The Foolish Dictionary Words starting with Y

YARN : An essential in fabrication--either woven or narrated. Mill yarns are highly colored; those spun at sea much more so.
YAWL : Either the shape of a boat or the sound of a cat, but never a cat-boat.
YAWNS : The air-breaks on a sleeper.
YEAR : A period originally including 365 days, now 325, since the other 40 are Lent.
YELLOW FEVER : A passion for reading the Hearst newspapers.

YOKE : The inheritance of the hen-pecked and the burden of the married.
YOLK : The legacy of the hen and the burden of its lay.
YOUTH : The dynamo that makes the world go round; a product of its own generation, with its wires carrying Power into the high places of Earth and with its currents of Thought short-circuited only by bigoted Old Age.
YULE-LOG : A Christmas protege of the grate, too young to smoke, too tough to burn and too green to warm up to anybody.

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