail (n.) Superior food fish of the tropical Atlantic and Caribbean with broad yellow stripe along the sides and on the tail [syn: yellowtail, yellowtail snapper, Ocyurus chrysurus].
Yellowtail (n.) Game fish of southern California and Mexico having a yellow tail fin [syn: yellowtail, Seriola dorsalis].
Yellowthroat (n.) (Zool.) 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.
Yellowthroat (n.) Small olive-colored American warblers with yellow breast and throat.
Yellowtop (n.) (Bot.) A kind of grass, perhaps a species of Agrostis.
Compare: Gopherwood
Gopherwood (n.) A small handsome round-headed deciduous tree ({Cladrastis lutea) having showy white flowers in terminal clusters and heavy hardwood yielding yellow dye; also called yellowwood.
Syn: Kentucky yellowwood, Cladrastis lutea, Cladrastis kentukea, yellowwood.
Yellowwood (n.) (Bot.) 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 Flindersia Oxleyana, a tree related to the mahogany; certain South African species of Podocarpus, trees related to the yew; the East Indian Podocarpus latifolia; and the true satinwood (Chloroxylon Swietenia). All these Old World trees furnish valuable timber.
Yellowwood (n.) The yellow wood of any of various yellowwood trees.
Yellowwood (n.) Any of various trees having yellowish wood or yielding a yellow extract [syn: yellowwood, yellowwood tree].
Yellowwort (n.) (Bot.) 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.
Yelped (imp. & p. p.) of Yelp.
Yelping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Yelp.
Yelp (v. i.) To boast. [Obs.]
I keep [care] not of armes for to yelpe. -- Chaucer.
Yelp (v. i.) To utter a sharp, quick cry, as a hound; to bark shrilly with eagerness, pain, or fear; to yaup.
A little herd of England's timorous deer, Mazed with a yelping kennel of French curs? -- Shak.
At the least flourish of a broomstick or ladle, he would fly to the door with a yelping precipitation. -- W. Irving.
Yelp (n.) A sharp, quick cry; a bark. -- Chaucer.
Yelp (n.) A sharp high-pitched cry (especially by a dog) [syn: yip, yelp, yelping].
Yelp (v.) Bark in a high-pitched tone; "the puppies yelped" [syn: yelp, yip, yap].
Compare: Tattler
Tattler (n.) One who tattles; an idle talker; one who tells tales. -- Jer. Taylor.
attler (n.) (Zool.) Any one of several species of large, long-legged sandpipers belonging to the genus Totanus.
Note: The common American species are the greater tattler, or telltale ({Totanus melanoleucus), the smaller tattler, or lesser yellowlegs ({Totanus flavipes), the solitary tattler ({Totanus solitarius), and the semipalmated tattler, or willet. The first two are called also telltale, telltale spine, telltale tattler, yellowlegs, yellowshanks, and yelper.
Yelper (n.) An animal that yelps, or makes a yelping noise. Specifically:
Yelper (n.) (Zool.) The avocet; -- so called from its sharp, shrill cry. [Prov. Eng.]
Yelper (n.) (Zool.) The tattler. [Local, U. S.]
Yeman (n.) A yeoman. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Yemen (n.) 葉門（西南亞國家） A republic on the southwestern shores of the Arabian Peninsula on the Indian Ocean; formed in 1990 [syn: Yemen, Republic of Yemen].
Compare: Ye
Ye (n.; pl. Y["e]n) An eye. [Obs.]
From his y["e]n ran the water down. -- Chaucer.
Yen (n.) The unit of value and account in Japan. The yen is equal to 100 sen. From Japan's adoption of the gold standard, in 1897, to about 1913 the value of the yen was about 50 cents. In 1997 and 1998 the value of the yen varied from 80 per U. S. dollar to 120 per dollar.
Yen (n.) A yearning for something or to do something [syn: hankering, yen].
Yen (n.) The basic unit of money in Japan; equal to 100 sen.
Yen (v.) Have a desire for something or someone who is not present; "She ached for a cigarette"; "I am pining for my lover" [syn: ache, yearn, yen, pine, languish].
Yen (n.) A strong desire or inclination; a longing.
Yen (n.) To have a strong desire or inclination; to long. Yen comes from Chinese (Cantonese) yan, "craving."
