Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter Y - Page 4
Yielded (imp. & p. p.) of Yield.
Yold (obs. p. p.) of Yield.
Yielding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Yield.
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.
To yelde Jesu Christ his proper rent. -- Chaucer.
When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength. -- Gen. iv. 12.
Yield (v. t.) To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth. "Vines yield nectar." -- Milton.
[He] makes milch kine yield blood. -- Shak.
The wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children. -- Job xxiv. 5.
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.
And, force perforce, I'll make him yield the crown. -- Shak.
Shall yield up all their virtue, all their fame. -- Milton.
Yield (v. t.) To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.
I yield it just, said Adam, and submit. -- Milton.
Yield (v. t.) To permit; to grant; as, to yield passage.
Yield (v. t.) To give a reward to; to bless. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Tend me to-night two hours, I ask no more, And the gods yield you for 't. -- Shak.
God yield thee, and God thank ye. -- Beau. & Fl.
To yield the breath, To yield the breath up, To yield the ghost, To yield the ghost up, To yield up the ghost, or To yield the life, to die; to expire; -- similar to To give up the ghost.
One calmly yields his willing breath. -- Keble.
Yield (v. i.) To give up the contest; to submit; to surrender; to succumb.
He saw the fainting Grecians yield. -- Dryden.
Yield (v. i.) To comply with; to assent; as, I yielded to his request.
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.
Will ye relent, And yield to mercy while 't is offered you? -- Shak.
Yield (v. i.) To give place, as inferior in rank or excellence; as, they will yield to us in nothing.
Nay tell me first, in what more happy fields The thistle springs, to which the lily yields? -- Pope.
Yield (n.) Amount yielded; product; -- applied especially to products resulting from growth or cultivation. "A goodly yield of fruit doth bring." -- Bacon.
Yield (n.) Production of a certain amount [syn: output, yield].
Yield (n.) The income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property; "the average return was about 5%" [syn: return, issue, take, takings, proceeds, yield, payoff].
Yield (n.) An amount of a product [syn: yield, fruit].
Yield (n.) The quantity of something (as a commodity) that is created (usually within a given period of time); "production was up in the second quarter" [syn: output, yield, production].
Yield (v.) Be the cause or source of; "He gave me a lot of trouble"; "Our meeting afforded much interesting information" [syn: yield, give, afford].
Yield (v.) End resistance, as under pressure or force; "The door yielded to repeated blows with a battering ram" [syn: give way, yield].
Yield (v.) Give or supply; "The cow brings in 5 liters of milk"; "This year's crop yielded 1,000 bushels of corn"; "The estate renders some revenue for the family" [syn: render, yield, return, give, generate].
Yield (v.) Give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another [syn: concede, yield, cede, grant].
Yield (v.) Give in, as to influence or pressure [syn: yield, relent, soften] [ant: remain firm, stand].
Yield (v.) Move in order to make room for someone for something; "The park gave way to a supermarket"; "`Move over,' he told the crowd" [syn: move over, give way, give, ease up, yield].
Yield (v.) Cause to happen or be responsible for; "His two singles gave the team the victory" [syn: give, yield].
Yield (v.) Be willing to concede; "I grant you this much" [syn: concede, yield, grant].
Yield (v.) Be fatally overwhelmed [syn: succumb, yield] [ant: come through, make it, pull round, pull through, survive].
Yield (v.) Bring in; "interest-bearing accounts"; "How much does this savings certificate pay annually?" [syn: yield, pay, bear].
Yield (v.) Be flexible under stress of physical force; "This material doesn't give" [syn: give, yield].
Yield (v.) Cease opposition; stop fighting.
Yield (v.) Consent reluctantly [syn: yield, give in, succumb, knuckle under, buckle under].
Yieldable (a.) Disposed to yield or comply. [R.] -- Yield"a*ble*ness, n. [R.] -- Bp. Hall.
Yieldance (n.) The act of producing; yield; as, the yieldance of the earth. [R.] -- Bp. Hall.
Yieldance (n.) The act of yielding; concession. [R.] -- South.
Yielder (n.) One who yields. -- Shak.
Yielder (n.) A person who yields or surrenders [syn: surrenderer, yielder].
Yielding (a.) Inclined to give way, or comply; flexible; compliant; accommodating; as, a yielding temper.
Yielding and paying (Law), The initial words of that clause in leases in which the rent to be paid by the lessee is mentioned and reserved. -- Burrill.
Syn: Obsequious; attentive.
Usage: Yielding, Obsequious, Attentive. In many cases a man may be attentive or yielding in a high degree without any sacrifice of his dignity; but he who is obsequious seeks to gain favor by excessive and mean compliances for some selfish end. -- Yield"ing*ly, adv. -- Yield"ing*ness, n.
