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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·pron I.

II. Y ·noun A forked or bifurcated pipe fitting.

III. Y ·noun A portion of track consisting of two diverging tracks connected by a cross track.

IV. Y ·noun Something shaped like the letter Y; a forked piece resembling in form the letter Y.

V. Y ·noun One of the forked holders for supporting the telescope of a leveling instrument, or the axis of a theodolite; a wye.

VI. 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.

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