Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Yttro-cerite

Yt′tro–ce″rite (?), n.(Min.) A mineral of a violet-blue color, inclining to gray and white. It is a hydrous fluoride of cerium, yttrium, and calcium.

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Yttro-columbite

{ Yt′tro–co‐lum″bite (?), Yt′tro–tan″ta‐lite (?), } n.(Min.) A tantalate of uranium, yttrium, and calcium, of a brown or black color.

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Yu

‖Yu (?), n.(Min.) Jade.

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Yucca

Yuc″ca (?), n.(Zoöl.) See Flicker, n., 2.

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Yucca (2)

‖Yuc″ca (?), n. [NL., from Yuca, its name in St. Domingo.] (Bot.) A genus of American liliaceous, sometimes arborescent, plants having long, pointed, and often rigid, leaves at ...

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Yucca borer

Yuc″ca bor′er. (a) A California boring weevil (Yuccaborus frontalis). (b) A large mothlike butterfly (Megathymus yuccæ) of the family Megatimidæ, whose larva bores in yucca roots.

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Yuck

Yuck (?), v. i. [Cf. G. jucken, D. yeuken, joken. See Itch.] To itch. Grose.

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Yuck (2)

Yuck, v. t. To scratch. Wright.

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Yuckel

Yuck″el (?), n.(Zoöl.) Same as Yockel.

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Yuen

Yu″en (?), n.(Zoöl.) The crowned gibbon (Hylobates pileatus), native of Siam, Southern China, and the Island of Hainan. It is entirely arboreal in its habits, and has very long ...

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Yufts

Yufts (?), n. [Russ. iufte.] Russia leather.

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Yug

{ Yug (?), ‖Yu″ga (?), } n. [Skr. yuga an age, a yoke. See Yoke.] (Hindoo Cosmog.) Any one of the four ages, Krita, or Satya, Treta, Dwapara, and Kali, into which the Hindoos di...

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Yuke

Yuke (ūk), v. i. & t. Same as Yuck.

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Yulan

Yu″lan (ū″lăn), n.(Bot.) A species of Magnolia (M. conspicua) with large white blossoms that open before the leaves. See the Note under Magnolia.

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Yule

Yule (ūl), n. [OE. yol, ”ol, AS. geól; akin to geóla December or January, Icel. jōl Yule, Ylir the name of a winter month, Sw. jul Christmas, Dan. juul, Goth. jiuleis November o...

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Yuletide

Yule″tide′ (?), n. Christmas time; Christmastide; the season of Christmas.

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Yuman

Yu″man (?), a. Designating, or pertaining to, an important linguistic stock of North American Indians of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, nearly all agric...

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Yumas

Yu″mas (?), n. pl.; sing. Yuma (�). (Ethnol.) A tribe of Indians native of Arizona and the adjacent parts of Mexico and California. They are agricultural, and cultivate corn, wh...

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Yunca

Yun″ca (yo͞oṉ″kȧ), n. An Indian of a linguistic stock of tribes of the Peruvian coast who had a developed agricultural civilization at the advent of the Spaniards, before which ...

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Yunx

‖Yunx (yŭṉks), n. [NL., fr. Gr. ἴυγξ the wryneck.] (Zoöl.) A genus of birds comprising the wrynecks.

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Yupon

Yu″pon (?), n.(Bot.) Same as Yaupon.

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Yux

Yux (?), n. & v. See Yex, n.

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Yvel

Y″vel (?), a. & adv. Evil; ill. Chaucer.

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Ywar

Y‐war″ (?), a. [See Aware.] Aware; wary. “Be ywar, and his way shun.” Piers Plowman.

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Ywis

Y‐wis″ (?), adv. [OE. ywis, iwis, AS. gewis certain; akin to D. gewis, G. gewiss, and E. wit to know. See Wit to know, and Y-.] Certainly; most likely; truly; probably.“Ywis,” q...