Yielding (a.) Inclined to yield to argument or influence or control; "a timid yielding person".
Yielding (a.) Lacking stiffness and giving way to pressure; "a deep yielding layer of foam rubber".
Yielding (a.) Tending to give in or surrender or agree; "too yielding to make a stand against any encroachments" -- V.I.Parrington.
Yielding (n.) A verbal act of admitting defeat [syn: giving up, yielding, surrender].
Yielding (n.) The act of conceding or yielding [syn: concession, conceding, yielding].
Yieldless (a.) Without yielding; unyielding. [Obs.]
Yift (n.) Gift. [Obs.] "Great yiftes." -- Chaucer.
Yin (n.) A Chinese weight of 22/3 pounds.
Yin (n.) (Chinese philosophy) One of the two fundamental principles. See {yin and yang}.
Yin (n.) The dark negative feminine principle in Chinese dualistic cosmology; "the interaction of yin and yang maintains the harmony of the universe" [ant: {yang}].
Yis (adv.) Yes. [Obs.]
"Yis, sir," quod he, "yis, host." -- Chaucer.
Yit (conj.) Yet. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Yite (n.) (Zool.) 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.
Y level () See under Y, n.
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.
Yodeled (imp. & p. p.) of Yodle.
Yodled () of Yodle.
Yodeling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Yodle.
Yodling () of Yodle.
Yodel (v. t. & i.) Alt. 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.
Yodel (n.) Alt. of Yodle.
Yodle (n.) A song sung by yodeling, as by the Swiss mountaineers.
Yodler (n.) One who yodels.
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 (n.) A bar or frame of wood by which two oxen are joined at the heads or necks for working together.
A yearling bullock to thy name shall smoke, Untamed, unconscious of the galling yoke. -- Pope.
Note: The modern yoke for oxen is usually a piece of timber hollowed, or made curving, near each end, and laid on the necks of the oxen, being secured in place by two bows, one inclosing each neck, and fastened through the timber. In some countries the yoke consists of a flat piece of wood fastened to the foreheads of the oxen by thongs about the horns.
Yoke (n.) A frame or piece resembling a yoke, as in use or shape. Specifically:
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 worn on the neck of an animal, as a cow, a pig, a goose, to prevent passage through a fence.
Yoke (n.) A frame or convex
piece by which a bell is hung for ringing it. See Illust. of
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.) (Mach.) A bent crosspiece connecting two other parts.
Yoke (n.) (Arch.) 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.) (Dressmaking) 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.) Fig.: That which connects or binds; a chain; a link; a bond connection.
Boweth your neck under that blissful yoke . . . Which that men clepeth spousal or wedlock. -- Chaucer.
This yoke of marriage from us both remove. -- Dryden.
Yoke (n.) A mark of servitude;
hence, servitude; slavery; bondage; service.
Our country sinks beneath the yoke. -- Shak.
My yoke is easy, and my burden is light. -- Matt. xi. 30.
Yoke (n.) Two animals yoked together; a couple; a pair that work together.
I have
bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them. -- Luke xiv. 19.
Yoke (n.) The quantity of land plowed in a day by a yoke of oxen.
[Obs.] -- Gardner.
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. [Prov. Eng.] -- Halliwell.
Yoke (n.) (Chiefly Mach.) A clamp or similar piece that embraces two other parts to hold or unite them in their respective or relative positions, as a strap connecting a slide valve to the valve stem, or the soft iron block or bar permanently connecting the pole pieces of an electromagnet, as in a dynamo.
Neck yoke, Pig yoke. See under Neck, and Pig.
Yoke elm (Bot.), The European hornbeam ({Carpinus Betulus), A small tree with tough white wood, often used for making yokes for cattle.
Yoked (imp. & p. p.) of Yoke.
Yoking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Yoke.
Yoke (v. t.) To put a yoke on; to join in or with a yoke; as, to yoke oxen, or pair of oxen.
Yoke (v. t.) To couple; to join with another. "Be ye not unequally yoked with unbelievers." -- 2 Cor. vi. 14.
Cassius, you are yoked with a lamb. -- Shak.
Yoke (v. t.) To enslave; to bring into bondage; to restrain; to confine.
Then were they yoked with garrisons. --Milton.
The words and promises that yoke The conqueror are quickly broke. -- Hudibras.
Yoke (v. i.) To be joined or associated; to be intimately connected; to consort closely; to mate.
We 'll yoke together, like a double shadow. -- Shak.
Yoke (n.) Fabric comprising a fitted part at the top of a garment.
Yoke (n.) An oppressive power; "under the yoke of a tyrant"; "they threw off the yoke of domination".
