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• Yellow

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• yellow belly

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• lily, yellow

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• yellow-belly

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• yellow fever

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• yellow-head

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• yellow lily

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• yellow-tail

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• yellow thyme

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• yellow-wood

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• yellow-hammer

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• yellow belly

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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

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• tap the admiral

  Opprobriously applied to those who would "drink anything;" from the tale of the drunkard who stole s...

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• deep yellow-wood

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• light yellow-wood

  i.q. long-jack (q.v.). ...

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• admiral of the blue

  who carries his flag on the main-mast. A landlord or publican wearing a blue apron, as was formerly ...

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• admiral of the narrow seas

  One who from drunkenness vomits into the lap of the person sitting opposite to him. SEA PHRASE. ...

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• vice admiral of the narrow seas

  A drunken man that pisses under the table into his companions' shoes. ...

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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...

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