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Any one of several species of large marine gastropods belonging to the genus Yetus, or Cymba; a boat shell.

An island. See Eyot.

A canine tooth of the upper jaw. See Teeth. To cut one's eyeteeth, to become acute or knowing. [Colloq.]

To forget. [Obs.] Chaucer.

p. p. of Foryete. Chaucer.

ainments prompted by, or inspiring, merry delight; -- used often in the plural; as, the gayeties of the season.

Of or pertaining to rain; descriptive of the distribution of rain, or of rainy regions.

A chart or graphic representation of the average distribution of rain over the surface of the earth.

Of or pertaining to to hyetography.

The branch of physical science which treats of the geographical distribution of rain.

The science which treats of the precipitation of rain, snow, etc. -- Hy`e*to*log"ic*al, a.

An isohyetose line.

See Jet. [Obs.]

The dollar fish.

The outfit of clothing, blankets, etc., prepared for a newborn infant, and placed ready for used.

A magpie; a piet. [Prov. Eng.] Here cometh the worthy prelate as pert as a pyet. Sir W. Scott.

A mixed stuff, called also sagathy. See Sagathy.

One of the chief administrative divisions or provinces of the Ottoman Empire; -- formerly called eyalet.

of the mind or forms of thinking, which, though first revealed to us by experience, must yet have preëxisted in order to make experience possible. Coleridge.

rson to whom one owes allegiance or fidelity; to quit; to surrender. Hope was overthrown, yet could not be abandoned. I. Taylor.