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"y" being used in place of the Anglo-Saxon thorn. It is sometimes incorrectly pronounced ye. See The, and Thorn, n., 4.

Yes; ay; a word expressing assent, or an affirmative, or an affirmative answer to a question, now superseded by yes. See Yes. Let your communication be yea, yea; nay, nay. Matt. v. 37.

of the defective imperfect yode, but sometimes mistaken for a present. See the Note under Yede. [Obs.] Years yead away and faces fair deflower. Drant.

To bring forth young, as a goat or a sheep; to ean. Shak.

A lamb or a kid; an eanling. Shak.

od occupied by the earth in making its revolution around the sun, called the astronomical year; also, a period more or less nearly agreeing with this, adopted by various nations as a measure of time, and called the civil year; as, the common lunar year of 354 days, still in use among the Mohammedans; the year of 360 da…

he annual income of property; -- used in expressing the value of a thing in the number of years required for its income to yield its purchase price, in reckoning the amount to be paid for annuities, etc.

The California poison oak (Rhus diversiloba). See under Poison, a.

A book published yearly; any annual report or summary of the statistics or facts of a year, designed to be used as a reference book; as, the Congregational Yearbook.

Containing years; having existed or continued many years; aged. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

An animal one year old, or in the second year of its age; -- applied chiefly to cattle, sheep, and horses.

Happening, accruing, or coming every year; annual; as, a yearly income; a yearly feast.

To pain; to grieve; to vex. [Obs.] "She laments, sir, for it, that it would yearn your heart to see it." Shak. It yearns me not if men my garments wear. Shak.

Desirous. [Obs.] Ormulum. P. Fletcher.

With yearning.

The maws, or stomachs, of young calves, used a rennet for curdling milk. [Scot.]

The earth. [Obs.] "Is my son dead or hurt or on the yerthe felled" Ld. Berners.

The foam, or troth (top yeast), or the sediment (bottom yeast), of beer or other in fermentation, which contains the yeast plant or its spores, and under certain conditions produces fermentation in saccharine or farinaceous substances; a preparation used for raising dough for bread or cakes, and making it light and puf…

A term used of beer when the froth of the yeast has reëntered the body of the beer.

The quality or state of being yeasty, or frothy.