Yoke (n.) Two items of the same kind [syn: couple, pair, twosome, twain, brace, span, yoke, couplet, distich, duo, duet, dyad, duad].
Yoke (n.) A pair of draft animals joined by a yoke; "pulled by a yoke of oxen".
Yoke (n.) Support consisting of a wooden frame across the shoulders that enables a person to carry buckets hanging from each end.
Yoke (n.) A connection (like a clamp or vise) between two things so they move together [syn: yoke, coupling].
Yoke (n.) Stable gear that joins two draft animals at the neck so they can work together as a team.
Yoke (v.) Become joined or linked together.
Yoke (v.) Link with or as with a yoke; "yoke the oxen together" [syn: yoke, link].
Yoke (v.) Put a yoke on or join with a yoke; "Yoke the draft horses together" [ant: unyoke].
Yoke Fitted on the neck of oxen for the purpose of binding to them the traces by which they might draw the plough, etc. (Num. 19:2; Deut. 21:3). It was a curved piece of wood called _'ol_.
Yoke In Jer. 27:2; 28:10, 12 the word in the Authorized Version rendered "yoke" is _motah_, which properly means a "staff," or as in the Revised Version, "bar."
These words in the Hebrew are both used figuratively of severe bondage, or affliction, or subjection (Lev. 26:13; 1 Kings 12:4; Isa. 47:6; Lam. 1:14; 3:27). In the New Testament the word "yoke" is also used to denote servitude (Matt. 11:29, 30; Acts 15:10; Gal. 5:1).
Yoke In 1 Sam. 11:7, 1 Kings 19:21, Job 1:3 the word thus translated is _tzemed_, which signifies a pair, two oxen yoked or coupled together, and hence in 1 Sam. 14:14 it represents as much land as a yoke of oxen could plough in a day, like the Latin _jugum_. In Isa. 5:10 this word in the plural is translated "acres."
Yoke, (n.) An implement, madam, to whose Latin name, _jugum_, we owe one of the most illuminating words in our language -- a word that defines the matrimonial situation with precision, point and poignancy.
A thousand apologies for withholding it.
Compare: Rokeage
Rokeage, Rokee (n.) [Cf. Nocake.] Parched Indian corn, pounded up and mixed with sugar; -- called also yokeage. [Local, U.S.]
Yokeage (n.) See Rokeage. [Local, U. S.]
Yokefellow (n.) An associate or companion in, or as in; a mate; a fellow; especially, a partner in marriage. --Phil. iv. 3.
The two languages [English and French] became yokefellows in a still more intimate manner. -- Earle.
Those who have most distinguished themselves by railing at the sex, very often choose one of the most worthless for a companion and yokefellow. -- Addison.
Yoke-fellow, () (Phil. 4:3), One of the apostle's fellow-labourers. Some have conjectured that Epaphroditus is meant. Wyckliffe renders the phrase "the german felowe", i.e., "thee, germane [=genuine] comrade."
Yokel (n.) A country bumpkin. [Eng.] -- Dickens.
Yokel (n.) A person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture [syn: yokel, rube, hick, yahoo, hayseed, bumpkin, chawbacon].
Yokelet (n.) A small farm; -- so called as requiring but one yoke of oxen to till it. [Prov. Eng.]
Yokemate (n.) Same as Yokefellow.
Yoke-toed (a.) (Zool.) Having two toes in front and two behind, as the trogons and woodpeckers.
Yold (obs. p. p. of Yield.) Yielded. -- Spenser.
Yolden (obs. p. p. of Yield.) Yielded.
Yolk (n.) The yellow part of an egg; the vitellus.
Yolk (n.) (Zool.) An oily secretion which naturally covers the wool of sheep.
Yolk cord (Zool.), A slender cord or duct which connects the yolk glands with the egg chambers in certain insects, as in the aphids.
Yolk gland (Zool.), A special organ which secretes the yolk of the eggs in many turbellarians, and in some other invertebrates. See Illust. of Hermaphrodite in Appendix.
Yolk sack (Anat.), The umbilical vesicle. See under Unbilical.
Yolk (n.) The yellow spherical part of an egg that is surrounded by the albumen [syn: egg yolk, yolk].
Yolk (n.) Nutritive material of an ovum stored for the nutrition of an embryo (especially the yellow mass of a bird or reptile egg) [syn: yolk, vitellus].
Yoll (v. i.) To yell. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Yon (a.) At a distance, but within view; yonder. [Poetic]
Read thy lot in yon celestial sign. -- Milton.
Though fast yon shower be fleeting. -- Keble.
Yon (adv.) Yonder. [Obs. or Poetic]
But, first and chiefest, with thee bring Him that yon soars on golden wing. -- Milton.
