beginning
with
X
are
Grecian
and
will
not
be
defined
in
this
standard
English
dictionary
Y
YANKEE
n
In
Europe
an
American
In
the
Northern
States
of
our
Union
a
New
Englander
In
the
Southern
States
the
word
is
unknown
See
DAMNYANK
YEAR
n
A
period
of
three
hundred
and
sixty
five
disappointments
YESTERDAY
n
The
infancy
of
youth
the
youth
of
manhood
the
entire
past
of
age
But
yesterday
I
should
have
thought
me
blest
To
stand
high
pinnacled
upon
the
peak
Of
middle
life
and
look
adown
the
bleak
And
unfamiliar
foreslope
to
the
West
Where
solemn
shadows
all
the
land
invest
And
stilly
voices
half
remembered
speak
Unfinished
prophecy
and
witch
fires
freak
The
haunted
twilight
of
the
Dark
of
Rest
Yea
yesterday
my
soul
was
all
aflame
To
stay
the
shadow
on
the
dial
s
face
At
manhood
s
noonmark
Now
in
God
His
name
I
chide
aloud
the
little
interspace
Disparting
me
from
Certitude
and
fain
Would
know
the
dream
and
vision
ne
er
again
Baruch
Arnegriff
It
is
said
that
in
his
last
illness
the
poet
Arnegriff
was
attended
at
different
times
by
seven
doctors
YOKE
n
An
implement
madam
to
whose
Latin
name
jugum
we
owe
one
of
the
most
illuminating
words
in
our
language
a
word
that
defines
the
matrimonial
situation
with
precision
point
and
poignancy
A
thousand
apologies
for
withholding
it
YOUTH
n
The
Period
of
Possibility
when
Archimedes
finds
a
fulcrum
Cassandra
has
a
following
and
seven
cities
compete
for
the
honor
of
endowing
a
living
Homer
Youth
is
the
true
Saturnian
Reign
the
Golden
Age
on
earth
again
when
figs
are
grown
on
thistles
and
pigs
betailed
with
whistles
and
wearing
silken
bristles
live
ever
in
clover
and
cows
fly
over
delivering
milk
at
every
door
and
Justice
never
is
heard
to
snore
and
every
assassin
is
made
a
ghost
and
howling
is
cast
into
Baltimost
Polydore
Smith
Z
ZANY
n
A
popular
character
in
old
Italian
plays
who
imitated
with
ludicrous
incompetence
the
buffone
or
clown
and
was
therefore
the
ape
of
an
ape
for
the
clown
himself
imitated
the
serious
characters
of
the
play
The
zany
was
progenitor
to
the
specialist
in
humor
as
we
to
day
have
the
unhappiness
to
know
him
In
the
zany
we
see
an
example
of
creation
in
the
humorist
of
transmission
Another
excellent
specimen
of
the
modern
zany
is
the
curate
who
apes
the
rector
who
apes
the
bishop
who
apes
the
archbishop
who
apes
the
devil
ZANZIBARI
n
An
inhabitant
of
the
Sultanate
of
Zanzibar
off
the
eastern
coast
of
Africa
The
Zanzibaris
a
warlike
people
are
best
known
in
this
country
through
a
threatening
diplomatic
incident
that
occurred
a
few
years
ago
The
American
consul
at
the
capital
occupied
a
dwelling
that
faced
the
sea
with
a
sandy
beach
between
Greatly
to
the
scandal
of
this
official
s
family
and
against
repeated
remonstrances
of
the
official
himself
the
people
of
the
city
persisted
in
using
the
beach
for
bathing
One
day
a
woman
came
down
to
the
edge
of
the
water
and
was
stooping
to
remove
her
attire
a
pair
of
sandals
when
the
consul
incensed
beyond
restraint
fired
a
charge
of
bird
shot
into
the
most
conspicuous
part
of
her
person
Unfortunately
for
the
existing
entente
cordiale
between
two
great
nations
she
was
the
Sultana
ZEAL
n
A
certain
nervous
disorder
afflicting
the
young
and
inexperienced
A
passion
that
goeth
before
a
sprawl
When
Zeal
sought
Gratitude
for
his
reward
He
went
away
exclaiming
O
my
Lord
What
do
you
want
the
Lord
asked
bending
down
An
ointment
for
my
cracked
and
bleeding
crown
Jum
Coople
ZENITH
n
The
point
in
the
heavens
directly
overhead
to
a
man
standing
or
a
growing
cabbage
A
man
in
bed
or
a
cabbage
in
the
pot
is
not
considered
as
having
a
zenith
though
from
this
view
of
the
matter
there
was
once
a
considerably
dissent
among
the
learned
some
holding
that
the
posture
of
the
body
was
immaterial
These
were
called
Horizontalists
their
opponents
Verticalists
The
Horizontalist
heresy
was
finally
extinguished
by
Xanobus
the
philosopher
king
of
Abara
a
zealous
Verticalist
Entering
an
assembly
of
philosophers
who
were
debating
the
matter
he
cast
a
severed
human
head
at
the
feet
of
his
opponents
and
asked
them
to
determine
its
zenith
explaining
that
its
body
was
hanging
by
the
heels
outside
Observing
that
it
was
the
head
of
their
leader
the
Horizontalists
hastened
to
profess
themselves
converted
to
whatever
opinion
the
Crown
might
be
pleased
to
hold
and
Horizontalism
took
its
place
among
fides
defuncti
ZEUS
n
The
chief
of
Grecian
gods
adored
by
the
Romans
as
Jupiter
and
by
the
modern
Americans
as
God
Gold
Mob
and
Dog
Some
explorers
who
have
touched
upon
the
shores
of
America
and
one
who
professes
to
have
penetrated
a
considerable
distance
to
the
interior
have
thought
that
these
four
names
stand
for
as
many
distinct
deities
but
in
his
monumental
work
on
Surviving
Faiths
Frumpp
insists
that
the
natives
are
monotheists
each
having
no
other
god
than
himself
whom
he
worships
under
many
sacred
names
ZIGZAG
v
t
To
move
forward
uncertainly
from
side
to
side
as
one
carrying
the
white
man
s
burden
From
zed
z
and
jag
an
Icelandic
word
of
unknown
meaning
He
zedjagged
so
uncomen
wyde
Thet
non
coude
pas
on
eyder
syde
So
to
com
saufly
thruh
I
been
Constreynet
for
to
doodge
betwene
Munwele
ZOOLOGY
n
The
science
and
history
of
the
animal
kingdom
including
its
king
the
House
Fly
Musca
maledicta
The
father
of
Zoology
was
Aristotle
as
is
universally
conceded
but
the
name
of
its
mother
has
not
come
down
to
us
Two
of
the
science
s
most
illustrious
expounders
were
Buffon
and
Oliver
Goldsmith
from
both
of
whom
we
learn
L
Histoire
generale
des
animaux
and
A
History
of
Animated
Nature
that
the
domestic
cow
sheds
its
horn
every
two
years
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