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The wood of the yew. It is light red in color, compact, fine- grained, and very elastic. It is preferred to all other kinds of wood for bows and whipstocks, the best for these purposes coming from Spain.

Made of yew; as, yewen bows.

Any wood from which coloring matter is extracted for dyeing.

See Eyewater.

A wash or lotion for application to the eyes.

A wink; a token. Shak.

An eyelash. [A child's word.]

One who sees a thing done; one who has ocular view anything. We . . . were eyewitnesses of his majesty. 2 Pet. i. 16.

a leguminous tree (Baphia nitida), from Angola and the Gaboon in Africa. It is used as a dyewood, and also for ramrods, violin bows and turner's work.

mstantial is distinguished from positive evidence in that the latter is the testimony of eyewitnesses to a fact or the admission of a party; but the prevalent opinion now is that all such testimony is dependent on circumstances for its support. All testimony is more or less circumstantial. Wharton.

n oceanic fish of large size (Elacate canada); the crabeater; -- called also bonito, cubbyyew, coalfish, and sergeant fish.

An application to the eye, usually an eyewater.

one of the order Coniferae, which includes the pine, cypress, and (according to some) the yew.

The yew. [Obs.] Dryden.

A yew. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A large ornamental tree (Ginkgo biloba) from China and Japan, belonging to the Yew suborder of Coniferæ. Its leaves are so like those of some maidenhair ferns, that it is also called the maidenhair tree.

y or dark; to obscure; to darken. A bow window . . . gloomed with limes. Walpole. A black yew gloomed the stagnant air. Tennyson.

sphere upon which the stars may be regarded as projected. -- Ground hemlock (Bot.), the yew (Taxus baccata var. Canadensisi) of eastern North America, distinguished from that of Europe by its low, straggling stems. -- Ground hog. (Zoöl.) (a) The woodchuck or American marmot (Arctomys monax). See Woodchuck. (b) The a…

to refer to by distinctive title; to mention. None named thee but to praise. Halleck. Old Yew, which graspest at the stones That name the underlying dead. Tennyson.

uetry; inlaid with wood in small and differently colored figures. One room parqueted with yew, which I liked well. Evelyn.