Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter Y - Page 5
Youl (v. i.) To yell; to yowl. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Young (a.) Not long born; still in the first part of life; not yet arrived at adolescence, maturity, or age; not old; juvenile; -- said of animals; as, a young child; a young man; a young fawn.
For he so young and tender was of age. -- Chaucer.
"Whom the gods love, die young," has been too long carelessly said; . . . whom the gods love, live young forever. -- Mrs. H. H. Jackson.
Young (a.) Being in the first part, pr period, of growth; as, a young plant; a young tree.
While the fears of the people were young. -- De Foe.
Young (a.) Having little experience; inexperienced; unpracticed; ignorant; weak.
Come, come, elder brother, you are too young in this. -- Shak.
Young (n.) The offspring of animals, either a single animal or offspring collectively.
[The egg] bursting with kindly rupture, forth disclosed Their callow young. -- Milton.
With young, with child; pregnant.
Young (a.) (Used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth; "young people" [syn: young, immature] [ant: old].
Young (a.) (Of crops) Harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity; "new potatoes"; "young corn" [syn: new, young].
Young (a.) Suggestive of youth; vigorous and fresh; "he is young for his age" [syn: youthful, vernal, young].
Young (a.) Being in its early stage; "a young industry"; "the day is still young".
Young (a.) Not tried or tested by experience; "unseasoned artillery volunteers"; "still untested in battle"; "an illustrator untried in mural painting"; "a young hand at plowing" [syn: unseasoned, untested, untried, young].
Young (n.) Any immature animal [syn: young, offspring].
Young (n.) United States film and television actress (1913-2000) [syn: Young, Loretta Young].
Young (n.) United States civil rights leader (1921-1971) [syn: Young, Whitney Young, Whitney Moore Young Jr.].
Young (n.) British physicist and Egyptologist; he revived the wave theory of light and proposed a three-component theory of color vision; he also played an important role in deciphering the hieroglyphics on the Rosetta Stone (1773-1829) [syn: Young, Thomas Young].
Young (n.) United States jazz tenor saxophonist (1909-1959) [syn: Young, Pres Young, Lester Willis Young].
Young (n.) English poet (1683-1765) [syn: Young, Edward Young].
Young (n.) United States baseball player and famous pitcher (1867-1955) [syn: Young, Cy Young, Danton True Young].
Young (n.) United States religious leader of the Mormon Church after the assassination of Joseph Smith; he led the Mormon exodus from Illinois to Salt Lake City, Utah (1801-1877) [syn: Young, Brigham Young].
Young (n.) Young people collectively; "rock music appeals to the young"; "youth everywhere rises in revolt" [syn: young, youth] [ant: aged, elderly].
Young -- U.S. County in Texas
Population (2000): 17943
Housing Units (2000): 8504
Land area (2000): 922.332083 sq. miles (2388.829028 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 8.512770 sq. miles (22.047971 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 930.844853 sq. miles (2410.876999 sq. km)
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 33.210656 N, 98.658910 W
Headwords:
Young
Young, TX
Young County
Young County, TX
Young, AZ -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Arizona
Population (2000): 561
Housing Units (2000): 446
Land area (2000): 42.012466 sq. miles (108.811784 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 42.012466 sq. miles (108.811784 sq. km)
FIPS code: 85330
Located within: Arizona (AZ), FIPS 04
Location: 34.111688 N, 110.929208 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Young, AZ
Young
Younger (n.) One who is younger; an inferior in age; a junior. "The elder shall serve the younger." -- Rom. ix. 12.
Younger (n.) Used of the younger of two persons of the same name especially used to distinguish a son from his father; -- usually used postpositionally; as, Henry the younger. Syn: jr.
Youngish (a.) Somewhat young. -- Tatler.
Youngling (n.) A young person; a youth; also, any animal in its early life. "More dear . . . than younglings to their dam." -- Spenser.
He will not be so willing, I think, to join with you as with us younglings. -- Ridley.
Youngling (a.) Young; youthful. -- Wordsworth
Youngly (a.) Like a young person or thing; young; youthful. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Youngly (adv.) In a young manner; in the period of youth; early in life. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Youngly (adv.) Ignorantly; weakly. [R.]
Youngness (n.) The quality or state of being young.
Youngster (n.) A young person; a youngling; a lad. [Colloq.] "He felt himself quite a youngster, with a long life before him." -- G. Eliot.
Youngth (n.) Youth. [Obs.]
Youngth is a bubble blown up with breath. -- Spenser.
