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Life is but air, 
That yields a passage to the whistling sword, 
And closes when ’tis gone. Dryden. 
To emit; to expire. 
Often did I strive 
To yield the ghost; but still the envious flood 
Kept in my soul, and would not let it forth 
To find the empty, vast, and wand’ring air. Shakspeare. 
To resign; to give up : sometimes with a particle, as up 
or over. —’Tis the pride of man which is the spring of this 
evil, and an unwillingness to yield up their own opinions. 
Watts. —To surrender: sometimes with up. 
They laugh, as if to them I had quitted all, 
At random yielded up to their misrule. Milton. 
To YIELD, v. n. To give up the contest; to submit. 
He yields not in his fall; 
But fighting dies, and dying kills withal. Daniel. 
To comply with any person, or motive power.—Consi¬ 
dering this present age so full of tongue, and weak of brain, 
behold we yield to the stream thereof. Hooker. —To com¬ 
ply with things required or enforced.—There could be no 
secure peace, except the Lacedemonians yielded to those 
things, which being granted, it would be no longer in their 
power to hurt the Athenians. Bacon. To concede; to ad¬ 
mit ; to allow; not to deny. If we yield that there is a God, 
and that this God is almighty and just, it cannot be avoided 
but that, after this life ended, he administers justice unto 
men. Hake-will. —To give place as inferiour in excellence 
or any other quality. 
Tell me in what more happy fields 
The thistle springs, to which the lily yields ? Pope. 
YIE'LDABLENESS, s. Disposition to concede or comply 
with.—The fourth disposition for peace [is] a yieldableness 
upon sight of clearer truths. Bp. Hall. 
YIE'LDANCE, s. Act of producing.—How should the 
corn, wine, oil, be had without the yieldance of the earth ? 
Bp. Hall. Act of complying with ; concession. 
YIELDEN, a parish of England, in Bedfordshire; 13 
miles north.by-ipest of Bedford. 
YIE'LDER, s. One who yields. 
Briars and thorns at their apparel snatch, 
Some sleeves, some hats; from yielders all things catch. 
Shakspeare. 
YIE'LDING, s. Act of giving up; submission. 
Immaculate and spotless is my mind; 
That was not forc’d ; that never was inclin’d 
To accessary yie/dings. Shakspeare. 
YIE'LDINGLY, adv. With compliance.—Maids that 
know themselves belov’d, and yieldingly resist. Warner. 
YIE'LDINGNESS, s. Disposition to give up any point. 
—That yieldingness, whatever foundations it might lay to 
the disadvantage of posterity, was a specific to preserve us in 
peace for his own time. Ld. Halifax. 
YILEY, a hamlet of England, in the parish of Hales 
Owen, Worcestersh ire. 
YISSER, a river of Algiers, which falls into the sea at 
Jinnett. 
YLEANG, a town of China of the third rank, in Yunan. 
Y-LIN, a city of China, of the second rank, in Houquang. 
Lat. 30. 52. N. long. 110. 44. E. 
YLIGAN, a Small Spanish redoubt and garrison, situated 
on a bay of the same name, on the north coast of Magin- 
danao. 
YLO, or Ilo, a seaport town of Peru, in the diocese of 
Arequipa, situated near the mouth of a fresh water river of the 
same name, which is dry from the beginning of October to 
January; 25 miles west of Moquegna. Lat. 17. 38. S. 
YLST, an inland town of the Netherlands, in Friesland, 
with 1200 inhabitants; 15 miles south-south-west of Leeu- 
warden, 
YMASKA, a considerable river of Lower Canada, which 
has its rise in some of the high grounds bordering on the 
frontier which separates Lower Canada from the state ofVer- 
mont. It admits of inland navigation for boats and rafts. 
Its medium breadth is about 400 yards. It falls into Lake St. 
Peter, after a course generally north or north-west, of 90 
miles. 
Y-MEN, a town of China, of the third rank, in Yunan. 
YNATILAN, a town on the west coast of the island of 
Sibu. Lat. 10. 21. N. long. 123. 22. E. 
YNCA, YNCAN, or Inca, an appellation anciently given 
to the kings of Peru, and the princes of their blood ; the 
word signifying literally, lord, king, emperor, and royal 
blood. 
The king himself was particularly called capac ynca, i. e. 
great lord; his wife, pallas ; and the princes simply yncas. 
These yncas, before the arrival of the Spaniards, were exceed¬ 
ing powerful. Their people revered them to excess, as be¬ 
lieving them to be sons of the sun, and never to have com¬ 
mitted any fault. If any person offended the royal majesty 
in the smallest matter, the city he belonged to "was totally 
demolished. 
When they travelled, whatever chamber they lay in on the 
road was walled up as soon as they departed, that nobody 
might ever enter in after them. The like w'as done to the 
room in which the king died ; in which, likewise, all the 
gold, silver, and precious furniture were always immured, 
and a new apartment was built for his successor. 
His beloved wives, domestics, &c. likewise sacrificed 
themselves, and were buried alive in the same tomb along 
with him. 
YN-CHAN, a town of China, of the third rank, in Kian- 
gnan. 
YN-CHAN, a town of China, of the third rank, in Hou¬ 
quang. 
YNG, or Yn, a city of China, of the second rank, in 
Chan-si. Lat. 39. 40. N. long. 112. 49. E. 
YN-GIN, a town of China, of the third rank, in Quangsee. 
Y-NING, a town of Corea; 33 miles east-north-east of 
Tsintcheou. 
YN-TCHENG, a town of Corea; 25 miles east of Outchuen. 
YN-TCHING, a town of China, of the third rank, in 
Houquang. 
YN-TE, a town of China, of the third rank, in Quantong. 
YN-YUEI, a city of China, of the second rank, in Yu¬ 
nan. Lat. 25 58. N. long. 98. 24. E. 
YO, a small town of European Russia, in Finland, situated 
in the province of Cajania, on the river Yo ; 55 miles south¬ 
east from Tornea. 
YOCALLA, a settlement of Peru, in the province of 
Porco. 
YOCARBAYA, a settlement of Peru, in the province of 
Larecaja. 
YOCHAN, a town of China, of the third rank, in Honan. 
YOCAAN, a town of China, of the third rank, in Kian- 
gnan. 
YOCHIN, a small river of Scotland, in Dumfries-shire, 
tributary to the Nith. 
YOCHIN, a town of Corea; 10 miles north-east of Hant- 
clieou. 
YOCKLEDON, a township of England, in Salop ; 6 
miles west-by-soulh of Shrewsbury. 
YOCOM CREEK, a river of the United States, in Virgi¬ 
nia, which runs into the Potomac. Lat. 38. 6. N. long. 76. 
36. W. 
YOCON, a settlement of Quito, in the province of Cuenca. 
YOCOPO, a river of Guiana, which enters the sea. 
YOHI, a river of Guiana, which enters the Orinoco. 
YOHOGANY. See Youghiogeny. 
YOKE, s. [geoc, Saxon; jock, Dutch; iugum, Latin; 
joug, French.]—The bandage placed on the neck of draught 
oxen.—Bring a red heifer, wherein is no blemish, and upon 
which never came yoke. Num .—A mark of servitude; 
slavery. 
Our country sinks beneath the yoke ; 
It weeps, it bleeds. 
Shakspeare. 
A chain; 
