Yield
Yield , transitive verb
[Old English yelden, yelden, yilden, Anglo-Saxon gieldan, gildan, to pay, give, restore, make an offering; akin to OFries. jelda, Old Saxon geldan, Dutch gelden to cost, to be worth, German gelten, Old High German geltan to pay, restore, make an offering, be worth, Icelandic gjalda to pay, give up, Danish gielde to be worth, Swedish galla to be worth, galda to pay, Gothic gildan in fragildan, usgildan. Compare 1st Geld, Guild.]
1.
To give in return for labor expended; to produce, as payment or interest on what is expended or invested; to pay; as, money at interest yields six or seven per cent.
To yelde Jesu Christ his proper rent.
When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength.
2.
To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth.
Vines yield nectar.
[He] makes milch kine yield blood.
The wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.
3.
To give up, as something that is claimed or demanded; to make over to one who has a claim or right; to resign; to surrender; to relinquish; as a city, an opinion, etc.
And, force perforce, I'll make him yield the crown.
Shall yield up all their virtue, all their fame.
4.
To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.
I yield it just, said Adam, and submit.
5.
To permit; to grant; as, to yield passage.
6.
To give a reward to; to bless. [Obsolete] — Chaucer
Tend me to-night two hours, I ask no more,
And the gods yield you for 't.
God yield thee, and God thank ye.
One calmly yields his willing breath.
Yield , intransitive verb
1.
To give up the contest; to submit; to surrender; to succumb.
He saw the fainting Grecians yield.
2.
To comply with; to assent; as, I yielded to his request.
3.
To give way; to cease opposition; to be no longer a hindrance or an obstacle; as, men readily yield to the current of opinion, or to customs; the door yielded.
Will ye relent,
And yield to mercy while 't is offered you?
4.
To give place, as inferior in rank or excellence; as, they will yield to us in nothing.
Nay tell me first, in what more happy fields
The thistle springs, to which the lily yields?
Yield , noun
Amount yielded; product; -- applied especially to products resulting from growth or cultivation.
A goodly yield of fruit doth bring.