yellowing

[YELLOW, 8.] A proce in the manufacture of pins. It consists of boiling the pins in an acidulous solution, previous to nurling and tinning. yěl-low-Ish, *yel-ow-y he, a. [Eng. yellow, a.; -ish.] Somewhat yellow; of a color approaching yellow. "The second is the cheat or wheat on bread, so named bicause the color thereof resembleth the graie or yellow ish wheate, being cleane and well dre ed." - Holinshed: Description of England, yěl-low-ish-ne , subst . [Eng. yellowish; -ne .] The quality or state of being yellowish. yěl-low-ne , *yel-ow-nes, s. [Eng. yellow , a.; -ne .] I. Ordinary Language : 1. Lit .: The quality or state of being yellow. "And the bruised madder, itself being drenched with the like alcazite solution, exchanged also its yellowne for a redne ." - Boyle: Works , i. 750. *2. Fig .: Jealousy. [YELLOW, a., A. (1), Β. 1.] "I will po e him with yellowne ." - Shakesp.: Merry Wives of Windsor, i. 3. II. Bot.: [FLAVEDO.] yěl-lōwş, s. pl. [YELLOW, a.] I. Ordinary Language: 1. An inflammation of the liver, cr a kind of jaundice which affects horses, cattle, and sheep, causing yellowne of the eyes. "His horse sped with spavins, and raged with the yellows." Shakesp.: Taming of the Shrew, iii. 2. 2. A disease of peach-trees, which destroys whole orchards in a few years. "Niagara peach busine is almost a thing of the past, owing to the disease called the yellows ." - St. James's Gazette, Jan. 6, 1887. *3. Jealousy. (Brome: Antipodes, sig. L.) II. Bot.: (1) Reseda luteola; (2) Genista tincto ria.