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were taken by prothonotaries or chief scribes of the court, at 
the expense of the crown, and published annually; whence 
they are known under the denomination of the yearbooks. 
Blachstone. —The students of common law, by reading 
their yearbooks, recover the experience of former ages. 
Wotton. 
YEARDSLEY, a hamlet of England, in Cheshire; 9 miles 
south-east of Stockport. 
YE'ARED, adj. Containing years; numbering years. 
Both were of best feature, of high race, 
Year'd but to thirty. B- Jonson. 
YE'ARLING, adj. Being a year old. 
A yearling bullock to thy name shall smoke; 
Untam’d, unconscious of the galling yoke. Pope. 
YE'ARLY, adj. Annual; happening every year; last¬ 
ing a year. 
The yearly course that brings this day about. 
Shall never see it but a holiday. Skakspeare. 
YE'ARLY, adv. Annually; once a year. 
Not numerous are our joys, when life is new. 
And yearly some are falling of the few. Young. 
To YEARN, v. n. [jynnan, geopnian, Sax.] To feel 
great internal uneasiness. In Spenser it is sometimes earn. 
It is by Spenser used for desire, or the pain of longing: it 
now implies tenderness or pity. 
He despis’d to tread in due degree, 
But chaff’d, and foam’d, with courage fierce and stern, 
And to be eas’d of that base burden still Aid yearn. Spenser. 
Unmov’d the mind of Ithacus remain’d; 
But Anticlus, unable to coutroul, 
Spoke loud the language of his yearning soul. Pope. 
To YEARN, v. a. To grieve; to vex. 
I am not covetous of gold. 
It yearns me not if men my garments wear. Skakspeare. 
YE'ARNFUL, adj. Mournful. Obsolete .— 
Oh musicke, as in joyfull tunes thy mery notes I did borow. 
So now lend me thy yernfull tunes, to utter my sorrow. 
Damon and Pith. 
YE'ARNING, s. Act or state of being moved with pity 
or tenderness.—At beholding the miseries of others, they find 
such yearnings in their bowels, and such sensible commo¬ 
tions raised in their breasts, as they can by no means satisfy. 
Calamy. 
YEARSLEY, a township of England, in Yorkshire; 6| 
miles south-south-west of Helmsley. 
YEAST. See Yest. 
YEAVELEY, a township of England, in Derbyshire ; 4J 
miles south of Ashborne. 
YEAVERING, a hamlet of England, in Northumberland; 
3 miles north-west of Wooler. 
YEBINETO, a small river of Quito, in the province of 
Mainas, which runs east, and enters the Urquicia. 
YECLA, a town of Spain, in Murcia, with 2200 inhabi¬ 
tants; 14 miles west-by-north of Villena. 
YECUDAHUE, a small river of Chili, in the province of 
Maule, which runs north, and enters the Tabolebo. 
YEDDINGHAM, a parish of England, in Yorkshire; 9| 
miles north-east of New Malton. 
YEEHA, a town of Abyssinia, where there are the remains 
of a very large and ancient convent, called Abba Asfe. 
YEGUADA, a river of St. Domingo, which runs to the 
north coast of the great bay of Samana, where it enters the 
sea. 
YELAMBO, a settlement of New Granada, in the province 
of Antioquia, on the shore of the Magdalena. 
YELCUNDEL, a district of Hindostan, province of Hyde¬ 
rabad. It is situated between the 18th and 19th degrees of 
northern latitude, and bounded on the north by the river 
Godavery. 
YELDERSLEY, a hamlet of England, in Derbyshire; 3 
miles east-south-east of Ashborne. 
YELDHAM, Great, a parish of England, in Essex; 3 
miles north-west of Castle Hedingham. Population 437. 
YELDHAM, Little, another parish in Essex, one mile 
from the foregoing. 
YELFORD, a township of England, in Oxfordshire; 3| H 
miles south of Witney. 
YELK, s. [from gealepe, yellow , Sax.] The yellow part 
of the egg. It is commonly pronounced, and often written 
yolk. —That a chicken is formed out of the yelk of the egg, 
with some antient philosophers the people still opinion. 
Brown. 
AH the feather’d kind, 
From th’included_yo/£, not ambient white arose. Dry den. 
To YELL, v. n. [gyllan, Sax.; yla, Su. Goth andIcel.; 
v\ao, Greek; ululo, Lat.] To cry out with horror and 
agony. 
Yelling monsters, that with ceaseless cry 
Surround me. Milton. 
Night-struck fancy dreams the yelling ghost. Thomson. 
To YELL, v. a. To utter with a yell. 
Each new morn, 
New widows howl, new orphans cry; new sorrows 
Strike heaven on the face, that it resounds, 
As if it felt with Scotland, and yell'd out 
Like syllables of dolour. Skakspeare. 
YELL, s. A cry of horror. 
With like timorous accent and dire yell, * 
As when, by night and negligence, the fire 
Is spread in populous cities. Skakspeare. 
YELL, or Zell, one of the most northerly of the Shetland 
isles, is about 20 miles long and 12 broad. The coast is bold 
and rocky, intersected by several bays or voes, which form 
safe harbours: the chief of these are called Hamna-voe, Bur- 
ra-voe, and Mid Yell-voe. The surface is pretty level, with 
several small lakes, which are the sources of a few rivulets. 
The only arable land is on the coast; the interior affording 
a coarse pasture for sheep. There are several extensive peat 
mosses, in which are found large trees, though scarce a shrub 
is now to be seen. It is divided into two parishes, viz. North 
Yell, united to the island of Fetlar, in forming a parochial 
district, and the united parishes of Mid and South Yell. 
Population of the parishes of Mid and South Yell, is 1594. 
YELL, North, a parish of Shetland, in the island of Yell, 
to which the island of Fetlar is united. North Yell is eight 
miles in length, and six in breadth; Fetlar is four miles long, 
and eight and a half in breadth. Population 1434. 
YELLAND, Conyers and Redmayne, adjoining town¬ 
ships of England, in Lancashire; about 10 miles from Lan¬ 
caster. 
YELLING, a parish of England, in Huntingdonshire; 5 
miles east-north-east of St. Neot’s. 
YELLISON, a hamlet of England, in the West Riding of 
Yorkshire. 
YE'LLOW, adj. [gealep, Saxon; gheleuwe, Dutch; 
giallo, Ital.] Being of a bright glaring colour, as gold. 
Negligent of food. 
Scarce seen, he wades among the yellow broom. Thomson. 
YE'LLOW, s. Yellow colour.—After a lively orange, 
followed an intense bright and copious yellow, which was 
also the best of all the yellows. Newton. 
To YE'LLOW, v. a. To render yellow. 
So should my papers, yellow'd with their age. 
Be scorn’d. Skakspeare. 
To YE'LLOW, v. n. To grow yellow.—The opening 
valleys, and the yellowing plains. Dyer. 
YE'LLOWBOY, s. A gold coin. A very low word.— 
John did not starve the cause; there wanted not yellowboys 
to fee council. Arbuthnot. 
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