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Yacca
A West Indian name for two large timber trees (, and ) of the Yew family. The wood, which is much used, is pale brownish with darker streaks.
Yachter
One engaged in sailing a jacht.
Yager
In the German army, one belonging to a body of light infantry armed with rifles, resembling the of the French army.
Yahoo
One of a race of filthy brutes in Swift's Gulliver's Travels. See in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.
Yamen
In China, the official headquarters or residence of a mandarin, including court rooms, offices, gardens, prisons, etc.; the place where the business of any public department is transcated.
Yamp
An umbelliferous plant (); also, its small fleshy roots, which are eaten by the Indians from Idaho to California.
Yang
The cry of the wild goose; a honk.
Yankee
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.
Yap
To bark; to yelp.
Yap
A bark; a yelp.
Yardful
As much as a yard will contain; enough to fill a yard.
Yardland
A measure of land of uncertain quantity, varying from fifteen to forty acres; a virgate.
Yare
Ready; dexterous; eager; lively; quick to move.
Yare
Soon.
Yark
To yerk.
Yarnen
Made of yarn; consisting of yarn.
Yataghan
A long knife, or short saber, common among Mohammedan nations, usually having a double curve, sometimes nearly straight.
Yate
A gate. See 1st .
Yaulp
To yaup.
Yauper
One who, or that which, yaups.
Yawn
An involuntary act, excited by drowsiness, etc., consisting of a deep and long inspiration following several successive attempts at inspiration, the mouth, fauces, etc., being wide open.
Yaw-weed
A low, shrubby, rubiaceous plant () growing along the seacoast of the West Indies. It has small, white, odorous flowers.
Ycleped
Called; named; -- obsolete, except in archaic or humorous writings.
Ydo
Done.
Y
An eye.
Yea
An affirmative vote; one who votes in the affirmative; .
Yearnful
Desirous.
Yeast-bitten
A term used of beer when the froth of the yeast has rentered the body of the beer.
Yeastiness
The quality or state of being yeasty, or frothy.
Yedding
The song of a minstrel; hence, any song.
Yellow
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.
Yellowfin
A large squeteague.
Yellowish
Somewhat yellow; .
Yellow pages
a telephone book or part of a book in which the telephone numbers and often advertisements of business enterprises are listed in numerous sections, organized by the category of the business, the categories themselves being arranged alphabetically; a classified telephone directory. So called because for many years the listing thus organized was printed on yellow paper, to distinguish it from the white pages containing the names of individuals, listed alphabetically by last name. The yellow pages are usually bound together with the white pages in the telephone book distributed by the telephone company to its subscribers. The name was adopted by companies not affiliated with the telephone company, for the classified business directories that they sell.
Yellowseed
A kind of pepper grass ().
Yellowwood
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 , an American leguminous tree; the several species of prickly ash (); the Australian , a tree related to the mahogany; certain South African species of , trees related to the yew; the East Indian ; and the true satinwood (). All these Old World trees furnish valuable timber.
Yelting
The Florida and West Indian red snapper (); also, sometimes, one of certain other allied species, as .
Yerk
A sudden or quick thrust or motion; a jerk.
Yesternoon
The noon of yesterday; the noon last past.
Yezdegerdian
Of or pertaining to , the last Sassanian monarch of Persia, who was overthrown by the Mohammedans; .
Yfere
Together. See .
Yghe
Eye.
Yite
The European yellow-hammer.
-yl
A suffix used as a characteristic termination of chemical radicals; as in eth, carbon, hydrox, etc.
Yle
Isle.
Yockel
The yaffle.
Yogism
Yoga, or its practice.
Yojan
A measure of distance, varying from four to ten miles, but usually about five.
Yoke-toed
Having two toes in front and two behind, as the trogons and woodpeckers.
Yoll
To yell.
Yore
In time long past; in old time; long since.
York use
The one of the three printed uses of England which was followed in the north. It was based on the Sarum use. See , ., 6.
Yote
To pour water on; to soak in, or mix with, water.
Youngly
Like a young person or thing; young; youthful.
Youthful
Not yet mature or aged; young.
Youthhood
The quality or state of being a youth; the period of youth.
Youthsome
Youthful.
Yowley
The European yellow-hammer.
Ypocras
Hippocras.
Ypsiliform
Resembling the in appearance; -- said of the germinal spot in the ripe egg at one of the stages of fecundation.
Yucca
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.
Yucca borer
A California boring weevil ().
Yuck
To scratch.
Yulan
A species of Magnolia () with large white blossoms that open before the leaves. See the Note under .
Yule
Christmas or Christmastide; the feast of the Nativity of our Savior.
Yupon
Same as .
Ywis
Certainly; most likely; truly; probably.