yemola (yemola)

[Japanese.] An oil expre ed from the seeds of Perilla arguta. See Perilla. yen1 (yen), adv. A dialectal form of yon. yen2+, n. pl. A variant of eyen, plural of eyel. yen3 (yen), n. [Jap., and into mills called rin. One, two-, five-, ten-, and twenty-yen pieces are coined, and the fractional silver currency consists of five-, ten-, twenty-, and fifty-sen pieces. See cut on following page. vender (yen'der), adv. A dialectal form of yonder. yenet, v. An obsolete form of yawn. IMG:content-2692.png:[blocks in formation] *gāman, * geá man, gæman (= OFries. gāman, Reverse. Silver Yen. (Size of original.) gam on, a villager (cf. gāfolk, people of a village), = MD. goymannen, arbitrators, = Icel. gæimadhr, a franklin-rare, and prob. village, = MD. gouwe (in comp. goo-, goy-, go- ), a village, field, D. gouw, gouwe, a province, = MLG. gõ, LG. goë, go he, in comp. go-, a district, OHG. gowi, gouwi, gewi, MHG. gou, göu, G. gau, a province, G. dial. gäu, the country, = Goth. gaw i, a district), + man, man. The word has been erroneously explained otherwise: (a) A contraction of a supposed ME. * ye me - man, a person in charge,' zomen than dede the gates schette, William of Palerne (E. E. T. S.), 1. 3649. & wigttili than went the walles for to fende. A yeman hadde he and ser vaunts namo. Chaucer , Gen. Prol. to C. T., 1. 101. 21. A gentleman attendant in a royal or noble household, ranking between a sergeant and a groom: as, yeoman for the month, a butler; yeoman of the crown; yeoman usher: applied also to attendants of lower grade: as, yeoman feuterer (see feuterer ); yeoman of the chamber; yeoman of the wardrobe. See also phrase yeo man of the guard, below. Yeomen of Chambre, IIII, to make beddes, to bere or hold torches, to sette bourdes, and suche other servyce as the... u hers of chambre command or a igne. Quoted in Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 313, note. Now of marschalle of halle wylle I spelle,... zomon-v here, and grome also, Vndur hym ar thes two. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 311. Timochares, whose sonne was yom an for the mon the with the kynge, promysed to Fabric i us, thaune beinge consull, to sle kynge Pyrrus. Sir T. Elyot , The Govern our, iii. 5. The lady of the Strachy married the yeoman of the wardrobe. Shak ., T. N., ii. 5. 45. Four persons, who had been yeomen of the crown to Edward IV., were taken in South wark and hanged at Tyburn. 7018 man Clutch. Enter Master Tenterhook, Sergeant Ambush, and Yeo Ten. Come, Sergeant Ambush, come, Yeoman Clutch, yon's the tavern; the gentlemen will come out presently. Dekker and Webster, Westward Ho, iii. 2. The reason for calling the journeymen of the craft yeo men and bachelors, was probably that they were at that time in England, as was the case in Germany, not allowed to marry before they were masters. English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), p. cxlvi., note. 4. In old Eng. law, one having free land of forty shillings by the year (previously five nobles), who was thereby qualified to serve on juries, vote for knights of the shire, and do any other act for which the law required one who was "prob us et legal is homo" ( Black stone, Com., 1. xii.); hence, in recent English use, one owning (and usually himself cultivating) a small landed property; a freeholder. I pre me none but good householders, yeomen's sons. Shak., 1 Hen. IV., iv. 2. 16. Now do I smell th' astrologer's trick: he'll steep me In soldiers blood, or boil me in a caldron Of barbarous law French; or anoint me over With supple oil of great men's services; For these three means raise yeomen to the gentry. Tomkis (?), Albumazar, ii. 2. The yeomen or Common People,. who have some Lands of their own to live upon; For a Carn of Land, or a Plough Land, was in ancient Time of the yearly Value of five Nobles, and this was the Living of a Stokeman or Yeoman; And in our Law they are called Legales Homines, a Word familiar in Writs and Inquests. Guillim , Display of Heraldry (ed. 1724), II. 274. After the economical changes which marked the early years of the fifteenth century, the yeoman cla was strengthened by the addition of the body of tenant farmers, whose interests were very much the same as those of the smaller freeholders, and who shared with them the common name of yeoman . Stubbs , Const. Hist., § 480. 5. In the United States navy, an appointed petty officer who has charge of the stores in his de department. The ship's yeoman has charge of the boatswains', carpenters', sailmakers' stores, etc., and the engineer's yeoman has charge of all stores in the engineer's department, while the paymaster's yeoman takes care of provisions, clothing, and small stores, and i ues them as directed. 6. A member of the yeomanry cavalry. See yeomanry, 4. Aytoun . - Yeoman bedel. See bedel. - Yeoman of the guard, in England, a member of the body-guard of the sovereign. See beef-eater, 2. There came a country gentleman (a sufficient yeoman) up to towne, who had sever all sonnes, but one an extraordinary proper handsome fellowe, whom he did hope to have preferred to be a yeoman of the guard. Aubrey, Lives (Walter Ralegh). Yeoman's service, powerful or efficient aid, support, or help: in allusion to the strength and bravery of the yeomen in the English armies of early times. I once did hold it, as our statists do, A basene to write fair, and labour'd much How to forget that learning, but, sir, now It did me yeoman's service. Shak ., Hamlet, v. 2. 36.