Vocabulary : Yead to Yearling

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.

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