Crossword clues for yean
yean
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Yean \Yean\, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Yeaned; p. pr. & vb. n.
Yeaning.] [AS. e['a]nian, or gee['a]nian; perhaps akin to
E. ewe, or perhaps to L. agnus, Gr. ?. Cf. Ean.]
To bring forth young, as a goat or a sheep; to ean.
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English eanian "to bring forth" (young), especially in reference to sheep or goats, from Proto-Germanic *aunon (cognate with Dutch oonen), from PIE *agwh-no- "lamb" (cognates: Greek amnos "lamb," Latin agnus, Old Church Slavonic agne, Old Irish van, Welsh oen). Yeanling "young lamb, kid" is recorded from 1630s.
Wiktionary
vb. (context transitive obsolete of goats or sheep English) To give birth to.
Usage examples of "yean".
If he expected to handle yean of hard time, he ought to be able to handle two weeks of Claire.
Five yean ago, when Pierce disappeared, Jessica had thought her life was over.
He might have been looking at his own mirror image thirty yean ago, Pierce thought.
How in the of every living god did he end up Emperor less than five yean he dropped out of the fucking sky?
And the mud along the rill has bare footprints so small that only a child of no more than three yean could have pressed them.
I am certain that he and King Zenos will want some form of reparations, but emphasize, please, that some few yean will be necessary to put our demesnes back on a paying basis.
Burke guessed it was Picasso who had first said it, but wished it might have been someone else, someone who had not gone so far off the deep end and spent his last yean laughing at the idiots who sanctified every piece of silliness he chose to label with his name.
Once, when he was a young man, thirteen yean before his Completion, The Perfect One became drunk on wine and gambled away his family estates on a single throw of dice.
Yes, once four yean ago in a writing marathon, all of me was present with each word I put down.
I went back to the hotel to collect my baggage, a quarter-full bottle of whisky, two paperback books - The Thirty Yean War by Wedgwood and The Complete Guide to New York City - one worsted suit, four cotton oxfords, socks and underwear in one small fibre-board case.
The summit of the outlier is tolerably level, and here the shepherds had built small hollow piles of dry stone, in which their newly yeaned lambs are sheltered from the rude blasts.
At Caere a pig had been farrowed with two heads, and a lamb yeaned which was both male and female.
A lamb is said to have been yeaned at Tusculum with its udder full of milk.
The two riders with him were just ogling her like hungry coyotes closing in on a newly yeaned calf with its momma off somewhere else.