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- Yew - v. i. - See Yaw.
- Yew - n. - An evergreen tree (Taxus baccata) of Europe, allied to the pines, but having a peculiar berrylike fruit instead of a cone. It frequently grows in British churchyards.
- Yew - n. - The wood of the yew. It is light red in color, compact, fine-grained, and very elastic. It is preferred to all other kinds of wood for bows and whipstocks, the best for these purposes coming from Spain.
- Yew - n. - A bow for shooting, made of the yew.
- Yew - a. - Of or pertaining to yew trees; made of the wood of a yew tree; as, a yew whipstock.
- Yewen - a. - Made of yew; as, yewen bows.
- Taxine - n. - A poisonous alkaloid of bitter taste extracted from the leaves and seeds of the European yew (Taxus baccata). Called also taxia.
- Ginkgo - n. - A large ornamental tree (Ginkgo biloba) from China and Japan, belonging to the Yew suborder of Coniferae. Its leaves are so like those of some maidenhair ferns, that it is also called the maidenhair tree.
- Yacca - n. - A West Indian name for two large timber trees (Podocarpus coriaceus, and P. Purdicanus) of the Yew family. The wood, which is much used, is pale brownish with darker streaks.
- Yew - a. - Of or pertaining to yew trees; made of the wood of a yew tree; as, a yew whipstock.
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- Luke 42 1:2 Even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word;
ΚΑΘΏΣ ΠΑΡΑΔΊΔΩΜΙ ἩΜῖΝ Ὁ ἈΠΌ ἈΡΧΉ ΓΊΝΟΜΑΙ ΑὐΤΌΠΤΗΣ ΚΑΊ ὙΠΗΡΈΤΗΣ ΛΌΓΟΣ - 2 Peter 61 1:16 For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
ΓΆΡ ἘΞΑΚΟΛΟΥΘΈΩ Οὐ ἘΞΑΚΟΛΟΥΘΈΩ ΣΟΦΊΖΩ ΜῦΘΟΣ ΓΝΩΡΊΖΩ ὙΜῖΝ ΔΎΝΑΜΙΣ ΚΑΊ ΠΑΡΟΥΣΊΑ ἩΜῶΝ ΚΎΡΙΟΣ ἸΗΣΟῦΣ ΧΡΙΣΤΌΣ ἈΛΛΆ ΓΊΝΟΜΑΙ ἘΠΌΠΤΗΣ ἘΚΕῖΝΟΣ ΜΕΓΑΛΕΙΌΤΗΣ