Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter Y - Page 2
Yawl (n.) (Naut.) 船載小艇；（前桅高後桅低的）縱帆式小帆船 A small ship's boat, usually rowed by four or six oars. [Written also {yaul}.]
Yawl (n.) A fore-and-aft-rigged vessel with two masts, a mainmast carrying a mainsail and jibs, taller than the mizzenmast and stepped a little farther forward than in a sloop, and with the mizzenmast, or jiggermast far aft, usually placed aft of the water line or aft the rudder post. The mizzenmast of a yawl is smaller, and set further aft, than that of a {sloop}.
Yawl (v. i.) To cry out like a dog or cat; to howl; to yell. -- Tennyson.
There howling Scyllas yawling round about. -- Fairfax.
Yawl (n.) A ship's small boat (usually rowed by 4 or 6 oars).
Yawl (n.) A sailing vessel with two masts; a small mizzen is aft of the rudderpost [syn: yawl, dandy].
Yawl (v.) Emit long loud cries; "wail in self-pity"; "howl with sorrow" [syn: howl, ululate, wail, roar, yawl, yaup].
Yawl-rigged (a.) (Naut.) Having two masts with fore-and-aft sails, but differing from a schooner in that the after mast is very small, and stepped as far aft as possible. See Illustration in Appendix.
Yawned (imp. & p. p.) of Yawn.
Yawning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Yawn.
Yawn (v. i.) To open the mouth involuntarily through drowsiness, dullness, or fatigue; to gape; to oscitate. "The lazy, yawning drone." -- Shak.
And while above he spends his breath, The yawning audience nod beneath. -- Trumbull.
Yawn (v. i.) To open wide; to gape, as if to allow the entrance or exit of anything.
Tis now the very witching time of night, When churchyards yawn. -- Shak.
Yawn (v. i.) To open the mouth, or to gape, through surprise or bewilderment. --Shak.
Yawn (v. i.) To be eager; to desire to swallow anything; to express desire by yawning; as, to yawn for fat livings. "One long, yawning gaze." -- Landor.
Yawn (n.) An involuntary act, excited by drowsiness, etc., consisting of a deep and long inspiration following several successive attempts at inspiration, the mouth, fauces, etc., being wide open.
One person yawning in company will produce a spontaneous yawn in all present. -- N. Chipman.
Yawn (n.) The act of opening wide, or of gaping. -- Addison.
Yawn (n.) A chasm, mouth, or passageway. [R.]
Now gape the graves, and trough their yawns let loose Imprisoned spirits. -- Marston.
Yawn (n.) An involuntary intake of breath through a wide open mouth; usually triggered by fatigue or boredom; "he could not suppress a yawn"; "the yawning in the audience told him it was time to stop"; "he apologized for his oscitancy" [syn: yawn, yawning, oscitance, oscitancy].
Yawn (v.) Utter a yawn, as from lack of oxygen or when one is tired; "The child yawned during the long performance."
Yawn (v.) Be wide open; "the deep gaping canyon" [syn: gape, yawn, yaw].
Yawningly (adv.) In a yawning manner.
Yaup (v. i.) [See Yap, and Yelp.] To cry out like a child; to yelp. [Scot. & Colloq. U. S.] [Written also yawp.]
Yawp (v. & n.) See Yaup.
Yawp (v.) Make a raucous noise [syn: yawp, bawl].
Yawp (v.) Complain whiningly [syn: whine, grizzle, yammer, yawp].
Yaws (n.) (Med.) A disease, occurring in the Antilles and in Africa, characterized by yellowish or reddish tumors, of a contagious character, which, in shape and appearance, often resemble currants, strawberries, or raspberries. There are several varieties of this disease, variously known as framboesia, pian, verrugas, and crab-yaws.
Yaws (n.) An infectious tropical disease resembling syphilis in its early stages; marked by red skin eruptions and ulcerating lesions [syn: yaws, frambesia, framboesia].
Yaw-weed (n.) (Bot.) A low, shrubby, rubiaceous plant ({Morinda Royoc) growing along the seacoast of the West Indies. It has small, white, odorous flowers.
Ybe (p. p.) Been. -- Chaucer.
Ycleped (p. p.) Called; named; -- obsolete, except in archaic or humorous writings. [Spelt also yclept.]
It is full fair to ben yclept madame. -- Chaucer.
But come, thou goddess fair and free.
In heaven ycleped Euphrosyne. -- Milton.
Those charming little missives ycleped valentines. -- Lamb.
