yelling 
Ydlings loud and deep. Drayton. 
Pale spectres grin around me, 
And stihi me with the yellings of damnation. 
Johnson, 
yelloch (yel'och), v. i. [A var. of yelU, with a 
guttural termination.] To sereamj yell; shriek. 
[Scotch.] 
But an auld useless carliiie . . . Qniig herself right in 
my sister's gate, and yelloched and skirled, that you would 
have thought her a whole geuei-ation of honuds. 
Scott, Pirate, xxx. 
yelloch (yel'och), n. [< yellochj r.] A shrill 
cry ; a yell. [Scotch.] 
yellow (yel'o), a. and n. [Also dial. yuUow. 
yalloic, yalk'Tj etc.; < ME. yelow, ycloice^ yelwe, 
gelwCj gelowe, yolwe, gelu, etc., also ^alow, yahi, 
etc.,< AS. (^eolu, geolo (geolw-) = OS. gelo = MD. 
gkelu, D. geel = OHG. ge(o (geltc-), MHG. gel 
{gelic-), G. gelb = Icel. gulr = Sw. Dan. gul^ yel- 
low, = L. helvuSj light-yellow ; akin to Gr. x^M, 
verdure, x^-^P^^' yellowish-green, OBulg. j:€lenu, 
vellow,greea, Lith. zalias, green, Skt. hari, yel- 
low: see chlor-j gold. Perhaps also akin to Gr. 
yoy-n = L. fel, bile, gall, = E. gall: see |/«?/^.] 
I. a. Of a color resembling that of gold, butter, 
etc. See IT, Yellow is sometimes used in the sense of 
'jaundiced,' 'jealous,' etc., the color beinn regarded tui 
a token or »yml)ol of jealousy, envy, melancholy, etc. : a 
usage no douht connected with the figurative notions at- 
taching to jaundice, the skin having a yellow hue iu that 
disease. 
His Nekke is zalowe, aftre colour of an Orielle, that is a 
Ston well schynynge. Mandedlle, Travels, p. 48. 
His here, that was j/fUu and lirigbt, 
Blac it bicome anoiiright. 
Gy of Warwike, p. 220. (Ualliwell,) 
She gave it Cas^io, but thereat 
Wiiy roll your yellow eye? 
Trayedie of Othello the Moor, quoted in Furness's 
[Variorum Othello, p. 398 (App.). 
A primrose by a river's brim 
A yellow primrose was tu him, 
And it was nothing more. 
Wordttworth, Peter Bell, i. 12. 
Acute yellow atrophy of the liver, a <ltsease character 
ized by a granular f.ttiy deg.-ncralion of vari<>us tissues 
of the lK)ty, particularly of the glands and muscles, the 
chanK-'h l>iii;,' usually m^st evident in the liver.— Blue- 
wiuged yellow warbler. >>ee (r/irWe/-.— Imperlalyel- 
low porcelain, f* « i"i i'eri<iL — Kind's yellow worm. 
. Set- redta— Order of the Yellow String, ^unorder.— 
Spotted yellow flycatcher ^ Same as African u-arUer. 
See twirW«r.— Spotted yellow warbler. Hee warbler, 
and cut under trotted. — To wear yellow hose or atock- 
ingat, to be jealous. 
Jealous men are either knaves or coxcombs ; be you 
neither; you toear yellow hotte without cause. 
DeJekerand Webgter, Northward Ho, L 3. 
Yellow adder'B-tongue, admiral, antimony. See 
the noun.s.— Yellow ant, a species of ant, LaxiuH fiavua, 
common to Enropr and N'ortii America.— YellOW ax- 
senlct. See aix/«i ■, 1.— Yellow ash, asphodel, avens. 
See the nonuT;.— Yellow babOOn, the wuud bulfoon. — 
Yellow bacbelor'a-bUttons. See bach'-lor'g button^:. - 
Yellow balsam. (i)The touch-me not, Iinpati-nM Soli- 
tanker^, (b) See />a/*a //I. — Yellow bark, same as Il<>- 
litrian bark (which see, under ftitA--').— YellOW basa, the 
brass-bass. —Yellow bear, the larva of a coninion boin- 
bycid moth, Spiltsnna viriinira, coininonly called the 
Virrrinia tiger-inoth. (I*. S.]— Yellow bedatraw. See 
bedtfr.iWy 2(o).— YellOW belle, a rare British geometrtd 
moth, .4 />*itarc*ei//YinVi.— Yellow berriea. Same as /Vr- 
Wan fferriea fwhirh see, unUr /VrW/;n). -YelloW blrch. 
