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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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Decoy-man :: Decoy-man (n.) A man employed in decoying wild fowl.

By-corner :: By-corner (n.) A private corner.

Slopshop :: Slopshop (n.) A shop where slops. or ready-made clothes, are sold..

Quinoidine :: Quinoidine (n.) A brownish resinous substance obtained as a by-product in the treatment of cinchona bark. It consists of a mixture of several alkaloids.

Adolescence :: Adolescence (n.) The state of growing up from childhood to manhood or womanhood; youth, or the period of life between puberty and maturity, generally considered to be, in the male sex, from fourteen to twenty-one. Sometimes used with reference to the lower animals..

Sextillion :: Sextillion (n.) According to the method of numeration (which is followed also in the United States), the number expressed by a unit with twenty-one ciphers annexed. According to the English method, a million raised to the sixth power, or the number expressed by a unit with thirty-six ciphers annexed. See Numeration..

Rouly-pouly :: Rouly-pouly (n.) See Rolly-pooly.

Highty-tighty :: Highty-tighty (a.) Hoity-toity.

Maypole :: Maypole (n.) A tall pole erected in an open place and wreathed with flowers, about which the rustic May-day sports were had..

Scorpio :: Scorpio (n.) The eighth sign of the zodiac, which the sun enters about the twenty-third day of October, marked thus [/] in almanacs..

Septuagint :: Septuagint (n.) A Greek version of the Old Testament; -- so called because it was believed to be the work of seventy (or rather of seventy-two) translators.

Namby-pamby :: Namby-pamby (n.) Talk or writing which is weakly sentimental or affectedly pretty.

Jerry-built :: "Jerry-built (a.) Built hastily and of bad materials; as, jerry-built houses..

Fancy-sick :: Fancy-sick (a.) Love-sick.

Y- :: Y- () Alt. of I.

Parti-colored :: Parti-colored (a.) Colored with different tints; variegated; as, a party-colored flower..

Ditty-box :: Ditty-box (n.) A small box to hold a sailor's thread, needless, comb, etc..

Carolus :: Carolus (n.) An English gold coin of the value of twenty or twenty-three shillings. It was first struck in the reign of Charles I.

Heavy-haded :: Heavy-haded (a.) Clumsy; awkward.

Ypsiloid :: Ypsiloid (a.) In the form of the letter Y; Y-shaped.