n. A name given by the Indians about the Klamath Lakes of Oregon to the short-nosed sucker, Chasmistes brevirostris.A dialectal form of yon.n. A variant of eyen, plural of eye.n. The monetary unit of Japan since 1871, representedn. by a gold coin weighing 1.666 grams, .900 fine, and thus practically equal in value to the United States gold dollar; andn. by a silver coin weighing 26.956 grams (416 grains), .900 fine, and thus about equal to the silver dollar of the United States.