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• Y's Dictionary Y - pleural of Y.
• Ys Dictionary Y - pleural of Y.
• Y Dictionary Y - noun Something shaped like the letter Y; a forked piece resembling in form the letter Y.
• Y- Dictionary Y - Alt. of I-.
• Ya Dictionary Y - adverb Yea.
• Yacare Dictionary Y - noun A South American crocodilian (Jacare sclerops) resembling the alligator in size and habits. The eye orbits are connected together, and surrounded by prominent bony ridges. Called also spectacled alligator, and spectacled cayman.
• Yacca Dictionary Y - noun A West Indian name for two large timber trees (Podocarpus coriaceus, and P. Purdicanus) of the Yew family. The wood, which is much used, is pale brownish with darker streaks.
• Yacht Dictionary Y - noun A light and elegantly furnished vessel, used either for private parties of pleasure, or as a vessel of state to convey distinguished persons from one place to another; a seagoing vessel used only for pleasure trips, racing, etc.
• Yachter Dictionary Y - noun One engaged in sailing a jacht.
• Yachting Dictionary Y - noun Sailing for pleasure in a yacht.
• Yachtman Dictionary Y - noun See Yachtsman.
• Yachtsmen Dictionary Y - pleural of Yachtsman.
• Yachtsman Dictionary Y - noun One who owns or sails a yacht; a yachter.
• Yaf Dictionary Y - imperative Gave. See Give.
• Yaffingale Dictionary Y - noun The yaffle.
• Yaffle Dictionary Y - noun The European green woodpecker (Picus, / Genius, viridis). It is noted for its loud laughlike note. Called also eccle, hewhole, highhoe, laughing bird, popinjay, rain bird, yaffil, yaffler, yaffingale, yappingale, yackel, and woodhack.
• Yager Dictionary Y - noun In the German army, one belonging to a body of light infantry armed with rifles, resembling the chasseur of the French army.
• Yaguarundi Dictionary Y - noun Same as Jaguarondi.
• Yajur-Veda Dictionary Y - noun See Veda.
• Yak Dictionary Y - noun A bovine mammal (Poephagus grunnies) native of the high plains of Central Asia. Its neck, the outer side of its legs, and its flanks, are covered with long, flowing, fine hair. Its tail is long and bushy, often white, and is valued as an ornament and for other purposes in India and China. There are several domesticated varieties, some of which lack the mane and the long hair on the flanks. Called also chauri gua, grunting cow, grunting ox, sarlac, sarlik, and sarluc.
• Yakamilk Dictionary Y - noun See Trumpeter, 3 (a).
• Yakare Dictionary Y - noun Same as Yacare.
• Yakin Dictionary Y - noun A large Asiatic antelope (Budorcas taxicolor) native of the higher parts of the Himalayas and other lofty mountains. Its head and neck resemble those of the ox, and its tail is like that of the goat. Called also budorcas.
• Yakoots Dictionary Y - noun plural (Ethnol.) A nomadic Mongolian tribe native of Northern Siberia, and supposed to be of Turkish stock. They are mainly pastoral in their habits.
• Yaksha Dictionary Y - noun A kind of demigod attendant on Kuvera, the god of wealth.
• Yalah Dictionary Y - noun The oil of the mahwa tree.
• Yam Dictionary Y - noun A large, esculent, farinaceous tuber of various climbing plants of the genus Dioscorea; also, the plants themselves. Mostly natives of warm climates. The plants have netted-veined, petioled leaves, and pods with three broad wings. The commonest species is D. sativa, but several others are cultivated.
• Yama Dictionary Y - noun The king of the infernal regions, corresponding to the Greek Pluto, and also the judge of departed souls. In later times he is more exclusively considered the dire judge of all, and the tormentor of the wicked. He is represented as of a green color, with red garments, having a crown on his head, his eyes inflamed, and sitting on a buffalo, with a club and noose in his hands.
• Yamma Dictionary Y - noun The llama.
• Yamp Dictionary Y - noun An umbelliferous plant (Carum Gairdneri); also, its small fleshy roots, which are eaten by the Indians from Idaho to California.
• Yang Dictionary Y - noun The cry of the wild goose; a honk.
• Yank Dictionary Y - noun A jerk or twitch.
