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yellowadj.n.  Brit.  /ˈjɛləʊ/, U.S. /ˈjɛloʊ/ (in sense A. 4b) West African English /ˈjɛlo/Forms: α. early Old English gæle, early Old English geholu (perhaps transmission error), early Old English gelo, early Old English gelu, early Old English gelum (transmission error), early Old English giola (rare), early Old English giolu (rare), early Old English gioluw- (inflected form), early Old English giolw- (inflected form), early Old English goelu (Northumbrian, probably transmission error), Old English gelew- (inflected form, rare), Old English geola, Old English geolew- (inflected form), Old English geolow- (inflected form), Old English geolu, Old English geoluw (rare), Old English geoluw- (inflected form), Old English geolw- (inflected form), Old English (rare)–early Middle English (in compound) geole, Old English–early Middle English geolo, early Middle English geleu, early Middle English gelewe (in surname), early Middle English geoleu, early Middle English ȝeluw- (inflected form), early Middle English ȝeoleu, early Middle English ȝeolew- (inflected form), early Middle English ȝeolow, early Middle English ȝeolu, early Middle English ȝeoluh, early Middle English ȝeoluw- (inflected form), early Middle English ȝoelou, early Middle English ȝoelu, Middle English ȝealwe, Middle English ȝeleuȝ, Middle English ȝeleuhe, Middle English ȝelew, Middle English ȝelewe, Middle English ȝelewȝ, Middle English ȝelewȝe, Middle English ȝelewhe, Middle English ȝelȝ, Middle English ȝelhew, Middle English ȝelhewe, Middle English ȝelhw, Middle English ȝelhwe, Middle English ȝellow, Middle English ȝelo, Middle English ȝelogh, Middle English ȝelou, Middle English ȝelouȝ, Middle English ȝelow, Middle English ȝelowe, Middle English ȝelowȝ, Middle English ȝelowȝe, Middle English ȝelowhe, Middle English ȝelu, Middle English ȝelugh, Middle English ȝeluȝ, Middle English ȝeluw, Middle English ȝelw, Middle English ȝelwe, Middle English ȝelwȝ, Middle English ȝilwe, Middle English jelow, Middle English yele- (in a compound), Middle English yelew, Middle English yelle- (in a compound), Middle English yelo, Middle English yeloe, Middle English yeloo, Middle English yelough, Middle English yeloughe, Middle English yelu, Middle English yelw, Middle English yelwe, Middle English–1500s yelowe, Middle English–1600s yealow, Middle English–1600s yelow, 1500s yealowe, 1500s yelloo, 1500s yeloowe, 1500s yeloue, 1500s–1600s yellowe, 1500s–1700s yeallow, 1500s– yellow, 1800s yilley (Irish English (northern)), 1800s– yeller (regional and nonstandard), 1800s– yillow (U.S. regional (southern)), 1900s– yella (regional and nonstandard), 1900s– yillie (Irish English (northern)), 2000s– yello (Welsh English); Scottish pre-1700 ȝeallow, pre-1700 ȝealow, pre-1700 ȝello, pre-1700 ȝellow, pre-1700 yaillow, pre-1700 yeallow, pre-1700 yealowe, pre-1700 1700s– yellow, 1900s– yella, 1900s– yellae, 1900s– yelly, 1900s– yilloo (Orkney). eOE (Northumbrian) Leiden Riddle 10 Uyrmas mec ni auefun uyrdi craeftum, ða ði goelu [OE Exeter Riddle 35 geolo] godueb geatum fraetuath.OE Beowulf (2008) 2610 Hond rond gefeng, geolwe linde.a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 51 Blake tadden..ȝeluwe froggen and crabben.c1300 St. Eustace (Laud) l. 182 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 398 With red heued, ȝeolu and crips.c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 5881 Wyþ eȝene graye, and browes bent, And ȝealwe traces.a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) l. 3978 Þe ye þat ys ful of Iawnes, Alle þenkeþ hym ȝelogh yn hys auys.c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 675 This Perdoner hadde heer as yelow [c1415 Lansd. ȝalowe, c1425 Petworth ȝelowe, c1430 Cambr. Gg.4.27 ȝelw] as wex . ▸ 1440 Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 537 Ȝelhwe of colure [?a1475 Winch. ȝelhewe, 1499 Pynson