Yend (v. t.) To throw; to cast. [Prov. Eng.] Yenisey
Yenite (n.) (Min.) A silicate of iron and lime occurring in black prismatic crystals; -- also called ilvaite. [Spelt also jenite.]
Yeomen (n. pl. ) of Yeoman.
Yeoman (n.) [C] 【美】（海軍）文書軍士；【史】【英】自耕農；自由民；（國王或貴族的）侍從 A common man, or one of the commonly of the first or most respectable class; a freeholder; a man free born.
Note: A yeoman in England is considered as next in order to the gentry. The word is little used in the United States, unless as a title in law proceedings and instruments, designating occupation, and this only in particular States.
Yeoman (n.) A servant; a retainer. [Obs.]
A yeman hadde he and servants no mo. -- Chaucer.
Yeoman (n.) A yeoman of the guard; also, a member of the yeomanry cavalry. [Eng.]
Yeoman (n.) (Naut.) An interior officer under the boatswain, gunner, or carpenters, charged with the stowage, account, and distribution of the stores.
Yeoman of the guard, One of the bodyguard of the English sovereign, consisting of the hundred yeomen, armed with partisans, and habited in the costume of the sixteenth century. They are members of the royal household.
Yeoman (n.) Officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch [syn: yeoman, yeoman of the guard, beefeater].
Yeoman (n.) In former times was free and cultivated his own land.
Yeoman, IN -- U.S. town in Indiana
Population (2000): 96
Housing Units (2000): 47
Land area (2000): 0.121930 sq. miles (0.315798 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.121930 sq. miles (0.315798 sq. km)
FIPS code: 85886
Located within: Indiana (IN), FIPS 18
Location: 40.668138 N, 86.723597 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Yeoman, IN
Yeoman
Yeomanlike (a.) Resembling, or suitable to, a yeoman; yeomanly.
Yeomanly (a.) Pertaining to a yeoman; becoming or suitable to, a yeoman; yeomanlike. -- B. Jonson.
Well could he dress his tackle yeomanly. -- Chaucer.
Yeomanry (n.) The position or rank of a yeoman. [Obs.] "His estate of yeomanry." -- Chaucer.
Yeomanry (n.) The collective body of yeomen, or freeholders.
The enfranchised yeomanry began to feel an instinct for dominion. -- Bancroft.
Yeomanry (n.) A British volunteer cavalry force, growing out of a royal regiment of fox hunters raised by Yorkshire gentlemen in 1745 to fight the Pretender, Charles Edward; -- calle dalso yeomanry cavalry. The members furnish their own horses, have fourteen days' annual camp training, and receive pay and allowance when on duty. In 1901 the name was altered to imperial yeomanry in recognition of the services of the force in the Boer war. See Army organization, above.
Yeomanry cavalry, Certain bodies of volunteer cavalry liable to service in Great Britain only. [Eng.]
Yeomanry (n.) Class of small freeholders who cultivated their own land.
Yeomanry (n.) A British volunteer cavalry force organized in 1761 for home defense later incorporated into the Territorial Army.
Yeorling (n.) (Zool.) The European yellow-hammer.
Yer (prep.) Ere; before. [Obs.] -- Sylvester.
Yerba (n.) [Sp.] (Bot.) An herb; a plant.
Note: This word is much used in compound names of plants in Spanish; as, yerba buena [Sp., a good herb], a name applied in Spain to several kinds of mint ({Mentha sativa, Mentha viridis, etc.), but in California universally applied to a common, sweet-scented labiate plant ({Micromeria Douglasii).
Yerba dol osa. [Sp., herb of the she-bear.] A kind of buckthorn ({Rhamnus Californica).
Yerba mansa. [Sp., a mild herb, soft herb.] A plant ({Anemopsis Californica) with a pungent, aromatic rootstock, used medicinally by the Mexicans and the Indians.
Yerba reuma. [Cf. Sp. reuma rheum, rheumatism.] A low California undershrub ({Frankenia grandifolia).
Yerd (n.) See 1st & 2d Yard. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Yerked (imp. & p. p.) of Yerk.
Yerking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Yerk
Yerk (v. t.) To throw or thrust with a sudden, smart movement; to kick or strike suddenly; to jerk.
Their wounded steeds . . .
Yerk out their armed heels at their dead masters. -- Shak.
Yerk (v. t.) To strike or lash with a whip. [Obs. or Scot.]
