yellow (yelo)

and n. [Also dial. yullow, yallow, yaller, etc.; χολή = L. fel , bile, gall, = E. gall : see gall1 .] 1. a. Of a color resembling that of gold, butter, etc. See II. Yellow is sometimes used in the sense of 'jaundiced,' 'jealous,' etc., the color being regarded as a token or symbol of jealousy, envy, melancholy, etc.: a usage no doubt connected with the figurative notions attaching to jaundice, the skin having a yellow hue in that disease. His Nekke is zalowe , aftre colour of an Orielle, that is a Ston well schynynge. Mandeville, Travels, p. 48. His here, that was yalu and bright, Blac it bicome an on right. Gy of Warwike, p. 220. ( Hall i well .) She gave it Ca io, but thereat Why roll your yellow eye? Tragedie of Othello the Moor , quoted in Furne 's [Variorum Othello, p. 398 (App.). A primrose by a river's brim A yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more. Words worth, Peter Bell, i. 12. Acute yellow atrophy of the liver, a disease characterized by a granular fatty degeneration of various ti ues of the body, particularly of the glands and muscles, the changes being usually most evident in the liver.-Blue winged yellow warbler. See warbler. - Imperial yellow porcelain. See imperial. - King's yellow worm. See redia. Order of the Yellow String. See order. Spotted yellow fly cat chert. Same as African warbler, See warbler.- Spotted yellow warbler. See warbler, and cut under spotted. To wear yellow hose or stock in gst, to be jealous. Jealous men are either knaves or coxcombs; be you neither; you wear yellow hose without cause. Dekker and Webster , Northward Ho, i. 3. Yellow adder's-tongue, admiral, antimony. See the nouns. Yellow ant, a species of ant, Lasius flavus, common to Europe and North America. - Yellow arsenict. See arsenic, 1.-Yellow ash, asphodel, avens. See the nouns. -Yellow baboon, the wood-baboon.Yellow bachelor's-buttons. See bachelor's buttons. Yellow balsam. (a) The touch-me-not, Impatiens Noli tangere. (b) See balsam. - Yellow bark. Same as Bo livian bark (which see, under bark2 ). -Yellow ba , the bra -ba .-Yellow bear, the larva of a common bombycid moth, Spilosoma virginica, commonly called the Virginia tiger - moth. [U. S.]-Yellow bedstraw. See bedstraw, 2 (a).-Yellow belle, a rare British geometrid moth, Apsilates citraria. -Yellow berries. Same as Per sian berries (which see, under Persian ). - Yellow birch, See birch. Yellow bird's-nest, Hypopitys multiflora ( Monotropa Hypopitys ). See bird's- nest, 1 (b).-Yellow boa, the yellow snake (see below). -Yellow box, Euca lyptus melliodora, of New South Wales and Victoria, a large tree with a thick trunk and spreading top. The wood is prized for various kinds of artizans' work, for ship-building, fuel, etc. The name is also ascribed to the bloodwood, E. corymbosa, of New South Wales and Queensland, of which the wood is very hard when dry, and durable underground.-Yellow boy. (a) A gold coin. [Slang.] John did not starve his cause: there wanted not yellow boys to fee counsel. Arbuthnot , Hist. John Bull, i. 6. (b) A mulatto or a dark quadroon: used (as also yellow girl ) both by whites and by negroes. [Southern U. S.] Yellow bream. See bream1 , 1. -Yellow broom. See broom1.- Yellow bugle. Same as ground - pine , 1.Yellow bunting, the yellowhammer. - Yellow butterwort. See Pinguicula . - Yellow camomile, candle. See the nouns. - Yellow canker-worm, the larva of a common geometrid moth, Hybernia tiliaria , commonly called the lime -tree winter- moth . [U. S.]-Yellow carmine, a pigment of variable composition. It is generally a lake formed from Persian berries or quercitron-bark.Yellow cartilage, elastic or reticular cartilage; fibrocartilage containing yellow elastic fibers. See cartilage and reticular .