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See Yawd. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

See Yawl.

To yaup.

To cry out like a child; to yelp. [Scot. & Colloq. U. S.] [Written also yawp.]

One who, or that which, yaups.

he black drink of the Indians of North Carolina. Called also South-Sea tea. [Written also yapon, youpon, and yupon.]

of several araceous plants or their starchy edible roots, which are cooked and eaten like yams or potatoes, as the taro.

hen struck by a heavy sea; -- said of a ship. Just as he would lay the ship's course, all yawing being out of the question. Lowell.

A low, shrubby, rubiaceous plant (Morinda Royoc) growing along the seacoast of the West Indies. It has small, white, odorous flowers.

A jade; an old horse or mare. [Written also yaud.] [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Grose.

A fore-and-aft-rigged vessel with a mainmast stepped a little farther forward than in a sloop and carrying a mainsail and jibs, with a jigger mast far aft, usually placed abaft the rudder post.

A small ship's boat, usually rowed by four or six oars. [Written also yaul.]

Having two masts with fore-and-aft sails, but differing from a schooner in that the after mast is very small, and stepped as far aft as possible. See Illustration in Appendix.

involuntarily through drowsiness, dullness, or fatigue; to gape; to oscitate. "The lazy, yawning drone." Shak. And while above he spends his breath, The yawning audience nod beneath. Trumbull.

In a yawning manner.

See Yaup.

veral varieties of this disease, variously known as framboesia, pian, verrugas, and crab- yaws.

f 35,000,000 acres of her western territory, for $500,000, to four companies known as the Yazoo Companies from the region granted ; -- commonly so called, the act being known as the Yazoo Frauds Act, because of alleged corruption of the legislature, every member but one being a shareholder in one or more of the compani…

ression. Keeping the sympathies of love and admiration in a dormant state, or state of abeyance. De Quincey.

Abeyance. [R.] Hawthorne.