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See Yeast. Shak.

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.

The morning of yesterday. Coleridge.

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.

See Yeasty. Shak.

A material used for dyeing.

One of the movable peduncles which, in the decapod Crustacea, bear the eyes at the tip.

A small, lenticular, calcareous body, esp. an operculum of a small shell of the family Tubinid, used to remove a foreign sub stance from the eye. It is rut into the inner corner of the eye under the lid, and allowed to work its way out at the outer corner, bringing with the substance.

The tendon by which the eye is moved. Shak.

s, arrears of rent, wages, or taxes. Locke. For much I dread due payment by the Greeks Of yesterday's arrear. Cowper. I have a large arrear of letters to write. J. D. Forbes. In arrear or In arrears, behind; backward; behindhand; in debt.

A fast dyestuff, C20H8O6, made by heating gallein with strong sulphuric acid. It dyes mordanted fabrics green.

The root of the Oldenlandia umbellata, native in India, which yieds a durable red dyestuff. [Written also choy root.]

An orange-colored dyestuff, of artificial production.