a market-town of England, Somersetshire, on the left bank of the Ivel or Yeo, an affluent of the Parret, here crossed by a stone bridge, 36 miles S.S.W. of Bath, and 123 from London. The town is rather irregularly laid out, and comprises a great number of streets and lanes, but the houses are generally good, and many of them are of a superior description. The parish church is a handsome Gothic structure with a large plain tower at the west end. There are also a chapel of ease, and several dissenting places of worship, a neat town-hall, a grammar and other schools, and several almshouses. Yeovil was at one period celebrated for its woollen manufactures, but these have been superseded by the making of leather gloves, which now forms the chief occupation of the inhabitants. Pop. (1851) 7751.

YEZZO. See JAPAN.