Archaic Definition of the Week – Yest

6 August 2010
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publishingyest. (1)  The foam, spume, or flower of beer in fermentation; barm.
(2) The spume on a troubled sea.

- Johnson’s Dictionary: A Modern Selection by Samuel Johnson (1755), ed. E. L. McAdam and George Milne (1963).

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