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Chaucer.
Some examples of Chaucer's use of this prefix are; ibe, ibeen, icaught, ycome, ydo, idoon, ygo, iproved, ywrought. It inough, enough, it is combined with an adjective. Other examples are in the Vocabulary.
Spenser and later writers frequently employed this prefix when affecting an archaic style, and sometimes used it incorrectly.
Ya , adv. Yea. Chaucer.
The name is also applied to allied species.
Yac"ca , n. A West Indian name for two large timber trees of the Yew family. The wood, which is much used, is pale brownish with darker streaks.
Yacht , n. 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.
Yacht measurement. See the Note under Tonnage, 4.
Yacht, v. i. To manage a yacht; to voyage in a yacht.
Yacht"er , n. One engaged in sailing a jacht.
Yacht"ing, n. Sailing for pleasure in a yacht.
Yacht"man , n. See Yachtsman.
Yachts"man , n.; pl. Yachtsmen . One who owns or sails a yacht; a yachter.
Yaf , obs. imp. of Give. Gave. See Give. Chaucer.
Yaf"fle , n. The European green woodpecker . 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.
Ya"ger , n. In the German army, one belonging to a body of light infantry armed with rifles, resembling the chasseur of the French army.
||Yaj"ur-Ve"da , n. See Veda.
Yak , n. A bovine mammal 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.
Yak lace, a coarse pillow lace made from the silky hair of the yak.
Ya"kin , n. A large Asiatic antelope 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.
||Yak"sha , n. A kind of demigod attendant on Kuvera, the god of wealth.
Ya"lah , n. The oil of the mahwa tree.
Yam , n. 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.
Chinese yam, a plant with a long and slender tuber, hardier than most of the other species. -- Wild yam. A common plant of the Eastern United States, having a hard and knotty rootstock. An orchidaceous plant of Australia and Tasmania.
||Ya"ma , n. 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.
Yam"ma , n. The llama.
Yamp , n. An umbelliferous plant ; also, its small fleshy roots, which are eaten by the Indians from Idaho to California.
Yang , n. The cry of the wild goose; a honk.
Yang, v. i. To make the cry of the wild goose.
Yank , n. A jerk or twitch.
Yank, v. t. To twitch; to jerk.
Yank, n. An abbreviation of Yankee.
Yan"kee , n. 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.
From meanness first this Portsmouth Yankey rose, And still to meanness all his conduct flows.
Oppression, A poem by an American .
Yan"kee, a. Of or pertaining to a Yankee; characteristic of the Yankees.
The alertness of the Yankee aspect.
Hawthorne.
Yankee clover. See Japan clover, under Japan.
Yan`kee-Doo"dle , n. 1. The name of a tune adopted popularly as one of the national airs of the United States.
We might have withheld our political noodles From knocking their heads against hot Yankee- Doodles.
Moore.
||Yaourt , n. A fermented drink, or milk beer, made by the Turks.
Yap , v. i. To bark; to yelp. L'Estrange.
Yap , n. A bark; a yelp.
Ya"pock , n. A South American aquatic opossum 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.
Ya"pon , n. Same as Yaupon.
Yar"age , n. The power of moving, or being managed, at sea; -- said with reference to a ship. Sir T. North.
Yard , n.
If men smote it with a yerde.
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