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- English Word Yellowtail Definition The runner, 12.
- English Word Yellowtail Definition A California rockfish (Sebastodes flavidus).
- English Word Yellowtail Definition The sailor's choice (Diplodus rhomboides).
- English Word Yellowthroat Definition Any one of several species of American ground warblers of the genus Geothlypis, esp. the Maryland yellowthroat (G. trichas), which is a very common species.
- English Word Yellowtop Definition A kind of grass, perhaps a species of Agrostis.
- English Word Yellowwood Definition The wood of any one of several different kinds of trees; also, any one of the trees themselves. Among the trees so called are the Cladrastis tinctoria, an American leguminous tree; the several species of prickly ash (Xanthoxylum); the Australian Flindersia Oxleyana, a tree related to the mahogany; certain South African species of Podocarpus, trees related to the yew; the East Indian Podocarpus latifolia; and the true satinwood (Chloroxylon Swietenia). All these Old World trees furnish valuable timber.
- English Word Yellowwort Definition A European yellow-flowered, gentianaceous (Chlora perfoliata). The whole plant is intensely bitter, and is sometimes used as a tonic, and also in dyeing yellow.
- English Word Yelp Definition To boast.
- English Word Yelp Definition To utter a sharp, quick cry, as a hound; to bark shrilly with eagerness, pain, or fear; to yaup.
- English Word Yelp Definition A sharp, quick cry; a bark.
- English Word Yelped Definition of Yelp
- English Word Yelper Definition An animal that yelps, or makes a yelping noise.
- English Word Yelper Definition The avocet; -- so called from its sharp, shrill cry.
- English Word Yelper Definition The tattler.
- English Word Yelping Definition of Yelp
- English Word Yeman Definition A yeoman.
- English Word Yen Definition of Ye
- English Word Yen Definition The unit of value and account in Japan. Since Japan's adoption of the gold standard, in 1897, the value of the yen has been about 50 cents. The yen is equal to 100 sen.
- English Word Yend Definition To throw; to cast.
- English Word Yenite Definition A silicate of iron and lime occurring in black prismatic crystals; -- also called ilvaite.
- English Word Yeoman Definition A common man, or one of the commonly of the first or most respectable class; a freeholder; a man free born.
- English Word Yeoman Definition A servant; a retainer.
- English Word Yeoman Definition A yeoman of the guard; also, a member of the yeomanry cavalry.
- English Word Yeoman Definition An interior officer under the boatswain, gunner, or carpenters, charged with the stowage, account, and distribution of the stores.
- English Word Yeomanlike Definition Resembling, or suitable to, a yeoman; yeomanly.
- English Word Yeomanly Definition Pertaining to a yeoman; becoming or suitable to, a yeoman; yeomanlike.
- English Word Yeomanry Definition The yeomanry cavalry.
- English Word Yeomanry Definition The position or rank of a yeoman.
- English Word Yeomanry Definition The collective body of yeomen, or freeholders.
- English Word Yeomen Definition of Yeoman