yarrow
         n 1: ubiquitous strong-scented mat-forming Eurasian herb of
               wasteland, hedgerow or pasture having narrow serrate leaves
               and small usually white florets; widely naturalized in
               North America [syn: {yarrow}, {milfoil}, {Achillea
               millefolium}]

English Dictionary: yr	by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
year n a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days; "she is 4 years old"; "in the year 1920" Synonym(s): year, twelvemonth, yr a period of time occupying a regular part of a calendar year that is used for some particular activity; "a school year" the period of time that it takes for a planet (as, e.g., Earth or Mars) to make a complete revolution around the sun; "a Martian year takes 687 of our days" a body of students who graduate together; "the class of '97"; "she was in my year at Hoehandle High" Synonym(s): class, year
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
yore n time long past
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
yr n a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days; "she is 4 years old"; "in the year 1920" Synonym(s): year, twelvemonth, yr
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Yare \Yare\, a. [OE. yare, [f4]aru, AS. gearu; akin to OS. garu,       OHG. garo, G. gar, Icel. gerr perfect, g[94]rva quite, G.       gerben to tan, to curry, OHG. garawen, garwen, to make ready.       Cf. {Carouse}, {Garb} clothing, {Gear}, n.]       Ready; dexterous; eager; lively; quick to move. [Obs.] [bd]Be       yare in thy preparation.[b8] --Shak.                   The lesser [ship] will come and go, leave or take, and                is yare; whereas the greater is slow.      --Sir W.                                                                               Raleigh.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Yare \Yare\, adv.       Soon. [Obs.] --Cursor Mundi.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Yarr \Yarr\, v. i. [OE. [f4]arren.]       To growl or snarl as a dog. [Obs.] --Ainsworth.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Yarrow \Yar"row\, n. [OE. yarowe, yarwe, [f4]arowe, AS. gearwe;       akin to D. gerw, OHG. garwa, garawa, G. garbe, schafgarbe,       and perhaps to E. yare.] (Bot.)       An American and European composite plant ({Achillea       Millefolium}) with very finely dissected leaves and small       white corymbed flowers. It has a strong, and somewhat       aromatic, odor and taste, and is sometimes used in making       beer, or is dried for smoking. Called also {milfoil}, and       {nosebleed}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Year \Year\, n. [OE. yer, yeer, [f4]er, AS. ge[a0]r; akin to       OFries. i[?]r, g[?]r, D. jaar, OHG. j[be]r, G. jahr, Icel.       [be]r, Dan. aar, Sw. [86]r, Goth. j[?]r, Gr. [?] a season of       the year, springtime, a part of the day, an hour, [?] a year,       Zend y[be]re year. [root]4, 279. Cf. {Hour}, {Yore}.]       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}).                         Of twenty year of age he was, I guess. --Chaucer.          Note: 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.          2. The time in which any planet completes a revolution about             the sun; as, the year of Jupiter or of Saturn.          3. pl. Age, or old age; as, a man in years. --Shak.          {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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sidereal \Si*de"re*al\, a. [L. sidereus, from sidus, sideris, a       constellation, a star. Cf. {Sideral}, {Consider}, {Desire}.]       1. Relating to the stars; starry; astral; as, sidereal             astronomy.          2. (Astron.) Measuring by the apparent motion of the stars;             designated, marked out, or accompanied, by a return to the             same position in respect to the stars; as, the sidereal             revolution of a planet; a sidereal day.          {Sidereal clock}, {day}, {month}, {year}. See under {Clock},             {Day}, etc.          {Sideral time}, time as reckoned by sideral days, or, taking             the sidereal day as the unit, the time elapsed since a             transit of the vernal equinox, reckoned in parts of a             sidereal day. This is, strictly, apparent sidereal time,             mean sidereal time being reckoned from the transit, not of             the true, but of the mean, equinoctial point.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sothiac \So"thi*ac\, Sothic \Soth"ic\, a.       Of or pertaining to Sothis, the Egyptian name for the Dog       Star; taking its name from the Dog Star; canicular.          {Sothiac}, [or] {Sothic}, {year} (Chronol.), the Egyptian             year of 365 days and 6 hours, as distinguished from the             Egyptian vague year, which contained 365 days. The Sothic             period consists of 1,460 Sothic years, being equal to             1,461 vague years. One of these periods ended in July, a.             d. 139.