Year-of-the-Tusk
Year-of-the-Tusk is the primary dating system for most mannish nations , which takes the legendary Breaking of the Gates to be year zero.

Years
"Years of Crib" The Years of the Crib (2143-2155) are the twelve years during the First Apocalypse when no human child was born. The effect was felt across the entire continent of Eärwa and, it is theorised, the entire World . Through means still not understood, the Consult triggered Initiation , the birth of the No-God , during the Second Investiture of the Incû-Holoinas . The creation of the No-God saw every unborn child on the continent stillborn and conception became impossible. One theory is that the No-God's very presence was anathema to life and, given it's goal was to seal shut the World against the Outside , it may have acted as a barrier to the creation of new souls in the World. This made the No-God's goal of reducing the human population of the World considerably easier. The Years of the Crib are similar to the Inoculation , which similarly prevented the Nonmen from reproducing albeit through the far cruder means of exacting surgery and the murder of every single Nonman woman by medical means. The Years of the Crib ended when King Anaxophus V of Kyraneas deployed the Heron Spear against the No-God at the Second Battle of Mengedda , killing the entity. The No-God's death allowed souls to re-enter the World and be born once more. One element that has been puzzled over by scholars ever since, particularly the Mandate , is why the Consult risked the No-God in battle at all, when they could have sat back for a century (when they had already waited many tens of centuries to achieve their goals) and simply let the entire human race die of old age. No conclusive answers have been reached. See also: New Years of the Crib

Years of Crib
The Years of the Crib (2143-2155) are the twelve years during the First Apocalypse when no human child was born. The effect was felt across the entire continent of Eärwa and, it is theorised, the entire World . Through means still not understood, the Consult triggered Initiation , the birth of the No-God , during the Second Investiture of the Incû-Holoinas . The creation of the No-God saw every unborn child on the continent stillborn and conception became impossible. One theory is that the No-God's very presence was anathema to life and, given it's goal was to seal shut the World against the Outside , it may have acted as a barrier to the creation of new souls in the World. This made the No-God's goal of reducing the human population of the World considerably easier. The Years of the Crib are similar to the Inoculation , which similarly prevented the Nonmen from reproducing albeit through the far cruder means of exacting surgery and the murder of every single Nonman woman by medical means. The Years of the Crib ended when King Anaxophus V of Kyraneas deployed the Heron Spear against the No-God at the Second Battle of Mengedda , killing the entity. The No-God's death allowed souls to re-enter the World and be born once more. One element that has been puzzled over by scholars ever since, particularly the Mandate , is why the Consult risked the No-God in battle at all, when they could have sat back for a century (when they had already waited many tens of centuries to achieve their goals) and simply let the entire human race die of old age. No conclusive answers have been reached. See also: New Years of the Crib

Yel
Yel is one of Esmenet ’s Kianene body-slaves.

Yel

Lived: ? -
Race: Men
Nationality: Kianene
Gender: Female
Occupation: Body-slave
Books: The Thousandfold Thought

Yel

Lived: ? -
Race: Men
Nationality: Kianene
Gender: Female
Occupation: Body-slave
Books: The Thousandfold Thought

Yerajaman
Mimara's Nilnameshi tutor during her time in the Andiamine Heights.

ye
-alt. of ye
-an old method of printing the article the (as. /e), the "y" being used in place of the anglo
-saxon thorn (/). it is sometimes incorrectly pronounced ye. see the, and thorn, n., 4.
-an eye.
-the plural of the pronoun of the second person in the nominative case.
-yea; yes.

yea
-yes; ay; a word expressing assent, or an affirmative, or an affirmative answer to a question, now superseded by yes. see yes.
-more than this; not only so, but;
-- used to mark the addition of a more specific or more emphatic clause. cf. nay, adv., 2.
-an affirmative vote; one who votes in the affirmative; as, a vote by yeas and nays.

yead
-properly, a variant of the defective imperfect yode, but sometimes mistaken for a present. see the note under yede.

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

yeaned
-of yean

yeaning
-of yean

yeanling
-a lamb or a kid; an eanling.

year
-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.

yeara
-the california poison oak (rhus diversiloba). see under poison, a.

yearbook
-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.

yeared
-containing years; having existed or continued many years; aged.

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

yearly
-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.

