Yule 
An eaormoua log glowing and t>laziiig, and sending forth 
a vast volume of light and heat, . . . was the i'ule cIq(j, 
which the squire was particular In having brought In and 
Illumined on a Christmas eve, according to ancient cus- 
tom. Ireing, Sketch-Book, p. 247. 
Yule cake. Same as Yule dough. Ilone, Every-Day Book, 
I. 16.*^ — Tule candle, a large candle used for light dur- 
ing the festivities of Christmas eve. In many places the 
eidiaustion of thecandle before the end of the evening was 
believed to portend 111 luck, and any piece remaining was 
carefully preservetl to be burnt out at the owner's like- 
wake. 
As an accompaniment to the Yule log, a candle of mon- 
strous size, called the Yule candle, or Christmas candle. 
shed its light on the festive-board during the evening. 
Chamberts'i Book of Day*, II. 735. 
Tule dough (dialectal doo, d&}c\ a cake made especially 
for Christmas time. Also called baby-cake (because repre- 
sentlng in shape, a baby, probably the infant Christ) and 
YtUe cake. 
The Y\de-Dough{oT Dow), a Kind of Baby or little Image 
of Paste, which our Bakers used formerly to bake at this 
Season, and present to their Customers, in the same Man- 
ner as the Chandlers gave Christmas Candles. 
Bourne's Pop, Antiq. (1777X p. 163. 
In the north of England the common people still make 
a sort of little Images at Christmas, which they call Yule 
Doot, The Lutener(ltS36),l. a2(quoted in N. and Q., 
(7thser.,XI.6). 
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Yule (yol), 1". i. ; pret. and pp. Yulcd, ppr. YiU- 
ing. [< Yule, «.] To celebrate Yule or Clirist- 
mas. HalUtcell; Jnmiemn. [Pror. Eiig. and 
Scotch.] 
Yule-tide (yol'tid), «. The time or season of 
Yule or Christmas. 
In the old clog almanacs, a wheel is the device em- 
ployed for marking the season of Yule-tide, 
Chambers's Book of Days, II. 74a 
Yuncinae (jTin-si'ne), u. pi, [NL., prop. /i/H- 
(jinee; < Yunx, prop. lynx {lyng-), + -j«a?.] Same 
as lynginx, G. B, Gray, 1840. 
ynngan (yung'gan), ». [Native name.] The 
dugong. E. I'. Wright, 
Yungidse, Yunginae, ». pi. Same as lyngidse, 
lynginse, 
Yunx (yimgks), «. [NL. (Linnffius, 1766 or 
earlier), also Jynx and lynx, < Gr. Ivy^, the 
wryneck.] 1. Same as lynx. — 2. [?. c] The 
wryneck, lynx torquiUa. See cut under ivrif- 
neck. 
I'he Yunx, a genuine Woodpecker, hath a tail as K>ng 
in proportion to his Ijody, and marked with crosse-bars 
too. John Ray, in Ellis's Lit. Letters, p. "200. 
yye 
yupon (yo'pon), n. Same as ytipon. Sports- 
man's Gazetteer. 
yure (yor), n. See ewer3. [Prov. Eng.] 
yurt (j'ort), «. [Siberian.] One of the houses 
or huts, whether permanent or movable, of the 
natives of northern and central Asia. Also 
yourta, yotirte, jurt. 
It [the lake] is ten miles in circumference, and here and 
there are yourtes inhabited by the Mongols. 
Hue, Travels (tians. 1852), I. 206. 
yutu (yo'to), n. [Peruv.] A species of tina- 
mou, found in Peru. 
A partridge called vutn fre<iuents the long grass. 
Encyc. Brit., XVIII. 673. 
yuxt, V. and n. An obsolete variant of yex. 
yvet, ". An old spelling of ji'jl. 
yvelt, II., «., and adi: An old spelling of 
ei'//i. 
yvoiret, yvoryt. Old spellings of irory^. 
3rwist, fiflr. and «. See iiris. 
ywraket. An obsolete preterit of ifreofcl. 
ywriet. An obsolete past participle of wry^. 
ywroket. An obsolete preterit of wreak'^. 
3ryet, "• A Middle English form of eye^. 
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