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To be accustomed or habituated; to be used. A yearly solemn feast she wont to make. Spenser.

al calculus." Macaulay. (b) In some American colleges, the lowest appointee of the junior year; sometimes, one especially popular in his class, without reference to scholarship. Formerly, it was a custom for classmates to present to this person a wooden spoon with formal ceremonies. -- Wooden ware, a general name for…

common; as, worldly maxims; worldly actions. "I thus neglecting worldly ends." Shak. Many years it hath continued, standing by no other worldly mean but that one only hand which erected it. Hooker.

. Milton. Now was the time to be avenged on his old enemy, to wreak a grudge of seventeen years. Macaulay. But gather all thy powers, And wreak them on the verse that thou dost weave. Bryant.

ank in the service of the late East India Company, who, after serving a certain number of years, became a factor. Writer of the tallies (Eng. Law), an officer of the exchequer of England, who acted as clerk to the auditor of the receipt, and wrote the accounts upon the tallies from the tellers' bills. The use of tallie…

Yea. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Yea; yes. [Obs.] Chaucer.

See 3d Yearn. [Obs.]

Ay; yea; -- a word which expresses affirmation or consent; -- opposed to Ant: no.

See Yeast. Shak.

The year last past; last year.

See Yeasty. Shak.

frame of wood by which two oxen are joined at the heads or necks for working together. A yearling bullock to thy name shall smoke, Untamed, unconscious of the galling yoke. Pope.

nd Miss Emma Robert's prayer union for young women,in England, which were combined in the year 1884 as a national association. Now nearly all the civilized countries, and esp. the United States, have local, national, and international organizations.

A young person; especially, a young man. Seven youths from Athens yearly sent. Dryden.

Also used figuratively. "The youthful season of the year." Shak.

The second month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, corresponding to our May.

aving the characteristic of Zoilus, a bitter, envious, unjust critic, who lived about 270 years before Christ.

g a definite zymogen or ferment. Zymogenic organism (Biol.), a microörganism, such as the yeast plant of the Bacterium lactis, which sets up certain fermentative processes by which definite chemical products are formed; -- distinguished from a pathogenic organism. Cf. Micrococcus.