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118. They bring me sorrow touch'd with joy, The merry merry bells of Yule . Tennyson, In Memoriam, xxviii. Yule block, clog, or log. Same as Christmas log. See Christmas. A small portion of the yule - block was always preserved till the joyous season came again, when it was used for lighting the new Christmas block. Hone, Year Book, col. 1110 The burning of the Yule log is an ancient Christmas ceremony, transmitted to us from our Scand in avian ancestors, who, at their feast of Juul, at the winter solstice, used to kindle huge bonfires in honour of their god Thor. Chambers's Book of Days, II. 785. The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary a vast volume of light and heat,... was the Yule clog , which the squire was particular in having brought in and illumined on a Christmas eve, according to ancient cus- tom. Irving , Sketch-Book, p. 247. Yule cake. Same as Yule dough. Hone , Every-Day Book, I. 1638.-Yule candle, a large candle used for light dur- ing the festivities of Christmas eve. In many places the exhaustion of the candle before the end of the evening was believed to portend ill luck, and any piece remaining was carefully preserved to be burnt out at the owner's like- wake. ing. [ Hall i well ; Jamie son . [Prov. Eng. and Scotch.] Yule-tide (yöl'tid), n. The time or season of Yule or Christmas. In the old clog almanacs, a wheel is the device em- ployed for marking the season of Yule -tide. yure (yör), n. See ewer3 . [Prov. Eng.] yurt (yört), n. [Siberian.] One of the houses or huts, whether permanent or movable, of the natives of northern and central Asia. Also yourt a, yourte, jurt . It [the lake] is ten miles in circumference, and here and there are yourtes inhabited by the Mongols. Huc, Travels (trans. 1852), I. 206. Yuncinæ (yun-si'nē), n. pl . [NL., prop. Iyn- ginæ ; Yunx , prop. Lynx ( Lyng- ), + -inæ .] Same as Lynginæ. G. R. Gray, 1840. yungan (yung'gan), n. [Native name.] The dugong. E. P. Wright . Yungidæ, Yunginæ, n . pl . Same as Iyngidæ , yuxt, v. and n. An obsolete variant of yex . Iynginæ. yutu (yö'tö), n. [Peruv.] A species of tina- mou, found in Peru. A partridge called yutu frequents the long gra . Encyc. Brit ., XVIII. 673. Yunx (yungks), n. [NL. (Linnæus, 1766 or yvelt, a., n., and adv . An old spelling of earlier), also Jynx and Lynx , luyξ , the evill. wryneck.] 1. Same as Iynx .-2. [l. c.] The yvoiret, yvoryt. Old spellings of ivory1 . wryneck, Iynx torquilla . See cut under wryywist, adv . and n. See iwis. IMG:content-2728.png:[graphic] too. 0000000 יייייייייייייי...... IMG:content-2729.png:[blocks in formation] The same character has a corresponding place as zeta in the Greek series, and went over in that place to the Ital. ian alphabets; but, about the third century B. C., it was dropped out by the Romans as not needed, and the newly devised G (see G) was put in its place. Then finally, some two centuries later, it was taken back (together with or soon after Y: see Y ) to expre in borrowed Greek words the peculiar double sound ( ds or sd ) which it had won in Greek usage, and so appeared anew in its old company, but with greatly altered position. It was not used in the oldest English, but came gradually in out of the French atile matters have been more or le completely expelled by roasting. As the result of this proce a grayish oxid of cobalt is left behind, which is mingled with various impurities, and usually with some sand. Zaffer is used in the manufacture of smalt, and in various other ways, as in furnishing the beautiful color known as cobalt blue, which is still of importance, although much le so since the discovery of a method of making artificial ultramarine.