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Yew
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- 1 Made from the wood of the yew tree. not-comparable
- 1 A species of coniferous tree, Taxus baccata, with dark-green flat needle-like leaves and seeds bearing red arils, native to western, central and southern Europe, northwest Africa, northern Iran and southwest Asia. countable
"Old Yew, which graspest at the stones That name the under-lying dead, Thy fibres net the dreamless head, Thy roots are wrapt about the bones."
- 2 any of numerous evergreen trees or shrubs having red cup-shaped berries and flattened needlelike leaves wordnet
- 3 Any tree or shrub of the genus Taxus. broadly, countable
- 4 wood of a yew; especially the durable fine-grained light brown or red wood of the English yew valued for cabinetwork and archery bows wordnet
- 5 Other conifers resembling plants in genus Taxus:; in family Podocarpaceae. countable, uncountable
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- 6 Other conifers resembling plants in genus Taxus:; in family Cephalotaxaceae. countable, uncountable
- 7 The wood of the such trees. uncountable
"To prevent a too great conſumption of yew, bowyers were directed to make four bows of witch-haſel, aſh or elm, to one of yew, and no perſon under ſeventeen years of age, unleſs poſſeſſed of moveables worth forty marks, or the ſon of parents having an eſtate of ten pounds per annum might ſhoot in an yew bow, under a penalty of 6s. 8d."
- 8 A bow for archery, made of yew wood. countable, uncountable
- 1 Eye dialect spelling of you. alt-of, pronunciation-spelling
"A spinoff, “Major Crimes,” starring “Battlestar Galactica” veteran Mary McDonnell and a number of “Closer” cast members, premieres in August. Sedgwick won’t be among them, swapping Brenda’s syrupy “thank yew” for an upbeat “buh-bye now” to her co-workers."
Etymology
From Middle English ew, from Old English īw, ēow, assumed to be from Proto-West Germanic *īhu, from Proto-Germanic *īhwaz (compare Icelandic ýr), masculine variant of *īwō (compare Dutch ijf, German Eibe), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyHw-. See also Hittite 𒄑𒂊𒅀𒀭 (eyan, “type of evergreen”), Welsh yw (“yews”), Irish eo, Old Irish eó, Latgalian īva (“bird cherry”), Lithuanian ievà (“bird cherry”), Russian и́ва (íva, “willow”).
From Middle English ew, from Old English īw, ēow, assumed to be from Proto-West Germanic *īhu, from Proto-Germanic *īhwaz (compare Icelandic ýr), masculine variant of *īwō (compare Dutch ijf, German Eibe), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyHw-. See also Hittite 𒄑𒂊𒅀𒀭 (eyan, “type of evergreen”), Welsh yw (“yews”), Irish eo, Old Irish eó, Latgalian īva (“bird cherry”), Lithuanian ievà (“bird cherry”), Russian и́ва (íva, “willow”).
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