(n.) A present given to a guest or stranger, or to a foreign ambassador.

(n.) A gold coin formerly current in Egypt and Turkey, of the value of about 9s. 6d., or about $2.30; -- also, in Morocco, a ducat.

(n.) A salt of xylic acid.

(n.) Any of a group of three metameric hydrocarbons of the aromatic series, found in coal and wood tar, and so named because found in crude wood spirit. They are colorless, oily, inflammable liquids, C6H4.(CH3)2, being dimethyl benzenes, and are called respectively orthoxylene, metaxylene, and paraxylene. Called also xylol.

(n.) A liquid hydrocarbon found in crude wood spirits.

(a.) Resembling wood; having the nature of wood.

(n.) A long and open portico, for athletic exercises, as wrestling, running, etc., for use in winter or in stormy weather.

(n.) An instrument for scraping bones. Y () 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.