YCLIPED-YOU'RE.

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ycliped, another form of the preceding, ii. 228 (where this spelling is required for the quibble, "clipt," in the next speech).

Yead, an abbreviation of Edward, i. 348.

yearn, to grieve, to vex, i. 390; iv. 443 (twice); yearn'd, iv. 179; yearns, iv. 480; vi. 643.

Yedward, A familiar corruption of Edward, still retained in some counties, iv. 213 (Towards the end of the first act of Shadwell's Lancashire Witches, Clod, who speaks in the Lancashire dialect, says, "Why, 'tis Sir Yedard Hartfort's").

yellow, the colour of jealousy: 'mongst all colours no yellow in't, iii. 446.

yellowness, jealousy, i. 355.

yellows-The, iii. 144: "Jaundice, commonly called the yellows

. . . . is the introduction of bile into the general circulation .... The yellowness of the eyes and mouth, and of the skin where it is not covered with hair, mark it sufficiently plainly," &c. The Horse, by Youatt, p. 311, ed. 1848.

yeoman, a sergeant's or bailiff's follower: Where's your yeoman? iv. 329.

yeoman's service—It did me, vii. 201; “i.e. as good service as a yeoman performed for his feudal lord” (CALDECOTT).

yerk, to jerk, to fling out, to kick: Yerk out their armèd heels, iv. 489.

yerk, to strike with a quick smart blow: yerk'd him here under the ribs, vii. 380.

yest, "the spume on troubled water, foam" (Johnson's Dict.), iii.

459.

yesty, spumy, foamy, frothy, vii. 47, 205.

yew: see double-fatal yew, &c.

yield, to requite: the gods yield you for't! viii. 564.

young, early: this is yet but young, v. 532; Is the day so young? vi. 392.

young ravens must have food, i. 354: Ray has "Small birds must

have meat," Proverbs, p. 80, ed. 1768: "Either Shakespeare, or the adage, if it be one, has borrowed from Scripture. See Psalm cxlvii. 9, or Job xxxviii. 41" (Douce).

younker, a youngster, a young gallant: like a younker or a prodigal, ii. 368; Trimm'd like a younker, v. 252.

younker, a novice, a greenhorn: will you make a younker of me? iv. 260.

you're, you were: Madam, you're best consider, vii. 676.

VOL. IX.

LL

your release-They cannot budge till, They cannot budge till the release of them by you, i. 226; Your wrongs do set a scandal on my sex, The wrongs done by you do set, &c. ii. 281; I am sorry For your displeasure, I am sorry for the displeasure you have incurred, vii. 415 see note 125, i. 257.

Z.

zany, a buffoon, a merry-andrew, a mimic, ii. 224; the fools' zanies (wrongly explained by Douce the "fools' baubles, which had upon the top of them the head of a fool”), iii. 337.

zed! thou unnecessary letter! vii. 280 : "Zed is here probably used as a term of contempt, because it is the last letter in the English alphabet, and as its place may be supplied by S; and the Roman alphabet has it not; neither is it read in any word originally Teutonick. In Barret's Alvearie, or Quadruple Dictionary, 1580, it is quite omitted, as the author affirms it to be rather a syllable than a letter" (STEEVENS): “This is taken from the grammarians of the time. Mulcaster says, 'Z is much harder amongst us, and seldom seen: S is become its lieutenant-general. It is lightlie expressed in English, saving in foren enfranchisements' " (FARMER). zenith, (in an astrological sense) the highest point of one's fortune, i. 182. zodiacs-Nineteen, Nineteen years, i. 452 (There can be little doubt that either "nineteen" in this passage should be "fourteen," or that fourteen years" in the next scene and page should be "nineteen years:" Malone has a very foolish note on the second passage).

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