Ye

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·adv Yea; yes.

II. Ye ·- ·Alt. of Ye.

III. Ye ·noun An Eye.

IV. Ye ·pron The plural of the pronoun of the second person in the nominative case.

V. Ye ·- an old method of printing the article the (·AS /e), the "y" being used in place of the Anglo-Saxon thorn (/). It is sometimes incorrectly pronounced ye. ·see The, and Thorn, ·noun, 4.

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