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. [ 1913 Webster ]

To yelde Jesu Christ his proper rent. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength. Gen. iv. 12. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth. “Vines yield nectar.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ He ] makes milch kine yield blood. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children. Job xxiv. 5. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

And, force perforce, I'll make him yield the crown. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Shall yield up all their virtue, all their fame. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To admit to be true; to concede; to allow. [ 1913 Webster ]

I yield it just, said Adam, and submit. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To permit; to grant; as, to yield passage. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To give a reward to; to bless. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Tend me to-night two hours, I ask no more,
And the gods yield you for 't. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

God yield thee, and God thank ye. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

To yield the breath,
To yield the breath up,
To yield the ghost,
To yield the ghost up,
To yield up the ghost, or
To yield the life, to die; to expire; -- similar to To give up the ghost. [ 1913 Webster ] One calmly yields his willing breath. Keble. [ 1913 Webster ]

He saw the fainting Grecians yield. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To comply with; to assent; as, I yielded to his request. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Will ye relent,
And yield to mercy while 't is offered you? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To give place, as inferior in rank or excellence; as, they will yield to us in nothing. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nay tell me first, in what more happy fields
The thistle springs, to which the lily yields? Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of yielding; concession. [ R. ] South. [ 1913 Webster ]

Yielding and paying (Law), the initial words of that clause in leases in which the rent to be paid by the lessee is mentioned and reserved. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Obsequious; attentive. -- Yielding, Obsequious, Attentive. In many cases a man may be attentive or yielding in a high degree without any sacrifice of his dignity; but he who is obsequious seeks to gain favor by excessive and mean compliances for some selfish end. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Yield"ing*ly, adv. -- Yield"ing*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]