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A Middle English form of gild2. Thys statute is made by the comyne a ent of all the bretherne and sisterne of alhallowe yelde. English Gilds (E. E. T. 8.), p. 281. At Worcester as late as 1467 we find the citizens in their " yeld merchant" making for the craft guilds regulations which imply that they had full authority over them. Stubbs , Const. Hist., § 485. yeldet, v. A Middle English form of yield . yeldhallet, n. A Middle English form of gild hall . To sitten in a yeldhalle on a deys. Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. Т., 1. 370. yeldring (yel'dring), n. [Also yeldrin , yoldring, yoldrin, yorling , etc., in numerous variant forms based on yellow .] Same as youley . [Scotch.] yeldrock (yel'drok), n. Same as youley . [Prov. Eng.] yelk (yelk), n. A variant of yolk. yell1 (yel), v . [ gellan , giellan , gyllan , cry out, yell, re- sound, = D. gillen , shriek, scream, = G. gellen , resound, = Icel. gella , also gjalla = Sw. gälla = Dan. gjælle , gjalde , resound, ring; prob. akin to AS. gal an , sing: see gale1 . Cf. yawll, youl .] I. in trans. To cry out with a sharp, loud noise; shriek; cry or scream as with agony, horror, or ferocity. Thay yelleden as feendes doon in helle. Chaucer, Nun's Priest's Tale, 1. 569. Tho com the deuel zollynge uorth, [and] loude he gan grede Alas nou is my myzte ido euermo he sede. Holy Rood (E. E. T. S.), p. 44. The night raven that still deadly yells. Spenser . The dogs did yell. Shak., L.. L., iv. 2. 60. The throng'd arena shakes with shouts for more; Yells the mad crowd o'er entrails freshly torn. Byron, Childe Harold, i. 68. All the men and women in the hall Rose, when they saw the dead man rise, and fled Yelling as from a spectre. Tennyson, Geraint. II. trans. To utter with a yell. As if it felt with Scotland, and yell'd out Like syllable of dolour. Shak ., Macbeth, iv. 8. 7. Some boy, galloping for life upon the road, yells to him the sudden news, and is gone. W. M. Baker, New Timothy, p. 258. Again the Apaches were summoned to surrender,... and again they yelled their defiant refusal. The Century, XLL. 659. Spenser , F. Q., I. x. 53. yelll (yel), n. [ His army dry-foot through them yod . One while this little boy he yode , Another while he ran. Childe Maurice (Child's Ballads, II. 314). Along the bankes of many silver streames Thou with him yodest . L. Bryskett, Pastor all Aeglogue. In other pace than forth he yode , Return'd Lord Marmion. Scott , Marmion, iii. 31. yede2t, v. i. [Also yead ; a false pres. tense and inf. formed from the pret. yede , yode : see yedel .] To go; proceed. [Rare and erroneous.j Then badd the knight this lady yede aloof, And to an hill herselfe withdraw asyde. Spenser, F. Q., L. xi. 5. Years yead away, and faces fair deflower. Drant. IMG:content-2680.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-2681.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-2682.png:[blocks in formation]