• Yanked Dictionary Y - imperative & past particle of Yank.
• Yanking Dictionary Y - past particle & verb noun of Yank.
• Yankee Dictionary Y - noun A nickname for a native or citizen of New England, especially one descended from old New England stock; by extension, an inhabitant of the Northern States as distinguished from a Southerner; also, applied sometimes by foreigners to any inhabitant of the United States.
• Yankee-Doodle Dictionary Y - noun The name of a tune adopted popularly as one of the national airs of the United States.
• Yankeeism Dictionary Y - noun A Yankee idiom, word, custom, or the like.
• Yaourt Dictionary Y - noun A fermented drink, or milk beer, made by the Turks.
• Yap Dictionary Y - intransitive verb To bark; to yelp.
• Yapock Dictionary Y - noun A South American aquatic opossum (Chironectes variegatus) found in Guiana and Brazil. Its hind feet are webbed, and its fore feet do not have an opposable thumb for climbing. Called also water opossum.
• Yapon Dictionary Y - noun Same as Yaupon.
• Yarage Dictionary Y - adjective The power of moving, or being managed, at sea; - said with reference to a ship.
• Yard Dictionary Y - intransitive verb A rod; a stick; a staff.
• Yardarm Dictionary Y - noun Either half of a square-rigged vessel's yard, from the center or mast to the end.
• Yardfuls Dictionary Y - pleural of Yardful.
• Yardful Dictionary Y - noun As much as a yard will contain; enough to fill a yard.
• Yardland Dictionary Y - noun A measure of land of uncertain quantity, varying from fifteen to forty acres; a virgate.
• Yardstick Dictionary Y - noun A stick three feet, or a yard, in length, used as a measure of cloth, etc.
• Yardwand Dictionary Y - noun A yardstick.
• Yare Dictionary Y - noun Ready; dexterous; eager; lively; quick to move.
• Yarely Dictionary Y - adverb In a yare manner.
• Yark Dictionary Y - verb transitive & intransitive To yerk.
• Yarke Dictionary Y - noun Same as Saki.
• Yarn Dictionary Y - noun Spun wool; woolen thread; also, thread of other material, as of cotton, flax, hemp, or silk; material spun and prepared for use in weaving, knitting, manufacturing sewing thread, or the like.
• Yarnen Dictionary Y - adjective Made of yarn; consisting of yarn.
• Yarnut Dictionary Y - noun See Yernut.
• Yarr Dictionary Y - intransitive verb To growl or snarl as a dog.
• Yarrish Dictionary Y - adjective Having a rough, dry taste.
• Yarrow Dictionary Y - noun An American and European composite plant (Achillea Millefolium) with very finely dissected leaves and small white corymbed flowers. It has a strong, and somewhat aromatic, odor and taste, and is sometimes used in making beer, or is dried for smoking. Called also milfoil, and nosebleed.
• Yarwhip Dictionary Y - noun The European bar-tailed godwit; - called also yardkeep, and yarwhelp. See Godwit.
• Yataghan Dictionary Y - noun A long knife, or short saber, common among Mohammedan nations, usually having a double curve, sometimes nearly straight.
• Yate Dictionary Y - noun A gate. See 1st Gate.
• Yaud Dictionary Y - noun See Yawd.
• Yaul Dictionary Y - noun See Yawl.
• Yaulp Dictionary Y - intransitive verb To yaup.
• Yaup Dictionary Y - intransitive verb To cry out like a child; to yelp.
• Yauper Dictionary Y - noun One who, or that which, yaups.
• Yaupon Dictionary Y - noun 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.
• Yawed Dictionary Y - imperative & past particle of Yaw.
• Yawing Dictionary Y - past particle & verb noun of Yaw.
• Yaw Dictionary Y - intransitive verb To rise in blisters, breaking in white froth, as cane juice in the clarifiers in sugar works.
• Yawd Dictionary Y - noun A jade; an old horse or mare.
• Yawl Dictionary Y - noun A small ship's boat, usually rowed by four or six oars.
• Yawl-rigged Dictionary Y - adjective Having two masts with fore-and-aft sails, but differing from a schooner in that the after mast is very small, and stepped as far aft as possible. See Illustration in Appendix.
