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10121. yīverlī adv.

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(a) Greedily; (b) eagerly; willingly; promptly.

10122. yīvernesse n.

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(a) Greediness for food and drink, gluttony; covetousness, avarice; also, gluttony or avarice as one of the deadly sins; (b) eagerness; also, rashness.

10123. yō̆gh n.

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The name for the letter ȝ.

10124. yoȝelinge ger.

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Wretched crying, outcry; also, the hooting or shrieking of an owl.

10125. yōke n.

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(a) A collar or other similar apparatus attached to a team of animals and used to form a connection to a wagon, plow, etc., yoke; also fig. and in fig. context; yoke boues, the rounded portions of the…

10126. yōken v.

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(a) To put a harness on (a draft animal), yoke; couple (a pair of animals) with a yoke, double harness; also, yoke (one animal to another); also fig.; yoken togeder (b) to harness (an animal to a…

10127. Yọ̄l n.

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(a) The Christmas season generally, Yuletide or Christmastime; specif. the festival season from Christmas Eve to Epiphany, Christmastide; on (o) the Yol manere, in the manner in which something is…

10128. yọ̄l-dai n.

Additional spellings: yoldai
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(a) Christmas Day, December 25; (b) yol-dai of fish, a fast day during Advent on which fish is eaten.

10129. yolk(e n.

Additional spellings: yolke
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(a) The yellow part of the interior of an egg, as distinguished from the white; also in conventional comparisons; yolk of an egge (ei), egge (ei) yolk (b) in medicinal or culinary recipes; yolk

10130. yọ̄mer adj.

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(a) Wretched, miserable, unhappy; also, of a ship: in dire circumstances; of a voice: expressing sorrow, mournful, sad;—used in adv. phrase (b) of a time: unfortunate, unfavorable; of an affliction:…

10131. yọ̄mere adv.

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Sorrowfully, mournfully.

10132. yọ̄meren v.

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To cry out in sorrow, wail, lament; also, groan in grief or pain; ppl. ȝeomerinde as adj.: sorrowful, woeful [1st quot.].

10133. yọ̄mering ger.

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Sorrowing, mourning, lamenting; also, a cry, wail.

10134. yọ̄merlī adj.

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Mournful, piteous; also, causing distress or affliction.

10135. yọ̄merlī adv.

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Dolefully, piteously; also, so as to cause pain, harshly.

10136. yọ̄mernesse n.

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A sorry condition, wretchedness.

10137. yon adj.

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As dem. adj., pointing to a person, place, or thing: that…over or up there, that; also, those…over there, those: (a) with noun only; (b) with intervening adj.; yon ilke (self, same).

10138. yon prep.

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Through all parts of (one’s land, the earth, etc.), throughout; also, over the surface of (the sea), on, across.

10139. yond adv.

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(a) At a distance, over there, yonder; her and yond, here and there (b) yond of, ?from (a place); ?far away from (a place); (c) to that place, there; comen (gon, leden) yond; hider and yond, this way…

10140. yond prep.

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(a) In every part or region of (a town, land, the world, etc.), throughout the extent of, everywhere in; throughout (a population); also, within (a country), in; (b) among (ships).