yearn2+ (yern)

[Also earn; prob. an altered form, due to confusion with yearn1, with which it is generally merged, of * erm, IMG:content-2678.png:[blocks in formation] He was buying yearlings , too, and seemed keen about racing, but as yet not a feather had been plucked from the pigeon's wing. Whyte Melville, White Rose, II. vi. II. a. A year old; of a year's age, duration, or date: as, a yearling heifer. As yearling brides provide lace caps, and work rich clothes for the expected darling. Thackeray , New comes, i. yearlong (yer'lông), a. Lasting or continuing a year. of 12 lunar civil months, or 354 days. - Lunisolar year. See lunisolar . - Mohammedan year, a purely lunar year of 12 months, having alternately 30 and 29 days, except that in certain years the last month has 30 days instead of 29. These years are the 2d, 5th, 7th, 10th, 13th, 16th, 18th, 21st, 24th, 26th, and 29th of each cycle of thirty years. The years are counted from the hejira , A. D. 622, July 15th. - Natural year. Same as tropical year. - Planetary years. See planetary . - Platonic year, a great cycle of years at the end of which it was supposed that the celes- tial bodies will be found in the same places they were in at the creation. Also called great or perfect year . - yearly (yer'li), a. [ yeerly , geárlic wars, under Silesian. Regnal, sabbatical, side realer haves. -Solar year. See def. 1.- Sothic year. See Sothic. Tenancy from year to year. See tenancy. - Term of years, term for years. See term, 6 (c). - Theban year. See Theban.- Thirty years' war. See thirty. To be struck or stricken in years. See strike. - Tropical year. See def. 1.-Vague year, an Egyptian year of 365 days. Called vague -that is, wandering-because in the course of 1507 years it begins at all seasons. -Year by year, from one year to another; with each succeeding year. Disease, augmenting year by year, Show'd the grim king by gradual steps brought near. Crabbe, Works, I. 102. Year, day, and waste, part of the sovereign's prerogative in England, whereby he was entitled to the profits for a year and a day of the lands held by persons attainted of petty treason or felony, together with the right of wast "Thee," I said, "From yearlong poring on thy pictured eyes, Ere seen I loved." Tennyson, Prince , vii. Accepting year - long exile from his home. The Atlantic, LIX. 361. (G. jährlich ); as year + -ly1.] 1. Annual; happening, accruing, or coming every year: as, a yearly rent or income. Five hundred poor I have in yearly pay. Shak., Hen. V., iv. 1. 315. These two last [Euphrates and Tigris] are famous for their yearely ouerflowings. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 340. 2. Lasting or continuing for a year: as, a yearly plant; a yearly tenant or tenancy.-3. Comprehending a year; accomplished in a year: as, the yearly circuit or revolution of the earth. The yearly course that brings this day about Shall never see it but a holiday. Shak., K. John, iii. 1. 81. Shak., Hen. V., iv. 3. 26. Alas, poor wretch! how it yearns my heart for him! B. Jonson, Bartholomew Fair, iv. 4. lating yearn, yearn2, etc.] Same as earn1. [Provincial or vulgar.] My due reward, the which right well I dee me I yearned have. Spenser, F. Q., VI. vii. 15. She couldn't afford to pay for schooling, and told me I must look out and yearn my own living while I was a mere chick. Mayhew, London Labour and London Poor, I. 397. yearn4 (yern), v . [A var. of earn4 , or ze ernen, geyrnan , run together: see earn4 , run1.] Same as earn2 . His Honour the Duke will accept ane of our Dunlop cheeses, and it sall be my faut if a better was ever yearned in Lowden. Scott , Heart of Mid-Lothian, xxxix. yearn5 (yern), n. A dialectal (Scotch) form of earn3. Ye cliffs, the haunts of sailing yearns ! Burns , On Capt. Matthew Henderson. yearnfult (yern'fül), a. [Also yernful, ernful; Ala, Ala, was their yernfull note; their foode was the peoples almes. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 628. But, oh musicke, as in joyfull tunes, thy mery notes I did borrow, So now lend mee thy yernfull tunes, to utter my sorrow. Damon and Pith . , Old Plays, I. 195. ( Nares .)