See WnA.— Yellow bird'B-nest, IIf/p"pif!iit multitl(jra 
iMonofrupa flypopityn). See bird nifxt, 1 ((^).— YellOW 
boa, the yellow snake (see below).- Yellow box, Eitca- 
typtui vieUiodi/ra, of >'ew South vN'ales and Vict/iria, a 
large tree with a thick trunk and spreailing top. The vnunX 
is prized forvariouskind-iof artizans' work, for ship build- 
ing, fuel, etc. The name is also ascrlbetl to the blooilwood, 
k. corymboti, of New South Wales and Queensland, of 
which the wood is very bard when dry, and durable under- 
ground. —YellOW boy. (a) A gold coin. iSlaiig-J 
John did not starve his cause : there wanted not yellow- 
boy» to fee counsel. Arbuthnot, Hist. John Bull, i. 0. 
(6) A mulatto or a dark (|ua'iroon : used (as also yellow 
girl) iKtth by whites and by negroes. [Southern U. S.) — 
Yellow bream, see hreamK 1.— Yellow broom. Set; 
ftrw^nl.— Yellow bugle. same as y round- pine, 1.— 
Yellow bunting, the yeiIovvha)niner.— YeUow butter- 
wort. See /'tH.'/<(K»/rt.— Yellow camomile, candle. 
See the nouns. — YellOW canlcer-worm, the larva of a 
common geouietrid moth, llyhernia tiliaria, commonly 
called the lime-tree irintermoth. |U. S.j— YelloW Car- 
mine, a pigment of % ariabl,? composition. It is generally 
a lake formed from Persian berries or quercitron-bark. — 
Yellow caxtilage, clastic or reticular caitilage; tlliro- 
cartilaue coiitairung yellow elastic filters. See carlilaae 
and retietUar.— Yellow cat, a certain cattish, Leptop» oli- 
vari^, one of the mud cats. See Ae;>?oyj«.— YellOW cedar. 
Same as yelluw n/j/r^xn -YellOW cells, iti ZooL, sarco- 
blasts; |»eciili-ir nucleated structures In the Jtadiolaria, 
containing yellow proto|)la.sni (fKi^sibly parasites). Pasrof. 
—Yellow centaury, (a) Same as yHlow-irorf. (/<) The 
yellow »tar-thi«tle,C''nMiirf a soW'Vm/M.— Yellow chest- 
nut, the yelbiw chestnut oak^ Qif-cuM prinoid'-H (Q. Cax- 
tawa). See chestnut uak. under oaA*.- Yellow cinchona 
bark. See Cin^Aon ).- Yellow clover. See clover, 1.— 
Yellow colors. See II., i.— Yellow copper, same as 
yellowfrr: S-e below. -YellOW COpperas. Sameasrr(;;i- 
a;;i7«,— Yellow coralline, an orauL'c colored dye formed 
from rosolic acM, or aurbi. which latter is produced by the 
7015 
joint action of oxalic and sulphuric acids on carbolic acid. 
—Yellow crake, the yellow rail.— Yellow cranberry- 
worm, the larva of a tortricid moth, Tera$ vacciniivora- 
na, injurious to the cranlierry in tlie United States. Also 
called yellow-headed cranberry- worm, in contradistincticui 
to the hlack-hi-aded cranberry- worm, which latter, also 
called 7i7C-u'or7ft, is the larva of Ithnpfiobota vacciniana. — 
Yellow cress, the winter-cress, Barbarea; also, either of 
two yellow flowered species of water-cress, Sastartixun 
palustie and S. amphibium.—YeUow cypress, a tree, 
Chaiitxcyparis Suikaensis, of nurtliwestern North Amer- 
ica, the most valuable timber-tree of Alaska. \U wood 
is liglit, hard, and close-gruiued, easily worked, and very 
durable in contact with the soil; it receives a beautiful 
satiny polish, and is probably not surpassed as a cabi- 
net-wood among North American trees. It is somewhat 
used in boat- and ship-building, and for furniture, inside 
finish, etc. Also Sitka cypress, yellow cedar.— YeUoW 
dead-nettle. See deadnettle, and veasd-snout. — Yel- 
lOW deal. See Scotch jdn^, vnider ;mwl.— Yellow dock. 
See dock^, 1.— YellOW dog's-tOOth ViolCt. See violet. 