-Yellow cat, a certain catfish, Leptops oli var is, one of the mud-cats. See Leptops . - Yellow cedar. Same as yellow cypre . -Yellow cells, in zool . , sarcoblasts; peculiar nucleated structures in the Radio lari a , containing yellow protoplasm (po ibly parasites). Pascoe . -Yellow centaury. (a) Same as yellow - wort . (b) The yellow star-thistle, Centaurea solstitial is . -Yellow chestnut, the yellow chestnut-oak, Quercus prinoides (Q. Castanea). See chestnut - oak , under oak . - Yellow cinchona bark. See Cinchona . - Yellow clover. See clover , 1.Yellow colors. See II., 1. - Yellow copper. Same as 7015 joint action of oxalic and sulphuric acids on carbolic acid. -Yellow crake, the yellow rail. -Yellow cranberry- worm, the larva of a tortricid moth, Teras vacciniivora- na, injurious to the cranberry in the United States. Also called yellow -headed cranberry - worm , in contradistinction to the black-headed cranberry-worm, which latter, also called fire - worm , is the larva of Rhophobota vacciniana . Yellow cre , the winter-cre , Barb are a ; also, either of two yellow-flowered species of water-cre , Nasturtium palustre and N. amphibium . -Yellow cypre , a tree, Chamæcyparis Nutkaensis , of northwestern North Amer- ica, the most valuable timber-tree of Alaska. Its wood is light, hard, and close-grained, easily worked, and very durable in contact with the soil; it receives a beautiful satiny polish, and is probably not surpa ed as a cab i- net-wood among North American trees. It is somewhat used in boat and ship-building, and for furniture, inside It natives a much-used yellow dye, and in Sierra Leone is used topically in the treatment used topically in the treatment of obstinate ulcers. - Yel yellow low rose, under rosel. - Yellow elastic cartilage. Same as yellow cartilage (see above). - Yellow fever. See fever1. - Yellow fibrous ti ue, a kind of ti ue distinguished by its yellow color and its great elasticity. It is seen in the lig amentum nuchæ of many quadrupeds, in the walls of the arteries, to which it gives its peculiar elasticity, in the vocal cords of the larynx, and elsewhere. Yellow fiddlewood. Same as spur - tree. -Yellow finch. See finch1.-Yellow fir. See Oregon pine, under pinel. Yellow flag. (a) See flag2. (b) See flags and Iris. - Yellow flower-de-luce, the yellow flag or iris, Iris Pseuda cor us. Yellow foxglove, is lutea, of continental Europe; also Gerardia flava, the downy false foxglove of North America. - Yellow gentian, the common gentian or bitter wort, Gentian a lutea. -Yellow girl, See yellow boy ( b ).-Yellow goat. Same as dzeren. -Yellow goat's beard, the common goat's-beard, Tragopogon pratensis. -Yellow gowan, a name of various yellow-flowered plants, chiefly Ranunculus acris and other buttercups, and Caltha palustris, the marsh-marigold. [Scotch.]Yellow gum. (a) Same as acaroid gum (which see, under gum2). (b) See yellow - gum.-Yellow gurnard, haw. See the nouns. Yellow Hercules. Same as prickly yellow-wood (see yellow-wood Yellow honeysuckle, one of the trumpet-honeysuckles, Lonicera flava, a rare plant of high lands in South Carolina and Georgia, somewhat in cultivation. The flowers are bright orange-red in terminal capitate clusters. The yellow Italian honeysuckle is a variety of Lonicera Caprifolium. -Yellow iris, Jack, Jasmine, lady's-slipper, lake, lily, locust, lupine. See the nouns. - Yellow lead ore. Same as wulfenite. - Yellow lemurt, macacot, or macaucot. Same as Kinkajou. Yellow loosestrife, Lysima chia vulgar is.-Yellow mackerel, Caranx pisquetos. Yellow mastwood. See Xanthoxylum. -Yellow melilot. See Melilot us. - Yellow metal, milk, oak. See the nouns.-Yellow mite, Tetranychus sexpunctatus, the common six-spotted mite, which damages the orange in Florida. Also called California spider. [Florida.]