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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 4

Part of speech: noun (n.)

an old method of printing the article the (AS. þe), the "y" being used in place of the Anglo-Saxon thorn. It is sometimes incorrectly pronounced ye. See The, and Thorn, n., 4.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 4

Part of speech: noun (n.)

An eye. [Obs.] From his yën ran the water down. Chaucer.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 4

Part of speech: adverb (adv.)

Yea; yes. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 4 of 4

Part of speech: pronoun (pron.)

The plural of the pronoun of the second person in the nominative case. Ye ben to me right welcome heartily. Chaucer. But ye are washed, but ye are sanctified. 1 Cor. vi. 11. This would cost you your life in case ye were a man. Udall.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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