Clepe (v. t.) [imp. & p. p. Clepedor; p. pr. & vb. n. Cleping. Cf. Ycleped.] [AS. clepan, cleopian, clipian, clypian, to cry, call.] To call, or name. [Obs.]
That other son was cleped Cambalo. -- Chaucer.
Ydo (obs. p. p. of Do) Done. -- Chaucer.
Ydrad (obs. p. p. of Dread.) Dreaded.
Yet nothing did he dread, but ever was ydrad. -- Spenser.
Ye (adv.) [See Yea.] Yea; yes. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Ye () An old method of printing the article the (AS. [thorn]e), the "y" being used in place of the Anglo-Saxon thorn ([thorn]).
It is sometimes incorrectly pronounced y[=e]. See The, and Thorn, n., 4.
Ye (n.; pl. Y["e]n ([=e]"en).) An eye. [Obs.]
From his y["e]n ran the water down. -- Chaucer.
Ye (pron.) The plural of the pronoun of the second person in the nominative case.
Ye ben to me right welcome heartily. -- Chaucer.
But ye are washed, but ye are sanctified. -- 1 Cor. vi. 11.
This would cost you your life in case ye were a man. -- Udall.
Note: In Old English ye was used only as a nominative, and you only as a dative or objective. In the 16th century, however, ye and you became confused and were often used interchangeably, both as nominatives and objectives, and you has now superseded ye except in solemn or poetic use. See You, and also the first Note under Thou.
Vain pomp and glory of this world, I hate ye. -- Shak.
I come, kind gentlemen, strange news to tell ye. -- Dryden.
Ye, () The country code for Yemen.
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Ye (adv.) Yea; yes. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Yea (adv.) Yes; ay; a word expressing assent, or an affirmative, or an affirmative answer to a question, now superseded by yes. See Yes.
Let your communication be yea, yea; nay, nay. -- Matt. v. 37.
Yea (adv.) More than this; not only so, but; -- used to mark the addition of a more specific or more emphatic clause. Cf. Nay, adv., 2.
I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice. -- Phil. i. 18.
Note: Yea sometimes introduces a clause, with the sense of indeed, verily, truly. "Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?" -- Gen. iii. 1.
Yea (n.) An affirmative vote; one who votes in the affirmative; as, a vote by yeas and nays.
Note: In the Scriptures, yea is used as a sign of certainty or stability. "All the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen." -- 2 Cor. i. 20.
Yea (adv.) Not only so, but; "I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice" [syn: yea, yeah].
Yea (n.) An affirmative; "The yeas have it" [ant: nay].
Yead (v. i.) Properly, a variant of the defective imperfect yode, but sometimes mistaken for a present. See the Note under Yede. [Obs.]
Years yead away and faces fair deflower. -- Drant.
Yeaned (imp. & p. p.) of Yean.
Yeaning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Yean.
Yean (v. t. & i.) To bring forth young, as a goat or a sheep; to ean. -- Shak.
Yeanling (n.) A lamb or a kid; an eanling. -- Shak.
Sidereal (a.) Relating to the stars; starry; astral; as, sidereal astronomy.
Sidereal (a.) (Astron.) Measuring by the apparent motion of the stars; designated, marked out, or accompanied, by a return to the same position in respect to the stars; as, the sidereal revolution of a planet; a sidereal day.
Sidereal clock, Day, month, year. See under Clock, Day, etc.
Sideral time, Time as reckoned by sideral days, or, taking the sidereal day as the unit, the time elapsed since a transit of the vernal equinox, reckoned in parts of a sidereal day. This is, strictly, apparent sidereal time, mean sidereal time being reckoned from the transit, not of the true, but of the mean, equinoctial point.
Year (n.) The time of the apparent revolution of the sun trough the ecliptic; the period occupied by the earth in making its revolution around the sun, called the astronomical year; also, a period more or less nearly agreeing with this, adopted by various nations as a measure of time, and called the civil year; as, the common lunar year of 354 days, still in use among the Mohammedans; the year of 360 days, etc. In common usage, the year consists of 365 days, and every fourth year (called bissextile, or leap year) of 366 days, a day being added to February on that year, on account of the excess above 365 days (see Bissextile).
Of twenty year of age he was, I guess. -- Chaucer.
Note: The civil, or legal, year, in England, formerly commenced on the 25th of March. This practice continued throughout the British dominions till the year 1752.
Year (n.) The time in which any planet completes a revolution about the sun; as, the year of Jupiter or of Saturn.
