Yea - YEA, adv. Ya.
1. Yes; a word that expresses affirmation or assent. Will you go? Yea. It sometimes introduces a subject, with the sense of indeed, verily, truly, it is so.
Yea, hath God said, ye shall not eat of every tree in the garden? Gen 3.
Let your communication be yea, yea; nay, nay. Mat 5.
2. It sometimes enforces the sense of something preceding; not only so, but more.
Therein I do rejoice; yea, and will rejoice. Phil 1.
3. In Scripture, it is used to denote certainty, consistency, harmony, and stability.
All the promises of God in him are yea, and in him are amen. 2 Cor 1.
[In this use, the word may be considered a noun.]
Yea is used only in the sacred and solemn style. [See Yes.]
Yearn - YEARN, YERN, v.i. [G. The sense is to strain, or stretch forward. We have earnest from the same root.]
1. To be strained; to be pained or distressed; to suffer.
Falstaff, he is dead, and we must yearn therefore.
2. Usually, to long; to feel an earnest desire; that is literally, to have a desire or inclination stretching towards the object or end. 1 Ki 3.
Joseph made haste, for his bowels did yearn upon his brother. Gen 43.
Your mothers heart yearns toward you.
--Anticlus, unable to control, spoke loud the language of his yearning soul.
YEARN, YERN, v.t. To pain; to grieve; to vex.
She laments for it, that it would yearn your heart to see it.
It yearns me not if men my garments wear.
Yesterday - YESTERDAY, n. [See Yester.]
1. The day last past; the day next before the present.
All our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death.
We are but of yesterday, and know nothing. Job 8.
2. Yesterday is used generally without a preposition; as, I went to town yesterday. Yesterday we received letters from our friends. In this ease, a preposition is understood; as on yesterday, or during yesterday. The word may be considered as adverbially used.
Yet - YET, conj. [Gr.] Nevertheless; notwithstanding; however. I come to you in the spirit of peace; yet you will not receive me.
Yet I say unto you, the Solomon in all his glory, was not arrayed like one of these. Mat 6.
YET, adv.
1. Beside; over and above. There is one reason yet further to be alledged.
2. Still; the state remaining the same.
They attest facts they had heard while they were yet heathens.
3. At this time; so soon. Is it time to go? Not yet.
4. At least; at all.
A man that would form a comparison between Quintilians declamations, if yet they are Quintilians--
5. It is prefixed to words denoting extension of time or continuance.
A little longer; yet a little longer.
6. Still; in a new degree. The crime becomes yet blacker by the pretense of piety.
7. Even; after all; a kind of emphatical addition to a negative.
Men may not too rashly believe the confessions of witches, nor yet the evidence against them.
8. Hitherto. You have yet done nothing; you have as yet done less than was expected.
Yeven, for given, is not in use.
Yoke - YOKE, n. [G., L., Gr.]
1. A piece of timber, hollowed or made curving near each end, and fitted with bows for receiving the necks of oxen; by which means two are connected for drawing. From a ring or hook in the bow, a chain extends to the thing to be drawn, or to the yoke of another pair of oxen behind.
2. A mark of servitude; slavery; bondage.
Our country sinks beneath the yoke.
3. A chain; a link; a bond of connection; as the yoke of marriage.
4. A couple; a pair; as a yoke of oxen.
5. Service.
My yoke is easy. Mat 11.
YOKE, v.t.
1. To put a yoke on; to join in a yoke; as, to yoke oxen, or a pair of oxen.
2. To couple; to join with another.
Cassius, you are yoked with a lamb.
3. To enslave; to bring into bondage.
4. To restrain; to confine. Libertines like not to be yoked in marriage.
The words and promises that yoke the conqueror, are quickly broke.