Emily Dickinson Lexicon

YEW, v.i.

To rise, as scum on the brine in boiling at the salt works. [See Yaw.] – Cyc.

YEW'EN, a.

Made of yew. – Hubberd.

YEX, n. [Sax. geocsa. See Hiccough.]

A hiccough. [Little used.]

YEX, v.i.

To hiccough.

Y-FERE', adv.

Together. [Not in use.] – Spenser.

YIELD, v.i.

1. To give up the contest; to submit. He saw the fainting Grecians yield. – Dryden.
2. To comply with; as, I yielded to his request.
3. To give way; not to oppose. We readily yield to the current of opinion; we yield to the customs and fashions.
4. To give place, as inferior in rank or excellence. They will yield to us in nothing. Tell me in what more happy fields The thistle springs, to which the lily yields? – Pope.

YIELD, v.t. [Sax. gieldan, gildan, gyldan, to render, to pay. But the word seems to be directly from the W. gildiaw, to produce, to yield, to concede, to contribute. The sense is obvious.]

1. To produce, as land, stock or funds; to give in return for labor, or as profit. Lands yield not more than three per cent annually; houses yield four or five per cent. Maiz on good land, yields two or three hundred fold.
2. To produce, in general. Most vegetable juices yield a salt.
3. To afford; to exhibit. The flowers in spring yield a beautiful sight.
4. To allow; to concede; to admit to be true; as, to yield the point in debate. We yield that there is a God.
5. To give, as claimed of right; as, to yield due honors; to yield due praise.
6. To permit; to grant. Life is but air, / That yields a passage to the whistling sword. – Dryden.
7. To emit; to give up. To yield the breath, is to expire.
8. To resign; to give up; sometimes with up or over; as, to yield up their own opinions. We yield the place to our superiors.
9. To surrender; sometimes with up; as, to yield a fortress to the enemy; or to yield up a fortress.

YIELD-A-BLE-NESS, n.

Disposition to comply. [A bad word and not used.]

YIELD-ANCE, n.

Act of producing; concession. [Not used.] – Hall.

YIELD-ED, pp.

Produced; afforded; conceded; allowed; resigned; surrendered.

YIELD-ER, n.

One who yields.

YIELD-ING, n.

Act of producing; act of surrendering; submission. – Shak.

YIELD-ING, ppr.

1. Producing; affording; conceding; resigning; surrendering; allowing.
2. adj. Inclined to give way or comply; flexible; accommodating; as, a yielding temper.

YIELD-ING-LY, adv.

With compliance.

YIELD-ING-NESS, n.

Disposition to comply; quality of yielding. – Paley.

YO'JAN, n.

In the East Indies, a measure or distance of five miles. – Asiat. Res.

YOKE, n. [Sax. geoc or ioc; D. juk; G. joch; Sw. ok; Sans. yuga or yuj; Pers. yugh, yoo; W. jau; Fr. joug; It. giogo; Sp. yugo; L. jugum; Gr. ζευγος; Slav. Russ. igo; Ch. Syr. and Ar. זוג zug, to join, L. jungo, Gr. ξυγοω.]

1. A piece of timber, hollowed or made curving near each end, and fitted with bows for receiving the necks of oxen; by which means two are connected for drawing. From a ring or hook in the bow, a chain extends to the thing to be drawn, or to the yoke of another pair of oxen behind.
2. A mark of servitude; slavery; bondage. Our country sinks beneath the yoke. – Shak.
3. A chain; a link; a bond of connection; as, the yoke of marriage. – Dryden.
4. A couple; a pair; as, a yoke of oxen.
5. Service. My yoke is easy. – Matth. xi.

YOKE, v.t.

1. To put a yoke on; to join in a yoke; as, to yoke oxen, or a pair of oxen.
2. To couple; to join with another. Cassius you are yoked with a lamb. – Shak.
3. To enslave; to bring into bondage. – Shak.
4. To restrain; to confine. Libertines like not to be yoked in marriage. The words and promises that yoke The conqueror, are quickly broke. – Hudibras.

YOK'ED, pp.

Confined in a yoke; joined; coupled.

YOKE-ELM, n.

A tree.

YOKE-FEL'LOW, or YOKE-MATE, n. [yoke and fellow or mate.]

1. An associate or companion.
2. A mate; a fellow. – Spectator.

YOK'ING, ppr.

Putting a yoke on; joining; coupling.

YOLD, pp. [for Yielded. Not in use.]

– Spenser.

YOLK, n.

1. The yelk of an egg. [See Yelk.]
2. The unctuous secretion from the skin of sheep, which renders the pile soft and pliable. – Cyc.
3. The vitellus, a part of the seed of plants, so named by Gærtner, from its supposed analogy with the yelk of an egg. It is characterized as very firmly and inseparably connected with the embryo, yet never rising out of the integuments of the seed in germination, but absorbed, like the albumen, (see White and Perisperm,) for the nourishment of the embryo. When the albumen is present, it is always situated between it and the embryo. In the grasses it forms a scale between the embryo and albumen. It is considered by Smith as a subterraneous cotyledon. – Cyc. Smith.

YON, a. [or YOND, or YON'DER. Sax. geond. This seems to be formed from gan, to go, or its root, and signifies properly gone; or it is from geonan, to open; whence distant. The G. jener, and D. gins, ginder, may be the same word or from the same root.]

Being at a distance within view. Yonder men are too many for an embassy. – Bacon. Read thy lot in yon celestial sign. – Milton. Yon flowery arbors, yonder alleys green. – Milton.