Yearn () To be pained or distressed; to grieve; to mourn.

Yearn () To curdle, as milk.

Yearn () To be filled with longing desire; to be harassed or rendered uneasy with longing, or feeling the want of a thing; to strain with emotions of affection or tenderness; to long; to be eager.

Yearnful () Desirous.

Yearningly () With yearning.

Yearnings () The maws, or stomachs, of young calves, used as a rennet for curdling milk.

Yearth () The earth.

Yeast () The foam, or troth (top yeast), or the sediment (bottom yeast), of beer or other in fermentation, which contains the yeast plant or its spores, and under certain conditions produces fermentation in saccharine or farinaceous substances; a preparation used for raising dough for bread or cakes, and making it light and puffy; barm; ferment.

Yeast () Spume, or foam, of water.

Yeast () A form of fungus which grows as indvidual rounded cells, rather than in a mycelium, and reproduces by budding; esp. members of the orders Endomycetales and Moniliales. Some fungi may grow both as a yeast or as a mycelium, depending on the conditions of growth.

Yeast-bitten () A term used of beer when the froth of the yeast has reentered the body of the beer.

Yeastiness () The quality or state of being yeasty, or frothy.

Yeasty () Frothy; foamy; spumy, like yeast.

Yedding () The song of a minstrel; hence, any song.

Yede () Went. See Yode.

Yeel () An eel.

Yeldhall () Guildhall.

Yeldrin () Alt. of Yeldrine

Yeldrine () The yellow-hammer; -- called also yeldrock, and yoldrin.

Yelk () Same as Yolk.

Yelled () of Yell

Yelling () of Yell

Yell () To cry out, or shriek, with a hideous noise; to cry or scream as with agony or horror.

Yell () To utter or declare with a yell; to proclaim in a loud tone.

Yell () A sharp, loud, hideous outcry.

Yellow () Being of a bright saffronlike color; of the color of gold or brass; having the hue of that part of the rainbow, or of the solar spectrum, which is between the orange and the green.

Yellow () A bright golden color, reflecting more light than any other except white; the color of that part of the spectrum which is between the orange and green.

Yellow () A yellow pigment.

Yellowed () of Yellow

Yellowing () of Yellow

Yellow () To make yellow; to cause to have a yellow tinge or color; to dye yellow.

Yellow () To become yellow or yellower.

Yellowammer () See Yellow-hammer.

Yellowbill () The American scoter.

Yellowbird () The American goldfinch, or thistle bird. See Goldfinch.

Yellowbird () The common yellow warbler; -- called also summer yellowbird. See Illust. of Yellow warbler, under Yellow, a.

Yellow-covered () Covered or bound in yellow paper.

Yellow-eyed () Having yellow eyes.

Yellowfin () A large squeteague.

Yellowfish () A rock trout (Pleurogrammus monopterygius) found on the coast of Alaska; -- called also striped fish, and Atka mackerel.

Yellow-golds () A certain plant, probably the yellow oxeye.

Yellowhammer () A common European finch (Emberiza citrinella). The color of the male is bright yellow on the breast, neck, and sides of the head, with the back yellow and brown, and the top of the head and the tail quills blackish. Called also yellow bunting, scribbling lark, and writing lark.

Yellowhammer () The flicker.

Yellowing () The act or process of making yellow.

Yellowish () Somewhat yellow; as, amber is of a yellowish color.

Yellowlegs () Any one of several species of long-legged sandpipers of the genus Totanus, in which the legs are bright yellow; -- called also stone snipe, tattler, telltale, yellowshanks; and yellowshins. See Tattler, 2.

Yellowness () The quality or state of being yellow; as, the yellowness of an orange.

Yellowness () Jealousy.

Yellowroot () Any one of several plants with yellow roots.

Yellowroot () See Xanthorhiza.

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