Year (n.) pl. Age, or old age; as, a man in years. -- Shak.
Anomalistic year, The time of the earth's revolution from perihelion to perihelion again, which is 365 days, 6 hours, 13 minutes, and 48 seconds.
A year's mind (Eccl.), A commemoration of a deceased person, as by a Mass, a year after his death. Cf. A month's mind, under Month.
Bissextile year. See Bissextile.
Canicular year. See under Canicular.
Civil year, The year adopted by any nation for the computation of time.
Common lunar year, The period of 12 lunar months, or 354 days.
Common year, Each year of 365 days, as distinguished from leap year.
Embolismic year, or Intercalary lunar year, The period of 13 lunar months, or 384 days.
Fiscal year (Com.), The year by which accounts are reckoned, or the year between one annual time of settlement, or balancing of accounts, and another.
Great year. See Platonic year, under Platonic.
Gregorian year, Julian year. See under Gregorian, and Julian.
Leap year. See Leap year, in the Vocabulary.
Lunar astronomical year, The period of 12 lunar synodical months, or 354 days, 8 hours, 48 minutes, 36 seconds.
Lunisolar year. See under Lunisolar.
Periodical year. See Anomalistic year, above.
Platonic year, Sabbatical year. See under Platonic, and Sabbatical.
Sidereal year, The time in which the sun, departing from any fixed star, returns to the same. This is 365 days, 6 hours, 9 minutes, and 9.3 seconds.
Tropical year. See under Tropical.
Year and a day (O. Eng. Law), A time to be allowed for an act or an event, in order that an entire year might be secured beyond all question. -- Abbott.
Year of grace, Any year of the Christian era; Anno Domini; A. D. or a. d. year 2000 bug
Year (n.) A period of time containing 365 (or 366) days; "she is 4 years old"; "in the year 1920" [syn: year, twelvemonth, yr].
Year (n.) A period of time occupying a regular part of a calendar year that is used for some particular activity; "a school year."
Year (n.) The period of time that it takes for a planet (as, e.g., Earth or Mars) to make a complete revolution around the sun; "a Martian year takes 687 of our days."
Year (n.) A body of students who graduate together; "the class of '97"; "she was in my year at Hoehandle High" [syn: class, year].
Year, () Heb. shanah, meaning "repetition" or "revolution" (Gen. 1:14; 5:3). Among the ancient Egyptians the year consisted of twelve months of thirty days each, with five days added to make it a complete revolution of the earth round the sun. The Jews reckoned the year in two ways, (1) according to a sacred calendar, in which the year began about the time of the vernal equinox, with the month Abib; and (2) according to a civil calendar, in which the year began about the time of the autumnal equinox, with the month Nisan. The month Tisri is now the beginning of the Jewish year.
Year. () The period in which the revolution of the earth round the sun, and the accompanying changes in the order of nature, are completed.
Year. () The civil year differs from the astronomical, the latter being composed of 365 days, 5 hours, 48 seconds and a fraction, while the former consists, sometimes of three hundred and sixty-five days, and at others, in leap years, of three hundred and sixty-six days.
Year. () The year is divided into half-year which consists, according to Co. Litt. 135 b, of 182 days; and quarter of a year, which consists of 91 days, Ibid. and 2 Roll. Ab. 521, 1. 40. It is further divided into twelve months.
Year. () The civil year commences immediately after twelve o'clock at night of the thirty-first day of December, that is the first moment of the first day of January, and ends at midnight of the thirty-first day of December, twelve mouths thereafter. Vide Com. Dig. Ann.; 2 Bl. Com. by Chitty, 140, n.; Chitt. Pr. Index tit. Time alteration of the calendar (q.v.) from old to new style in England, (see Bissextile,) and the colonies of that country in America, the year in chronological reckoning was supposed to commence with the first day of January, although the legal year did not commence until March 25th, the intermediate time being doubly indicated: thus February 15, 1724, and so on. This mode of reckoning was altered by the statute 24 Geo. II. cap. 23, which gave rise to an act of assembly of Pennsylvania, passed March 11, 1752; 1 Sm. Laws, 217, conforming thereto, and also to the repeal of the act of 1710.
Year. () In New York it is enacted that whenever the term "year" or "years" is or shall be used in any statute, deed, verbal or written contract, or any public or private instrument whatever, the year intended shall be taken to consist of three hundred and sixty-five days; half a year of a hundred and eighty-two days; and a quarter of a year of ninety-two days; and the day of a leap year, and the day immediately preceding, if they shall occur in any period so to be computed, shall be reckoned together as one day. Rev. Stat. part 1, c. 19, t. 1, Sec. 3.