Youngthly (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, youth; youthful. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Younker (a.) A young person; a stripling; a yonker. [Obs. or Colloq.]
That same younker soon was overthrown. -- Spenser.
Youpon (n.) (Bot.) Same as Yaupon.
Your (pron. & a.) The form of the possessive case of the personal pronoun you.
Note: The possessive takes the form yours when the noun to which it refers is not expressed, but implied; as, this book is yours. "An old fellow of yours." -- Chaucer.
Yours (pron.) See the Note under Your.
Yourselves (n. pl. ) of Yourself.
Yourself (pron.) 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.
Of which right now ye han yourselve heard. -- Chaucer.
If yourselves are old, make it your cause. -- Shak.
Why should you be so cruel to yourself ? -- Milton.
The religious movement which you yourself, as well as I, so faithfully followed from first to last. -- J. H. Newman.
Youths (n. pl. ) of Youth.
Youth (n. pl. ) of Youth.
Youth (n.) The quality or state of being young; youthfulness; juvenility. "In my flower of youth." -- Milton.
Such as in his face Youth smiled celestial. -- Milton.
Youth (n.) The part of life that succeeds to childhood; the period of existence preceding maturity or age; the whole early part of life, from childhood, or, sometimes, from infancy, to manhood.
He wondered that your lordship Would suffer him to spend his youth at home. -- Shak.
Those who pass their youth in vice are justly condemned to spend their age in folly. -- Rambler.
Youth (n.) A young person; especially, a young man.
Seven youths from Athens yearly sent. -- Dryden.
Youth (n.) Young persons, collectively.
It is fit to read the best authors to youth first. -- B. Jonson.
Youthful (a.) Not yet mature or aged; young. "Two youthful knights." -- Dryden.
Youthful (a.) Also used figuratively. "The youthful season of the year." -- Shak.
Youthful (a.) Of or pertaining to the early part of life; suitable to early life; as, youthful days; youthful sports. "Warm, youthful blood." -- Shak. "Youthful thoughts." -- Milton.
Youthful (a.) Fresh; vigorous, as in youth.
After millions of millions of ages . . . still youthful and flourishing. -- Bentley.
Syn: Puerile; juvenile.
Usage: Youthful, Puerile, Juvenile. Puerile is always used in a bad sense, or at least in the sense of what is suitable to a boy only; as, puerile objections, puerile amusements, etc. Juvenile is sometimes taken in a bad sense, as when speaking of youth in contrast with manhood; as, juvenile tricks; a juvenile performance. Youthful is commonly employed in a good sense; as, youthful aspirations; or at least by way of extenuating; as, youthful indiscretions. "Some men, imagining themselves possessed with a divine fury, often fall into toys and trifles, which are only puerilities." -- Dryden. "Raw, juvenile writers imagine that, by pouring forth figures often, they render their compositions warm and animated." -- Blair. -- Youth"ful*ly, adv. -- Youth"ful*ness, n.
Youthhood (n.) The quality or state of being a youth; the period of youth. -- Cheyne.
Youthly (a.) Young; youthful. [Obs.] "All my youthly days." -- Spenser.
Youthsome (a.) Youthful. [Obs.] -- Pepys.
Youthy
(a.)
Young. [Obs.] -- Spectator.
Youze (n.) (Zool.) The cheetah.
Yow (pron.) You. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Yowe (n.) (Zool.) A ewe. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] -- G. Eliot.
Yowl (v. i.) To utter a loud, long, and mournful cry, as a dog; to howl; to yell.
Yowl (n.) A loud, protracted, and mournful cry, as that of a dog; a howl.
Yowley (n.) (Zool.) The European yellow-hammer. [Prov. Eng.]
Yex (n.) [AS. geocsa a sobbing, hiccough. Cf. Yex, v. i.]
A hiccough. [Written also yox, and yux.] [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] "The excessive yex." -- Holland.
Yex (v. i.) [OE. [yogh]exen, yesken, AS. giscian to sob.] To hiccough. [Written also yox, yux.] [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
He yexeth and he speaketh through the nose. -- Chaucer.
Yox (v. i.) See Yex. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Ypight (p. p.) Obs. See Pight.
Ypocras (n.) Hippocras. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Ypres lace () Fine bobbin lace made at Ypres in Belgium, usually exactly like Valenciennes lace.
Ypsiliform (a.) (Biol.) Resembling the ? in appearance; -- said of the germinal spot in the ripe egg at one of the stages of fecundation.
Ypsiloid (a.) (Anat.) In the form of the letter Y; Y -- shaped.