-Yellow ocher, the ordinary ocher of commerce, which is usually yellow, as distinguished from certain special ochers which are red and brown. See ocher. - Yellow ore, yellow ore of copper; copper pyrites, a sulphuret of copper and iron, the most generally distributed of all copper ores. [Cornwall (chiefly).] - Yellow oxeye. See oxeye.-Yellow-oxid-of-mercury ointment. See ointment.-Yellow perch. (a) See perch. (b) See Micropterus.- Yel low phlox, the western wallflower. See wallflower. Yellow pickerel, pike, pine. See the nouns. - Yellow pimpernel. See Lysimachia. -Yellow pitch. Same as Burgundy or white pitch (which see, under pitch2 ). - Yellow plover. See plover. - Yellow plum. See wild plum, under plum. -Yellow pond-lily. See pond lily, 1. -Yellow poplar. Same as tulip - tree. Yellow puccoon. See Hydrastis, Indian paint (under paint ), and yellow root. - Yellow quartz, false topaz, or citrine. See quartz. - Yellow races, the Chinese, Mongol i ans, etc. See Xanthochroi. - Yellow rail, Porzana noveboracensis, a very small crake or short-billed rail of America, of a general yellowish coloration.-Yellow rain. See rain i, 2 ( a ). -Yellow rattle. See rattle1, 6 (a). - Yellow redpoll. See redpoll, 2, and warbler.-Yellow remittent fever. See fever1. - Yellow robin, rose, sapphire. See the nouns. - Yellow sally. See sally3, 2. - Yellow sculpin. See sculpin, 1 and 4.-Yellow sickne . See sickne , and hyacinth, 1.-Yellow snake, the West Indian Chilobothrus in or nat us, a boa 8 or 10 feet long, of a dull-yellowish color varied with black, common in Jamaica. Yellow snake-leaf, yellow snowdrop, old names of the yellow adder's-tongue, or dog-tooth violet, Erythronium Americanum. -Yellow soap. See soap, 1.-Yellow sponge. See bath - sponge. Yellow spot. (a) In an at. See macula lutea, under macula. ( b ) In entom., Peck's skipper, Polites peckius, a small hesperian butterfly of America, of a brownish color with a large yellow blotch on each hind wing. -Yellow starch. See starch2, n., 2.-Yellow star-of-Bethlehem. See Gagea. - Yellow star-thistle, starwort, suckling, sweetwood. See the nouns. -Yellow Sulphur Springs water. See water. - Yellow sweet-sultan. See sultan, 4. - Yellow tamarind, tanager, thistle. See the nouns. - Yellow thrusht. Same as oriole, 1. -Yellow tit, one of several species of Indian timeliine birds of the genus Machlolophus, having the head crested and the plumage chiefly yellow or green.-Yellow toad-flax, the common toad-flax.- Yellow trout, ultramarine, underwing, wagtail. See the nouns. - Yellow viper, the fer-delance. - Yellow wall-lichen, a species of lichen, Parme lia parietaria, which grows on trees and walls. It yields a yellow coloring matter, and is used in intermittent fevers. -Yellow warbler, wash, water-cre , water crowfoot, wolf's-bane, wood-sorrel, wren. See the nouns.-Yellow water-lily. See pond - lily, 1.-Yellow When reduced in chroma, it becomes buff; when reduced in luminosity, a cool brown. Mixed with red, yellow goes over into orange; mixed with green, into yellow-green. Lemon-yellow and canary-yellow may be taken as pure yellows, the latter being a little greener. Sulphur-yellow is a little greenish; primrose is a little greenish and pale; gamboge is a very slightly orange yellow. By chrome yellow is usually meant a little more orange and most intensely chromatic color. Indian, cadmium, and saffron yellows are orange-yellows; Naples yellow and maize-yellow are pale orange-yellows. Ocher-yellow, clay-yellow, and wax-yellow are of somewhat diminished chroma, the first a little orange, and the last a little green. It is impo ible to describe the yellows more precisely, as the slightest causes-for example, a little thicker layer of paint, or illumination from another part of the sky change their hues decidedly. The cercles of his eyen in his heed They gloweden bitwixe yelow and reed. Chaucer, Knight's Tale, 1. 