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YIELD, v.t.

1. To produce, as land, stock or funds; to give in return for labor, or as profit. Lands yield not more than three per cent annually; houses yield four or five percent. Maiz on good land, yields two or three hundred fold.

2. To produce, in general. Most vegetable juices yield a salt.

3. To afford; to exhibit. The flowers in spring yield a beautiful sight.

4. To allow; to concede; to admit to be true; as, to yield the point in debate. We yield that there is a God.

5. To give, as claimed of right; as, to yield due honors; to yield due praise.

6. To permit; to grant.

Life is but air, that yields a passage to the whistling sword.

7. To emit; to give up. To yield the breath, is to expire.

8. To resign; to give up; sometimes with up or over; as, to yield up their own opinions. We yield the place to our superiors.

9. To surrender; sometimes with up; as, to yield a fortress to the enemy; or to yield up a fortress.

YIELD, v.i.

1. To give up the contest; to submit.

He saw the fainting Grecians yield.

2. To comply with; as, I yielded to his request.

3. To give way; not to oppose. We readily yield to the current of opinion; we yield to customs and fashions.

4. To give place, as inferior in rank or excellence. They will yield to us in nothing.

Tell me in what more happy fields the thistle springs, to which the lily yields?


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YIELD, v.t.

1. To produce, as land, stock or funds; to give in return for labor, or as profit. Lands yield not more than three per cent annually; houses yield four or five percent. Maiz on good land, yields two or three hundred fold.

2. To produce, in general. Most vegetable juices yield a salt.

3. To afford; to exhibit. The flowers in spring yield a beautiful sight.

4. To allow; to concede; to admit to be true; as, to yield the point in debate. We yield that there is a God.

5. To give, as claimed of right; as, to yield due honors; to yield due praise.

6. To permit; to grant.

Life is but air, that yields a passage to the whistling sword.

7. To emit; to give up. To yield the breath, is to expire.

8. To resign; to give up; sometimes with up or over; as, to yield up their own opinions. We yield the place to our superiors.

9. To surrender; sometimes with up; as, to yield a fortress to the enemy; or to yield up a fortress.

YIELD, v.i.

1. To give up the contest; to submit.

He saw the fainting Grecians yield.

2. To comply with; as, I yielded to his request.

3. To give way; not to oppose. We readily yield to the current of opinion; we yield to customs and fashions.

4. To give place, as inferior in rank or excellence. They will yield to us in nothing.

Tell me in what more happy fields the thistle springs, to which the lily yields?

YIELD, v.i.

  1. To give up the contest; to submit. He saw the fainting Grecians yield. – Dryden.
  2. To comply with; as, I yielded to his request.
  3. To give way; not to oppose. We readily yield to the current of opinion; we yield to the customs and fashions.
  4. To give place, as inferior in rank or excellence. They will yield to us in nothing. Tell me in what more happy fields The thistle springs, to which the lily yields? – Pope.

YIELD, v.t. [Sax. gieldan, gildan, gyldan, to render, to pay. But the word seems to be directly from the W. gildiaw, to produce, to yield, to concede, to contribute. The sense is obvious.]

  1. To produce, as land, stock or funds; to give in return for labor, or as profit. Lands yield not more than three per cent annually; houses yield four or five per cent. Maiz on good land, yields two or three hundred fold.
  2. To produce, in general. Most vegetable juices yield a salt.
  3. To afford; to exhibit. The flowers in spring yield a beautiful sight.
  4. To allow; to concede; to admit to be true; as, to yield the point in debate. We yield that there is a God.
  5. To give, as claimed of right; as, to yield due honors; to yield due praise.
  6. To permit; to grant. Life is but air, / That yields a passage to the whistling sword. – Dryden.
  7. To emit; to give up. To yield the breath, is to expire.
  8. To resign; to give up; sometimes with up or over; as, to yield up their own opinions. We yield the place to our superiors.
  9. To surrender; sometimes with up; as, to yield a fortress to the enemy; or to yield up a fortress.

Yield
  1. To give in return for labor expended; to produce, as payment or interest on what is expended or invested; to pay; as, money at interest yields six or seven per cent.

    To yelde Jesu Christ his proper rent. Chaucer.

    When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength. Gen. iv. 12.

  2. To give up the contest; to submit; to surrender; to succumb.

    He saw the fainting Grecians yield. Dryden.

  3. Amount yielded; product; -- applied especially to products resulting from growth or cultivation.

    "A goodly yield of fruit doth bring." Bacon.
  4. To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth.

    "Vines yield nectar." Milton.

    [He] makes milch kine yield blood. Shak.

    The wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children. Job xxiv. 5.

  5. To comply with; to assent; as, I yielded to his request.
  6. To give up, as something that is claimed or demanded; to make over to one who has a claim or right; to resign; to surrender; to relinquish; as a city, an opinion, etc.

    And, force perforce, I'll make him yield the crown. Shak.

    Shall yield up all their virtue, all their fame. Milton.

  7. To give way; to cease opposition; to be no longer a hindrance or an obstacle; as, men readily yield to the current of opinion, or to customs; the door yielded.

    Will ye relent,
    And yield to mercy while 't is offered you?     Shak.

  8. To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.

    I yield it just, said Adam, and submit. Milton.

  9. To give place, as inferior in rank or excellence; as, they will yield to us in nothing.

    Nay tell me first, in what more happy fields
    The thistle springs, to which the lily yields?     Pope.

  10. To permit; to grant; as, to yield passage.
  11. To give a reward to; to bless.

    [Obs.] Chaucer.

    Tend me to-night two hours, I ask no more,
    And the gods yield you for 't.     Shak.

    God yield thee, and God thank ye. Beau. *** Fl.

    To yield the breath, the ghost, or the life, to die] to expire; -- often followed by up.

    One calmly yields his willing breath. Keble.

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YIELD, verb transitive

1. To produce, as land, stock or funds; to give in return for labor, or as profit. Lands yield not more than three per cent annually; houses yield four or five percent. Maiz on good land, yields two or three hundred fold.

2. To produce, in general. Most vegetable juices yield a salt.

3. To afford; to exhibit. The flowers in spring yield a beautiful sight.

4. To allow; to concede; to admit to be true; as, to yield the point in debate. We yield that there is a God.

5. To give, as claimed of right; as, to yield due honors; to yield due praise.

6. To permit; to grant.

Life is but air, that yields a passage to the whistling sword.

7. To emit; to give up. To yield the breath, is to expire.

8. To resign; to give up; sometimes with up or over; as, to yield up their own opinions. We yield the place to our superiors.

9. To surrender; sometimes with up; as, to yield a fortress to the enemy; or to yield up a fortress.

YIELD, verb intransitive

1. To give up the contest; to submit.

He saw the fainting Grecians yield

2. To comply with; as, I yielded to his request.

3. To give way; not to oppose. We readily yield to the current of opinion; we yield to customs and fashions.

4. To give place, as inferior in rank or excellence. They will yield to us in nothing.

Tell me in what more happy fields the thistle springs, to which the lily yields?

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IMPORT'ANCE, n.

1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

Thy own importance know.

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He believes himself a man of importance.

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