yeld1 (yeld)

[Also yeald, yald, yell; var. of geld1.] Barren; not giving milk: same as geld1, 2. [Scotch.] Thence country wives, wi' toil and pain, May plunge and plunge the kirn in vain;... And dawt it [petted] twal-pint hawkie (cow]'s gane As yell's the bill [bull). yeast-cell (yēst′sel), n. constitutes a yeast-plant, Saccharomyces cerevisiæ. yeast-fungus (yest'fung"gus), n. See fungus. yeastine (yes'ti-nes), n. erty of being yeasty. yeast-plant (yest'plant), n. The Saccharomyces cerevisiæ, a minute plant producing alcoholic fermentation in saccharine liquids; also, any one of several other species of the genus Sac charomyces. See yeast, 1 (with cut). yeast-powder (yest'pouder), n. A substitute for yeast used for leavening bread, consisting gestion of themselves beginning to shoot the yeld hinds on of a preparation of soda, phosphates, and other substances, in the form of a powder; a baking powder. yeasty (yes'ti), a. [Formerly also yesty; We have then [in June] another dun, called the BarmFly from its yeasty color. Cotton, in Walton's Angler, ii. 261. 2. Foamy; frothy; spumy. Though the yesty waves Confound and swallow navigation up. Shak., Macbeth, iv. 1. 53. The sands and yeasty surges mix In caves about the dreary bay. Tennyson, Sailor Boy. 3. Light; unsubstantial; trifling; worthle . Thus has he-and many more of the same breed that I know the dro y age dotes on - only got the tune of the time and outward habit of encounter: a kind of yesty collection, which carries them through and through the most fond and winnowed opinions. yeatt, n. Shak., Hamlet, v. 2. 199. Knowledge with him is idle, if it strain Above the compa of his yesty brain. Drayton, Moon-Calf. yeddt, v. i. Same as yate , gate1 . And, or the porter was at the ye at , The boy was in the ha'. Lady Maisry (Child's Ballads, II. 84). [ME. zedden , zeddien , geddian , gyddian, giddian , speak, sing, gedd , gidd , a song.] To speak; sing. Piers Plowman (A), i. 138.