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.

yearned
-of yearn

yearnful
-desirous.

yearning
-of yearn

yearningly
-with yearning.

yearnings
-the maws, or stomachs, of young calves, used as a rennet for curdling milk.

yearth
-the earth.

yeast
-the foam, or troth (top yeast), or the sediment (bottom yeast), of beer or other in fermentation, which contains the yeast plant or its spores, and under certain conditions produces fermentation in saccharine or farinaceous substances; a preparation used for raising dough for bread or cakes, and making it light and puffy; barm; ferment.
-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.

yeast
-bitten
-a term used of beer when the froth of the yeast has reentered the body of the beer.

yeastiness
-the quality or state of being yeasty, or frothy.

yeasty
-frothy; foamy; spumy, like yeast.

yedding
-the song of a minstrel; hence, any song.

yede
-went. see yode.

yeel
-an eel.

yeldhall
-guildhall.

yeldrin
-alt. of yeldrine

yeldrine
-the yellow
-hammer;
-- called also yeldrock, and yoldrin.

yelk
-same as yolk.

yell
-to cry out, or shriek, with a hideous noise; to cry or scream as with agony or horror.
-to utter or declare with a yell; to proclaim in a loud tone.
-a sharp, loud, hideous outcry.

yelled
-of yell

yelling
-of yell

yellow
-being of a bright saffronlike color; of the color of gold or brass; having the hue of that part of the rainbow, or of the solar spectrum, which is between the orange and the green.
-a bright golden color, reflecting more light than any other except white; the color of that part of the spectrum which is between the orange and green.
-a yellow pigment.
-to make yellow; to cause to have a yellow tinge or color; to dye yellow.
-to become yellow or yellower.

yellow
-covered
-covered or bound in yellow paper.

yellow
-eyed
-having yellow eyes.

yellow
-golds
-a certain plant, probably the yellow oxeye.

yellowammer
-see yellow
-hammer.

yellowbill
-the american scoter.

yellowbird
-the american goldfinch, or thistle bird. see goldfinch.
-the common yellow warbler;
-- called also summer yellowbird. see illust. of yellow warbler, under yellow, a.

yellowed
-of yellow

yellowfin
-a large squeteague.

yellowfish
-a rock trout (pleurogrammus monopterygius) found on the coast of alaska;
-- called also striped fish, and atka mackerel.

yellowhammer
-a common european finch (emberiza citrinella). the color of the male is bright yellow on the breast, neck, and sides of the head, with the back yellow and brown, and the top of the head and the tail quills blackish. called also yellow bunting, scribbling lark, and writing lark.
-the flicker.

yellowing
-of yellow
-the act or process of making yellow.

yellowish
-somewhat yellow; as, amber is of a yellowish color.

yellowlegs
-any one of several species of long
-legged sandpipers of the genus totanus, in which the legs are bright yellow;
-- called also stone snipe, tattler, telltale, yellowshanks; and yellowshins. see tattler, 2.

yellowness
-the quality or state of being yellow; as, the yellowness of an orange.
-jealousy.

yellowroot
-any one of several plants with yellow roots.
-see xanthorhiza.
-same as orangeroot.

yellows
-a disease of the bile in horses, cattle, and sheep, causing yellowness of the eyes; jaundice.
-a disease of plants, esp. of peach trees, in which the leaves turn to a yellowish color; jeterus.
-a group of butterflies in which the predominating color is yellow. it includes the common small yellow butterflies. called also redhorns, and sulphurs. see sulphur.

yellowseed
-a kind of pepper grass (lepidium campestre).

yellowshanks
-alt. of yellowshins

yellowshins
-see yellolegs.

yellowtail
-any one of several species of marine carangoid fishes of the genus seriola; especially, the large california species (s. dorsalis) which sometimes weighs thirty or forty pounds, and is highly esteemed as a food fish;
-- called also cavasina, and white salmon.
-the mademoiselle, or silver perch.
-the menhaden.
-the runner, 12.
-a california rockfish (sebastodes flavidus).
-the sailor's choice (diplodus rhomboides).

yellowthroat
-any one of several species of american ground warblers of the genus geothlypis, esp. the maryland yellowthroat (g. trichas), which is a very common species.

yellowtop
-a kind of grass, perhaps a species of agrostis.

yellowwood
-the wood of any one of several different kinds of trees; also, any one of the trees themselves. among the trees so called are the cladrastis tinctoria, an american leguminous tree; the several species of prickly ash (xanthoxylum); the australian flindersia oxleyana, a tree related to the mahogany; certain south african species of podocarpus, trees related to the yew; the east indian podocarpus latifolia; and the true satinwood (chloroxylon swietenia). all these old world trees furnish valuable timber.

