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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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46 words match “YAW”

EXECUTOR n.
An executioner. [Obs.] Delivering o'er to executors pa . . . The lazy, yawning drone. Shak.
FRAMBAESIA n.
The yaws. See Yaws.
GALPE v.
To gape,; to yawn. [Obs.] Chaucer.
GANE v.
To yawn; to gape. [Obs.] Chaucer.
GAPE v. 2 definitions
Indicating sleepiness or indifference; to yawn. She stretches, gapes, unglues her eyes, And asks if it be time to rise. Swift.
GAPES; THE GAPES n.
A fit of yawning.
GERN v.
To grin or yawn. [Obs.] "[/He] gaped like a gulf when he did gern." Spenser.
JAWN v.
See Yawn. [Obs.] Marston.
JIGGER n. 2 definitions
A small fishing vessel, rigged like a yawl. [New Eng.]
LOUNGE v.
r recline, in an indolent manner. We lounge over the sciences, dawdle through literature, yawn over politics. J. Hannay.
MASSY a.
y rock. Your swords are now too massy for your strengths, And will not be uplifted. Shak. Yawning rocks in massy fragments fly. Pope.
MIZZENMAST n.
The hindmost mast of a three-masted vessel, or of a yawl-rigged vessel.
OSCITANCY n.
The act of gaping or yawning.
OSCITANT a.
Yawning; gaping.
OSCITATE v.
To gape; to yawn.
OSCITATION n.
The act of yawning or gaping. Addison.
PIAN n.
The yaws. See Yaws.
RING v.
ringing a bell; to sound. The shard-borne beetle, with his drowsy hums, Hath rung night's yawning peal. Shak.
SIBBENS n.
A contagious disease, endemic in Scotland, resembling the yaws. It is marked by ulceration of the throat and nose and by pustules and soft fungous excrescences upon the surface of the body. In the Orkneys the name is applied to the itch. [Written also sivvens.]
STRETCH v.
To extend or spread one's self, or one's limbs; as, the lazy man yawns and stretches.
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