ȝelowe colowre, a1500 King's Cambr. ȝelwe].1514 in J. S. Brewer Lett. & Papers Reign Henry VIII (1920) I. ii. 1123 12 yards of yellow damask.1553 T. Paynell tr. Dares Faythfull & True Storye Destr. Troye f. 17v Their heere was somwhat yelowe.1686 in G. F. Dow Town Rec. Topsfield, Mass., 1659–1739 (1917) I. 59 A heape of rocks nere to a black or a yealow oack.1750 G. G. Beekman Let. 27 Aug. in Beekman Mercantile Papers (1956) I. 115 It Must not be such yeallow Sort as Comes from Bristol.1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan I. 160 A double handful o' the royal goold; the ginooine yeller stuff.1925 C. P. Slater Marget Pow 106 We've kept a bonny wee yelly one.1963 J. Havoc Marathon '33 i. 32 Ya yella-bellies!2014 Daily Tel. 18 Dec. 27/1 Take a tablespoon, lift the butter dish and stir two great dollops of the yellow stuff into your coffee. β. Middle English ȝolew, Middle English ȝolewe, Middle English ȝolȝe, Middle English ȝoloȝ, Middle English ȝolou, Middle English ȝolouȝ, Middle English ȝolouh, Middle English ȝolow, Middle English ȝolowe, Middle English ȝolowȝ, Middle English ȝolowhe, Middle English ȝolw, Middle English ȝolwe, Middle English yolare (probably transmission error), Middle English yolew, Middle English yolgh, Middle English yoloe, Middle English yoluest (superlative), Middle English yolw, Middle English yolwe, Middle English–1500s yollowe, Middle English–1500s yolow, Middle English–1500s yolowe, Middle English (1800s English regional (Yorkshire) and U.S. regional (South Carolina)) yollow, 1500s yolo, 1600s jollow, 1800s yollo (English regional (Yorkshire)), 1800s yuller (English regional (London) and U.S. regional), 1800s yullou (Irish English (Wexford)), 1800s–1900s yoller (U.S. regional (New York)), 1900s yolleh (English regional (Yorkshire)), 1900s– yollow (English regional (northern) and U.S. regional, now rare); Scottish pre-1700 ȝollow, pre-1700 yholowe. a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 53 Þe ȝolewe frogge.c1390 Pistel of Swete Susan (Vernon) l. 192 Hir hed was ȝolow as wyre Of gold fyned wiþ fyre. ▸ ?1440 tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) i. l. 579 Ek best are hennis blake, & werst ar white And good ar yolgh.1520 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1884) V. 119 To Marjory Conyers a yolow ryban.1571 in A. Feuillerat Documents Office of Revels Queen Elizabeth (1908) 146 One maske was yolowe.1688 J. A. Colom Zea-Atlas sig. B2 The Inhabitants are white or jollow Mores, commonly an upright and good..people.1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) (at cited word) As yollo as a daffodowndilly.1888 S. O. Addy Gloss. Words Sheffield Yollow, yellow.1915 Scribner's Mag. Dec. 654/2 All in high yoller letters.1946 in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (2012) V. at Yellow What color would you say the yolk of the egg is?..Response:..‘old-fashioned’: yillow, yollow. γ. Middle English ȝalo, Middle English ȝalow, Middle English ȝalowe, Middle English ȝalu, Middle English ȝalwe, Middle English ȝhalew, Middle English ȝhalowe (northern), Middle English yalew, Middle English–1500s yallowe, Middle English–1500s yalow, Middle English–1600s yalowe, Middle English– yallow (English regional (chiefly northern) and Irish English in later use), 1500s yalley, 1800s yalla (English regional and Irish English), 1800s yallo (English regional (Yorkshire)), 1800s– yaller (English regional), 1900s yalleh (English regional (Yorkshire)), 1900s– yallie (Irish English (northern)); Scottish pre-1700 ȝallo, pre-1700 ȝallou, pre-1700 ȝallow, pre-1700 ȝalou, pre-1700 ȝalow, pre-1700 yallo, pre-1700 yallou, pre-1700 yallowe, pre-1700 yhalou, pre-1700 1700s– yallow, 1800s– yalla (Scottish), 1900s yallie; U.S. regional 1800s yallo, 1800s yallow (south-eastern), 1800s– yallah, 1800s– yaller, 1900s– yalluh (southern (in African-American usage)). c1330 Horn Child l. 1051 in J. Hall King Horn (1901) 191 Moioun queintise is ȝalu & wan. ▸ a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Gen. xxx. 32 Seuer alle þi speckyd schepe & with speckid flese, & what euere ȝalow [L. furvum].?