yen

A strong desire or inclination; a yearning or craving.

To have a strong desire or inclination; yearn.

A variant of eyen, plural of eye.

The monetary unit of Japan since 1871, represented

by a gold coin weighing 1.666 grams, .900 fine, and thus practically equal in value to the United States gold dollar; and

by a silver coin weighing 26.956 grams (416 grains), .900 fine, and thus about equal to the silver dollar of the United States.

A name given by the Indians about the Klamath Lakes of Oregon to the short-nosed sucker, Chasmistes brevirostris.

A dialectal form of yon.

The unit of value and account in Japan. The yen is equal to 100 sen. From Japan’s adoption of the gold standard, in 1897, to about 1913 the value of the yen was about 50 cents. In 1997 and 1998 the value of the yen varied from 80 per U. S. dollar to 120 per dollar.