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Year \Year\, n. [OE. yer, yeer, [f4]er, AS. ge[a0]r; akin to       OFries. i[?]r, g[?]r, D. jaar, OHG. j[be]r, G. jahr, Icel.       [be]r, Dan. aar, Sw. [86]r, Goth. j[?]r, Gr. [?] a season of       the year, springtime, a part of the day, an hour, [?] a year,       Zend y[be]re year. [root]4, 279. Cf. {Hour}, {Yore}.]       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}).                         Of twenty year of age he was, I guess. --Chaucer.          Note: 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.          2. The time in which any planet completes a revolution about             the sun; as, the year of Jupiter or of Saturn.          3. pl. Age, or old age; as, a man in years. --Shak.          {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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sidereal \Si*de"re*al\, a. [L. sidereus, from sidus, sideris, a       constellation, a star. Cf. {Sideral}, {Consider}, {Desire}.]       1. Relating to the stars; starry; astral; as, sidereal             astronomy.          2. (Astron.) Measuring by the apparent motion of the stars;             designated, marked out, or accompanied, by a return to the             same position in respect to the stars; as, the sidereal             revolution of a planet; a sidereal day.          {Sidereal clock}, {day}, {month}, {year}. See under {Clock},             {Day}, etc.          {Sideral time}, time as reckoned by sideral days, or, taking             the sidereal day as the unit, the time elapsed since a             transit of the vernal equinox, reckoned in parts of a             sidereal day. This is, strictly, apparent sidereal time,             mean sidereal time being reckoned from the transit, not of             the true, but of the mean, equinoctial point.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sothiac \So"thi*ac\, Sothic \Soth"ic\, a.       Of or pertaining to Sothis, the Egyptian name for the Dog       Star; taking its name from the Dog Star; canicular.          {Sothiac}, [or] {Sothic}, {year} (Chronol.), the Egyptian             year of 365 days and 6 hours, as distinguished from the             Egyptian vague year, which contained 365 days. The Sothic             period consists of 1,460 Sothic years, being equal to             1,461 vague years. One of these periods ended in July, a.             d. 139.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Yeara \Ye*a"ra\, n. (Bot.)       The California poison oak ({Rhus diversiloba}). See under       {Poison}, a.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Yer \Yer\, prep.       Ere; before. [Obs.] --Sylvester.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Yore \Yore\ (y[omac]r), adv. [OE. [yogh]ore, yare, [yogh]are,       AS. ge[a0]ra;akin to ge[a0]r a year, E. year. [root]204. See       {Year}.]       In time long past; in old time; long since. [Obs. or Poetic]                   As it hath been of olde times yore.         --Chaucer.                   Which though he hath polluted oft and yore, Yet I to                them for judgment just do fly.               --Spenser.          {Of yore}, of old time; long ago; as, in times or days of             yore. [bd]But Satan now is wiser than of yore.[b8] --Pope.                         Where Abraham fed his flock of yore.   --Keble.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
You \You\ ([umac]), pron. [Possess. {Your} ([umac]r) or {Yours}       ([umac]rz); dat. & obj. {You}.] [OE. you, eou, eow, dat. &       acc., AS. e[a2]w, used as dat. & acc. of ge, g[emac], ye;       akin to OFries. iu, io, D. u, G. euch, OHG. iu, dat., iuwih,       acc., Icel. y[edh]r, dat. & acc., Goth. izwis; of uncertain       origin. [root]189. Cf. {Your}.]       The pronoun of the second person, in the nominative, dative,       and objective case, indicating the person or persons       addressed. See the Note under {Ye}.                   Ye go to Canterbury; God you speed.         --Chaucer.                   Good sir, I do in friendship counsel you To leave this                place.                                                   --Shak.                   In vain you tell your parting lover You wish fair winds                may waft him over.                                 --Prior.          Note: Though you is properly a plural, it is in all ordinary                discourse used also in addressing a single person, yet                properly always with a plural verb. [bd]Are you he that                hangs the verses on the trees, wherein Rosalind is so                admired ?