• Yawned Dictionary Y - imperative & past particle of Yawn.
• Yawning Dictionary Y - past particle & verb noun of Yawn.
• Yawn Dictionary Y - intransitive verb To open the mouth involuntarily through drowsiness, dullness, or fatigue; to gape; to oscitate.
• Yawningly Dictionary Y - adverb In a yawning manner.
• Yawp Dictionary Y - Verb & noun See Yaup.
• Yaws Dictionary Y - noun A disease, occurring in the Antilles and in Africa, characterized by yellowish or reddish tumors, of a contagious character, which, in shape and appearance, often resemble currants, strawberries, or raspberries. There are several varieties of this disease, variously known as framboesia, pian, verrugas, and crab-yaws.
• Yaw-weed Dictionary Y - noun A low, shrubby, rubiaceous plant (Morinda Royoc) growing along the seacoast of the West Indies. It has small, white, odorous flowers.
• Ybe Dictionary Y - past participle Been.
• Ydo Dictionary Y - past participle Done.
• Ydrad Dictionary Y - past participle Dreaded.
• Ye Dictionary Y - Alt. of Ye.
• Yen Dictionary Y - pleural of Ye.
• Yea Dictionary Y - adverb Yes; ay; a word expressing assent, or an affirmative, or an affirmative answer to a question, now superseded by yes. See Yes.
• Yead Dictionary Y - intransitive verb Properly, a variant of the defective imperfect yode, but sometimes mistaken for a present. See the Note under Yede.
• Yeaned Dictionary Y - imperative & past particle of Yean.
• Yeaning Dictionary Y - past particle & verb noun of Yean.
• Yean Dictionary Y - verb transitive & intransitive To bring forth young, as a goat or a sheep; to ean.
• Yeanling Dictionary Y - noun A lamb or a kid; an eanling.
• Year Dictionary Y - noun The time of the apparent revolution of the sun trough the ecliptic; the period occupied by the earth in making its revolution around the sun, called the astronomical year; also, a period more or less nearly agreeing with this, adopted by various nations as a measure of time, and called the civil year; as, the common lunar year of 354 days, still in use among the Mohammedans; the year of 360 days, etc. In common usage, the year consists of 365 days, and every fourth year (called bissextile, or leap year) of 366 days, a day being added to February on that year, on account of the excess above 365 days (see Bissextile).
• Yeara Dictionary Y - noun The California poison oak (Rhus diversiloba). See under Poison, a.
• Yearbook Dictionary Y - noun A book published yearly; any annual report or summary of the statistics or facts of a year, designed to be used as a reference book; as, the Congregational Yearbook.
• Yeared Dictionary Y - adjective Containing years; having existed or continued many years; aged.
• Yearling Dictionary Y - noun An animal one year old, or in the second year of its age; - applied chiefly to cattle, sheep, and horses.
• Yearly Dictionary Y - adjective Happening, accruing, or coming every year; annual; as, a yearly income; a yearly feast.
• Yearned Dictionary Y - imperative & past particle of Yearn.
• Yearning Dictionary Y - past particle & verb noun of Yearn.
• Yearn Dictionary Y - verb transitive To pain; to grieve; to vex.
• Yearnful Dictionary Y - adjective Desirous.
• Yearningly Dictionary Y - adverb With yearning.
• Yearnings Dictionary Y - noun plural The maws, or stomachs, of young calves, used as a rennet for curdling milk.
• Yearth Dictionary Y - noun The earth.
• Yeast Dictionary Y - noun The foam, or troth (top yeast), or the sediment (bottom yeast), of beer or other in fermentation, which contains the yeast plant or its spores, and under certain conditions produces fermentation in saccharine or farinaceous substances; a preparation used for raising dough for bread or cakes, and making it light and puffy; barm; ferment.
• Yeast-bitten Dictionary Y - adjective A term used of beer when the froth of the yeast has reentered the body of the beer.
• Yeastiness Dictionary Y - noun The quality or state of being yeasty, or frothy.
• Yeasty Dictionary Y - adjective Frothy; foamy; spumy, like yeast.
• Yedding Dictionary Y - noun The song of a minstrel; hence, any song.
• Yede Dictionary Y - imperative Went. See Yode.