yellowwort
-a european yellow
-flowered, gentianaceous (chlora perfoliata). the whole plant is intensely bitter, and is sometimes used as a tonic, and also in dyeing yellow.

yelp
-to boast.
-to utter a sharp, quick cry, as a hound; to bark shrilly with eagerness, pain, or fear; to yaup.
-a sharp, quick cry; a bark.

yelped
-of yelp

yelper
-an animal that yelps, or makes a yelping noise.
-the avocet;
-- so called from its sharp, shrill cry.
-the tattler.

yelping
-of yelp

yeman
-a yeoman.

yen
-of ye
-the unit of value and account in japan. since japan's adoption of the gold standard, in 1897, the value of the yen has been about 50 cents. the yen is equal to 100 sen.

yend
-to throw; to cast.

yenite
-a silicate of iron and lime occurring in black prismatic crystals;
-- also called ilvaite.

yeoman
-a common man, or one of the commonly of the first or most respectable class; a freeholder; a man free born.
-a servant; a retainer.
-a yeoman of the guard; also, a member of the yeomanry cavalry.
-an interior officer under the boatswain, gunner, or carpenters, charged with the stowage, account, and distribution of the stores.

yeomanlike
-resembling, or suitable to, a yeoman; yeomanly.

yeomanly
-pertaining to a yeoman; becoming or suitable to, a yeoman; yeomanlike.

yeomanry
-the position or rank of a yeoman.
-the collective body of yeomen, or freeholders.
-the yeomanry cavalry.

yeomen
-of yeoman

yeorling
-the european yellow
-hammer.

yer
-ere; before.

yerba
-an herb; a plant.

yerd
-see 1st & 2d yard.

yerk
-to throw or thrust with a sudden, smart movement; to kick or strike suddenly; to jerk.
-to strike or lash with a whip.
-to throw out the heels; to kick; to jerk.
-to move a quick, jerking motion.
-a sudden or quick thrust or motion; a jerk.

yerked
-of yerk

yerking
-of yerk

yern
-see 3d yearn.
-eager; brisk; quick; active.

yerne
-eagerly; briskly; quickly.

yernut
-an earthnut, or groundnut. see groundnut (d).

yerst
-see erst.

yes
-ay; yea;
-- a word which expresses affirmation or consent;
-- opposed to no.

yest
-see yeast.

yester
-last; last past; next before; of or pertaining to yesterday.

yester
-evening
-the evening of yesterday; the evening last past.

yester
-morning
-the morning of yesterday.

yesterday
-the day last past; the day next before the present.
-fig.: a recent time; time not long past.
-on the day last past; on the day preceding to
-day; as, the affair took place yesterday.

yestereve
-alt. of yester
-evening

yestermorn
-alt. of yester
-morning

yestern
-of or pertaining to yesterday; relating to the day last past.

yesternight
-the last night; the night last past.
-on the last night.

yesternoon
-the noon of yesterday; the noon last past.

yesterweek
-the week last past; last week.

yesteryear
-the year last past; last year.

yestreen
-yester
-evening; yesternight; last night.

yesty
-see yeasty.

yet
-any one of several species of large marine gastropods belonging to the genus yetus, or cymba; a boat shell.
-in addition; further; besides; over and above; still.
-at the same time; by continuance from a former state; still.
-up to the present time; thus far; hitherto; until now;
-- and with the negative, not yet, not up to the present time; not as soon as now; as, is it time to go? not yet. see as yet, under as, conj.
-before some future time; before the end; eventually; in time.
-even;
-- used emphatically.
-nevertheless; notwithstanding; however.

yeve
-to give.

yeven
-given.

yew
-see yaw.
-an evergreen tree (taxus baccata) of europe, allied to the pines, but having a peculiar berrylike fruit instead of a cone. it frequently grows in british churchyards.
-the wood of the yew. it is light red in color, compact, fine
-grained, and very elastic. it is preferred to all other kinds of wood for bows and whipstocks, the best for these purposes coming from spain.
-a bow for shooting, made of the yew.
-of or pertaining to yew trees; made of the wood of a yew tree; as, a yew whipstock.

yewen
-made of yew; as, yewen bows.

yex
-to hiccough.
-a hiccough.

yezdegerdian
-of or pertaining to yezdegerd, the last sassanian monarch of persia, who was overthrown by the mohammedans; as, the yezdegerdian era, which began on the 16th of june, a. d. 632. the era is still used by the parsees.

yezdi
-same as izedi.

yezidee
-alt. of yezidi

yezidi
-same as izedi.