Yon (adv.) At or in an indicated (usually distant) place (`yon' is archaic and dialectal); "the house yonder"; "scattered here and yon" -- Calder Willingham [syn: yonder, yon].
Yon (a.) Distant but within sight (`yon' is dialectal); "yonder valley"; "the hills yonder"; "what is yon place?" [syn: yonder, yon].
Yoncopin (n.) (Bot.) A local name
in parts of the
Yond (a.) Furious; mad; angry; fierce. [Obs.] "Then wexeth wood and yond." -- Spenser.
Yond (adv. & a.) Yonder. [Obs.] "Yond in the garden." -- Chaucer.
Yonder (adv.) At a distance, but within view.
Yonder are two apple women scolding. -- Arbuthnot.
Yonder (a.) Being at a distance within view, or conceived of as within view; that or those there; yon. "Yon flowery arbors, yonder alleys green." --Milton. "Yonder sea of light." -- Keble.
Yonder men are too many for an embassage. -- Bacon.
Yonder (adv.) At or in an indicated (usually distant) place (`yon' is archaic and dialectal); "the house yonder"; "scattered here and yon"- Calder Willingham [syn: yonder, yon].
Yonder (a.) Distant but within sight (`yon' is dialectal); "yonder valley"; "the hills yonder"; "what is yon place?" [syn: yonder, yon].
Yoni (n.) (Hindu Myth.) 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. [Obs. or Colloq.] -- Sir W. Scott.
Yore (adv.) In time long past; in old time; long since. [Obs. or Poetic]
As it hath been of olde times yore. -- Chaucer.
Which though he hath polluted oft and yore, Yet I to them for judgment just do fly. -- Spenser.
Of yore, of old time; long ago; as, in times or days of yore. "But Satan now is wiser than of yore." -- Pope.
Where Abraham fed his flock of yore. -- Keble.
Yore (n.) Time long past.
Yorker (n.) (Cricket) A tice.
Yorkshire (n.) A county in the north of England.
Yorkshire grit, A kind of stone used for polishing marble, and copperplates for engravers. -- Simmonds.
Yorkshire pudding, A batter pudding baked under meat.
Yorkshire (n.) A former large county in northern England; in 1974 it was divided into three smaller counties.
Yorkshire, NY -- U.S. Census Designated Place in New York
Population (2000): 1403
Housing Units (2000): 690
Land area (2000): 1.847015 sq. miles (4.783746 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.007576 sq. miles (0.019621 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.854591 sq. miles (4.803367 sq. km)
FIPS code: 84044
Located within: New York (NY), FIPS 36
Location: 42.522493 N, 78.475295 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Yorkshire, NY
Yorkshire
Yorkshire, OH -- U.S. village in Ohio
Population (2000): 110
Housing Units (2000): 41
Land area (2000): 0.281970 sq. miles (0.730300 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.281970 sq. miles (0.730300 sq. km)
FIPS code: 87164
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 40.324855 N, 84.495957 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 45388
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Yorkshire, OH
Yorkshire
Yorkshire, VA -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Virginia
Population (2000): 6732
Housing Units (2000): 2332
Land area (2000): 2.374471 sq. miles (6.149852 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.374471 sq. miles (6.149852 sq. km)
FIPS code: 88176
Located within: Virginia (VA), FIPS 51
Location: 38.787928 N, 77.453236 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Yorkshire, VA
Yorkshire
York use () (Eccl.) 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. -- Shipley.
Yot (v. t.) To unite closely. [Prov. Eng.]
Yote (v. t.) To pour water on; to soak in, or mix with, water. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] -- Grose.
My fowls, which well enough, I, as before, found feeding at their trough Their yoted wheat. -- Chapman.
You (pron.) The pronoun of the second person, in the nominative, dative, and objective case, indicating the person or persons addressed. See the Note under Ye.
Ye go to Canterbury; God you speed. -- Chaucer.
Good sir, I do in friendship counsel you To leave this place. -- Shak.
In vain you tell your parting lover You wish fair winds may waft him over. -- Prior.
Note: Though you is properly a plural, it is in all ordinary discourse used also in addressing a single person, yet properly always with a plural verb. "Are you he that hangs the verses on the trees, wherein Rosalind is so admired ?" -- Shak. You and your are sometimes used indefinitely, like we, they, one, to express persons not specified. "The looks at a distance like a new-plowed land; but as you come near it, you see nothing but a long heap of heavy, disjointed clods." -- Addison. "Your medalist and critic are much nearer related than the world imagine." -- Addison. "It is always pleasant to be forced to do what you wish to do, but what, until pressed, you dare not attempt." -- Hook. You is often used reflexively for yourself of yourselves. "Your highness shall repose you at the tower." -- Shak.
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