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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

• 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 Street

  North out of Little Minories, without Aldgate (Hatton, 1708-Boyle, 1799). Not named in the maps. ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• Yellow Court

  North out of Little Minories, without Aldgate (Hatton, 1708-Boyle, 1799). Not named in the maps. ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• yellow belly

  A native of the Fens of Licoinshire; an allusion to the eels caught there. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• yellow boys

  Guineas. ...

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• lily, yellow

  n. a Tasmanian name for Bulbine bulbosa, Haw., N.O. Liliaceae.See Leek, Native. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• 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...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• 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,...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• yellow lily

  n. a Tasmanian name for the Native Leek. See Leek. ...

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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.

• 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...

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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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• deep yellow-wood

  n. Rhus rhodanthema,F. v. M., N.O. Anacardiaceae. A tree with spreading head;timber valuable. See Y...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• light yellow-wood

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

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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