Search the Dictionary

Lasting a year; as, a yearly plant.

To strike or lash with a whip. [Obs. or Scot.]

Last; last past; next before; of or pertaining to yesterday. [An enemy] whom yester sun beheld Mustering her charms. Dryden.

The day last past; the day next before the present. All our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Shak. We are but of yesterday, and know nothing. Job viii. 9.

The evening of yesterday; the evening last past.

Of or pertaining to yesterday; relating to the day last past.

The last night; the night last past.

The noon of yesterday; the noon last past.

The week last past; last week.

The year last past; last year.

Yester-evening; yesternight; last night. [R. or Scot.] Yestreen I did not know How largely I could live. Bp. Coxe.

Of or pertaining to Yezdegerd, the last Sassanian monarch of Persia, who was overthrown by the Mohammedans; as, the Yezdegerdian era, which began on the 16th of June, a. d. 632. The era is still used by the Parsees.

religious movement which you yourself, as well as I, so faithfully followed from first to last. J. H. Newman.

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. yo…