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yellow lily
n.
a Tasmanian name for the Native Leek. See Leek.
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Yellow
·noun A yellow pigment.
II. Yellow ·vi To become yellow or yellower.
III. Yellow ·vt To make yello...
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yellow
To look yellow; to be jealous. I happened to call on Mr. Green, who was out: on coming home, and fin...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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Lily
·add. ·noun A royal spade;
— usually in ·pl ·see Royal spade, below.
II. Lily ·noun That end of a ...
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Lily
The Hebrew name shushan or shoshan, i.e., "whiteness", was used as the general name of several plant...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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Lily
(Heb. shushan, shoshannah). Although there is little doubt that the Hebrew word denotes some plant o...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Naples yellow
·- ·see under <<Yellow>>.
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Yellow Book
·add. ·- In France, an official government publication bound in yellow covers.
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Yellow-covered
·adj Covered or bound in yellow paper.
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Yellow-eyed
·adj Having yellow eyes.
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Yellow-golds
·noun A certain plant, probably the yellow oxeye.
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Yellow Street
North out of Little Minories, without Aldgate (Hatton, 1708-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the maps.
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Yellow Court
North out of Little Minories, without Aldgate (Hatton, 1708-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the maps.
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yellow belly
A native of the Fens of Licoinshire; an allusion to the eels caught there.
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yellow-belly
n.
In New South Wales, the nameis given to a fresh-water fish, Ctenolates auratus;called also Golde...
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yellow fever
sc. the gold-fever.
1861. T. McCombie, `Australian Sketches,' p. 47:
«Evident symptoms of the retu...
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yellow-head
n.
name given to a bird of NewZealand, Clitonyx ochrocephala, or Native Canary (q.v.), common in So...
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yellow jacket
n.
a name given to variousgum-trees, and especially to Eucalyptus melliodora,Cunn., E. ochrophlora,...
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yellow-tail
n.
The name is given in Victoriato the fish Caranx trachurus, Cuv. and Val.; the Horse-Mackerel (q....
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yellow thyme
n.
a herb, Hibbertiaserpyllifolia, R. Br., N.O. Dilleneaceae.
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yellow-wood
a name applied to several Australiantrees with the epithets of Dark, Light, Deep, etc., inallusion t...
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yellow-hammer
(Picus auratus. Wilson, Ornith.) The popular name of the Golden-winged Woodpecker, the most beautifu...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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yellow belly
a person born in the Fens of Lincolnshire. L.
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yellow admiral
A retired post-captain, who, not having served his time in that rank, is not entitled to his promoti...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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yellow-belly
A name given to a person born in the fens along our eastern shores: also occasionally to half-castes...
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yellow fever
A cant term for drunkenness at Greenwich Hospital; the sailors when punished wearing a parti-coloure...
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yellow-flag
The signal of quarantine.
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yellow-tail
A well-known tropical fish, often in company with whip-rays; it is about 4 feet long, with a great h...
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Annunciation lily
·add. ·- The common white lily (Lilium candidum). So called because it is usually introduced by pain...
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Atamasco lily
·add. ·- ·see under <<Lily>>.
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Bermuda lily
·add. ·- The large white lily (Lilium longiflorum eximium, syn. L. Harrisii) which is extensively cu...
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Day lily
·- A genus of plants (Funkia) differing from the last in having ovate veiny leaves, and large white ...
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Easter lily
·add. ·- The Atamasco lily.
II. Easter lily ·add. ·- The daffodil (Narcissus Pseudo-Narcissus).
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Guernsey lily
·- A South African plant (Nerine Sarniensis) with handsome lilylike flowers, naturalized on the isla...
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Jacobaean lily
·- A bulbous plant (Amaryllis, / Sprekelia, formosissima) from Mexico. It bears a single, large, dee...
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Lily-handed
·adj Having white, delicate hands.
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Lily-livered
·adj White-livered; cowardly.
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Mariposa lily
·- One of a genus (Calochortus) of tuliplike bulbous herbs with large, and often gaycolored, blossom...
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Sea lily
·- A <<Crinoid>>.
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Water lily
·- A blossom or plant of any species of the genus Nymphaea, distinguished for its large floating lea...
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lily white
A chimney-sweeper.
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lily shallow
(WHIP SLANG)
A white driving hat.
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flax-lily
n.
1) An Australian fibre plant, Dianella laevis, var. aspera, R. Br., N.O. Liliaceae. (2) Phormium...
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giant-lily
n.
See under lily.
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gordon lily
n.
See under lily.
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lily, darling
n. a bulbous plant, Crinumflaccidum, Herb., N.O. Amaryllideae; called also the Murray Lily. (See Lil...
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lily, flax
n.
See flax-lily, and flax, New Zealand.
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lily, giant
– , or Spear
– , n.
a fibre plant, Doryanthes excelsa, Corr., N.O. Amaryllideae.
1860. G. Bennett...
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lily, gordon
n.
a Tasmanian plantand its flower, Blandfordia marginata, Herb., N.O. Liliaceae, and other species...
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lily, murray
n.
i.q. Darling Lily. See above.
1877. F. v. Mueller, `Botanic Teachings,' p. 119:
«This showy ge...
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lily, rock
n.
an orchid, Dendrobiumspeciosum, Smith, N.O. Orchideae. although not aLily, it is always so calle...
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lily, water
n.
There are several indigenousnative varieties of the N.O. Nymphaeceae – – Cabombiapeltata, Pursh;...
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murray-lily
n.
See lily.
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rock lily
n.
See under lily.
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spear-lily
n.
See lily.
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deep yellow-wood
n.
Rhus rhodanthema,F. v. M., N.O. Anacardiaceae. A tree with spreading head;timber valuable. See Y...
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light yellow-wood
i.q. long-jack (q.v.).
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Lily Pot Lane
West out of Staining Lane to No. 7 Noble Street (P.O. Directory). In Aldersgate Ward.
First mention...
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staggering bob, with his yellow pumps
A calf just dropped, and unable to stand, killed for veal in Scotland: the hoofs of a young calf are...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose