yarke (yarke)

saki, Pithecia leucocephala, or other member of the same genus. yarly (yär'li), adv. An obsolete or dialectal form of early. The black white-headed What, is he styrrynge so yarly this mornynge whiche dranke so moc he yesternyghte? Palsgrave, Acolastus (1540). ( Hall i well .) yarm (yärm), n. [ zarm , an outcry: see yarm, v.] An outery; a noise. [Prov. Eng.] Such a zomerly zarm of zellyng ther rysed, Ther-of clatered the cloudes that kryst mygt haf raw the, yarm (yärm), v.i. [ Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), ii. 971. The fend began to crie and zarm . MS . Lincoln. ( Hall i well .) 2. To scold; grumble. Hall i well. [Prov. Eng.] yarnı (yärn), n. [ All the yarn she spun in Uly es' absence did but fill Ithaca full of moths. Shak . , Cor., i. 3. 93. IMG:content-2668.png:[blocks in formation] 2. Rope-yarn.-3. A story; a tale: often im Scott , Marmion, i. 9. plying the marvelous or untrue: applied to a 2. Prompt; active; brisk; sprightly. To offyr loke that ye be yore. York Plays, p. 36. I do desire to learn, sir; and I hope, if you have oссаsion to use me for your own turn, you shall find me yare. Shak., M. for M., iv. 2. 61. The Spaniard was as yare in slipping his chained Grapnalls as Merham was in cutting the tackling. Capt . John Smith , True Travels, I. 53. 3. Easily wrought; answering quickly to the helm; manageable; swift: said of a ship. The le er [ship] will come and go, leave and take, and is yare , whereas the other is slow. Their ships are yare ; yours, heavy. Raleigh. Shak., A. and C., iii. 7. 39. Like a new-rigg'd ship, both tight and yare. Mas singer, Maid of Honour, ii. 2. [Now provincial in all uses.] long story, with allusion to spinning yarn: as, do you expect us to believe such a yarn as that? a sailors' yarn. [Colloq.] It is n't everybody that likes these sea- yarns as you do, Eve. No, I'll belay, and let my betters get a word in now. C. Reade, Love Me Little, iii. Con naught yarn, a soft and elastic yarn produced in Con naught, Ireland. - Cop-yarn, the technical name for yarn as removed from the spindle.-Half-worsted yarn. Same as sayette, 2.- Haul of yarn. See haul.- Lamb's wool yarn. See lamb's -wool. - Mixed yarn, a yarn in which two or more fibers are combined, as in a poplin, ca inette, tweed, etc. - Norwegian yarn, lamb's-wool yarn from the Scand in avian peninsula. It comes in the natural colors, both black and gray.- Random yarn. See random. - Rogue's yarn. See rogue. - Saxony yarn, a variety of Berlin wool. Spun yarn, to spin a yarn, to spin street-yarn. See spin. Turkey yarn. See An gora goat, under goat1, - Worsted yarn, yarn made from long-haired or combed wool, and consisting either entirely variant of earn1. When rain is a let to thy dooings abrode, Set threshers a threshing to laie on good lode: Thresh cleane ye must bid them, though le er they yarn, And looking to thriue haue an eie to thy barne. Tu er , Husbandry, p. 57. (Daries.)