YEA, adverb Ya.

1. Yes; a word that expresses affirmation or assent. Will you go? yea It sometimes introduces a subject, with the sense of indeed, verily, truly, it is so.

YEA, hath God said, ye shall not eat of every tree in the garden? Genesis 3:1.

Let your communication be yea yea; nay, nay. Matthew 5:37.

2. It sometimes enforces the sense of something preceding; not only so, but more.

Therein I do rejoice; yea and will rejoice. Philippians 1:18.

3. In Scripture, it is used to denote certainty, consistency, harmony, and stability.

All the promises of God in him are yea and in him are amen. 2 Corinthians 1:17.

[In this use, the word may be considered a noun.]

YEA is used only in the sacred and solemn style. [See Yes.]

YEAD, GEAD, verb intransitive To go.

YEAN, verb intransitive To bring forth young, as a goat or sheep; to lamb. [Obsolete or local.]

YEANED, participle passive Brought forth.

YEANLING, noun The young of sheep; a lamb. [Obsolete or local.]

YEAR, noun [G.]

1. The space or period of time in which the sun moves through the twelve signs of the ecliptic, or whole circle, and returns to the same point. This is the solar year and the year in the strict and proper sense of the word. It is called also the tropical year This period comprehends what are called the twelve calendar months, or 365 days, 5 hours, and 49 minutes, within a small fraction. But in popular usage, the year consists of 365 days, and every fourth year of 366; a day being added to February, on account of the 5 hours and 49 minutes.

2. The time in which any planet completes a revolution; as the year of Jupiter or of Saturn.

3. The time in which the fixed states make a revolution, is called the great year

4. Years, in the plural, is sometimes equivalent to age or old age; as a man in years.

In popular language, year is often used for years. The horse is ten year old.

Sidereal year the time in which the sun, departing from any fixed star, returns to the same. This is 365 day, 6 hours, 6 minutes, and 11, 5 seconds.

Anomalistical year the time that elapses from the suns leaving its apogee, till it returns to it, which is 365 days, 6 hours, 14 minutes.

Civil year the year which nay nation has contrived for the computation of time.

Bissextile or leap year the year consisting of 366 days.

Lunar year consists of 12 lunar months.

Lunar astronomical year consists of 12 lunar synodical months, or 354 days, 8 hours, 48 minutes, 36 seconds.

Common lunar year consists of 12 lunar civil months, or 354 days.

Embolismic or intercalary year consists of 13 lunar civil months, and contains 384 days.

Julian year established by Julius Caesar, consists of 365 days, 6 hours.

Gregorian year is the Julian year corrected and is the year now generally used in Europe. From the difference between this and the Julian year arises the distinction of Old and New Style.

Sabbatic year among the Israelites, was every seventh year when their land was suffered to lid untilled.

The civil or legal year in England, formerly commenced on the 25th day of March. This practice continued till after the settlement of America, and the first settlers of New England observed it for many years.

YEARED, adjective Containing years. [Not in use.]

YEARLING, noun A young beast one year old, or in the second year of his age.

YEARLING, adjective Being a year old; as a yearling heifer.

YEARLY, adjective

1. Annual; happening; accruing or coming every year; as a yearly rent or income.

2. Lasting a year; as a yearly plant.

3. Comprehending a year; as the yearly circuit or revolution of the earth.

YEARLY, adverb Annually; once a year; as blessings yearly bestowed.

YEARN, YERN, verb intransitive [G. The sense is to strain, or stretch forward. We have earnest from the same root.]

1. To be strained; to be pained or distressed; to suffer.

Falstaff, he is dead, and we must yearn therefore.

2. Usually, to long; to feel an earnest desire; that is literally, to have a desire or inclination stretching towards the object or end. 1 Kings 3:26.

Joseph made haste, for his bowels did yearn upon his brother. Genesis 43:30.

Your mothers heart yearns toward you.

--Anticlus, unable to control, spoke loud the language of his yearning soul.

YEARN, YERN, verb transitive To pain; to grieve; to vex.

She laments for it, that it would yearn your heart to see it.

It yearns me not if men my garments wear.

YEARNFUL, YERNFUL, adjective Mournful; distressing.

YEARNING, YERNING, participle passive Longing; having longing desire.

YEAST, noun

1. Barm; the foam, froth or flower of beer or other liquor in fermentation; used for raising dough for bread or cakes, and making it light and puffy.

2. Spume or foam of water. [Not in use.]

YEASTY, adjective Frothy; foamy; spumy; like yeast.

YELK, noun [See Gold and Yellow.] The yellow part of an egg; the vitellus. It is sometimes written and pronounced yolk, but yelk is the proper word. Yolk is a corruption.

YELL, verb intransitive [It agrees in elements with call.] To cry out with a hideous noise; to cry or scream as with agony or horror. Savages yell most frightfully when they are rushing to the first onset of battle.