—Yellow dyes. See li , i.— Yellow aye-tree, Xyiojna 
(Coelocline) j^ycarpa, of tropical Africa, a tree whose 
bark is bitter and contains berberine. It artords the 
natives a much-used yellow dye, and in Sierra Leone is 
used topically in the treatment of obstinate ulcers.— Yel- 
low ebony. See ebony, «.— Yellow eglantine. See yel- 
low rose, under nisci.— Yellow elastic cartilage. Same 
as yellow cartilage (see al>ove). — YellOW fever. See 
/«t'^rl.— Yellow fibrous tissue, a kind of tissue distin- 
guished by its yellow color and its great elasticity. It is 
seen iu tiie ligainentum nuchaj of many quadrupeds, iu 
the walls of the arteries, to which it gives its peculiar ehis- 
ticity, in the vocal coid^ of the larynx, and elsewhere.— 
Yellow fiddle wood, same as «/mr-(r(^e.— Yellow finch. 
See tiiu-h i . —Yellow fir. See Orefjon j-iue, under pine'i .— 
Yellow fiag. (a) See/ar/-'. (6) See jfa^/S and yw«.— Yel- 
low flower-de-luce, tlie yellow flag or iris, Irix Pseuda- 
roru«.— Yellow foxglove, Diyitalis Ivtea, of continental 
Europe ; also Gerardia jlava, the downy false foxglove of 
North America.— Yellow gentian, the counnon gentian 
or bitterwort. Gentiana /t/(ea.— YellOW girL See yellow 
boy (b). —Yellow goat. Same as dzeren — YellOW goat'S- 
beard, the common goat's-beard, Trayopogon pratensis. 
— Yellow gowan, a name of various yellow-flowered 
plants, chiefly lianunctdun acrix and other buttercups, 
and Cnltha palutitrix, the marsh-marigold. [Scotch. ]- 
Yellow gum. (a)Sarae as acar.adf/ion (which see, under 
gum-), (b) See y(^n'«H-«/i(m.— Yellow gurnard, haw. 
See the nouns.— YellOW Hercules. Same as prickly 
yellow- wood (see i/«'//'>«'-«v>()(/).— YellOW honeysuckle, 
one of tlie trumpet-honeysuckles, Lonicera fiava, a rare 
plant of high lauds in South Carolina and Georgia, some- 
what in cultivation. The flowci-s are briglit orange-rod 
in terminal capitate clustci-s. The yellow Italian honey- 
suckle is a variety of Lonicera Capr^/ot^^lm.— YellOW 
Iris. Jack, Jasmine, lady's-slipper, lake, lUy. lo- 
cust;, lupine. Sec the nouns.— Yellow lead ore. Same 
as wult'ruite. —YcUow lemurt, macaco*, or macau- 
COt. Same as Ar(>iA-a>'ii.— YellOW loosestrife, Lysiina- 
chia riilyaris. — Yellow mackerel, Caranx pixqwtox.— 
Yellow mastwood. See a an/Ztc-rj/iw)/!.— Yellow meli- 
lot See i/(it7o/tw. —Yellow metal, milk, oak. See 
the nouns.— Yellow mite, Tetranychns aexpttnctattat, the 
common six-spotted rnite, which damages the orange in 
Florida. Also called California ypider. [Florida.]— Yel- 
lOW OCher, the ordinary ocher of commerce, which is usu- 
ally yellow, as distinguished from certain special ochers 
which are red and brown. See ocAer.- YellOW ore, yel- 
low ore of copper; copper pyrites, a sulphuret of copper 
and iron, the most generally distributed of all copper ores. 
[Cornwall (chiefly).]— Yellow oxeye. See oxeye.—Yel- 
low-oxid-of-mercury ointment. See oih^/h^h/.— Yel- 
low perch, {a) See perch, (h) See 3/icro;>^erujt.— Yel- 
lOW phlox, the western wallflower. See walljlowr.— 
Yellow pickerel, pike, pine, see the nouns.- Yellow 
pimpernel. See /,'/^(7rt'7('AiVi.— Yellow pitch. Same 
as Burgundy or white pitch (which see, uniier pitch'^). 
—Yellow plover. See plvrer. — Yellow plum. See 
wild plum, under ;>iHm.— YellOW pond-lily. See pond- 
lily, 1. —Yellow poplar. Same as (w/i;; (re.— Yellow 
puccoon. See Ifydrajiti-fi. Indian jmint (under paint), 
and yeUowrt}ot.—Ye\10W quartZ, false t/jpaz, or citrine. 
See (/unr/z. —Yellow races, the Chinese, Mongolians, 
etc. See Xaitthuchroi.-YeMOW rail, Porzana nove- 
borace7ifis, a vei-y small crake or short-billed rail of 
America, of a jicneral yelh.wiBb cohuation.— YellOW 
rain. See rainl, 2 (a).— Yellow rattle. See rattfel, (i 
(a).— Yellow redpoU. See redpoll, 2, an<i wn rW.' /■.— Yel- 
low remittent fever. Sce/ereri. -Yellow robin, rose, 
sapphire. See the nouns. -Yellow sally. See ^a/Zi/^S 2. 
