Yu, n. [Chin.] (Min.) Jade.
Yucca
Yuc´ca, n. (Zoöl.) See Flicker, n. , 2.
Yucca
Yuc´ca, n. [NL., from Yuca, its name in St. Domingo.] (Bot.) A genus of American liliaceous, sometimes arborescent, plants having long, pointed, and often rigid, leaves at the top of a more or less woody stem, and bearing a large panicle of showy white blossoms. The species with more rigid leaves (as Yucca aloifolia, Y. Treculiana, and Y. baccata) are called Spanish bayonet, and one with softer leaves ( Y. filamentosa) is called bear grass, and Adam’s needle. Yucca moth (Zoöl.), a small silvery moth ( Pronuba yuccasella) whose larvae feed on plants of the genus Yucca.
Yucca borer
Yuc"ca bor•er. (a) A California boring weevil ( Yuccaborus frontalis). (b) A large mothlike butterfly ( Megathymus yuccae) of the family Megatimidae, whose larva bores in yucca roots.
Yuck, v. i. [Cf. G. jucken, D. yeuken, joken. See Itch.] To itch. [Prov. Eng.] Grose.
Yuck, v. t. To scratch. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.
Yuckel
Yuck´el, n. (Zoöl.) Same as Yockel.
Yuen
Yu´en, n. (Zoöl.) The crowned gibbon ( Hylobates pileatus), native of Siam, Southern China, and the Island of Hainan. It is entirely arboreal in its habits, and has very long arms. the males are dark brown or blackish, with a caplike mass of long dark hair, and usually with a white band around the face. The females are yellowish white, with a dark spot on the breast and another on the crown. Called also wooyen, and wooyen ape.
Yufts, n. [Russ. iufte.] Russia leather. { Yug, Yu´ga } n. [Skr. yuga an age, a yoke. See Yoke.] (Hindoo Cosmog.) Any one of the four ages, Krita, or Satya, Treta, Dwapara, and Kali, into which the Hindoos divide the duration or existence of the world.
Yuke, v. i. & t. Same as Yuck. [Prov. Eng.]
Yulan
Yu´lan, n. (Bot.) A species of Magnolia ( M. conspicua) with large white blossoms that open before the leaves. See the Note under Magnolia.
Yule, n. [OE. yol, &yogh;ol, AS. geól; akin to geóla December or January, Icel. jol Yule, Ylir the name of a winter month, Sw. jul Christmas Dan. juul, Goth. jiuleis November or December. Cf. Jolly.] Christmas or Christmastide; the feast of the Nativity of our Savior.
"And at each pause they kiss; was never seen such rule
In any place but here, at bonfire, or at Yule." Drayton. Yule block, or Yule log, a large log of wood formerly put on the hearth of Christmas eve, as the foundation of the fire. It was brought in with much ceremony. — Yule clog, the yule log. Halliwell. W. Irving.
Yuletide
Yule´tide, n. Christmas time; Christmastide; the season of Christmas.
Yuman
Yu´man, a. Designating, or pertaining to, an important linguistic stock of North American Indians of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, nearly all agriculturists and adept potters and basket makers. Their usual dwelling is the brush wikiup, and in their native state they wear little clothing. The Yuma, Maricopa, Mohave, Walapi, and Yavapai are among the chief tribes, all of fine physique.
Yumas
Yu´mas, n. pl.; sing. Yuma . (Ethnol.) A tribe of Indians native of Arizona and the adjacent parts of Mexico and California. They are agricultural, and cultivate corn, wheat, barley, melons, etc. The a wider sense, the term sometimes includes the Mohaves and other allied tribes.
Yunca
Yun´ca (yoon"ka), n. An Indian of a linguistic stock of tribes of the Peruvian coast who had a developed agricultural civilization at the advent of the Spaniards, before which they had been conquered by the Incas. They constructed irrigation canals which are still in use, adorned their buildings with bas-reliefs and frescoes, and were skilled goldsmiths and silversmiths. — Yun´can (#), a. Z.
Yunx (yunks), n. [NL., fr. Gr. ’i•ygx the wryneck.] (Zoöl.) A genus of birds comprising the wrynecks.
Yupon
Yu´pon, n. (Bot.) Same as Yaupon.
Yux, n. & v. See Yex, n. [Obs.]