Year, (n.) A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
Yeara (n.) (Bot.) The California poison oak (Rhus diversiloba). See under Poison, a.
Yearbook (n.) A book published yearly; any annual report or summary of the statistics or facts of a year, designed to be used as a reference book; as, the Congregational Yearbook.
Yearbook (n.) (Eng. Law) A book containing annual reports of cases adjudged in the courts of England.
Note: The Yearbooks are the oldest English reports extant, beginning with the reign of Edward II., and ending with the reign of Henry VIII. They were published annually, and derive their name from that fact. They consist of eleven parts, or volumes, are written in Law French, and extend over nearly two hundred years. There are, however, several hiatuses, or chasms, in the series. -- Kent. -- Bouvier.
Yearbook (n.) A book published annually by the graduating class of a high school or college usually containing photographs of faculty and graduating students.
Yearbook (n.) A reference book that is published regularly once every year [syn: annual, yearly, yearbook].
Yeared (a.) Containing years; having existed or continued many years; aged. [Obs.] -- B. Jonson.
Yearling (n.) An animal one year old, or in the second year of its age; -- applied chiefly to cattle, sheep, and horses.
Yearling (a.) Being a year old. "A yearling bullock to thy name small smoke." -- Pope. yearlong
Yearling (n.) A young child [syn: toddler, yearling, tot, bambino].
Yearling (n.) A racehorse considered one year old until the second Jan. 1 following its birth.
Yearling (n.) An animal in its second year.
Yearly (a.) Happening, accruing, or coming every year; annual; as, a yearly income; a yearly feast.
Yearly (a.) Lasting a year; as, a yearly plant.
Yearly (a.) Accomplished in a year; as, the yearly circuit, or revolution, of the earth. -- Shak.
Yearly (adv.) Annually; once a year to year; as, blessings yearly bestowed.
Yearly will I do this rite. -- Shak.
Yearly (adv.) Without missing a year; "they travel to China annually" [syn: annually, yearly, every year, each year]
Yearly (a.) Occurring or payable every year; "an annual trip to Paris"; "yearly medical examinations"; "annual (or yearly) income" [syn: annual, yearly].
Yearly (n.) A reference book that is published regularly once every year [syn: annual, yearly, yearbook].
Yearned (imp. & p. p.) of Yearn.
Yearning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Yearn.
Yearn (v. t.) To pain; to grieve; to vex. [Obs.] "She laments, sir, for it, that it would yearn your heart to see it." -- Shak.
It yearns me not if men my garments wear. -- Shak.
Yearn (v. i.) To be pained or distressed; to grieve; to mourn. [Obs.]
"Falstaff he is dead, and we must yearn therefore." -- Shak.
Yearn (v. i. & t.) To curdle, as milk. [Scot.]
Yearn (v. i.) To be filled with longing desire; to be harassed or rendered uneasy with longing, or feeling the want of a thing; to strain with emotions of affection or tenderness; to long; to be eager.
Joseph made haste; for his bowels did yearn upon his brother; and he sought where to weep. -- Gen. xliii. 30.
Your mother's heart yearns towards you. -- Addison.
Yearn (v.) Desire strongly or persistently [syn: hanker, long, yearn].
Yearn (v.) Have a desire for something or someone who is not present; "She ached for a cigarette"; "I am pining for my lover" [syn: ache, yearn, yen, pine, languish].
Yearn (v.) Have affection for; feel tenderness for.
Yearnful (a.) Desirous. [Obs.] -- Ormulum. P. Fletcher.
Yearningly (adv.) With yearning.
Yearningly (adv.) In a yearning manner; "he spent the rest of the act gazing longingly over my right shoulder at the illuminated word `Exit'" [syn: longingly, yearningly].
Yearnings (n. pl.) The maws, or stomachs, of young calves, used as a rennet for curdling milk. [Scot.]
Yearth (n.) The earth. [Obs.] "Is my son dead or hurt or on the yerthe felled?" -- Ld. Berners.
Yeast (n.) The foam, or troth (top yeast), or the sediment (bottom yeast), of beer or other in fermentation, which contains the yeast plant or its spores, and under certain conditions produces fermentation in saccharine or farinaceous substances; a preparation used for raising dough for bread or cakes, and making it light and puffy; barm; ferment.
Yeast (n.) Spume, or foam, of water.
They melt thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar. -- Byron.
