Emily Dickinson Lexicon

yield (-eth, -s), v. [OE gieldan.] (webplay: tell).

1. Give up.
2. Produce; make; manufacture.
3. Succumb; surrender; give in; [fig.] die; cease; be lost; no longer exist.
4. Control; attract; demand attention of.
5. Return; pay; give again.
6. Forbid; denounce; disapprove of.