n. 1. delicate California annual having blue flowers marked with dark spots.
Syn. -- baby blue-eyes, Nemophila menziesii [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. the class of fishes comprising the cartilaginous fishes, which includes the sharks.
Syn. -- class Chondrichthyes. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. pl. [ F. claie hurdle. ] (Fort.) Wattles, or hurdles, made with stakes interwoven with osiers, to cover lodgments. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A material used for dyeing. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; suppuration. ] (Med.) An eruption of pustules. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Ointment for the eye. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A servant who attends faithfully to his duty only when watched. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Service performed only under inspection, or the eye of an employer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers. Col. iii. 22. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a cosmetic powder or cream of a dark tint, applied on the eyelids or just under the eyebrows to accentuate the eyes. Compare eyeliner. [ PJC ]

n. Range, reach, or glance of the eye; view; sight; as, to be out of eyeshot. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Sight of the eye; the sense of seeing; view; observation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Josephus sets this down from his own eyesight. Bp. Wilkins. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Something offensive to the eye or sight; a blemish. [ 1913 Webster ]

Mordecai was an eyesore to Haman. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zoöl.) One of the movable peduncles which, in the decapod Crustacea, bear the eyes at the tip. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A small, lenticular, calcareous body, esp. an operculum of a small marine shell of the family Turbinidæ, used to remove a foreign substance from the eye. It is put into the inner corner of the eye under the lid, and allowed to work its way out at the outer corner, bringing with it the substance. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Min.) Eye agate. See under Eye. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The tendon by which the eye is moved. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The lamprey. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. See Paleo-, and Ichthyology. ] (Zool.) A comprehensive division of fishes which includes the elasmobranchs and ganoids. [ Written also Palæichthyes. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Thrice. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ OE. yis, &yogh_;is, &yogh_;es, &yogh_;ise, AS. gese, gise; probably fr. geá yea + swā so. √188. See Yea, and So. ] Ay; yea; -- a word which expresses affirmation or consent; -- opposed to no. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Yes is used, like yea, to enforce, by repetition or addition, something which precedes; as, you have done all this -- yes, you have done more. “Yes, you despise the man books confined.” Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ “The fine distinction between ‘yea' and ‘yes, ' ‘nay' and ‘no, ' that once existed in English, has quite disappeared. ‘Yea' and ‘nay' in Wyclif's time, and a good deal later, were the answers to questions framed in the affirmative. ‘Will he come?' To this it would have been replied, ‘Yea' or ‘Nay', as the case might be. But, ‘Will he not come?' To this the answer would have been ‘Yes' or ‘No.' Sir Thomas More finds fault with Tyndale, that in his translation of the Bible he had not observed this distinction, which was evidently therefore going out even then, that is, in the reign of Henry VIII.; and shortly after it was quite forgotten.” Trench. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Yeast. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Yesterday. ] Last; last past; next before; of or pertaining to yesterday. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ An enemy ] whom yester sun beheld
Mustering her charms. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This word is now seldom used except in a few compounds; as, yesterday, yesternight, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. &yogh_;isterdai, AS. geostran dæg, from geostran, geostra, giestran, gistran, gystran, yesterday (akin to D. gisteren, G. gestern, OHG. gestaron, Icel. gær yesterday, to-morrow, Goth. gistradagis to-morrow, L. heri yesterday, Gr. &unr_;, Skr. hyas) + dæg day. Cf. Hestern. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The day last past; the day next before the present. [ 1913 Webster ]

All our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

We are but of yesterday, and know nothing. Job viii. 9. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fig.: A recent time; time not long past. [ 1913 Webster ]

The proudest royal houses are but of yesterday, when compared with the line of supreme pontiffs. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. On the day last past; on the day preceding to-day; as, the affair took place yesterday. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. The evening of yesterday; the evening last past. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. The morning of yesterday. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Yester. ] Of or pertaining to yesterday; relating to the day last past. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The last night; the night last past. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ AS. gystran niht. See Yesterday. ] On the last night. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The noon of yesterday; the noon last past. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The week last past; last week. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The year last past; last year. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Yester-evening; yesternight; last night. [ R. or Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Yestreen I did not know
How largely I could live. Bp. Coxe. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Yeasty. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]