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 31 His nekke is ȝalow.c1480 (a1400) St. Placidus 23 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 69 Quhen for elde..his tetht waxis ȝalou with-al.1500 Ortus Vocabulaorum sig. Qiiij/1 Glaucus, ȝalo or yrne graye.1535 Bible (Coverdale) Jer. x. 9 Clothed with yalow sylck and scarlet.1546 in J. W. Clay Testamenta Eboracensia (1902) VI. 239 Too yalley coverlettes.c1653 in F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1907) I. 535 Yalowe haire sumpter trunkes.a1657 W. Mure Wks. (1898) I. ix. 55 Yallow curls of gold.1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker III. 274 As our apartment is to be the yallow pepper, in the thurd story, pray carry my things thither.1849 G. Cupples Green Hand p. i A fat fellow with red breeches and yaller swabs on his shoulders, like a captain of marines.1863 Macmillan's Mag. Dec. 101 ‘Do you remember the lilies at Stanlake?’..‘Acres on 'em,..Yallah ones as well.’1926 ‘H. MacDiarmid’ Drunk Man looks at Thistle 25 Or is this Heaven, this yalla licht, And I the aft'rins o' the Earth?2007 Sewanee Rev. 115 50 A big yaller rat snake. δ. Middle English ȝaulew, 1500s ewlow, 1500s jowllo, 1500s yeolowe, 1500s yewlow, 1500s youlow, 1500s–1600s yeolow, 1500s–1600s youlowe; also Scottish pre-1700 ȝaulow. c1330 Seven Sages (Auch.) (1933) l. 344 Here ȝaulew here Out of þe tresses sche hit tere.1513 Inventory Henry VIII in Archaeologia 66 343 A pece of youlowe lawne.1541 in G. J. Piccope Lancs. & Cheshire Wills (1857) I. 80 iij old ewlow quishens.1550 in G. J. Piccope Lancs. & Cheshire Wills (1860) II. 103 A yewlow coverlet.1591 E. Spenser Ruines of Time in Complaints 10 Rending her yeolow locks.1636 T. Grymes Honest & Plaine Dealing Farier sig. B3v Take the roote of gladine that beares the yeolow flower. Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: Cognate with Old Frisian gēl (West Frisian giel ), Middle Dutch gele , gelu , geel (Dutch geel , (now regional) geluw ), Old Saxon gelo (Middle Low German gēl ), Old High German gelo (Middle High German gel , gelw- , German gelb ) < the same Indo-European base as classical Latin helvus greyish yellow, Early Irish gel white (Irish geal ), Welsh †gell bay, brown, Lithuanian želvas greenish, suffixed form (with labial suffix) of the Indo-European base of Sanskrit hari yellow, fawn, Avestan zairi yellow, Persian zar gold (compare zari n.).Compare (with different ablaut: zero-grade) Old Icelandic gulr , Old Swedish, Swedish gul , Old Danish guul (Danish gul ), all in sense ‘yellow’. Compare also (with various ablaut grades and suffixes), Sanskrit hiraṇya , Avestan zaranya- , both in sense ‘gold’ (compare gold n.1), ancient Greek χλωρός pale green, yellow (compare chloro- comb. form1), Old Church Slavonic zelenŭ green, Russian žëltyj yellow, Lithuanian žalias green, geltas yellow, as well as classical Latin holus vegetable, Old Church Slavonic zelije , Old Prussian soalis , and Lithuanian žolė , all in senses ‘plant, grass, herb’. Compare further gall n.1 and gold n.1 Form history. The Germanic base had a stem-final -l- plus semivowel -w- , which in Old English regularly developed as final -u in uninflected forms (nominative singular of all genders and neuter accusative singular and plural geolu ; a rare instrumental singular geole is also attested). The modern English standard form continues the inflected stem, with an epenthetic vowel (compare Old English geoluw- ). The origin of the diphthong in Old English geol- , geolw- has been the subject of dispute, but it is now commonly assumed to be the result of breaking before -lw- in inflected forms and subsequent levelling of the diphthong to uninflected