(n.) A small ship's boat, usually rowed by four or six oars.

(v. i.) To cry out like a dog or cat; to howl; to yell.

(v. i.) To open the mouth involuntarily through drowsiness, dullness, or fatigue; to gape; to oscitate.

(v. i.) To open wide; to gape, as if to allow the entrance or exit of anything.

(v. i.) To open the mouth, or to gape, through surprise or bewilderment.

(v. i.) To be eager; to desire to swallow anything; to express desire by yawning; as, to yawn for fat livings.

(n.) 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.

(n.) The act of opening wide, or of gaping.

(n.) A chasm, mouth, or passageway.

(v. & n.) See Yaup.

(n.) 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.

(v. t. & i.) To bring forth young, as a goat or a sheep; to ean.

(n.) 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).

(n.) The time in which any planet completes a revolution about the sun; as, the year of Jupiter or of Saturn.

(n.) Age, or old age; as, a man in years.

(imp.) Went. See Yode.

(n.) An eel.

(n.) Same as Yolk.

(v. i.) To cry out, or shriek, with a hideous noise; to cry or scream as with agony or horror.

(v. t.) To utter or declare with a yell; to proclaim in a loud tone.

(n.) A sharp, loud, hideous outcry.

(v. i.) To boast.

(v. i.) To utter a sharp, quick cry, as a hound; to bark shrilly with eagerness, pain, or fear; to yaup.

(n.) A sharp, quick cry; a bark.

(n.) See 1st & 2d Yard.

(v. t.) To throw or thrust with a sudden, smart movement; to kick or strike suddenly; to jerk.

(v. t.) To strike or lash with a whip.

(v. i.) To throw out the heels; to kick; to jerk.

(v. i.) To move a quick, jerking motion.

(n.) A sudden or quick thrust or motion; a jerk.

(v. i.) See 3d Yearn.

(a.) Eager; brisk; quick; active.

(n.) See Yeast.

(n.) The European yellow-hammer.

(imp.) Went; walked; proceeded.

(n.) A bar or frame of wood by which two oxen are joined at the heads or necks for working together.

(n.) A frame or piece resembling a yoke, as in use or shape.

(n.) A frame of wood fitted to a person's shoulders for carrying pails, etc., suspended on each side; as, a milkmaid's yoke.

(n.) A frame worn on the neck of an animal, as a cow, a pig, a goose, to prevent passage through a fence.

(n.) A frame or convex piece by which a bell is hung for ringing it. See Illust. of Bell.

(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.

(n.) A bent crosspiece connecting two other parts.

(n.) 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.

(n.) A band shaped to fit the shoulders or the hips, and joined to the upper full edge of the waist or the skirt.

(n.) Fig.: That which connects or binds; a chain; a link; a bond connection.

(n.) A mark of servitude; hence, servitude; slavery; bondage; service.

(n.) Two animals yoked together; a couple; a pair that work together.

(n.) The quantity of land plowed in a day by a yoke of oxen.

(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.

(v. t.) To put a yoke on; to join in or with a yoke; as, to yoke oxen, or pair of oxen.

(v. t.) To couple; to join with another.

(v. t.) To enslave; to bring into bondage; to restrain; to confine.

(v. i.) To be joined or associated; to be intimately connected; to consort closely; to mate.

(n.) The yellow part of an egg; the vitellus.

(n.) An oily secretion which naturally covers the wool of sheep.

(a.) Furious; mad; angry; fierce.

(a.) Yonder.

(n.) The symbol under which Sakti, or the personification of the female power in nature, is worshiped. Cf. Lingam.

(adv.) In time long past; in old time; long since.

(v. t.) To pour water on; to soak in, or mix with, water.

(v. i.) To yell; to yowl.

(pron. & a.) The form of the possessive case of the personal pronoun you.

(n.) A ewe.

(v. i.) To utter a loud, long, and mournful cry, as a dog; to howl; to yell.

(n.) A loud, protracted, and mournful cry, as that of a dog; a howl.

(v. i.) To itch.

(v. t.) To scratch.

(v. i. & t.) Same as Yuck.

(adv.) Certainly; most likely; truly; probably. Z () Z, the twenty-sixth and last letter of the English alphabet, is a vocal consonant. It is taken from the Latin letter Z, which came from the Greek alphabet, this having it from a Semitic source. The ultimate origin is probably Egyptian. Etymologically, it is most closely related to s, y, and j; as in glass, glaze; E. yoke, Gr. /, L. yugum; E. zealous, jealous. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 273, 274.

(n.) An umbelliferous plant (Carum Gairdneri); also, its small fleshy roots, which are eaten by the Indians from Idaho to California.

(n.) Ready; dexterous; eager; lively; quick to move.

(adv.) Soon.

(v. t. & i.) To yerk.

(n.) 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.

(n.) One of the threads of which the strands of a rope are composed.

(n.) A story told by a sailor for the amusement of his companions; a story or tale; as, to spin a yarn.

(n.) See Yawd.

(v. i.) To cry out like a child; to yelp.

(n.) A cry of distress, rage, or the like, as the cry of a sickly bird, or of a child in pain.

(n.) The blue titmouse.

(v. i.) To growl or snarl as a dog.