[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

yield \yield\, v. t. imp.  p. p. yielded; obs. p. p. yold;
   p. pr.  vb. n. yielding. oe. yelden, yoghelden,
   yoghilden, as. gieldan, gildan, to pay, give, restore, make
   an offering; akin to ofries. jelda, os. geldan, d. gelden to
   cost, to be worth, g. gelten, ohg. geltan to pay, restore,
   make an offering, be worth, icel. gjalda to pay, give up,
   dan. gielde to be worth, sw. gaumlla to be worth, gaumlda
   to pay, goth. gildan in fragildan, usgildan. cf. 1st geld,
   guild.
   1913 webster
   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
see also:
yielded yold yielding geld guild to yield the breath 
to yield the breath up to yield the ghost to yield the ghost up to yield up the ghost to yield the life 
to give up the ghost 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

yielding \yield"ing\, a.
   inclined to give way, or comply; flexible; compliant;
   accommodating; as, a yielding temper.
   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.

   usage: 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"ingly, adv. --
          yield"ingness, n.
          1913 webster
see also:
yielding and paying yielding obsequious attentive yield"ingly yield"ingness 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

yielding
     adj 1: inclined to yield to argument or influence or control; "a
            timid yielding person"
     2: lacking stiffness and giving way to pressure; "a deep
        yielding layer of foam rubber"
     3: tending to give in or surrender or agree; "too yielding to
        make a stand against any encroachments"- v.i.parrington
     4: happy to comply syn: complying, obliging
     n 1: a verbal act of admitting defeat syn: giving up, surrender
     2: the act of conceding or yielding syn: concession, conceding
see also:
complying obliging giving up surrender concession conceding 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

159 moby thesaurus words for "yielding":
   abandonment, abatement of differences, abdication, abjuration,
   abjurement, acceptance, accommodating, accommodation, acquiescence,
   acquiescent, adaptable, adjustment, agreeable, amenable,
   arrangement, assent, bargain, bearing, bendable, bending, biddable,
   bouncy, cession, complaisance, compliance, compliant, composition,
   compromise, concession, consent, convenient, cop-out, deal,
   deference, desertion of principle, dispensation, disposal,
   disposition, docile, dropping out, ductile, dumping, elastic,
   evasion of responsibility, extensible, extensile, fabricable,
   facile, feasible, fictile, flexible, flexile, flexuous, foolproof,
   forgoing, formable, formative, forswearing, fructiferous,
   fructification, fruitbearing, fruiting, fruition, getting rid of,
   give-and-take, giving, giving up, giving way, handing over, handy,
   homage, impressible, impressionable, kneeling, letting go,
   like putty, limber, lissome, lithe, lithesome, malleable,
   manageable, maneuverable, manipulable, moldable, mushy,
   mutual concession, nonopposal, nonopposition, nonresistance,
   nonresistant, nonresisting, obedience, obedient, obeisance,
   obliging, pappy, passiveness, passivity, plastic, pliable, pliant,
   practical, producing, pulpy, quaggy, recantation, receptive,
   release, relinquishment, renouncement, renunciation, resignation,
   resigned, resignedness, resilient, responsive, retraction,
   riddance, rubbery, sacrifice, sensitive, sequacious, settlement,
   shapable, soft, spongy, springy, squashy, squelchy, squishy,
   squushy, subjection, submission, submissive, submittal, supineness,
   supple, surrender, susceptible, swearing off, tractable, tractile,
   unaustere, undemanding, understanding, unexacting, unharsh,
   unresistant, unresisting, unsevere, unstrict, untroublesome,
   waiver, whippy, wieldable, wieldy, willowy, withdrawing

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