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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 3

Part of speech: noun (n.)

Y, the twenty-fifth letter of the English alphabet, at the beginning of a word or syllable, except when a prefix (see Y-), is usually a fricative vocal consonant; as a prefix, and usually in the middle or at the end of a syllable, it is a vowel. See Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 145, 178-9, 272.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 3

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. Something shaped like the letter Y; a forked piece resembling in form the letter Y. Specifically:

2. One of the forked holders for supporting the telescope of a leveling instrument, or the axis of a theodolite; a wye.

3. A forked or bifurcated pipe fitting.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 3

Part of speech: pronoun (pron.)

I. [Obs.] King Horn. Wyclif.

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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