Crossword clues for yawning
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Yawn \Yawn\ (y[add]n), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Yawned; p. pr. & vb. n. Yawning.] [OE. yanien, [yogh]anien, ganien, gonien, AS. g[=a]nian; akin to ginian to yawn, g[=i]nan to yawn, open wide, G. g["a]hnen to yawn, OHG. gin[=e]n, gein[=o]n, Icel. g[=i]na to yawn, gin the mouth, OSlav. zijati to yawn, L. hiare to gape, yawn; and perhaps to E. begin, cf. Gr. cheia` a hole. [root]47b. Cf. Begin, Gin to begin, Hiatus.]
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To open the mouth involuntarily through drowsiness, dullness, or fatigue; to gape; to oscitate. ``The lazy, yawning drone.''
--Shak.And while above he spends his breath, The yawning audience nod beneath.
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To open wide; to gape, as if to allow the entrance or exit of anything.
't is now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn.
--Shak. To open the mouth, or to gape, through surprise or bewilderment.
--Shak.To be eager; to desire to swallow anything; to express desire by yawning; as, to yawn for fat livings. ``One long, yawning gaze.''
--Landor.
Wiktionary
1 That yawns or yawn. 2 (context figuratively English) Wide open. n. The action of the verb yawn. v
(present participle of yawn English)
WordNet
adj. gaping open as if threatening to engulf someone or something; "the yawning mine shaft"; "a yawning abyss"
with the mouth wide open indicating boredom or sleepiness; "a yawning congregation"
showing lack of attention or boredom; "the yawning congregation" [syn: drowsy, oscitant, yawning(a)]
n. an involuntary intake of breath through a wide open mouth; usually triggered by fatigue or boredom; "he could not suppress a yawn"; "the yawning in the audience told him it was time to stop"; "he apologized for his ostinancy" [syn: yawn, oscitance, oscitancy]
Wikipedia
The yawning, Poromitra oscitans, is a fish of the family Melamphaidae, found in tropical and subtropical waters of the indo-Pacific region.
Usage examples of "yawning".
By the time Astasia reached the musical squirrel and the bumblebee, Karila was yawning, and long before the swan princess made her appearance, the little girl had fallen asleep.
He was very aware that he was pouring booze into himself to fill a yawning psychological emptiness.
As he approached, that door opened and a yawning man stepped out, shuffled a short distance away from the tower, and emptied a chamber pot into a ditch or cesspit somewhere in the tall grass.
He roused him without bitterness, and sent the yawning coxswain across the long gray gangplank that spanned the gulf of the dry dock, to buy coffee and doughnuts.
But the most judicious, trustworthy critics hold an intermediate position, and affirm that the Hebrew Scriptures show a general belief in the separate existence of the spirit, not indeed as experiencing rewards and punishments, but as surviving in the common silence and gloom of the under world, a desolate empire of darkness yawning beneath all graves and peopled with dream like ghosts.
Carole said, yawning gustily and leaning back in her chair, cradling the back of her head with her hands.
He turned to see Sheriff Hazen, yawning and rubbing his stubbly chin, the hair on one side of his head sticking out horizontally.
The Kalds watched him with their blood-pink eyes, yawning and whimpering with animal nervousness.
A wooden gate had been secured across the stairs to the second floor and what I assumed was the basement door had a hook-and-eye closure to prevent kidlets from tumbling headlong into the yawning abyss.
And the colors wove into a tapestry that blurred, steadied, and crystallized into a vision so complete in every detail that Kirin shrank back a step, as if he stood before a yawning door through which a mis-step might hurl him to spinning worlds below.
The bear skidded to a stop and swung its massive head, its mouth yawning and streaming lathery saliva as it let loose with another roar that vibrated the air.
CHAPTER XXIV THE DUEL Cleggett took Wilton Barnstable by the sleeve and drew him towards Loge, who, still seated on the deck with his long legs stretched out in front of him, was now yawning with a cynical affectation of boredom.
I felt my mihrab begin to open and stretch, like a mouth yawning, and the lips of it continued to gape wider, until they must have made the orifice a full circle, like a mouth screaming.
If, by any mischance, and in an evil hour, some country cousin, not knowing my ways, or some antediluvian prig, not minding them, happen to fall upon me with formal speeches, where I can make no escape, a fit of yawning takes me immediately, and I am demolished for the rest of the day.
Sir George was drinking wine and yawning over a list of molasses prices.