Yerk (v. i.) To throw out the heels; to kick; to jerk.
They flirt, they yerk, they backward . . . fling. -- Drayton.
Yerk (v. i.) To move a quick, jerking motion.
Yerk (n.) A sudden or quick thrust or motion; a jerk.
Yerk, () (After Yerkes Observatory) An object-oriented language based on a Forth Kernel with some major modifications. It was originally known as Neon, developed and sold as a product by Kriya Systems from 1985 to 1989.
Several people at The University of Chicago have maintained Yerk since its demise as a product. Because of possible trademark conflict they named it Yerk, which is not an acronym for anything, but rather stands for Yerkes Observatory, part of the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at U of C. Version 3.62. (1994-11-23)
Yern (v. i.) See 3d Yearn. [Obs.]
Yern (a.) Eager; brisk; quick; active. [Obs.] "Her song . . . loud and yern." -- Chaucer.
Yerne (a.) Eagerly; briskly; quickly. [Obs.] -- Piers Plowman.
My hands and my tongue go so yerne. -- Chaucer.
Yernut
(n.) An
earthnut, or groundnut. See Groundnut (d). [Written also yarnut.]
Yerst (adv.) See Erst. [Obs.] -- Sylvester.
Yes (adv.) Ay; yea; -- a word which expresses affirmation or consent; -- opposed to no.
Note: Yes is used, like yea, to enforce, by repetition or addition, something which precedes; as, you have done all this -- yes, you have done more. "Yes, you despise the man books confined." -- Pope.
Note: "The fine distinction between `yea' and `yes,' `nay' and `no,' that once existed in English, has quite disappeared. `Yea' and `nay' in Wyclif's time, and a good deal later, were the answers to questions framed in the affirmative. `Will he come?' To this it would have been replied, `Yea' or `Nay', as the case might be. But, `Will he not come?' To this the answer would have been `Yes' or `No.' Sir Thomas More finds fault with Tyndale, that in his translation of the Bible he had not observed this distinction, which was evidently therefore going out even then, that is, in the reign of Henry VIII.; and shortly after it was quite forgotten." -- Trench.
Yes (n.) An affirmative; "I was hoping for a yes" [ant: no].
Yest (n.) See Yeast. -- Shak.
Yester (a.) Last; last past; next before; of or pertaining to yesterday.
[An enemy] whom yester sun beheld Mustering her charms. -- Dryden.
Note: This word is now seldom used except in a few compounds; as, yesterday, yesternight, etc.
Yesterday (n.) 昨天 [U]；最近，近來 [U] The day last past; the day next before the present.
All our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. -- Shak.
We are but of yesterday, and know nothing. -- Job viii. 9.
Yesterday (n.) Fig.: A recent time; time not long past.
The proudest royal houses are but of yesterday, when compared with the line of supreme pontiffs. -- Macaulay.
Yesterday (adv.) 昨天；最近，近來 On the day last past; on the day preceding to-day; as, the affair took place yesterday. Yestereve.
Yesterday (adv.) On the day preceding today; "yesterday the weather was beautiful."
Yesterday (adv.) In the recent past; only a short time ago; "I was not born yesterday!"
Yesterday (n.) The day immediately before today; "it was in yesterday's newspapers."
Yesterday (n.) The recent past; "yesterday's solutions are not good enough"; "we shared many yesterdays."
Yesterday (adv.) (A1) 昨天 On the day before today.
// He called yesterday while you were out.
// I saw her yesterday afternoon.
Yesterday (n.) [ U ] 昨天 The day before today. (Ant.) Tomorrow, Today.
// "Is that today's paper?" "No, it's yesterday's."
The day before yesterday (ph.) 前天Two days ago.
// I called her the day before yesterday.
Yesterday (n.) [ C or U ] 近日，日前；往昔 The recent past.
// Nobody's interested in yesterday's pop stars.
// These songs are a part of all our yesterdays.
Yestereve (n.) Alt. of Yester-evening.
Yester-evening (n.) The evening of yesterday; the evening last past. Yestermorn
Yestermorn (n.) Alt. of Yester-morning.
Yester-morning (n.) The morning of yesterday. -- Coleridge.
Yestern (a.) Of or pertaining to yesterday; relating to the day last past.
Yesternight (n.) The last night; the night last past.
Yesternight (adv.) On the last night. -- B. Jonson.
