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