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  • English Word Yesterweek Definition The week last past; last week.
  • English Word Yesteryear Definition The year last past; last year.
  • English Word Yestreen Definition Yester-evening; yesternight; last night.
  • English Word Yesty Definition See Yeasty.
  • English Word Yet Definition Any one of several species of large marine gastropods belonging to the genus Yetus, or Cymba; a boat shell.
  • English Word Yet Definition In addition; further; besides; over and above; still.
  • English Word Yet Definition At the same time; by continuance from a former state; still.
  • English Word Yet Definition Up to the present time; thus far; hitherto; until now; -- and with the negative, not yet, not up to the present time; not as soon as now; as, Is it time to go? Not yet. See As yet, under As, conj.
  • English Word Yet Definition Before some future time; before the end; eventually; in time.
  • English Word Yet Definition Even; -- used emphatically.
  • English Word Yet Definition Nevertheless; notwithstanding; however.
  • English Word Yeve Definition To give.
  • English Word Yeven Definition Given.
  • English Word Yew Definition See Yaw.
  • English Word Yew Definition An evergreen tree (Taxus baccata) of Europe, allied to the pines, but having a peculiar berrylike fruit instead of a cone. It frequently grows in British churchyards.
  • English Word Yew Definition 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.
  • English Word Yew Definition A bow for shooting, made of the yew.
  • English Word Yew Definition Of or pertaining to yew trees; made of the wood of a yew tree; as, a yew whipstock.
  • English Word Yewen Definition Made of yew; as, yewen bows.
  • English Word Yex Definition To hiccough.
  • English Word Yex Definition A hiccough.
  • English Word Yezdegerdian Definition 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.
  • English Word Yezdi Definition Same as Izedi.
  • English Word Yezidee Definition Alt. of Yezidi
  • English Word Yezidi Definition Same as Izedi.
  • English Word Yfere Definition Together. See Ifere.
  • English Word Ygdrasyl Definition See in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.
  • English Word Yghe Definition Eye.
  • English Word Ygo Definition Gone.
  • English Word Yground Definition p. p. of Grind.