yewen

English

Alternative forms

• eughen (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English *ewen, from Old English īwen (“made of yew, yewen”). By surface analysis, yew +‎ -en.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjuːən/, /ˈjuːn/
• Rhymes: -uːən, -uːn
• Homophones: Euan, Ewan, Ewen, Iwan

Adjective

yewen (not comparable)

1. (archaic) Made from the wood of the yew tree.
   • 1861, Charles Boner, “The Stag. Cervus elaphus. Linn. Part First.”, in Forest Creatures, London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, →OCLC, page 88:

     Thus, in an old code it is written, “and no one shall hunt in the deer forest without the Bishop of Maury’s sanction. But if a knight shall come with many-coloured clothes, with an ermine bonnet and a yewen bow with a silken string, with arrows whose shafts are feathered with peacocks’ feathers, and with a snow-white hound with long pendent ears, led in a silken leash, such an one shall be aided to do his will, and without let or hindrance.”

Translations

made from wood of the yew tree — see yew

Anagrams

• weeny