• Yeel Dictionary Y - noun An eel.
• Yeldhall Dictionary Y - noun Guildhall.
• Yeldrin Dictionary Y - noun Alt. of Yeldrine.
• Yeldrine Dictionary Y - noun The yellow-hammer; - called also yeldrock, and yoldrin.
• Yelk Dictionary Y - noun Same as Yolk.
• Yelled Dictionary Y - imperative & past particle of Yell.
• Yelling Dictionary Y - past particle & verb noun of Yell.
• Yell Dictionary Y - intransitive verb To cry out, or shriek, with a hideous noise; to cry or scream as with agony or horror.
• Yellow Dictionary Y - superlative Being of a bright saffronlike color; of the color of gold or brass; having the hue of that part of the rainbow, or of the solar spectrum, which is between the orange and the green.
• Yellowed Dictionary Y - imperative & past particle of Yellow.
• Yellowing Dictionary Y - past particle & verb noun of Yellow.
• Yellowammer Dictionary Y - noun See Yellow-hammer.
• Yellowbill Dictionary Y - noun The American scoter.
• Yellowbird Dictionary Y - noun The American goldfinch, or thistle bird. See Goldfinch.
• Yellow-covered Dictionary Y - adjective Covered or bound in yellow paper.
• Yellow-eyed Dictionary Y - adjective Having yellow eyes.
• Yellowfin Dictionary Y - noun A large squeteague.
• Yellowfish Dictionary Y - noun A rock trout (Pleurogrammus monopterygius) found on the coast of Alaska; - called also striped fish, and Atka mackerel.
• Yellow-golds Dictionary Y - noun A certain plant, probably the yellow oxeye.
• Yellowhammer Dictionary Y - noun A common European finch (Emberiza citrinella). The color of the male is bright yellow on the breast, neck, and sides of the head, with the back yellow and brown, and the top of the head and the tail quills blackish. Called also yellow bunting, scribbling lark, and writing lark.
• Yellowish Dictionary Y - adjective Somewhat yellow; as, amber is of a yellowish color.
• Yellowlegs Dictionary Y - noun 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.
• Yellowness Dictionary Y - noun The quality or state of being yellow; as, the yellowness of an orange.
• Yellowroot Dictionary Y - noun Any one of several plants with yellow roots.
• Yellows Dictionary Y - noun A disease of the bile in horses, cattle, and sheep, causing yellowness of the eyes; jaundice.
• Yellowseed Dictionary Y - noun A kind of pepper grass (Lepidium campestre).
• Yellowshanks Dictionary Y - noun Alt. of Yellowshins.
• Yellowshins Dictionary Y - noun See Yellolegs.
• Yellowtail Dictionary Y - noun 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.
• Yellowthroat Dictionary Y - noun 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.
• Yellowtop Dictionary Y - noun A kind of grass, perhaps a species of Agrostis.
• Yellowwood Dictionary Y - noun 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.
• Yellowwort Dictionary Y - noun 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 Dictionary Y - imperative & past particle of Yelp.
• Yelping Dictionary Y - past particle & verb noun of Yelp.
• Yelp Dictionary Y - intransitive verb To boast.
• Yelper Dictionary Y - noun An animal that yelps, or makes a yelping noise.
• Yeman Dictionary Y - noun A yeoman.
• Yend Dictionary Y - verb transitive To throw; to cast.
• Yenite Dictionary Y - noun A silicate of iron and lime occurring in black prismatic crystals; - also called ilvaite.
• Yeomen Dictionary Y - pleural of Yeoman.
• Yeoman Dictionary Y - noun A common man, or one of the commonly of the first or most respectable class; a freeholder; a man free born.
• Yeomanlike Dictionary Y - adjective Resembling, or suitable to, a yeoman; yeomanly.
• Yeomanly Dictionary Y - adjective Pertaining to a yeoman; becoming or suitable to, a yeoman; yeomanlike.
• Yeomanry Dictionary Y - noun The position or rank of a yeoman.
• Yeorling Dictionary Y - noun The European yellow-hammer.
• Yer Dictionary Y - preposition Ere; before.
• Yerba Dictionary Y - noun An herb; a plant.
