yean

• POS: Verb (usu participle)

CIDE DICTIONARY

yean, v. t. & i. [AS. eánian, or geeánian; perhaps akin to E. ewe, or perhaps to L. agnus, Gr. . Cf. Ean.].

 To bring forth young, as a goat or a sheep; to ean.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

yean, v.tr. & intr. archaic bring forth (a lamb or kid).

Etymology

perh. f. OE geeanian (unrecorded, as Y-, eanian to lamb)

ROGET THESAURUS

yean

Production

VB produce, perform, operate, do, make, gar, form, construct, fabricate, frame, contrive, manufacture, weave, forge, coin, carve, chisel, build, raise, edify, rear, erect, put together, set up, run up, establish, constitute, compose, organize, institute, achieve, accomplish, flower, bear fruit, fructify, teem, ean, yean, farrow, drop, pup, kitten, kindle, bear, lay, whelp, bring forth, give birth to, lie in, be brought to bed of, evolve, pullulate, usher into the world, make productive, create, beget, get, generate, fecundate, impregnate, procreate, progenerate, propagate, engender, bring into being, call into being, bring into existence, breed, hatch, develop, bring up, induce, superinduce, suscitate, cause, acquire.