Vocabulary : Yawn to Yea

Yawn : To open the mouth involuntarily through drowsiness, dullness, or fatigue; to gape; to oscitate. ;; To open wide; to gape, as if to allow the entrance or exit of anything. ;; To open the mouth, or to gape, through surprise or bewilderment. ;; To be eager; to desire to swallow anything; to express desire by yawning; as, to yawn for fat livings. ;; An involuntary act, excited by drowsiness, etc., consisting of a deep and long inspiration following several successive attempts at inspiration, the mouth, fauces, etc., being wide open. ;; The act of opening wide, or of gaping. ;; A chasm, mouth, or passageway.
Yawned : of Yawn
Yawning : of Yawn
Yawningly : In a yawning manner.
Yawp : See Yaup.

Yaws : A disease, occurring in the Antilles and in Africa, characterized by yellowish or reddish tumors, of a contagious character, which, in shape and appearance, often resemble currants, strawberries, or raspberries. There are several varieties of this disease, variously known as framboesia, pian, verrugas, and crab-yaws.
Yaw-weed : A low, shrubby, rubiaceous plant (Morinda Royoc) growing along the seacoast of the West Indies. It has small, white, odorous flowers.
Yazoo Fraud : The grant by the State of Georgia, by Act of Jan. 7, 1795, of 35,000,000 acres of her western territory, for $500,000, to four companies known as the Yazoo Companies from the region granted ; -- commonly so called, the act being known as the Yazoo Frauds Act, because of alleged corruption of the legislature, every member but one being a shareholder in one or more of the companies. The act granting the land was repealed in 1796 by a new legislature, and the repealing provision was incorporated in the State constitution in 1798. In 1802 the territory was ceded to the United States. The claims of the purchasers, whom Georgia had refused to compensate, were sustained by the United States Supreme Court, which (1810) declared the repealing act of 1796 unconstitutional. Congress in 1814 ordered the lands sold and appropriated $5,000,000 to pay the claims.
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Yea : Yes; ay; a word expressing assent, or an affirmative, or an affirmative answer to a question, now superseded by yes.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.