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Yield
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 appears in definitions for these words:
Abandon Abandoning Abroach Accede Accommodating Advantage Afford Afforded Affording Agree Aid Allow Amber Approving Archil Aromatic Assent Assenting Attribute Attributed Attributing Auriferous Balm Balsam-sweating Bear Bearer Beech Believe Ben Bend Benzoin Bittern Bloom Bonair Boscage Buy Cassavi Cast Cede Ceded Ceding Cessible Cession Charm Chivalry Citrate Clack Compliable Compliance Compliant Compliantly Complier Comply Complyping Compressibility Compressible Concede Conceded Conceding Concession Concessionary Concessively Condescend Condescendence Condescending Condescendingly Conform Consent Convince Covenant Cravent Credulity Crop Culm Decussated Dedition Deference Delicious Deliver Delivered Delivering Deny Devotion Devout Difficult Dismay Disobedient Dittany Doughy Down Ductile Ductility Easiness Easy Ebony Elysian Emphysem Emphysema Emulsive Endurance Endure Enduring Entreaat Exact Exacting Exaction Extend Facile Facility Fagend Fainthearted Fall Falter Fatigue Favor Ferriferous Festive Fill Flabbiness Flabby Flaccid Flaccidness Flexibility Flexible Flexibleness Flexile Fluid Froward Frowardness Fume Fustet Galban Ghost Give Gown Grain Grant Granted Ground Hard Hartshorn Hold Humor Ill-natured Impersuasible Impressible Improsperous Increase Indefatigable Indefatigably Indulge Indulged Indulgent Inexorable Inflexibility Inflexibleness Inobedient Instrument Investiture Involuntary Juniper Knock Knuckle Lactage Lank Law Limber Lin Listen Luff Matter Medullin Meek Mellow Mellowness Milky Mire Misconceit Modesty Nativity Obedient Obey Obeyed Obeyer Oblige Obsequious Obstinacy Obstinate Ooze Outstand Parish Parley Passive Pist Pitahaya Place Plenteous Plentiful Pliability Pliable Pliableness Pliancy Pliant Ply Potash Praemunire Prepossess Produce Produced Productive Profitable Prompt Proof Pyrallolite Quaggy Quagmire Queachy Quicksand Reality Recede Reciprocity Recreant Refractory Relent Remainder Render Rendible Rendition Resign Resigned Resiniferous Resistance Rich Sag Saporous Satisfactory Scentful Self-willed Sell Servant Serving Set Siege Silky Singularity Sinless Slavery Soft Soften Softness Sonorous Sonorousness Spermatize Spring Stand Stiffen Stoop Stooping Strength Stretch Strong Submission Submissive Submit Submitted Submitting Succumb Succumbing Supple Suppleness Supplying Surrender Surrendered Surrendering Sustain Temper Temporize Temporizer Tough Tributary Truckle Truckling Ule-tree Ultimate Uncomplying Unconsenting Undergo Undespairing Ungranted Unlimber Unpliant Unrelenting Unresisting Unstooping Unsubmitting Untractable Unyielded Unyielding Uranite Vail Vailer Vilely Vouchsafe Wacky Wade Wading War Way Weak Weary Whey-tub White-swelling Wholly Wilderness Willful Wisdom Yield Yielder Yielding Yieldingness Yold
Abandon Abandoning Abroach Accede Accommodating Advantage Afford Afforded Affording Agree Aid Allow Amber Approving Archil Aromatic Assent Assenting Attribute Attributed Attributing Auriferous Balm Balsam-sweating Bear Bearer Beech Believe Ben Bend Benzoin Bittern Bloom Bonair Boscage Buy Cassavi Cast Cede Ceded Ceding Cessible Cession Charm Chivalry Citrate Clack Compliable Compliance Compliant Compliantly Complier Comply Complyping Compressibility Compressible Concede Conceded Conceding Concession Concessionary Concessively Condescend Condescendence Condescending Condescendingly Conform Consent Convince Covenant Cravent Credulity Crop Culm Decussated Dedition Deference Delicious Deliver Delivered Delivering Deny Devotion Devout Difficult Dismay Disobedient Dittany Doughy Down Ductile Ductility Easiness Easy Ebony Elysian Emphysem Emphysema Emulsive Endurance Endure Enduring Entreaat Exact Exacting Exaction Extend Facile Facility Fagend Fainthearted Fall Falter Fatigue Favor Ferriferous Festive Fill Flabbiness Flabby Flaccid Flaccidness Flexibility Flexible Flexibleness Flexile Fluid Froward Frowardness Fume Fustet Galban Ghost Give Gown Grain Grant Granted Ground Hard Hartshorn Hold Humor Ill-natured Impersuasible Impressible Improsperous Increase Indefatigable Indefatigably Indulge Indulged Indulgent Inexorable Inflexibility Inflexibleness Inobedient Instrument Investiture Involuntary Juniper Knock Knuckle Lactage Lank Law Limber Lin Listen Luff Matter Medullin Meek Mellow Mellowness Milky Mire Misconceit Modesty Nativity Obedient Obey Obeyed Obeyer Oblige Obsequious Obstinacy Obstinate Ooze Outstand Parish Parley Passive Pist Pitahaya Place Plenteous Plentiful Pliability Pliable Pliableness Pliancy Pliant Ply Potash Praemunire Prepossess Produce Produced Productive Profitable Prompt Proof Pyrallolite Quaggy Quagmire Queachy Quicksand Reality Recede Reciprocity Recreant Refractory Relent Remainder Render Rendible Rendition Resign Resigned Resiniferous Resistance Rich Sag Saporous Satisfactory Scentful Self-willed Sell Servant Serving Set Siege Silky Singularity Sinless Slavery Soft Soften Softness Sonorous Sonorousness Spermatize Spring Stand Stiffen Stoop Stooping Strength Stretch Strong Submission Submissive Submit Submitted Submitting Succumb Succumbing Supple Suppleness Supplying Surrender Surrendered Surrendering Sustain Temper Temporize Temporizer Tough Tributary Truckle Truckling Ule-tree Ultimate Uncomplying Unconsenting Undergo Undespairing Ungranted Unlimber Unpliant Unrelenting Unresisting Unstooping Unsubmitting Untractable Unyielded Unyielding Uranite Vail Vailer Vilely Vouchsafe Wacky Wade Wading War Way Weak Weary Whey-tub White-swelling Wholly Wilderness Willful Wisdom Yield Yielder Yielding Yieldingness Yold
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