Yellow

yel′ō, adj. of a bright gold colour.— n. a bright golden colour: ( pl. ) the peach-yellows (see Peach ): ( Shak. ) jaundice in horses.— v.t. to make yellow.— v.i. to become yellow.— adjs. Yell′ow-backed , -bell′ied , -billed , -breast′ed , -cov′ered , -crowned , -eyed , -foot′ed , -front′ed , -head′ed , -horned , -legged , -necked , -polled , -ringed , -rumped , -shoul′dered , -spot′ted , .— ns. Yell′ow-bird , one of various birds of a yellow colour—the golden oriole, summer-warbler, .; Yell′ow-boy , a gold coin: a mulatto or dark quadroon:— fem. Yell′ow-girl ; Yell′ow-bunt′ing , the yellow-hammer; Yell′ow-earth , a yellow ochre sometimes used as a pigment; Yell′ow-fē′ver , a pestilential contagious fever of a continuous and special type, presenting at least two well-defined stages, the first occupying 36 to 150 hours, marked by a rapid circulation and high temperature; the second being characterised by general depre ion and black vomit—also known as Yellow Jack , Bronze John , El Vomito , and Vomito Prieto or Vomito Am arilli ; Yell′ow-flag , a flag of a yellow colour, displayed by a ve el in quarantine or over a military hospital or ambulance; Yell′ow-gum , the melæna or black jaundice of infants; Yell′ow-hamm′er , -amm′er , a song-bird, so named from its yellow colour: the common yellow-bunting.— adj. Yell′owish , somewhat yellow.— ns. Yell′owishne ; Yell′ow-met′al , a bra consisting of sixty parts copper and forty parts zinc; Yell′owne ; Yell′ow-root , an American herb whose root-stock yields berberine—also Orange-root , Goldenseal ; Yell′ow-soap , common soap composed of tallow, resin, and soda; Yell′ow-wash , a lotion consisting of a mixture of mercuric chloride and lime-water; Yell′ow-weed , weld; Yell′ow-wood , a name given to Fustic and many other trees—e.g. satin-wood, and various kinds of podocarp us, rhus, xanthoxylum, .; Yell′ow-wort , an annual of the gentian family—also Yell′ow-cen′taury .— adj. Yell′owy , yellowish.— ns. Yell′ow-yol′dring , -yor′ling , or -yow′ley , the European yellow-hammer.— Yellow berries , Persian berries. [A.S. geolo ; Ger. gelb ; cog. with L. heluus , light bay.]