7 definitions found for Yean

Yean YEAN, v.i. To bring forth young, as a goat or sheep; to lamb. [Obsolete or local.]

yean ayen

yean intransitive verb Etymology: Middle English yenen, from Old English *geēanian, from Old English ge-, perfective prefix + ēanian to yean; akin to Latin agnus lamb, Greek amnos Date: 1548 to bring forth young — used of a sheep or goat

yean
v.tr. & intr. archaic bring forth (a lamb or kid).
Etymology: perh. f. OE geeanian (unrecorded, as Y-, eanian to lamb)

yean ji:n v.tr. & intr. archaic bring forth (a lamb or kid). [perh. f. OE geeanian (unrecorded, as Y-, eanian to lamb)]

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.

yean v. n. Lamb, bring forth a lamb.