• Yerd Dictionary Y - noun See 1st & 2d Yard.
• Yerked Dictionary Y - imperative & past particle of Yerk.
• Yerking Dictionary Y - past particle & verb noun of Yerk.
• Yerk Dictionary Y - verb transitive To throw or thrust with a sudden, smart movement; to kick or strike suddenly; to jerk.
• Yern Dictionary Y - intransitive verb See 3d Yearn.
• Yerne Dictionary Y - adjective Eagerly; briskly; quickly.
• Yernut Dictionary Y - noun An earthnut, or groundnut. See Groundnut (d).
• Yerst Dictionary Y - adverb See Erst.
• Yes Dictionary Y - adverb Ay; yea; - a word which expresses affirmation or consent; - opposed to no.
• Yest Dictionary Y - noun See Yeast.
• Yester Dictionary Y - adjective Last; last past; next before; of or pertaining to yesterday.
• Yesterday Dictionary Y - noun The day last past; the day next before the present.
• Yestereve Dictionary Y - noun Alt. of Yester-evening.
• Yester-evening Dictionary Y - noun The evening of yesterday; the evening last past.
• Yestermorn Dictionary Y - noun Alt. of Yester-morning.
• Yester-morning Dictionary Y - noun The morning of yesterday.
• Yestern Dictionary Y - adjective Of or pertaining to yesterday; relating to the day last past.
• Yesternight Dictionary Y - noun The last night; the night last past.
• Yesternoon Dictionary Y - noun The noon of yesterday; the noon last past.
• Yesterweek Dictionary Y - noun The week last past; last week.
• Yesteryear Dictionary Y - noun The year last past; last year.
• Yestreen Dictionary Y - noun Yester-evening; yesternight; last night.
• Yesty Dictionary Y - adjective See Yeasty.
• Yet Dictionary Y - noun Any one of several species of large marine gastropods belonging to the genus Yetus, or Cymba; a boat shell.
• Yeve Dictionary Y - intransitive verb To give.
• Yeven Dictionary Y - past participle Given.
• Yew Dictionary Y - intransitive verb See Yaw.
• Yewen Dictionary Y - adjective Made of yew; as, yewen bows.
• Yex Dictionary Y - intransitive verb To hiccough.
• Yezdegerdian Dictionary Y - adjective 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 Dictionary Y - noun Same as Izedi.
• Yezidee Dictionary Y - noun Alt. of Yezidi.
• Yezidi Dictionary Y - noun Same as Izedi.
• Yfere Dictionary Y - adverb Together. See Ifere.
• Ygdrasyl Dictionary Y - noun See in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.
• Yghe Dictionary Y - noun Eye.
• Ygo Dictionary Y - past participle Gone.
• Yground Dictionary Y - p. p. of Grind.
• Yholde Dictionary Y - p. p. of Hold.
• Yielded Dictionary Y - imperative & past particle of Yield.
• Yold Dictionary Y - [[obs. past particle of Yield.
• Yielding Dictionary Y - past particle & verb noun of Yield.
• Yield Dictionary Y - verb transitive 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.
• Yieldable Dictionary Y - adjective Disposed to yield or comply.
• Yieldance Dictionary Y - noun The act of producing; yield; as, the yieldance of the earth.
• Yielder Dictionary Y - noun One who yields.
• Yieldless Dictionary Y - adjective Without yielding; unyielding.
• Yift Dictionary Y - noun Gift.
• Yin Dictionary Y - noun A Chinese weight of 2/ pounds.
• Yis Dictionary Y - adverb Yes.
• Yit Dictionary Y - conjecture Yet.
• Yite Dictionary Y - noun The European yellow-hammer.
• Yive Dictionary Y - verb transitive & intransitive To give.
• -yl Dictionary Y - A suffix used as a characteristic termination of chemical radicals; as in ethyl, carbonyl, hydroxyl, etc.
• Yle Dictionary Y - noun Isle.
• Y level Dictionary Y - See under Y, n.
• Yliche Dictionary Y - adjective & adverb Alt. of Ylike.
• Ylike Dictionary Y - adjective & adverb Like; alike.
• Yllanraton Dictionary Y - noun The agouara.
• Ymaked Dictionary Y - past participle Made.
