Chaucer.
2. To utter a sharp, quick cry, as a hound; to bark shrilly with eagerness, pain, or fear; to yaup.
A little herd of England's timorous deer,
Mazed with a yelping kennel of French curs?
Shak.
At the least flourish of a broomstick or ladle, he would fly to the door with a yelping precipitation.
W. Irving.
Yelp, n. A sharp, quick cry; a bark. Chaucer.
Yelp"er (?), n. An animal that yelps, or makes a yelping noise. Specifically: (Zoöl.) (a) The avocet; -- so called from its sharp, shrill cry. [Prov. Eng.] (b) The tattler. [Local, U. S.]
Ye"man (?), n. A yeoman. [Obs.] Chaucer.
||Yen (?), n. The unit of value and account in Japan. Since Japan's adoption of the gold standard, in 1897, the value of the yen has been about 50 cents. The yen is equal to 100 sen.