[b8] --Shak. You and your are sometimes used                indefinitely, like we, they, one, to express persons                not specified. [bd]The looks at a distance like a                new-plowed land; but as you come near it, you see                nothing but a long heap of heavy, disjointed clods.[b8]                --Addison. [bd]Your medalist and critic are much nearer                related than the world imagine.[b8] --Addison. [bd]It                is always pleasant to be forced to do what you wish to                do, but what, until pressed, you dare not attempt.[b8]                --Hook. You is often used reflexively for yourself of                yourselves. [bd]Your highness shall repose you at the                tower.[b8] --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Your \Your\ ([umac]r), pron. & a. [OE. your, [yogh]our, eowr,       eower, AS. e[a2]wer, originally used as the gen. of ge,       g[c7], ye; akin to OFries. iuwer your, OS. iuwar, D. uw, OHG.       iuw[c7]r, G. euer, Icel. y[eb]ar, Goth. izwara, izwar, and E.       you. [fb]189. See {You}.]       The form of the possessive case of the personal pronoun you.          Note: The possessive takes the form yours when the noun to                which it refers is not expressed, but implied; as, this                book is yours. [bd]An old fellow of yours.[b8]                --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Thou \Thou\, pron. [Sing.: nom. {Thou}; poss. {Thy}or {Thine};       obj. {Thee}. Pl.: nom. {You}; poss. {Your}or {Yours}; obj.       {You}.] [OE. thou, [thorn]u, AS. [edh][umac], [edh]u; akin to       OS. & OFries. thu, G., Dan. & Sw. du, Icel. [thorn][umac],       Goth. [thorn]u, Russ. tui, Ir. & Gael. tu, W. ti, L. tu, Gr.       sy`, Dor. ty`, Skr. tvam. [fb]185. Cf. {Thee}, {Thine}, {Te       Deum}.]       The second personal pronoun, in the singular number, denoting       the person addressed; thyself; the pronoun which is used in       addressing persons in the solemn or poetical style.                   Art thou he that should come?                  --Matt. xi. 3.          Note: [bd]In Old English, generally, thou is the language of                a lord to a servant, of an equal to an equal, and                expresses also companionship, love, permission,                defiance, scorn, threatening: whilst ye is the language                of a servant to a lord, and of compliment, and further                expresses honor, submission, or entreaty.[b8] --Skeat.          Note: Thou is now sometimes used by the Friends, or Quakers,                in familiar discourse, though most of them corruptly                say thee instead of thou.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ywar \Y*war"\, a. [See {Aware}.]       Aware; wary. [Obs.] [bd]Be ywar, and his way shun.[b8]       --Piers Plowman.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
Year 2000          (Y2K, or "millennium bug") A common name for all       the difficulties the turn of the century, or dates in general,       bring to computer users.          Back in the 1970s and 1980s, the turn of the century looked so       remote and memory/disk was so expensive that most programs       stored only the last two digits of the year.   These produce       surprising results when dealing with dates after 1999.   They       may believe that 1 January 2000 is before 31 December 1999       (00<99), they may miscalculate the day of week, etc.   Some       programs used the year 99 as a special marker; there are       rumours that some car insurance policies were cancelled       because a year of 99 was used to mark deleted records.          Complete testing of date-dependent code is virtually       impossible, especially where the system under test relies on       other systems such as customers' or suppliers' computers.       Despite this, the predicted "millennium meltdown" never       occurred.   Various fixes and work-arounds were successfully       applied, e.g. {time shifting}.          And yes, the year 2000 was a leap year (multiples of 100       aren't leap years unless they're also multiples of 400).          {PPR Corp Y2K FAQ       (http://www.pprcorp.com/y2k/y2kfaq_j97.html)}.          (2003-08-15)
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Year       Heb. shanah, meaning "repetition" or "revolution" (Gen. 1:14;       5:3). Among the ancient Egyptians the year consisted of twelve       months of thirty days each, with five days added to make it a       complete revolution of the earth round the sun. The Jews       reckoned the year in two ways, (1) according to a sacred       calendar, in which the year began about the time of the vernal       equinox, with the month Abib; and (2) according to a civil       calendar, in which the year began about the time of the autumnal       equinox, with the month Nisan. The month Tisri is now the       beginning of the Jewish year.