• Ymel Dictionary Y - preposition Among.
• Ynambu Dictionary Y - noun A South American tinamou (Rhynchotus rufescens); - called also perdiz grande, and rufous tinamou. See Illust. of Tinamou.
• Ynough Dictionary Y - adjective Alt. of Ynow.
• Ynow Dictionary Y - adjective Enough.
• Yockel Dictionary Y - noun The yaffle.
• Yode Dictionary Y - imperative Went; walked; proceeded.
• Yodeled Dictionary Y - imperative & past particle of Yodle.
• Yodled Dictionary Y - of Yodle.
• Yodeling Dictionary Y - past particle & verb noun of Yodle.
• Yodling Dictionary Y - of Yodle.
• Yodel Dictionary Y - verb transitive & intransitive Alt. of Yodle.
• Yodle Dictionary Y - verb transitive & intransitive 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.
• Yodler Dictionary Y - noun One who yodels.
• Yoga Dictionary Y - noun 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 Dictionary Y - noun A follower of the yoga philosophy; an ascetic.
• Yoicks Dictionary Y - interjection A cry of encouragement to foxhounds.
• Yoit Dictionary Y - noun The European yellow-hammer.
• Yojan Dictionary Y - noun A measure of distance, varying from four to ten miles, but usually about five.
• Yoke Dictionary Y - noun A bar or frame of wood by which two oxen are joined at the heads or necks for working together.
• Yoked Dictionary Y - imperative & past particle of Yoke.
• Yoking Dictionary Y - past particle & verb noun of Yoke.
• Yokeage Dictionary Y - noun See Rokeage.
• Yokefellow Dictionary Y - noun An associate or companion in, or as in; a mate; a fellow; especially, a partner in marriage.
• Yokel Dictionary Y - noun A country bumpkin.
• Yokelet Dictionary Y - noun A small farm; - so called as requiring but one yoke of oxen to till it.
• Yokemate Dictionary Y - noun Same as Yokefellow.
• Yoke-toed Dictionary Y - adjective Having two toes in front and two behind, as the trogons and woodpeckers.
• Yolden Dictionary Y - past participle Yielded.
• Yolk Dictionary Y - noun The yellow part of an egg; the vitellus.
• Yoll Dictionary Y - intransitive verb To yell.
• Yon Dictionary Y - adjective At a distance, but within view; yonder.
• Yoncopin Dictionary Y - noun A local name in parts of the Mississippi Valley for the American lotus (Nelumbo lutea).
• Yond Dictionary Y - adjective Furious; mad; angry; fierce.
• Yonder Dictionary Y - adverb At a distance, but within view.
• Yoni Dictionary Y - noun The symbol under which Sakti, or the personification of the female power in nature, is worshiped. Cf. Lingam.
• Yonker Dictionary Y - noun A young fellow; a younker.
• Yore Dictionary Y - adverb In time long past; in old time; long since.
• Yorker Dictionary Y - noun A tice.
• Yorkshire Dictionary Y - noun A county in the north of England.
• York use Dictionary Y - 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.
• Yot Dictionary Y - verb transitive To unite closely.
• Yote Dictionary Y - verb transitive To pour water on; to soak in, or mix with, water.
• You Dictionary Y - dat. & obj. The pronoun of the second person, in the nominative, dative, and objective case, indicating the person or persons addressed. See the Note under Ye.
• Youl Dictionary Y - intransitive verb To yell; to yowl.
• Young Dictionary Y - superlative 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.
• Youngger Dictionary Y - noun One who is younger; an inferior in age; a junior.
• Youngish Dictionary Y - adjective Somewhat young.
• Youngling Dictionary Y - noun A young person; a youth; also, any animal in its early life.
• Youngly Dictionary Y - adjective Like a young person or thing; young; youthful.
• Youngness Dictionary Y - noun The quality or state of being young.
• Youngster Dictionary Y - noun A young person; a youngling; a lad.
• Youngth Dictionary Y - noun Youth.
• Youngthly Dictionary Y - adjective Pertaining to, or resembling, youth; youthful.
• Younker Dictionary Y - adjective A young person; a stripling; a yonker.
• Youpon Dictionary Y - noun Same as Yaupon.
