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A yacht. Shak., 2 Hen. IV., i. 2. 41. We saw there a barke which was of Dronton, & three or foure Norway yeaghes. Hakluyt's Voyages, L. 294. yean (yên), v. t. and i. [ That wherein the courteous man takes most sauour is to sell his wine deare,... his eawes to haue good yeaning , not to raine in April, and to haue much wheate in Maie. Guevara , Letters (tr. by Hellowes, 1577), p. 254. So many weeks ere the poor fools will yean . Shak ., 3 Hen. VI. (ed. Knight), il. 5. 36. Yon's one hath yean'd a fearful prodigy, Some monstrous mi hapen balladry. Marston, Scourge of Villanie, vi. 39. Weak as a lamb the hour that it is yeaned. Words worth, Hart-Leap Well. Trenchant time behoves to hurry All to yean and all to bury. Emerson, Wood-notes, il yeanling (yen'ling), n. [ To their store IMG:content-2675.png:[blocks in formation]