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YARD-ARM, n. [yard and arm.] Either half of a ships yard, from the center or mas...
YARD, n. 1. A measure of three feet or thirty six inches. It is just seven niths...
YAPON, n. The cassine or South Sea tea. The Ileex cassine or youpon, is a shrub ...
YAP, to bark, is not a legitimate word.
YANOLITE, n. A mineral, called also axinite or thumerstone, whose crystals resem...
YANKEE, n. A corrupt pronunciation of the word English by the native Indians of ...
YAMBOO, n. A kind of plant producing fruit like a plum.
YAM, n. A large esculent root growing in tropical climates.
YAK, n. A species of ox, with cylindric horns curving outwards, long pendent hai...
YAHOO, n. A word used by Chesterfield, I suppose for a savage, or a person resem...
YAGER, n. Yawger. [G., to chase.] A horseman.
YACHT, n. yot. [G., It is properly a boat drawn by horses.] A vessel of state us...
Y, the twenty fifth letter of the English Alphabet, is taken from the Greed. At ...
XYSTER, n. [Gr., to scrape.] A surgeons instrument for scraping bones.
XYLOGRAPHY, n. [Gr., wood; to engrave.] Wood-engraving; the act or art of cuttin...
XIPHOID, a. [supra.] The xiphoid or ensiform cartilage, is a small cartilage pla...