TO YELP. To cry out. Yelper; a town cryer, also one apt to make great complaints on trifling occasions.
YEST. A contraction of yesterday.
YOKED. Married. A yoke; the quantum of labour performed at one spell by husbandmen, the day's work being divided in summer into three yokes. Kentish term.
YORKSHIRE TYKE. A Yorkshire clown. To come Yorkshire over any one; to cheat him.
YOUNG ONE. A familiar expression of contempt for another's ignorance, as "ah! I see you're a young one." How d'ye do, young one?
TO YOWL. To cry aloud, or howl.
ZAD. Crooked like the letter Z. He is a mere zad, or perhaps zed; a description of a very crooked or deformed person.
ZANY. The jester, jack pudding, or merry andrew, to a
mountebank.
ZEDLAND. Great part of the west country, where the
letter Z is substituted for S; as zee for see, zun for sun,