Nor the night raven, that still deadly yells.

YELL, noun A sharp, loud, hideous outcry.

Their hideous yells rend the dark welkin.

YELLING, participle passive Uttering hideous outcries; shrieking; as yelling monsters.

YELLING, noun The act of screaming hideously.

YELLOW, adjective [G. See Gold.] Being of a bright color; the color of gold.

YELLOW, noun A bright color, reflecting the most light of any, after white. It is one of the simple or primitive colors.

YELLOWISH, adjective Somewhat yellow; as, amber is of a yellowish color.

YELLOWISHNESS, noun The quality of being somewhat yellow.

YELLOWNESS, noun

1. The quality of being yellow; as the yellowness of an orange.

2. Jealousy. [Not in use.]

YELLOWS, noun A disease of horses, cattle and sheep, in which the eyes are tinged with a yellow color, proceeding often from obstructions in the gall-ducts. It is relieved by purges.

YELP, verb intransitive To bark, as a beagle-hound after his prey, or as other dog.

YELPING, participle present tense Barking in a particular manner.

YENITE, noun A mineral found in the isle of Elba, and in other places, of a brown or brownish black color. It is arranged with the chrysolite family, but differs much from other species of it. It resembles hornblend, or rather black epidote. It occurs both crystalized and massive; the form of the crystals being that of a rhomboidal prism. It consists chiefly of silex, lime, and oxyd of manganese. This mineral is called yenite or jenite in commemoration of the battle of Jena, and lievrite, from its discoverer.

YEOMAN, noun [See Common.]

1. A common man, or one of the plebeians, of the first or most respectable class; a freeholder; a man free born. 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. But yeomanry is much used.

2. An officer in the kings household, of a middle rank between a gentleman and a groom.

3. In ships, an inferior officer under the boatswain, gunner or carpenters, charged with the stowage, account and distribution of the stores.

4. A name or title of certain soldiers; as yeomen of the guard.

YEOMANLY, adjective Pertaining to a yeoman.

YEOMANRY, noun The collective body of yeomen or freeholders. Thus the common people in America, are called yeomanry

YERK, verb transitive To throw or thrust with a sudden smart spring; as, horses yerk their heels.

YERK, noun A sudden or quick thrust or motion.

YERKING, participle present tense Thrusting with a quick spring.

YERN. [See Yearn.]

YEARNFUL, YERNFUL adjective Mournful; distressing.

YEARNING, YERNING participle passive Longing; having longing desire.

YEARNING, YERNING, noun Strong emotions of desire, tenderness or pity.

YES, adverb A word which expresses affirmation or consent; opposed to no; as, are you married, madam? yes It is used like yea, to enforce by repetition or addition, something which precedes. You have done all this; yes you have done more.

YES, you despise the man to books confind.

YEST, [See Yeast.]

YESTER, adjective [G., Latin ] Last; last past; next before the present; as yester sun.

[Note. This is seldom used except in the compounds which follow.]

YESTERDAY, noun [See Yester.]

1. The day last past; the day next before the present.

All our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death.

We are but of yesterday and know nothing. Job 8:9.

2. yesterday is used generally without a preposition; as, I went to town yesterday yesterday we received letters from our friends. In this ease, a preposition is understood; as on yesterday or during yesterday The word may be considered as adverbially used.

YESTERNIGHT, noun [yester and night.]

1. The last night.

2. It is used without preposition. My brother arrived yesternight; where on or during is understood, but it may be considered as adverbially used.

YESTY. [See Yeasty.]

YET, conjunction [Gr.] Nevertheless; notwithstanding; however. I come to you in the spirit of peace; yet you will not receive me.

YET I say unto you, the Solomon in all his glory, was not arrayed like one of these. Matthew 6:25.

YET, adverb

1. Beside; over and above. There is one reason yet further to be alledged.

2. Still; the state remaining the same.

They attest facts they had heard while they were yet heathens.

3. At this time; so soon. Is it time to go? Not yet

4. At least; at all.

A man that would form a comparison between Quintilians declamations, if yet they are Quintilians--

5. It is prefixed to words denoting extension of time or continuance.

A little longer; yet a little longer.

6. Still; in a new degree. The crime becomes yet blacker by the pretense of piety.

7. Even; after all; a kind of emphatical addition to a negative.

Men may not too rashly believe the confessions of witches, nor yet the evidence against them.

8. Hitherto. You have yet done nothing; you have as yet done less than was expected.

Yeven, for given, is not in use.

YEW, noun An evergreen tree of the genus Taxus, valued for its wood or timber.

YEW, verb intransitive To rise, as scum on the brine in boiling at the salt works. [See Yaw.]

YEWEN, adjective Made of yew.

YEX, noun A hiccough. [Little used.]

YEX, verb intransitive To hiccough.