of Yean

To bring forth young, as a goat or a sheep; to ean.

A lamb or a kid; an eanling.

The time of the apparent revolution of the sun trough the ecliptic; the period occupied by the earth in making its revolution around the sun, called the astronomical year; also, a period more or less nearly agreeing with this, adopted by various nations as a measure of time, and called the civil year; as, the common lunar year of 354 days, still in use among the Mohammedans; the year of 360 days, etc. In common usage, the year consists of 365 days, and every fourth year (called bissextile, or leap year) of 366 days, a day being added to February on that year, on account of the excess above 365 days (see Bissextile).

The time in which any planet completes a revolution about the sun; as, the year of Jupiter or of Saturn.

Age, or old age; as, a man in years.

The California poison oak (Rhus diversiloba). See under Poison, a.

A book published yearly; any annual report or summary of the statistics or facts of a year, designed to be used as a reference book; as, the Congregational Yearbook.

A book containing annual reports of cases adjudged in the courts of England.

Containing years; having existed or continued many years; aged.

An animal one year old, or in the second year of its age; -- applied chiefly to cattle, sheep, and horses.

Being a year old.

Happening, accruing, or coming every year; annual; as, a yearly income; a yearly feast.

Lasting a year; as, a yearly plant.

Accomplished in a year; as, the yearly circuit, or revolution, of the earth.

Annually; once a year to year; as, blessings yearly bestowed.

of Yearn

of Yearn

To pain; to grieve; to vex.

To be pained or distressed; to grieve; to mourn.

To curdle, as milk.

To be filled with longing desire; to be harassed or rendered uneasy with longing, or feeling the want of a thing; to strain with emotions of affection or tenderness; to long; to be eager.

Desirous.

With yearning.

The maws, or stomachs, of young calves, used as a rennet for curdling milk.

The earth.

Spume, or foam, of water.

A form of fungus which grows as indvidual rounded cells, rather than in a mycelium, and reproduces by budding; esp. members of the orders Endomycetales and Moniliales. Some fungi may grow both as a yeast or as a mycelium, depending on the conditions of growth.

A term used of beer when the froth of the yeast has reentered the body of the beer.

The quality or state of being yeasty, or frothy.