Yeast cake, A mealy cake impregnated with the live germs of the yeast plant, and used as a conveniently transportable substitute for yeast.
Yeast plant (Bot.), The vegetable organism, or fungus, of which beer yeast consists. The yeast plant is composed of simple cells, or granules, about one three-thousandth of an inch in diameter, often united into filaments which reproduce by budding, and under certain circumstances by the formation of spores. The name is extended to other ferments of the same genus. See Saccharomyces.
Yeast powder, A baling powder, -- used instead of yeast in leavening bread.
Yeast (n.) A commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells; used to raise the dough in making bread and for fermenting beer or whiskey [syn: yeast, barm].
Yeast (n.) Any of various single-celled fungi that reproduce asexually by budding or division.
Yeast (n.) A form of fungus which grows as indvidual rounded cells, rather than in a mycelium, and reproduces by budding; esp. members of the orders Endomycetales and Moniliales. Some fungi may grow both as a yeast or as a mycelium, depending on the conditions of growth.
Yeast-bitten (a.) (Brewing) A term used of beer when the froth of the yeast has reentered the body of the beer.
Yeastiness (n.) The quality or state of being yeasty, or frothy.
Yeasty (a.) Frothy; foamy; spumy, like yeast.
Yeasty (a.) Of or resembling or containing yeast [syn: yeasty, yeastlike].
Yeasty (a.) Marked by spirited enjoyment [syn: zestful, yeasty, zesty, barmy].
Yeasty (a.) Exuberantly creative.
Yedding (n.) The song of a minstrel; hence, any song. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Compare: Yode
Yode (obs. imp. of Go.) Went; walked; proceeded. [Written also yede.] See Yede.
Quer [whether] they rade [rode] or yode. -- Cursor Mundi.
Then into Cornhill anon I yode. -- Lydgate. Yodel
Yede (imp.) Went. See Yode.
All as he bade fulfilled was indeed This ilke servant anon right out yede. -- Chaucer.
Note: Spenser and some later writers mistook this for a present of the defective imperfect yode. It is, however, only a variant of yode. See Yode, and cf. Yead.
[He] on foot was forced for to yeed. -- Spenser
Yeel (n.) An eel. [Obs.] -- Holland.
Yeldhall (n.) Guildhall. [Obs.] -- Chaucer. Yeldrin
Yeldrin (n.) Alt. of Yeldrine.
Yeldrine (n.) (Zool.) The yellow-hammer; -- called also yeldrock, and yoldrin. [Prov. Eng.]
Compare: Yolk
Yolk (n.) [Written also yelk.] The yellow part of an egg; the vitellus.
Yolk (n.) (Zool.) An oily secretion which naturally covers the wool of sheep.
Yolk cord (Zool.), A slender cord or duct which connects the yolk glands with the egg chambers in certain insects, as in the aphids.
Yolk gland (Zool.), A special organ which secretes the yolk of the eggs in many turbellarians, and in some other invertebrates. See Illust. of Hermaphrodite in Appendix.
Yolk sack (Anat.), The umbilical vesicle. See under Unbilical.
Yelk (n.) Same as Yolk.
Yell (n.) A sharp, loud, hideous outcry.
Yelled (imp. & p. p.) of Yell.
Yelling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Yell.
Yell (v. i.) To cry out, or shriek, with a hideous noise; to cry or scream as with agony or horror.
They yelleden as feendes doon in helle. -- Chaucer.
Nor the night raven, that still deadly yells. -- Spenser.
Infernal ghosts and hellish furies round Environed thee; some howled, some yelled. -- Milton.
Yell (v. t.) To utter or declare with a yell; to proclaim in a loud tone. -- Shak.
Yell (n.) A loud utterance; often in protest or opposition; "the speaker was interrupted by loud cries from the rear of the audience" [syn: cry, outcry, call, yell, shout, vociferation].
Yell (n.) A loud utterance of emotion (especially when inarticulate); "a cry of rage"; "a yell of pain" [syn: cry, yell].
Yell (v.) Utter a sudden loud cry; "she cried with pain when the doctor inserted the needle"; "I yelled to her from the window but she couldn't hear me" [syn: shout, shout out, cry, call, yell, scream, holler, hollo, squall].
Yell (v.) Utter or declare in a very loud voice; "You don't have to yell -- I can hear you just fine" [syn: yell, scream].