1274. Your French-crown-colour beard, your perfect yellow. Shak., M. N. D., i. 2. 98. 2. The yolk of an egg; the vitellus: opposed to the white, or the surrounding albumen.-3. pl. Jaundice, especially jaundice in cattle (see jaundice); hence, figuratively, jealousy. His horse,. sped with spavins, rayed with the yel lows. Shak., T. of the S., iii. 2. 54. Thy blood is yet uncorrupted, yellows has not tainted it. Two Lancashire Lovers (1640), p. 27. ( Hall i well .) 4. pl. Dyer's-weed. Hall i well . [Prov. Eng.] -5. Same as peach - yellows . The yellows is its [the peach's] most fatal disease. New Amer. Farm Book, p. 232. 6. One of certain geometrid moths: an English collectors' name: as, the speckled yellow.-7. Any one of the group of small yellow butterflies; a sulphur. See sulphur, n., 3.- Antimony yellow, yellow antimony. See antimony. - Ca el yellow. Same as mineral yellow. - Chinese yellow. Same as king's yellow.Cobalt yellow, a pigment used by artists, composed of the double nitrite of pota ium and cobalt. It is permanent, and more closely resembles the yellow of the spectrum than any other pigment.- Fast yellow. Same as acid -yellow. - Fol's yellow, a color formerly used in dyeing, made by heating carbolic acid and arsenic in a pot. It dyes wool and silk yellow, and gives red shades with lime.- Imperial yellow, in ceram., a variety of Chinese porcelain having a uniform yellow glaze, said to be reserved for the use of the imperial family or court; also, by extension, porcelain of any make supposed to resemble this in color.-Indian yellow, a bright yellow pigment obtained in India. It is supposed to be the earth dug up from the stables where cows have been housed during the winter and fed on mango-leaves. In its crude form it comes in commerce in balls of from 3 to 5 inches, having an offensive urinous odor. It is an impure magnesium salt of euxanthic acid. For artistic purposes it is washed and levigated, the foreign material being carefully separated. Thus purified it gives an orange-yellow of great depth and beauty. It is quite permanent, and is used both as an oil and as a water color. - King's yellow, a pigment formed by subliming a mixture of arsenious oxid and sulphur. It consists of arsenious acid and arsenic tri sulphid, or orpiment. Also Chinese yellow. - Madder-yellow, a lake prepared from madder-root. It is bright in tone, somewhat similar to Indian yellow, but more transparent. - Manchester yellow, a coal-tar color used in dyeing, being the sodium or calcium salt of dinitro-alpha-naphthol. It is applicable to silk and wool, producing shades from pale lemon to deep orange. It is not fast to light. It is also known as Mar tius's yellow, naphthol yellow, golden yellow, saffron yellow, naphthalene yellow. - Mars yellow, an artificially prepared oxid of iron, resembling the natural yellow ocher. It is used by artists as a pigment. - Martius's yellow. Same as Manchester yellow. - Mineral yellow. See mineral.-Montpellier yellow. Same as mineral yellow. Naples yellow, a light-yellow pigment of various shades and of varying composition. The true pigment is a basic antimoniate of lead, but it is imitated by mixtures, as of cadmium-yellow and zinc-white, or of white lead and chrome-yellow. It has a good body, and is quite permanent. - Paris yellow. Same as chrome -yellow. - Patent yellow. Same as mineral yellow. -Perfect yellow, chromate of zinc, used as a pigment by artists. It is a light, bright yellow, and is quite permanent. - Resorcinal yellow. Same as tropæolin. - Speckled yellow. See speckled.- Strontian yellow. See strontian. - Turner's yellow, an oxy chlorid of lead employed as a yellow pigment: same as mineral yellow.