Ya´men, lord and potentate of Pandălon (hell).--Hindû Mythology.
What worse than this hath Yamen’s hell in store?
Southey, Curse of Kehama, ii. (1809).
Yar´ico, a young Indian maiden with whom Thomas Inkle fell in love. After living with her as his wife, he despicably sold her in Barbadoes as a slave.
⁂ The story is told by Sir Richard Steele in The Spectator, 11; and has been dramatized by George Colman under the title of Inkle and Yarico (1787).
Yarrow (The Flower of). Mary Scott was so called.
Yathreb, the ancient name of Medīna.
When a party of them said, “O, inhabitants of Yathreb, there is no place of security for you here, wherefore return home;” a part of them asked leave of the prophet to depart.--Al Korân, xxxiii.
Yeardley (Lady), an Englishwoman, living in the American colonies, receives on Christmas Eve as a guest, an Indian, who brings his four-year-old boy “to be made like English children.” The lady takes her dark-skinned visitors to church next day, and a tumult arises that the Indian father is a spy. A rush is made upon him, but Lady Yeardley shields the chief, claiming him as her guest.
“They dropped, at her word, their weapons,