Yell -- U.S. County in Arkansas
Population (2000): 21139
Housing Units (2000): 9157
Land area (2000): 927.891360 sq. miles (2403.227487 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 20.951280 sq. miles (54.263565 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 948.842640 sq. miles (2457.491052 sq. km)
Located within: Arkansas (AR), FIPS 05
Location: 35.038510 N, 93.362084 W
Headwords:
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Yell, AR
Yell County
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Yellow (a.) Being of a bright saffronlike color; of the color of gold or brass; having the hue of that part of the rainbow, or of the solar spectrum, which is between the orange and the green.
Her yellow hair was browded [braided] in a tress. -- Chaucer.
A sweaty reaper from his tillage brought First fruits, the green ear and the yellow sheaf. -- Milton.
The line of yellow light dies fast away. -- Keble.
Yellow (a.) Cowardly; hence, dishonorable; mean; contemptible; as, he has a yellow streak. [Slang]
Yellow (a.) Sensational; -- said of some newspapers, their makers, etc.; as, yellow journal, journalism, etc. [Colloq.]
Yellow atrophy (Med.), A fatal affection of the liver, in which it undergoes fatty degeneration, and becomes rapidly smaller and of a deep yellow tinge. The marked symptoms are black vomit, delirium, convulsions, coma, and jaundice.
Yellow bark, Calisaya bark.
Yellow bass (Zool.), A North American fresh-water bass ({Morone interrupta) native of the lower parts of the Mississippi and its tributaries. It is yellow, with several more or less broken black stripes or bars. Called also barfish.
Yellow berry. (Bot.) Same as Persian berry, under Persian.
Yellow boy, A gold coin, as a guinea. [Slang] -- Arbuthnot.
Yellow brier. (Bot.) See under Brier.
Yellow bugle (Bot.), A European labiate plant ({Ajuga Chamaepitys).
Yellow bunting (Zool.), The European yellow-hammer.
Yellow cat (Zool.), A yellow catfish; especially, the bashaw.
Yellow copperas (Min.), A hydrous sulphate of iron; -- called also copiapite.
Yellow copper ore, A sulphide of copper and iron; copper pyrites. See Chalcopyrite.
Yellow cress (Bot.), A yellow-flowered, cruciferous plant ({Barbarea praecox), sometimes grown as a salad plant.
Yellow dock. (Bot.) See the Note under Dock.
Yellow earth, A yellowish clay, colored by iron, sometimes used as a yellow pigment.
Yellow fever (Med.), A malignant, contagious, febrile disease of warm climates, attended with jaundice, producing a yellow color of the skin, and with the black vomit. See Black vomit, in the Vocabulary.
Yellow flag, The quarantine flag. See under Quarantine, and 3d Flag.
Yellow jack. (a) The yellow fever. See under 2d Jack.
Yellow jack. (b) The quarantine flag. See under Quarantine.
Yellow jacket (Zool.), Any one of several species of American social wasps of the genus Vespa, in which the color of the body is partly bright yellow. These wasps are noted for their irritability, and for their painful stings.
Yellow lead ore (Min.), Wulfenite.
Yellow lemur (Zool.), The kinkajou.
Yellow macauco (Zool.), The kinkajou.
Yellow mackerel (Zool.), The jurel.
Yellow metal. Same as Muntz metal, under Metal.
Yellow ocher (Min.), An impure, earthy variety of brown iron ore, which is used as a pigment.
Yellow oxeye (Bot.), A yellow-flowered plant ({Chrysanthemum segetum) closely related to the oxeye daisy.
Yellow perch (Zool.), The common American perch. See Perch.
Yellow pike (Zool.), The wall-eye.
Yellow pine (Bot.), Any of several kinds of pine; also, their yellowish and generally durable timber. Among the most common are valuable species are Pinus mitis and Pinus palustris of the Eastern and Southern States, and Pinus ponderosa and Pinus Arizonica of the Rocky Mountains and Pacific States.
Yellow plover (Zool.), The golden plover.
Yellow precipitate (Med. Chem.), An oxide of mercury which is thrown down as an amorphous yellow powder on adding corrosive sublimate to limewater.
Yellow puccoon. (Bot.) Same as Orangeroot.
Yellow rail (Zool.), A small American rail ({Porzana Noveboracensis) in which the lower parts are dull yellow, darkest on the breast. The back is streaked with brownish yellow and with black, and spotted with white. Called also yellow crake.
Yellow rattle, Yellow rocket. (Bot.) See under Rattle, and Rocket.
Yellow Sally (Zool.), A greenish or yellowish European stone fly of the genus Chloroperla; -- so called by anglers.
Yellow sculpin (Zool.), The dragonet.
Yellow snake (Zool.), A West Indian boa ({Chilobothrus inornatus) common in Jamaica. It becomes from eight to ten long. The body is yellowish or yellowish green, mixed with black, and anteriorly with black lines.
Yellow spot. (a) (Anat.) A small yellowish spot with a central pit, the fovea centralis, in the center of the retina where vision is most accurate. See Eye.
Yellow spot. (b) (Zool.) A small American butterfly ({Polites Peckius) of the Skipper family. Its wings are brownish, with a large, irregular, bright yellow spot on each of the hind wings, most conspicuous beneath. Called also Peck's skipper. See Illust. under Skipper, n., 5.
Yellow tit (Zool.), Any one of several species of crested titmice of the genus Machlolophus, native of India. The predominating colors of the plumage are yellow and green.
Yellow viper (Zool.), the fer-de-lance.
Yellow warbler (Zool.), Any one of several species of American warblers of the genus Dendroica in which the predominant color is yellow, especially Dendroica aestiva, which is a very abundant and familiar species; -- called also garden warbler, golden warbler, summer yellowbird, summer warbler, and yellow-poll warbler.
Yellow wash (Pharm.), yellow oxide of mercury suspended in water, -- a mixture prepared by adding corrosive sublimate to limewater.
Yellow wren (Zool.) (a) The European willow warbler.
Yellow wren (Zool.) (b) The European wood warbler.
Yellow (v. i.) To become yellow or yellower.
Yellow (n.) A bright golden color, reflecting more light than any other except white; the color of that part of the spectrum which is between the orange and green. "A long motley coat guarded with yellow." -- Shak.
Yellow (n.) A yellow pigment.
{Cadmium yellow}, {Chrome yellow}, {Indigo yellow}, {King's yellow}, etc. See under {Cadmium}, {Chrome}, etc.
{Naples yellow}, A yellow amorphous pigment, used in oil, porcelain, and enamel painting, consisting of a basic lead metantimonate, obtained by fusing together tartar emetic lead nitrate, and common salt.
{Patent yellow} (Old Chem.), A yellow pigment consisting essentially of a lead oxychloride; -- called also {Turner's yellow}.
Yellowed (imp. & p. p.) of Yellow.
Yellowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Yellow.
Yellow (v. t.) To make yellow; to cause to have a yellow tinge or color; to dye yellow.
Yellow (a.) Of the color intermediate between green and orange in the color spectrum; of something resembling the color of an egg yolk [syn: yellow, yellowish, xanthous].
Yellow (a.) Easily frightened [syn: chicken, chickenhearted, lily-livered, white-livered, yellow, yellow-bellied].
Yellow (a.) Changed to a yellowish color by age; "yellowed parchment" [syn: yellow, yellowed].
Yellow (a.) Typical of tabloids; "sensational journalistic reportage of the scandal"; "yellow press" [syn: scandalmongering, sensationalistic, yellow(a)].
Yellow (a.) Cowardly or treacherous; "the little yellow stain of treason" -- M.W.Straight; "too yellow to stand and fight."
Yellow (a.) Affected by jaundice which causes yellowing of skin etc [syn: jaundiced, icteric, yellow].
Yellow (n.) Yellow color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons [syn: yellow, yellowness].
Yellow (v.) Turn yellow; "The pages of the book began to yellow."
Yellow, () A language from SRI proposed to meet the Ironman requirements which led to Ada.
["On the YELLOW Language Submitted to the DoD", E.W. Dijkstra, SIGPLAN Notices 13(10):22-26, Oct 1978].
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Yellowammer (n.) (Zool.) See Yellow-hammer.
Compare: Yellowhammer
Yellowhammer (n.) (Zool.) (a) A common European finch ({Emberiza citrinella). The color of the male is bright yellow on the breast, neck, and sides of the head, with the back yellow and brown, and the top of the head and the tail quills blackish. Called also yellow bunting, scribbling lark, and writing lark. [Written also yellow-ammer.]
Yellowhammer (n.) (Zool.) (b) The flicker. [Local, U. S.]
Yellowbill (n.) (Zool.) The American scoter.
Yellowbird (n.) (Zool.) The American goldfinch, or thistle bird. See Goldfinch.
Yellowbird (n.) (Zool.) The common yellow warbler; -- called also summer yellowbird. See Illust. of Yellow warbler, under Yellow, a.
Yellowbird (n.) Yellow-throated American wood warbler [syn: yellow warbler, golden warbler, yellowbird, Dendroica petechia].
Yellowbird (n.) American finch whose male has yellow body plumage in summer [syn: New World goldfinch, goldfinch, yellowbird, Spinus tristis].
Yellow-covered (a.) Covered or bound in yellow paper.
Yellow-covered literature, Cheap sensational novels and trashy magazines; -- formerly so called from the usual color of their covers. [Colloq. U. S.] -- Bartlett.
Yellow-eyed (a.) Having yellow eyes.
Yellow-eyed grass (Bot.), Any plant of the genus Xyris.
Yellow fever (n.) Caused by a flavivirus transmitted by a mosquito [syn: yellow jack, yellow fever, black vomit].
Yellow Fever (n.) Yellow fever is a serious, potentially deadly flu-like disease spread by mosquitoes. It’s characterized by a high fever and jaundice. Jaundice is yellowing of the skin and eyes, which is why this disease is called yellow fever. This disease is most prevalent in certain parts of Africa and South America. It isn’t curable, but you can prevent it with the yellow fever vaccine.
Yellowfin (n.) (Zool.) A large squeteague.
Yellowfin (n.) May reach 400 pounds; worldwide in tropics [syn: yellowfin, yellowfin tuna, Thunnus albacares].
Yellowfish (n.) (Zool.) A rock trout ({Pleurogrammus monopterygius) found on the coast of Alaska; -- called also striped fish, and Atka mackerel.
Yellow-golds (n.) (Bot.) A certain plant, probably the yellow oxeye. -- B. Jonson.
Compare: Flicker
Flicker (n.) The act of wavering or of fluttering; fluctuation; sudden and brief increase of brightness; as, the last flicker of the dying flame.
Flicker (n.) (Zool.) The golden-winged woodpecker ({Colaptes aurutus); -- so called from its spring note. Called also yellow-hammer, high-holder, pigeon woodpecker, and yucca.
The cackle of the flicker among the oaks. -- Thoureau.
Yellowhammer (n.) (Zool.) A common European finch ({Emberiza citrinella). The color of the male is bright yellow on the breast, neck, and sides of the head, with the back yellow and brown, and the top of the head and the tail quills blackish. Called also yellow bunting, scribbling lark, and writing lark. [Written also yellow-ammer.]
Yellowhammer (n.) The flicker. [Local, U. S.]
Yellowhammer (n.) Large flicker of eastern North America with a red neck and yellow undersurface to wings and tail [syn: yellow-shafted flicker, Colaptes auratus, yellowhammer].
Yellowhammer (n.) European bunting the male being bright yellow [syn: yellowhammer, yellow bunting, Emberiza citrinella].
Yellowing (n.) The act or process of making yellow.
Softened . . . by the yellowing which time has given. -- G. Eliot.
Yellowish (a.) Somewhat yellow; as, amber is of a yellowish color. -- Yel"low*ish*ness, n.
Yellowish (a.) Of the color intermediate between green and orange in the color spectrum; of something resembling the color of an egg yolk [syn: yellow, yellowish, xanthous].
Compare: Tattler
Tattler (n.) One who tattles; an idle talker; one who tells tales. -- Jer. Taylor.
Tattler (n.) (Zool.) Any one of several species of large, long-legged sandpipers belonging to the genus Totanus.
Note: The common American species are the greater tattler, or telltale ({Totanus melanoleucus), the smaller tattler, or lesser yellowlegs ({Totanus flavipes), the solitary tattler ({Totanus solitarius), and the semipalmated tattler, or willet. The first two are called also telltale, telltale spine, telltale tattler, yellowlegs, yellowshanks, and yelper.
Yellowlegs (n.) (Zool.) Any one of several species of long-legged sandpipers of the genus Totanus, in which the legs are bright yellow; -- called also stone snipe, tattler, telltale, yellowshanks; and yellowshins. See Tattler, 2.
Yellowlegs (n.) Either of two North American shorebird with yellow legs.
Yellowness (n.) The quality or state of being yellow; as, the yellowness of an orange.
Yellowness (n.) Jealousy. [Obs.]
I will possess him with yellowness. -- Shak.
Yellowness (n.) Yellow color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons [syn: yellow, yellowness].
Compare: Orangeroot
Orangeroot (n.) (Bot.) An American ranunculaceous plant ({Hidrastis Canadensis), having a yellow tuberous root; -- also called yellowroot, golden seal, etc.
Yellowroot (n.) (Bot.) Any one of several plants with yellow roots. Specifically:
Yellowroot (n.) (Bot.) See Xanthorhiza.