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of jecan, to get, to obtain. H. Toole.] Nevertheless; 
notwithstanding; however. 
French laws forbid the female reign. 
Yet love does them to slav’ry draw. Cowley. 
YET, ado. Beside; over and above.—This furnishes us 
w'lihyet one more reason why our Saviour lays such a par¬ 
ticular stress on acts of mercy. Attcrbury. —Still; the state 
still remaining the same.—They attest facts they had heard 
while they were yet heathens; and had they not found rea¬ 
son to believe them, they would still have continued hea¬ 
thens, and made no mention of them in their writings. Ad¬ 
dison. —Once again. 
Yet, yet a moment, one dim ray of light, 
Indulge, dread chaos and eternal night. Pope. 
At this time; so soon; hitherto; with a negative before 
it.—Thales being asked when a man should marry, said, 
young men not yet, old men, not at all. Bacon. —At least; 
at all. Noting uncertainty or indetermination.—A man that 
would form a comparison betwixt Quintilian’s declamations, 
if yet they be Quintilian’s, and the orations of Tully, would 
be in danger of forfeiting his discretion. Baker. —It denotes 
continuance and extension, greater or smaller. 
Shake not his hour-glass, when his hasty sand 
Is ebbing to the last: 
A little longer, yet a little longer, 
And nature drops him down without your sin. 
Like mellow fruit without a winter storm. Dry den. 
Still; in a new degree.—He that fakes from a thief that 
which the thief took from an honest man, and keeps it to 
himself, is the wickeder thief of the two, by how much the 
rapine is made yet blacker by the pretence of piety and jus¬ 
tice. L' Estrange. —Even; after all. A kind of emphatical 
addition to a negative.—If any man neglect his duty, his 
fault must not be ascribed to the rule appointed, neither yei 
to the whole church. Whitgift. 
Nor yet amidst this joy and brightest morn 
Was absent, after all his mischief done, 
The prince of darkness. Milton. 
Hitherto: sometimes with as before it.—Hope beginning 
here, with a trembling expectation of things far removed, 
and as yet but only heard of, endeth with real and actual 
fruition of that which no tongue can express. Hooker. 
YETHOLM, or Zetholm, a parish of Scotland, in Rox¬ 
burghshire, about 4 t miles long and 2 broad. Population 
1138. 
YETHOLM, a village in the above parish, situated on the 
left bank of the Bowmont water; 3 miles east of Morbattle, 
and 8 south of Kelso, containing about 550 inhabitants. 
This part is called Town-Yethohn. The other part is situ¬ 
ated on the right bank, nearly half a mile distant, and is 
termed Kirk-Yetholm, containing about 350 inhabitants. 
This place was long inhabited by tinkers or gypsies. It has 
two annual fairs, 5th July and 31st October. 
YETLINGTON, a hamlet of England, in the parish of 
Whittingham, Northumberland. 
YE'VEN, for given. 
Wants not a fourth grace to make the dance even? 
Let that room to my lady be yeven ; 
She shall be a grace. 
To fill the fourth place. 
And reign with the rest in heaven. Spenser. 
YEW, [ip, Saxon; yw, Welsh. This is often writ¬ 
ten eugh ; but the former orthography is at once nearer to 
the sound and the derivation.] An ever-green tree used for 
bows, and planted in churchyards, as an emblem of im¬ 
mortality. 
The shooter eugh, the broad leav’d sycamore, 
The barren planlane, and the walnut sound ; 
The myrrhe, that her foul sin doth still deplore, 
Alder the owner of all waterish ground. Fairfax. 
He drew. 
And almost join’d the horns of the tough yew. Dryden. 
Vol. XXIV. No. 1672. 
YEWEN, adj. Made of the wood of yew. 
His stiff arms to stretch with eughen bow, 
And manly legs still passing to and fro. Spenser. 
YEWTON, a hamlet of England, in Devonshire; 1 mile 
from Crediton. 
YEX, s. [hick, hickse, Belg. geocpung, Sax. Junius.] 
The hiccough.—They do stay the excessive yex or hocket. 
Holland. —Ferdinando earl of Derby, dying of a yex. 
Harrington. 
To YEX, v. n. To have the hiccough. Huloet. 
YEYD, a city of Persia, in the eastern part of the province 
of Irak, on the frontier of Seistan. It is situated in a sandy 
desert, contiguous to a range of lofty mountains. Being, 
however, a great emporium of the trade between Hindostan, 
Bukharia, and Persia, it is large and flourishing, and is sup¬ 
posed to contain not less than 24,000 houses. Among these, 
4000 are occupied by the remains of the Guelires, or ancient 
worshippers of fire, who, after the extinction of the rest of 
their unfortunate race, are suffered to exist, though in a very 
oppressed stale, being taxed at twenty piastres a head, in ad¬ 
dition to the other heavy burdens paid by the subjects of 
Persia. Formerly there were a number of opulent Hindoos; 
but these were driven away by the oppression of a late go¬ 
vernor, and have never been induced to return. The chief 
manufacture of the place consists in silk stuffs, which are su¬ 
perior to any in Persia. The city, however, imports its corn 
and provisions from the neighbourhood of Ispahan. 
YEZD, a village of Laristan, in Persia ; 40 miles north 
of Lar. 
YEZEDI, the name of a Persian sect, of which several 
tribes inhabit the mountains of Sinjar, about eight or ten 
miles from Nisibis. They are numerous in the vicinity of 
Mosul, and are said to worship, or rather deprecate, the 
devil, entertaining an idea that he possesses an unlimited 
power over mankind. They even dislike to hear the name 
of the evil spirit mentioned in their presence. They are the 
descendants of those Arabs who followed the banners of 
Yezid, and fought against Iloussein, in the battle of Ker- 
bela; and scheik Ade, the founder of the sect, is interred 
near Mosul. They adore one Supreme Being as the creator 
and benefactor of the human race, drink wine and other 
strong liquors, and circumcise like the Mahometans. 
YEZDIKIIAST, a town of Persia, in the southern part of 
the province of Irak, being the first which occurs on the high 
road to Ispahan, after passing the frontier of Laristan. 
YFE'RE, adv. [ypepe, Saxon.] Together. 
O goodly golden chayne, wherewith yfere 
The virtues linked were in lovely wise. Spenser. 
Y-FONG, a town of China, of the third rank, in Honan. 
YGUISAN, a small island among the Philippines, near the 
north coast of Panay. Lat. 11 35. N. long. 122. 32. E. 
YICH-KENNISH, a small island of the Hebrides, lying 
between North Uist and Benbecula. 
To YIELD, v. a. [jelban, Saxon, to pay.] To pro¬ 
duce; to give in return for cultivation or labour.—Strabo 
tells us the mines at Carthagena yielded the Romans per 
diem to the value of twenty-five thousand drachms, eight 
hundred and seven pounds, five shillings, and ten pence. 
Arbuthnot. —To produce in general.—All the substances of 
an animal, fed even with acescent substances, yield by fire 
nothing but alkaline salts. Arbuthnot. —To afford ; to ex¬ 
hibit.—If you take the idea of white, which one parcel of 
snow yielded yesterday to your sight, and another idea of 
white from another parcel of snow you see to-day, and put 
them together in your mind, they run into one, and the idea 
of whiteness is not at all increased. Locke. —To give as 
claimed of right. 
I the praise 
Yield thee, so well thou hast this day purvey’d. Milton. 
To allow; to concede —I yield it. just, said Adam, and 
submit. Milton. —I that have not only yielded, but chal¬ 
lenged the undoubted truth of the proposition, can make no 
question of its corollaries. Hammond. —To permit; to 
grant. 
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