—Yellow SCUlpin. See Kculpin, 1 and 4.— YellOW slck- 
ness. See gickne^x, and hyacinth, 1.— YcUow snake, the 
West Indian Cfiilobothrus inornatu8,ei boa 8 or 10 feet 
long, of a dull-yeHowish color varied with black, common 
iu Jamaica.— Yellow snake-leaf, yellow snowdrop, 
old names of the yellow adderVtontrue, or dog-tooth 
viidet, Enphronium Atnericanxim.—^YeMoW SOap. See 
Boap, 1. -Yellow sponge. See iHxth-Hponye.— Yellow 
spot, (rt) In ana^ iiti& macula lutea, \m*\ev macula, (b) 
In entom., Peck's skipper, Polites j)eckiut, a small he.spe- 
rian butterfly of America, of a brownish color with a large 
yellow blotch on each hind wing.— YellOW Starch. See 
iitarch2, n., 2. —YellOW Star-Of-Bethlehem. See Gayea. 
—Yellow star-thistle, starwort, suckling, sweet- 
wood. Sec the nouns.— Yellow Sulphur springs wa- 
ter. See (raCcr.- Yellow SWeet-SUltan. S.-e mdtan, 4. 
-Yellow tamarind, tan ager, thistle. See the nouns. 
— YeUow thrusht. same ius un'ol^-, i.— Yellow tit, one 
of several species of Indian timeliine birds of the genus 
}t achlolophux, having the head crested and the plnniaKO 
chiefly yellow or green.— Yellow toad-flax,the c<.inmon 
toad flav.— Yellow trout, ultramarine, underwing, 
wagtail. See the nouns.— Yellow viper, the ferde 
lance- Yellow wall-lichen, a species of lichen. Parme- 
Ha pai"iH(iria. whi'di urows on trees and walls. It yields 
a yellow coloring matter, and is used in intermittent 
fevers.— Yellow warbler, wash, water-cress, water- 
crowfoot, wolfs-bane, wood-sorrel, wren. See the 
nouns.— Yellow water-Illy. See pond-lily, 1.— Yellow 
willow, the trold'ju osier, a variety of the white willow 
(which see, under (n»o(ri).— YellOW yoldring, yorling, 
or yowley, the European yellowhanimer. 
sped with spavins, rayed with the ytl- 
Shak., T. of the S., iii. 2. 54. 
yellow 
II. n. 1. The color of gold, butter, the neu- 
tral chromates of lead,potassa,ete., audof light 
of wave-length about 0.581 micron, it has some 
remarkaljle properties which are due to the fact that by 
far the greater part of the visiide spectrum consists of 
two regions, in either of whicli any three colors being 
taken a suitable mixture of tlie extreme ones will match 
the middle one, and tliat the yellow is about the middle 
of one of these regions which contains four ttlths of all 
the visible lij^ht of the solar spectrum. Tliis reyion is 
boundeil by the scarlet and the emt-rald-green ; the other 
by the emerald-green and the viulet-blue. These thiee 
colors are thus the only ones which cannot be matched by 
mixtures of others. They are also more chromatic or 
high-colored than those which fall between them in the 
spectrum ; for which reasons physicists regard these three 
colors as the elementary ones. (See color.) A remarkable 
property of yellow is that an increase of light merely 
intensifles the sensation with a blight heightening of the 
color, without changing the hue ; while blue, on the other 
hand, is rendered pale by increased illumination, and all 
other colors are rendered yellowish. The name yellow 
is restricted to highly chromatic and luminous colors. 
When reduced in chroma, it becomes buff ; when reduced 
in luminosity, a cool brown. Mixed with red, yellow goes 
over into orange ; mixed with green, into yellow-green. 
Lemon-yellow and canary-yellow may be taken as jmre 
yellows, the latter being a little greener. Sulphur-yellow 
is a little greenish ; primrose is a little greenish and pale ; 
gamboge is a very slightly orange yellow. By chrome- 
yellow is usually meant a little more orange and most in- 
tensely chromatic color. Indian, cadmium, and saffron 
yellows are orange-yellows ; Naples yellow and maize-yel- 
low are pale orange-yellows. Ocher-yellow, clay-yellow, 
and wax-yellow are of somewhat diminished chroma, the 
first a little orange, and the last a little green. It is im- 
possible to descrihe the yellows more precisely, as the 
slightest causes— for example, a little thicker layer of 
paint, or illumination from another part of the sky — 
change their hues decidedly. 