Yraft (p. p.) Obs. Bereft. -- Chaucer.
Yren (n.) Iron. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Yronne (p. p.) Obs. Run. -- Chaucer.
Ysame (adv.) Together. [Obs.] "And in a bag all sorts of seeds ysame." -- Spenser.
Yt () Alt. of Yt.
Yt () An old method of printing that (AS. [thorn][ae]t, [eth][ae]t) the "y" taking the place of the old letter "thorn" ([thorn]). Cf. Ye, the.
Ythrowe () Obs. p. p. of Throw. -- Chaucer.
Ytterbic (a.) (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, ytterbium; containing ytterbium.
Ytterbium (n.) (Chem.) 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.
Note: Ytterbium is associated with other rare elements, and probably has not been prepared in a pure state.
Yttria (n.) (Chem.) The oxide, Y2O3, or earth, of yttrium.
Yttric (a.) (Chem.) Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, yttrium.
Yttriferous (a.) Bearing or containing yttrium or the allied elements; as, gadolinite is one of the yttriferous minerals.
Yttrious (a.) (Chem.) Same as Yttric.
Yttrium (n.) (Chem.) 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. [Written also ittrium.]
Note: Associated with yttrium are certain rare elements, as erbium, ytterbium, samarium, etc., which are separated in a pure state with great difficulty. They are studied by means of their spark or phosphorescent spectra. Yttrium is now regarded as probably not a simple element, but as a mixture of several substances.
Yttro-cerite (n.) (Min.) A mineral of a violet-blue color, inclining to gray and white. It is a hydrous fluoride of cerium, yttrium, and calcium. Yttro-columbite
Yttro-columbite (n.) Alt. of Yttro-tantalite
Yttro-tantalite (n.) (Min. A tantalate of uranium, yttrium, and calcium, of a brown or black color.
Yu (n.) [Chin.] (Min.) Jade.
Compare: Flicker
Flicker (n.) The act of wavering or of fluttering; fluctuation; sudden and brief increase of brightness; as, the last flicker of the dying flame.
Flicker (n.) (Zool.) The golden-winged woodpecker ({Colaptes aurutus); -- so called from its spring note. Called also yellow-hammer, high-holder, pigeon woodpecker, and yucca.
The cackle of the flicker among the oaks. -- Thoureau.
Yucca (n.) (Zool.) See Flicker, n., 2.
Yucca (n.) (Bot.) 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.
Note: The species with more rigid leaves (as Yucca aloifolia, Yucca Treculiana, and Yucca baccata) are called Spanish bayonet, and one with softer leaves ({Yucca filamentosa) is called bear grass, and Adam's needle.
Yucca moth (Zool.), A small silvery moth ({Pronuba yuccasella) whose larvae feed on plants of the genus Yucca.
Yuck (v. i.) To itch. [Prov. Eng.] -- Grose.
Yuck (v. t.) To scratch. [Prov. Eng.] -- Wright.
Yuck (interj.) An interjection expressing repugnance or distaste.
Yuck (n.) A laugh; also, a joke or gag; -- usually used in the plural, as, the skit got lots of yucks. [slang]
Syn: laugh; gag; joke
Yuckel (n.) (Zool.) Same as Yockel.
Yuen (n.) (Zool.) 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.
Yufts (n.) Russia leather. Yug
Yug (n.) Alt. of Yuga.
Yuga (n.) (Hindoo Cosmog.) 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.
Yugoslavia (n.) 南斯拉夫（塞爾維亞-克羅埃西亞語西里爾字母：Југославија，拉丁字母：Jugoslavija），是1929年至2003年 建立於南歐巴爾幹半島上的數個國家的總稱。以從鄂圖曼土耳其帝國獨立的塞爾維亞族所建立的塞爾維亞王國為基礎，經兩次巴爾幹戰爭及第一次世界大戰，隨著鄂 圖曼土耳其帝國、奧匈帝國的戰敗，塞爾維亞和附近的各南斯拉夫人地區合併，創建了南斯拉夫聯邦。南斯拉夫素有「一個國家、二種文字、三種語言、四種宗教、 五個民族、六個共和國；七個鄰國、八個政治區」的形容。
Yugoslavia (Serbo-Croatian: Jugoslavija/Југославија [juɡǒslaːʋija]; Slovene: Jugoslavija [juɡɔˈslàːʋija]; Macedonian: Југославија [juɡɔˈsɫavija]) was a country in Southeast Europe during most of the 20th century. It came into existence after World War I in 1918[i] under the name of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes by the merger of the provisional State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs (itself formed from territories of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire) with the formerly independent Kingdom of Serbia. The Serbian royal House of Karađorđević became the Yugoslav royal dynasty. Yugoslavia gained international recognition on 13 July 1922 at the Conference of Ambassadors in Paris. [2] The country was named after the South Slavic peoples and constituted their first union, following centuries in which the territories had been part of the Ottoman Empire and Austria-Hungary.
