yeomanly (yomanli)

[ It would make him melancholy to see his yeomanly father cut his neighbours' throats to make his son a gentleman. B. Jonson, Every Man out of his Humour, iv. 1. The simplicity and plainne e of Christianity, which to the gorgeous solemnities of Pagan is me and the sense of the Worlds Children seem'd but a homely and Yeomanly Religion. Milton , Reformation in Eng., i. yeomanly (yōʻman-li), adv. [ "do the false yeomen give way?" exclaimed becca, "they bear themselves right yeomanly." yerk extent of gentlemen or wealthy farmers. They undergo six days of training, and must attend a certain number of drills yearly, for which they receive a money allowance. They must furnish their own horses, but have a small allowance for clothing - the government also supplying arms and ammunition. Unlike the ordinary volunteer force, the yeomanry cavalry may be called out to aid the civil power, in addition to being liable for service on invasion of the country by a foreign enemy.-Yeomanry Act, an English statute of 1804 (44 Geo. III., c. 54) consol i volunteers and dating and amemting the laws relating to the corps of yeoyep (yep), a. [Also yap; Sc. yap, yarp (E. dial. yepper ); For hit is zol & nwe zer [Yule and New Year], & here ar зер mony. Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. Τ. 8.), 1. 284. Whil thow art gong and gер. Piers Plowman (C), xi. 237. yeplyt, adv . [= Sc. yaply ; zeply , зарliche, zepliche , geaplice , shrewdly, geap , geáp , shrewd.] Promptly; quickly; at once. Thou knowez the couenauntez kest vus by-twene, At this tyme twelmonyth thou toke that the falled, & I schulde at this nwe zere zeply the quyte. Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. 8.), L. 2244. We muste yappely wende in at this yate, For he that comes to courte to curtesye muste vse hym. York Plays , p. 279. yer (ye or yu), adv . A dialectal variant of here . [Southern U. S.] Bimeby, fus' news you know, yer come Brer Rabbit. J. C. Harris, Uncle Remus, xviii. -yer. [(a) A var. of -ier1,