YAW-YAW. A nickname for the seamen of the shores of the Baltic.
YEAR. The duration of the earth's revolution round the sun, or of the apparent revolution of the sun in the ecliptic.
YELL. An old sea-term to express a rolling motion.
YELLOW ADMIRAL. A retired post-captain, who, not having served his time in that rank, is not entitled to his promotion to the active flag.
YELLOW-BELLY. A name given to a person born in the fens along our eastern shores: also occasionally to half-castes, &c.
YELLOW FEVER. A cant term for drunkenness at Greenwich Hospital; the sailors when punished wearing a parti-coloured coat, in which yellow predominates.
YELLOW-FLAG. The signal of quarantine.
YELLOWING. The passing over of captains at a flag promotion.
YELLOW-TAIL. A well-known tropical fish, often in company with whip-rays; it is about 4 feet long, with a great head, large eyes, and many fins. Leiostomas.
YEO-HEAVE-YEOING. The chant or noise made at the windlass and purchase-falls in a merchantman, to cheer and lighten labour, but not permitted in a man-of-war.