Renamed the Kingdom of Yugoslavia on 3 October 1929, it was invaded by the Axis powers on 6 April 1941. In 1943, a Democratic Federal Yugoslavia was proclaimed by the Partisan resistance. In 1944, the king recognised it as the legitimate government, but in November 1945 the monarchy was abolished. Yugoslavia was renamed the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia in 1946, when a communist government was established. It acquired the territories of Istria, Rijeka, and Zadar from Italy. Partisan leader Josip Broz Tito ruled the country as president until his death in 1980. In 1963, the country was renamed again as the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY).
The constituent six socialist republics that made up the country were the SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SR Croatia, SR Macedonia, SR Montenegro, SR Serbia, and SR Slovenia. Serbia contained two Socialist Autonomous Provinces, Vojvodina and Kosovo, which after 1974 were largely equal to the other members of the federation. [3] [4] After an economic and political crisis in the 1980s and the rise of nationalism, Yugoslavia broke up along its republics' borders, at first into five countries, leading to the Yugoslav Wars.
After the breakup, the republics of Serbia and Montenegro formed a reduced federation, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY), which aspired to the status of sole legal successor to the SFRY, but those claims were opposed by the other former republics. Eventually, Serbia and Montenegro accepted the opinion of the Badinter Arbitration Committee about shared succession. [5] Serbia and Montenegro themselves broke up in 2006 and became independent states, while Kosovo proclaimed independence in 2008.
Yuke (v. i. & t.) Same as Yuck. [Prov. Eng.]
Yulan (n.) (Bot.) A species of Magnolia ({Magnolia conspicua) with large white blossoms that open before the leaves. See the Note under Magnolia.
Yule (n.) Christmas or Christmastide; the feast of the Nativity of our Savior.
And at each pause they kiss; was never seen such rule In any place but here, at bonfire, or at Yule. -- Drayton.
Yule block, or Yule log, A large log of wood formerly put on the hearth on Christmas eve, as the foundation of the fire. It was brought in with much ceremony.
Yule clog, The yule log. -- Halliwell. W. Irving.
Yuletide (n.) Christmas time; Christmastide; the season of Christmas.
Yumas (n. pl.) (Ethnol.) 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.
Note: The a wider sense, the term sometimes includes the Mohaves and other allied tribes.
Yummy (a.) ( comparative yummier, superlative yummiest) (informal) If food or drink is yummy, it tastes very good.
Yummy (a.) Very pleasing or attractive; especially, pleasing to the taste; delicious; scrumptious. [colloq.]
Syn: delectable, delicious, luscious, pleasant-tasting, scrumptious, toothsome.
Yunx (n.) (Zool.) A genus of birds comprising the wrynecks.
Yaupon (n.) (Bot.) A shrub ({Ilex Cassine) of the Holly family, native from Virginia to Florida. The smooth elliptical leaves are used as a substitute for tea, and were formerly used in preparing the black drink of the Indians of North Carolina. Called also South-Sea tea. [Written also yapon, youpon, and yupon.]
Yupon (n.) (Bot.) Same as Yaupon. yuppie.
Yex (n.) A hiccough. [Written also yox, and yux.] [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] "The excessive yex." -- Holland.
Yex (v. i.) To hiccough. [Written also yox, yux.] [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
He yexeth and he speaketh through the nose. -- Chaucer.
Yux (n. & v.) See Yex, n. [Obs.]
Yvel (a. & adv.) Evil; ill. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Ywar (a.) Aware; wary. [Obs.] "Be ywar, and his way shun." -- Piers Plowman.
Ywis (adv.) Certainly; most likely; truly; probably. [Obs. or Archaic]
"Ywis," quod he, "it is full dear, I say." -- Chaucer.
She answered me, "I-wisse, all their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato." -- Ascham.
A right good knight, and true of word ywis. -- Spenser.
Note: The common form iwis was often written with the prefix apart from the rest of the word and capitalized, as, I wis, I wisse, etc. The prefix was mistaken for the pronoun, I and wis, wisse, for a form of the verb wit to know. See Wis, and cf. Wit, to know.
Our ship, I wis, Shall be of another form than this. -- Longfellow.