YACHT

A ve el of state or pleasure. YAGERS,or JAGERS. {Gerra. hunters.) Light infantry armed with rifles (cha eur s.rijlemen). In the Pru ian service, the Yagers form a distinct corps with peculiar discipline; in that of Austria, light infantry generally from the mountain districts. In Germany the term jager is applied to a peculiar species of higher servant attached to the families of the aristocracy. YANKEE, the popular name for the New England ers in America, and among English people pretty indiscriminately applied to all inhabitants of the United States, a word for which many ridiculous etymologies have been a igned, is, according to Dr. Welsh's Dictionary, " a corruption of the word English by the Indians of North America." [s. 1350]