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   yarn-dye
         v 1: dye (fabric) before it is spun [syn: {impress}, {yarn-dye}]

English Dictionary: year-round by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
year-end
adj
  1. taking place at the close of a fiscal year; "year-end audit"
n
  1. the end of a calendar year; "he had to unload the merchandise before the year-end"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
year-round
adj
  1. operating or continuing throughout the year; "a year- round resort"; "a year-round job"
    Synonym(s): year-round, year-around
    Antonym(s): seasonal
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
yearned-for
adj
  1. greatly desired [syn: longed-for, wished-for, yearned-for]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Yerwa-Maiduguri
n
  1. a city in northeastern Nigeria; an agricultural trading center
    Synonym(s): Maiduguri, Yerwa-Maiduguri
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Yarnut \Yar"nut`\, n. (Bot.)
      See {Yernut}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Yernut \Yer"nut`\, n. [Cf. Dan. jordn[94]d, Sw. jordn[94]t,
      earthnut. Cf. {Jarnut}.]
      An earthnut, or groundnut. See {Groundnut}
      (d) . [Written also {yarnut}.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Yarnut \Yar"nut`\, n. (Bot.)
      See {Yernut}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Yernut \Yer"nut`\, n. [Cf. Dan. jordn[94]d, Sw. jordn[94]t,
      earthnut. Cf. {Jarnut}.]
      An earthnut, or groundnut. See {Groundnut}
      (d) . [Written also {yarnut}.]

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]:
   Yearn \Yearn\ (y[etil]rn), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Yearned}; p. pr.
      & vb. n. {Yearning}.] [Also earn, ern; probably a corruption
      of OE. ermen to grieve, AS. ierman, yrman, or geierman,
      geyrman, fr. earm wretched, poor; akin to D. & G. arm, Icel.
      armr, Goth. arms. The y- in English is perhaps due to the AS.
      ge (see {Y-}).]
      To pain; to grieve; to vex. [Obs.] [bd]She laments, sir, for
      it, that it would yearn your heart to see it.[b8] --Shak.
  
               It yearns me not if men my garments wear. --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Yernut \Yer"nut`\, n. [Cf. Dan. jordn[94]d, Sw. jordn[94]t,
      earthnut. Cf. {Jarnut}.]
      An earthnut, or groundnut. See {Groundnut}
      (d) . [Written also {yarnut}.]

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Yarmouth, IA
      Zip code(s): 52660
   Yarmouth, ME (CDP, FIPS 87810)
      Location: 43.79618 N, 70.20054 W
      Population (1990): 3338 (1327 housing units)
      Area: 6.7 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 04096

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Yarmouth Port, MA (CDP, FIPS 82595)
      Location: 41.70945 N, 70.22888 W
      Population (1990): 4271 (2546 housing units)
      Area: 15.7 sq km (land), 1.1 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 02675

From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
   You are not expected to understand this [Unix] cav.   The
   canonical comment describing something {magic} or too complicated to
   bother explaining properly.   From an infamous comment in the
   context-switching code of the V6 Unix kernel.   Dennis Ritchie has
   explained this in detail
   (http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/odd.html).
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   You are not expected to understand this
  
      [Unix] The canonical comment describing something {magic} or
      too complicated to bother explaining properly.   From an
      infamous comment in the context-switching code of the V6
      {Unix} {kernel}.
  
      [{Jargon File}]
  
  
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