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.
Yesteryear (n.) The time that has elapsed; "forget the past" [syn: past, past times, yesteryear] [ant: future, futurity, hereafter, time to come].
Yestreen (n.) Yester-evening; yesternight; last night. [R. or Scot.]
Yestreen I did not know How largely I could live. -- Bp. Coxe.
Yesty (a.) See Yeasty. -- Shak.
Yet (n.) (Zool.) Any one of several species of large marine gastropods belonging to the genus Yetus, or Cymba; a boat shell.
Yet (adv.) In addition; further; besides; over and above; still. "A little longer; yet a little longer." -- Dryden.
This furnishes us with yet one more reason why our savior, lays such a particular stress acts of mercy. -- Atterbury.
The rapine is made yet blacker by the pretense of piety and justice. -- L'Estrange.
Yet (adv.) At the same time; by continuance from a former state; still.
Facts they had heard while they were yet heathens. -- Addison.
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.
Ne never yet no villainy ne said. -- Chaucer.
Yet (conj.) Before some future time; before the end; eventually; in time. "He 'll be hanged yet." --Shak.
Yet (conj.) Even; -- used emphatically.
Men may not too rashly believe the confessions of witches, nor yet the evidence against them. -- Bacon.
Yet (conj.) Nevertheless; notwithstanding; however.
Yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. -- Matt. vi. 29.
Syn: See However.
Yet (adv.) Up to the present time; "I have yet to see the results"; "details are yet to be worked out."
Yet (adv.) Used in negative statement to describe a situation that has existed up to this point or up to the present time; "So far he hasn't called"; "the sun isn't up yet" [syn: so far, thus far, up to now, hitherto, heretofore, as yet, yet, til now, until now].
Yet (adv.) To a greater degree or extent; used with comparisons; "looked sick and felt even worse"; "an even (or still) more interesting problem"; "still another problem must be solved"; "a yet sadder tale" [syn: even, yet, still].
Yet (adv.) Within an indefinite time or at an unspecified future time; "he longed for the flowers that were yet to show themselves"; "sooner or later you will have to face the facts"; "in time they came to accept the harsh reality" [syn: yet, in time].
Yet (adv.) Used after a superlative; "this is the best so far"; "the largest drug bust yet" [syn: so far, yet].
Yet (adv.) Despite anything to the contrary (usually following a concession); "although I'm a little afraid, however I'd like to try it"; "while we disliked each other, nevertheless we agreed"; "he was a stern yet fair master"; "granted that it is dangerous, all the same I still want to go" [syn: however, nevertheless, withal, still, yet, all the same, even so, nonetheless, notwithstanding].
Yeve (v. i.) To give. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Yeven (p. p.) Given. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Yew (v. i.) See Yaw.
Yew (n.) (Bot.) 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.
American+yew+({Taxus+baccata"> Note: The American yew ({Taxus baccata, var. Canadensis)
is a low and straggling or prostrate bush, never forming an erect trunk. The California yew ({Taxus brevifolia, also called Pacific yew) is a good-sized tree, and its wood is used for bows, spear handles, paddles, and other similar implements; the anticancer agent taxol is obtained from its bark. Another yew is found in Florida, and there are species in Japan and the Himalayas.
Yew (n.) A bow for shooting, made of the yew.
Yew (a.) Of or pertaining to yew trees; made of the wood of a yew tree; as, a yew whipstock.
Yew (n.) Wood of a yew; especially the durable fine-grained light brown or red wood of the English yew valued for cabinetwork and archery bows.
Yew (n.) Any of numerous evergreen trees or shrubs having red cup-shaped berries and flattened needlelike leaves.
Yewen (a.) Made of yew; as, yewen bows.
Yex (v. i.) To hiccough. [Written also yox, yux.] [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
He yexeth and he speaketh through the nose. -- Chaucer.
Yex (n.) A hiccough. [Written also yox, and yux.] [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] "The excessive yex." -- Holland.
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. [Obs.]
As friends do when they be met yfere. -- Chaucer.
Ygdrasyl (n.) (Scand. Myth.) See in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.
Yghe (n.) Eye. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Ygo (Obs. p. p. of Go.) Gone. -- Chaucer.
Yground () Obs. p. p. of Grind. -- Chaucer.
Yholde () Obs. p. p. of Hold. -- Chaucer.