YAWL, yawl, _n._ a ship's small boat, generally with four or six oars: a
small fishing-boat: a small sailing-boat with jigger and curtailed
mainboom. [Dut. _jol_. Cf. _Jollyboat_.]
YAWN, yawn, _v.i._ to open the jaws involuntarily from drowsiness: to gape:
to gape with astonishment.--_n._ the opening of the mouth from
drowsiness.--_adj._ YAWN'ING, gaping: opening wide: drowsy.--_n._ act of
opening wide or gaping: a modification of the ordinary movements of
respiration, in which the inspiration is deeper than usual, accompanied by
a kind of spasmodic contraction of the muscles which depress the lower jaw,
and by a great elevation of the ribs and to some degree of the
shoulder-blades.--_adv._ YAWN'INGLY. [A.S. _gánian_, to yawn--_gínan_,
pa.t. _gán_, to gape widely; Ice. _gína_, to gape, Gr. _chainein_, to
gape.]
YAWS, yaws, _n._ a tropical epidemic and contagious disease of the
skin--also _Framboesia_, _Button scurvy_, _Verruga Peruviana_, _Buba_ or
_Boba_, _Patta_, _Tetia_, &c.--_adj._ YAW'EY, pertaining to the yaws.
[African _yaw_, a raspberry.]
Y-CLAD, i-klad', an obsolete form of _clad_, _pa.p._ of _clothe_.