Yearned: Definition and part of speech

Yearned

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n. Age, or old age; as, a man in years.
n. The time of the apparent revolution of the sun trough the ecliptic; the period occupied by the earth in making its revolution around the sun, called the astronomical year; also, a period more or less nearly agreeing with this, adopted by various nations as a measure of time, and called the civil year; as, the common lunar year of 354 days, still in use among the Mohammedans; the year of 360 days, etc. In common usage, the year consists of 365 days, and every fourth year (called bissextile, or leap year) of 366 days, a day being added to February on that year, on account of the excess above 365 days (see Bissextile).
n. The time in which any planet completes a revolution about the sun; as, the year of Jupiter or of Saturn.

an old method of printing the article the (AS. /e), the “y” being used in place of the Anglo-Saxon thorn (/). It is sometimes incorrectly pronounced ye. See The, and Thorn, n., 4.
Alt. of Ye
pron. The plural of the pronoun of the second person in the nominative case.

n. An affirmative vote; one who votes in the affirmative; as, a vote by yeas and nays.
adv. Yes; ay; a word expressing assent, or an affirmative, or an affirmative answer to a question, now superseded by yes. See Yes.
adv. More than this; not only so, but; — used to mark the addition of a more specific or more emphatic clause. Cf. Nay, adv., 2.

v. i. Properly, a variant of the defective imperfect yode, but sometimes mistaken for a present. See the Note under Yede.