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Definition of y-

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Y- () A prefix of obscure meaning, originally used with verbs, adverbs, adjectives, nouns, and pronouns. In the Middle English period, it was little employed except with verbs, being chiefly used with past participles, though occasionally with the infinitive Ycleped, or yclept, is perhaps the only word not entirely obsolete which shows this use..

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Octillion :: Octillion (n.) According to the French method of numeration (which method is followed also in the United States) the number expressed by a unit with twenty-seven ciphers annexed. According to the English method, the number expressed by a unit with forty-eight ciphers annexed. See Numeration..

Hurry-skurry :: Hurry-skurry (adv.) Confusedly; in a bustle.

Day-star :: Day-star (n.) The morning star; the star which ushers in the day.

Abbreviator :: Abbreviator (n.) One of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal court whose duty is to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official form..

Story-writer :: Story-writer (n.) One who writes short stories, as for magazines..

Housewarming :: Housewarming (n.) A feast or merry-making made by or for a family or business firm on taking possession of a new house or premises.

Bourdon :: Bourdon (n.) A drone bass, as in a bagpipe, or a hurdy-gurdy. See Burden (of a song.).

Easy-going :: Easy-going (a.) Moving easily; hence, mild-tempered; ease-loving; inactive..

Jackpudding :: Jackpudding (n.) A merry-andrew; a buffoon.

Sixtieth :: Sixtieth (n.) The next in order after the fifty-ninth; the tenth after the fiftieth.

Horny-handed :: Horny-handed (a.) Having the hands horny and callous from labor.

Why-not :: Why-not (n.) A violent and peremptory procedure without any assigned reason; a sudden conclusive happening.

Anagram :: Anagram (n.) Literally, the letters of a word read backwards, but in its usual wider sense, the change or one word or phrase into another by the transposition of its letters. Thus Galenus becomes angelus; William Noy (attorney-general to Charles I., and a laborious man) may be turned into I moyl in law..

Monkey-bread :: Monkey-bread (n.) The fruit of the Adansonia digitata; also, the tree. See Adansonia..

Hoplite :: Hoplite (n.) A heavy-armed infantry soldier.

Keel :: Keel (n.) A barge or lighter, used on the Type for carrying coal from Newcastle; also, a barge load of coal, twenty-one tons, four cwt..

Tierce :: Tierce (n.) A cask whose content is one third of a pipe; that is, forty-two wine gallons; also, a liquid measure of forty-two wine, or thirty-five imperial, gallons..

Party-coated :: Party-coated (a.) Having a motley coat, or coat of divers colors..

Mouthed :: Mouthed (a.) Having a mouth of a particular kind; using the mouth, speech, or voice in a particular way; -- used only in composition; as, wide-mouthed; hard-mouthed; foul-mouthed; mealy-mouthed..

Lady-killing :: Lady-killing (n.) The art or practice of captivating the hearts of women.