pron. [ OE. ye, &yogh_;e, nom. pl., AS. ge, gī; cf. OS. ge, gī, OFries. gī, ī, D. gij, Dan. & Sw. i, Icel. ēr, OHG. ir, G. ihr, Goth. jus, Lith. jus, Gr. "ymei^s, Skr. yuyam. √189.] The plural of the pronoun of the second person in the nominative case. [1913 Webster]

Ye ben to me right welcome heartily. Chaucer. [1913 Webster]

But ye are washed, but ye are sanctified. 1 Cor. vi. 11. [1913 Webster]

This would cost you your life in case ye were a man. Udall. [1913 Webster]

☞ In Old English ye was used only as a nominative, and you only as a dative or objective. In the 16th century, however, ye and you became confused and were often used interchangeably, both as nominatives and objectives, and you has now superseded ye except in solemn or poetic use. See You, and also the first Note under Thou. [1913 Webster]

Vain pomp and glory of this world, I hate ye. Shak. [1913 Webster]

I come, kind gentlemen, strange news to tell ye. Dryden. [1913 Webster]

adv. [ See Yea. ] Yea; yes. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , an old method of printing the article the (AS. þe), the “y” being used in place of the Anglo-Saxon thorn (þ). It is sometimes incorrectly pronounced See The, and Thorn, n., 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Yën An eye. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

From his yën ran the water down. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An affirmative vote; one who votes in the affirmative; as, a vote by yeas and nays. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In the Scriptures, yea is used as a sign of certainty or stability. “All the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen.” 2 Cor. i. 20. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ OE. ye, ya, &yogh_;e, &yogh_;a, AS. geá; akin to OFries. gē, iē, OS., D., OHG., G., Dan. & Sw. ja, Icel, jā, Goth. ja, jai, and probably to Gr. "h^ truly, verily. √188. Cf. Yes.] [1913 Webster]

1. Yes; ay; a word expressing assent, or an affirmative, or an affirmative answer to a question, now superseded by yes. See Yes. [1913 Webster]

Let your communication be yea, yea; nay, nay. Matt. v. 37. [1913 Webster]

2. More than this; not only so, but; -- used to mark the addition of a more specific or more emphatic clause. Cf. Nay, adv., 2. [1913 Webster]

I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice. Phil. i. 18. [1913 Webster]

☞ Yea sometimes introduces a clause, with the sense of indeed, verily, truly. “Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?” Gen. iii. 1. [1913 Webster]

v. i. Properly, a variant of the defective imperfect yode, but sometimes mistaken for a present. See the Note under Yede. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Years yead away and faces fair deflower. Drant. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ imp. & p. p. Yeaned p. pr. & vb. n. Yeaning. ] [ AS. eánian, or geeánian; perhaps akin to E. ewe, or perhaps to L. agnus, Gr. &unr_;. Cf. Ean. ] To bring forth young, as a goat or a sheep; to ean. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Yean + -ling. Cf. Eanling. ] A lamb or a kid; an eanling. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. yer, yeer, &yogh_;er, AS. geár; akin to OFries. i&unr_;r, g&unr_;r, D. jaar, OHG. jār, G. jahr, Icel. ār, Dan. aar, Sw. år, Goth. j&unr_;r, Gr. &unr_; a season of the year, springtime, a part of the day, an hour, &unr_; a year, Zend yāre year. √4, 279. Cf. Hour, Yore. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The time of the apparent revolution of the sun trough the ecliptic; the period occupied by the earth in making its revolution around the sun, called the astronomical year; also, a period more or less nearly agreeing with this, adopted by various nations as a measure of time, and called the civil year; as, the common lunar year of 354 days, still in use among the Mohammedans; the year of 360 days, etc. In common usage, the year consists of 365 days, and every fourth year (called bissextile, or leap year) of 366 days, a day being added to February on that year, on account of the excess above 365 days (see Bissextile). [ 1913 Webster ]

Of twenty year of age he was, I guess. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The civil, or legal, year, in England, formerly commenced on the 25th of March. This practice continued throughout the British dominions till the year 1752. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The time in which any planet completes a revolution about the sun; as, the year of Jupiter or of Saturn. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. pl. Age, or old age; as, a man in years. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Anomalistic year, the time of the earth's revolution from perihelion to perihelion again, which is 365 days, 6 hours, 13 minutes, and 48 seconds. --
A year's mind (Eccl.), a commemoration of a deceased person, as by a Mass, a year after his death. Cf. A month's mind, under Month. --
Bissextile year. See Bissextile. --
Canicular year. See under Canicular. --
Civil year, the year adopted by any nation for the computation of time. --
Common lunar year, the period of 12 lunar months, or 354 days. --
Common year, each year of 365 days, as distinguished from leap year. --
Embolismic year, or
Intercalary lunar year, the period of 13 lunar months, or 384 days. --
Fiscal year (Com.), the year by which accounts are reckoned, or the year between one annual time of settlement, or balancing of accounts, and another. --
Great year. See Platonic year, under Platonic. --
Gregorian year,
Julian year. See under Gregorian, and Julian. --
Leap year. See Leap year, in the Vocabulary. --
Lunar astronomical year, the period of 12 lunar synodical months, or 354 days, 8 hours, 48 minutes, 36 seconds. --
Lunisolar year. See under Lunisolar. --
Periodical year. See Anomalistic year, above. --
Platonic year,
Sabbatical year. See under Platonic, and Sabbatical. --
Sidereal year, the time in which the sun, departing from any fixed star, returns to the same. This is 365 days, 6 hours, 9 minutes, and 9.3 seconds. --
Tropical year. See under Tropical. --
Year and a day (O. Eng. Law), a time to be allowed for an act or an event, in order that an entire year might be secured beyond all question. Abbott. --
Year of grace, any year of the Christian era; Anno Domini; A. D. or a. d. [ 1913 Webster ]