The cercles of his eyeu in his heed 
They gloweden bitwixe i/elow and reed. 
Chaucer^ Knight's Tale, 1. 1274. 
Your French-crown-colour beard, your perfect yellow. 
Shak., M. N. D., i. 2. 98. 
2. The yolk of an egg; the vitellus: opposed 
to the ivhitc, or the sun-ounding albtimen. — 3. 
pi. Jaundice, especially jaundice in cattle (see 
jaundice); hence, figuratively, jealousy. 
His horse, , 
lows. 
Thy blood is yetnncorrupted, yellows has not tainted it. 
Tu'o Lancashire Lovers (1040), p. 27. (Halliwell.) 
4. ph Dyer's-weed. ITalliu-cll. [Prov. Eng.] 
— 5. Same ni^ peach-ycllou's. 
The yellows is its [the peach's] most fatal disease. 
A'ew Amer. Farm Book, p. 232. 
6. One of certain geometrid motlis: an English 
collectors' name: as, the speckled yellow. — 7. 
Any one of tiie group of small yellow butterflies ; 
a sulpliur. See sulphur, «., 3 — Antimony yellow, 
yellow antimony. Seen«f/mo«y.— CasselvellOW. Same 
as mineral yellow.— ChSjiem yelloW. Same as king's 
yellow. — Cohdlt yellow, a pigment used by artists, com- 
posed of the double nitrite of potassium and cobalt. It 
is permanent, and nuu-e closely resembles the yellow of 
the spectrum than any other pigment.— Fast yellow. 
Same as addyellow.—YoV^ yellOW, a color formerly used 
in dyeing, made by lieating carbolic acid and arsenic in a 
pot. It dyes wool ami silk yellow, and gives red shades 
with lime.— Imperial yellow, in ceram., a variety of 
Chinese porcelain having a uniform yellow g;laze, said to 
be reserved for the use of the imperial family or court; 
also, by extension, porcelain nf any make supposed to 
resemble this in color. — Indian yellow, a bright yel- 
low jiigment obtained in India. It is supjiosed to be the 
earth dug up from the stables where cows have been 
housed during the winter and fed on mango-leaves. In 
its crude form it comes in commerce in balls of from 3 
to 5 inches, having an ofTensive urinous odor. It is an 
impure magnesium salt of euxanthic acid. For artistic 
purposes it is washed and levigated, the foreign ma- 
terial being carefully f^ejiarated. Thus purified it gives 
an orange-yellow of great dejith and beauty. It is quite 
permanent, and is used both as an oil and as a water color. 
— King's yellow, a pigment formed by subliming a 
mixture of avseuious oxid and sulphur. It consists of 
arsenious acid and arsenic trisulphid, or orpiment. Also 
Chinese yellow.— Madder-yellOW, a lake jtrepared from 
madder-root. It is bright in tone, somewhat similar to 
Indian yellow, but more transparent.— Manchester yel- 
low, a coal-tar color used in dyehig, being the sodium or 
calcmm salt of dinitro-alpha-nuphtliol. It is applicable to 
silk and wool, producing shades from pale lemon to deep 
orange. It is not fast to light. It is also known as Mar- 
tius's vdlow, naphthol yellow, golden yellow, mjfron yellow, 
naphihalene yellotv. — 'S/laTS yellOW, an artificially pre- 
pared oxid of iron, resembling the natural yellow other. 
It is used by artists as a pigment.— Martius's yellow. 
Same as Manchi'ster j/c^/ow.— Mineral yelloW. See min- 
eral.— tHonXveUxev yellow. Same as mineral yellow.— 
Naples yellow, a light-yellow pigment of various shades 
and of varying eoniposition. The true pigment is a basic 
antimoniate of lead, but it is imitated by mixtures, as of 
cadmium-yellow and zinc-white, or of white lead and 
chrome-yellow. It has a good body, and is quite perma- 
nent.— Paris yellow. Same as chri»nie-yel'on: — 'Pa,teTlt 
yellow. Same as mineral yellow.- TeTfect yellOW, 
chroniate of zinc, used as a pigment by artists. It is a 
liglit, bright yellow, and is quite pernunient.— Resorcl- 
nal yellow, same as //YJ/zp'*///*. Speckled yellow. 
See si)crklt'd. — Strontian yellow. See stnmiiun.— Tur- 
ner's yellow, an oxyclil(U'id of lead employed as a yellow 
pigment : same as minrral yellow. 
yellow {yd'o), r. [< yellow, a.'] I. trans. To 
render vellow. 