• Your Dictionary Y - pronoun & adjective The form of the possessive case of the personal pronoun you.
• Yours Dictionary Y - pronoun See the Note under Your.
• Yourselves Dictionary Y - pleural of Yourself.
• Yourself Dictionary Y - pronoun 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.
• Youths Dictionary Y - pleural of Youth.
• Youth Dictionary Y - pleural of Youth.
• Youthful Dictionary Y - adjective Not yet mature or aged; young.
• Youthhood Dictionary Y - noun The quality or state of being a youth; the period of youth.
• Youthly Dictionary Y - adjective Young; youthful.
• Youthsome Dictionary Y - adjective Youthful.
• Youthy Dictionary Y - adjective Young.
• Youze Dictionary Y - noun The cheetah.
• Yow Dictionary Y - pronoun You.
• Yowe Dictionary Y - noun A ewe.
• Yowl Dictionary Y - intransitive verb To utter a loud, long, and mournful cry, as a dog; to howl; to yell.
• Yowley Dictionary Y - noun The European yellow-hammer.
• Yox Dictionary Y - intransitive verb See Yex.
• Ypight Dictionary Y - past participle See Pight.
• Ypocras Dictionary Y - noun Hippocras.
• Ypres lace Dictionary Y - Fine bobbin lace made at Ypres in Belgium, usually exactly like Valenciennes lace.
• Ypsiliform Dictionary Y - adjective Resembling the / in appearance; - said of the germinal spot in the ripe egg at one of the stages of fecundation.
• Ypsiloid Dictionary Y - adjective In the form of the letter Y; Y-shaped.
• Yraft Dictionary Y - past participle Bereft.
• Yren Dictionary Y - noun Iron.
• Yronne Dictionary Y - past participle Run.
• Ysame Dictionary Y - adverb Together.
• Yt Dictionary Y - Alt. of Yt.
• Ythrowe Dictionary Y - p. p. of Throw.
• Ytterbic Dictionary Y - adjective Pertaining to, or derived from, ytterbium; containing ytterbium.
• Ytterbium Dictionary Y - noun 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.
• Yttria Dictionary Y - noun The oxide, Y2O3, or earth, of yttrium.
• Yttric Dictionary Y - adjective Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, yttrium.
• Yttriferous Dictionary Y - adjective Bearing or containing yttrium or the allied elements; as, gadolinite is one of the yttriferous minerals.
• Yttrious Dictionary Y - adjective Same as Yttric.
• Yttrium Dictionary Y - noun 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 weight, 89.
• Yttro-cerite Dictionary Y - noun A mineral of a violet-blue color, inclining to gray and white. It is a hydrous fluoride of cerium, yttrium, and calcium.
• Yttro-columbite Dictionary Y - noun Alt. of Yttro-tantalite.
• Yttro-tantalite Dictionary Y - noun A tantalate of uranium, yttrium, and calcium, of a brown or black color.
• Yu Dictionary Y - noun Jade.
• Yucca Dictionary Y - noun See Flicker, n., 2.
• Yuck Dictionary Y - intransitive verb To itch.
• Yuckel Dictionary Y - noun Same as Yockel.
• Yuen Dictionary Y - noun 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 Dictionary Y - noun Russia leather.
• Yug Dictionary Y - noun Alt. of Yuga.
• Yuga Dictionary Y - noun 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.
• Yuke Dictionary Y - verb intransitive & transitive Same as Yuck.
• Yulan Dictionary Y - noun A species of Magnolia (M. conspicua) with large white blossoms that open before the leaves. See the Note under Magnolia.
• Yule Dictionary Y - noun Christmas or Christmastide; the feast of the Nativity of our Savior.
• Yuletide Dictionary Y - noun Christmas time; Christmastide; the season of Christmas.
• Yumas Dictionary Y - noun plural 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.
• Yunx Dictionary Y - noun A genus of birds comprising the wrynecks.
• Yupon Dictionary Y - noun Same as Yaupon.
• Yux Dictionary Y - noun & verb See Yex, n.
• Yvel Dictionary Y - adjective & adverb Evil; ill.
• Ywar Dictionary Y - adjective Aware; wary.
• Ywis Dictionary Y - adverb Certainly; most likely; truly; probably.

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