Squyre, I have non other cause,
I suere the by Seynt Eustase!
Fore alle the gerne that I may spynne,
To spend at ale he thinkes no synne!
MS. Ashmole, 61.

(6) s. A heron. Chesh.

YERNFUL, adj. Melancholy.

But, oh musicke, as in joyfull tunes, thy mery notes I did borrow,

So now lend mee thy yerafull tunes, to utter my sorrow.

Damon & Pith., O. Pl., i, 195.

YERNIN, s. Rennet. Yorksh.
YERNING, 8. Activity.

YERRED, pret. t. Swore. Devon.
YERRING, adj.

Noisy; yelling.

YERRIWIG, 8. An earwig. West.
YER-WHILE, adv. Formerly.

The birds that chaunted it yer-while
Ere they heard of Corin's guile.

England's Helicon, 1614.

YERYN, S. Iron. "A longe bare of yeryn alonge the chymny." MS. inventory, 16th cent.

YES, 8. An earthworm. Dorset.
YESK. See Yex.

YEST, 8. (A.-S. gest.) Froth. Yesty, frothy, frivolous.

Knowledge with him is idle, if it strain Above the compass of his yesty brain. Drayton, Moonc., p. 485.

YESTE, s. A gest, or history. YESTMUS, S. A handful. Lanc. YESTREEN, 8. Last night. North. YETE, (1) v. To get.

(2) s. A gate. North. See Yat. ZETE, v. (1) To eat.

(2) (A.S. geotan.) To cast metal.

Pr. P.

YETH-HOUNDS, s. Headless dogs, pretended to be the spirits of

YEW-GAME, 8. A frolic; a yule

game.
YEWKING, adj. Puny.
YEWLY, adv.

Thence to Worton, being lighted
I was solemnly invited

By a captain's wife most yewly,
Though, I think, she never knew me.

YEWTHOR, 8. A bad smell.

YEX, v. (A.-S.) To hiccough. Yex,
yering, the hiccough.
YFERE, adv. Together.
Yı, adv. Yea. Derb.

YIELD, adj. Barren, applied to
cows. North.
YIFFE, v. To give.
YILDE, 8. (1) Tribute.

(2) (4.-S.) Patience. YILP, v. To chirp. North.

YILT, 8. A female pig. Beds. See Yelte.

See Yer.

(2) v. To itch.

(3) 8. A pair of oxen.

(4) 8. One of the two parts of the working day. Kent. YOKE-FELLOW, s. A husband or wife.

YOKEL, 8. A country bumpkin.
YOKEY, adj. Tawney. Devon.
YOKLE, 8. An icicle.

YOKLET, 8. An old name in Kent

for a little farm or manor. 30KYNGE, part. a. Itching. YOKY-WOOL, 8. Unwashed wool. Devon.

YOLDE, pret. t. Yielded.

YOLD-RING, 8. The yellow-hammer. North.

YOLE, v. To yell.

30LE, 8. Christmas; yule. YOLK, 8. (1) The state or condition

of wool, after being shorn from the sheep, and before it is washed. East.

(2) The grease of wool. Northampt.

YOLT, 8. A newt. Glouc.

30MERE, v. To lament; to moan.
YON, pron. That. Var. d.
YOND, adj. Furious; savage. Spens.
YONDERLY, adj. Reserved. Yorksh.
YONE, adj. Yon.

YONSTE, 8. Favour; affection.
"The very yonste and good wyl
that I bere to you ward." Cax-
ton's Reynard the Foxe.
YONT, prep. Beyond. North.
YOON, s. An oven. Var. d.
YOPER, S. A hare-courser.

Thou art so earnest still to follow yopers, that make so much haste to devour a simple hare.

Howard, Man of Newmarket, 1678.

YOPPUL, S. Unnecessary talk. South. 3ORE, S. (A.-S.) Mercy. See Ore.

Oft-sythes scho sygkyd sore,
And stilly scho sayed, Lord, thy gore.
Seven Sages.

of the reign of Henry VI. YORNEN, adj. Made of yarn.

A paire of yornen stockes
To keepe the cold away,
Within his bootes the Russie weares.
Turberville's Epitaphes and
Sonnettes, 1569.

YORP, v. To talk boisterously.
Leic. See Yaup.
YOSKE, v. To hiccough.

30skyng cometh in many maneris,
either whiles of excess of etyng, either
of drynkyng, that makith the stomac
to ful.

The Four Humours of Man, MS. xv Cent. Yor, v. To unite closely. Dorset. YOTE, v. To pour in; to water, or soak. West.

YOUGH, S. An ewe. Norf. YOUK, v. To sleep. A term in hawking.

YOUL, v. To yell; to bark ex-
YOWL, cessively. Norf.
YOULRING, 8. The yellow-hammer.
YOUNKER, S. A youth.

YOUT, v. To yell. Yorksh.
YOUTHLY, adv. Youthful.
YOVE, pret. t. Given.

Yow, v. To reap, gathering the

corn under the arm. Devon. YOWER, S. An udder. Craven. YOWER-JOINT, s. A joint near the

thigh of the horse, opposite the hock. Craven.

YOWLEY, S. The yellow-hammer.
Northampt.

Yowp, v. To yelp. West.
YowSTER, v. To fester. North.
YowT, v. To yelp. Midl. C.

30XE, 8. The hiccough.

YOYSTER, v. To frolic; to laugh

Suss.
YRNE, 8. Iron.

YRON, s. A heron.

YRONHARD, 8. Knapweed. Ys,

FSE, } S. (4.-S. ise.) Ice.

YSELS, 8. (4.-S.) Ashes. YSOPE, s. Hyssop.

ZAWP, 8. A blow. Somers.

ZENVY, S. (A.-N.) Wild mustard. Somers.

ZENZIBIR, 8. (A.-N.) Ginger. Zenzybyr and synamon at every tyde. Digby Mysteries, p. 77.

ZESS, s. (1) A pile of sieves in a barn. Exm.

(2) A compartment of a thresh-
ing floor for the wheat threshed,
but not winnowed.

ZILTER, S. A salting tub. Somers.
ZLEARE, v. To slide. Somers.
ZOAT, adj. Silly. Wight.
Zock, 8. A blow. West.
ZOG, (1) v. To doze. Dev.
(2) s. Moist land. Somers.
Zoo-zoo, s. The wood-pigeon.
Glouc.

ZOTY, S. A fool. South.
ZOWERSWOPPED, adj. Ill-natured.

Exm.

ZowL, S. A plough. Exm. See Sull. ZUCHES, S. Stumps of trees. ZWAIL, v. To swing the arms. West.

ZWIR, v. To turn. West. ZWODDER, S. A drowsy and stupid state of body or mind. Somers. Zwor, adv. With a noise.