forms; the alternative explanation, back mutation in the uninflected form, with subsequent levelling to the inflected forms, appears to pose more serious problems. The β. forms apparently chiefly reflect shift of stress within the diphthong eo to its second element. However, the earliest β. forms probably represent the regular west midland and south-western development of Old English eo into a mid front rounded vowel. The γ. forms apparently developed from the β. forms, showing unrounding of short ŏ to ă (see E. J. Dobson Eng. Pronunciation 1500–1700 (ed. 2, 1968) II. §87), but influence from fallow adj.1 has also been suggested. Specific senses. For specialized uses of the plural in singular sense, see yellows n. With use with specific reference to people of African descent (see sense A. 4b) compare earlier yellowskin adj. With use with reference to journalism (see sense A. 8b) compare the note at the definition. With use with reference to trade unionism (see sense A. 10) compare the note at the definition. In use as noun in Old English apparently partly representing use of the adjective as noun and partly an older neuter derivative of the same base, with the latter attested most clearly in use with reference to egg yolk (compare quots. eOE1, eOE3 at sense B. 2b). In Old English, use as adverb occasionally occurs in the forms geolwe , geole (probably adverbial use of the instrumental), modifying adjectives designating another colour or with colour connotations (compare Compounds 1c(a), Compounds 1c(b)). This can be difficult to distinguish from similar use as the first element in compounds. A. adj. 1. the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > [adjective] eOE (Northumbrian) 10 Uyrmas mec ni auefun uyrdi craeftum, ða ði goelu [OE Exeter Riddle 35 geolo] godueb geatum fraetuath. OE (2008) 2610 Hond rond gefeng, geolwe linde. a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris (1868) 1st Ser. 51 Blake tadden..ȝeluwe froggen and crabben. c1330 Horn Child l. 1054 in J. Hall (1901) 191 (MED) Wikeles queintise is ȝalu & grene, Floure de liis sett bi tvene. a1382 (Bodl. 959) (1959) Gen. xxx. 32 Seuer alle þi speckyd schepe & with speckid flese, & what euere ȝalow [L. furvum]. 1431 in H. Littlehales (1905) 27 Also j ȝelew cope of selk. (Harl. 221) 537 Ȝelhwe of colure [?a1475 Winch. ȝelhewe, 1499 Pynson ȝelowe colowre, a1500 King's Cambr. ȝelwe], glaucus. c1480 (a1400) St. Placidus 23 in W. M. Metcalfe (1896) II. 69 Quhen for elde..his tetht waxis ȝalou with-al. 1483 (BL Add. 89074) (1881) 425 Ȝalowe, aureus. ?1523 J. Fitzherbert f. ix Red otes are the best otes, and whanne they be thresshed they be yelowe in the busshell. 1535 Jer. x. 9 Clothed with yalow sylck and scarlet. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) ii. v. 148 Remember who commended thy yellow stockings, and wish'd to see thee euer crosse garter'd. View more context for this quotation 1645 J. Milton Song: On May Morning in 26 The yellow Cowslip, and the pale Primrose. 1664 R. Turner 86 [At] the top [of the stalk]..doth stand many pale yellow star-like flowers in green heads. 1726 J. Laurence 440 The Aconite..displays its yellow Blossoms commonly the very Beginning of January. 1785 W. Cowper vi. 302 King-cups in the yellow mead. 1849 G. Cupples p. i A fat fellow with red breeches and yaller swabs on his shoulders, like a captain of marines. 1871 J. R. Lowell 40 The evening lamps look yellower by contrast with the snow. 1922 J. Cannan 201 A tall man in plus fours and a yellow waistcoat. 1944 J. R. R. Tolkien 18 Jan. (1995) 68 Clumps of yellow crocus are out. 1976 May 11/2 His neck was stretched upward to its full length and his bright yellow bill was wide open. 2000 A. Sayle 38 She thought £1.70 was too much—she'd only pay that for pilau rice because that was yellow and had bits in it. the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > yellowness > [adjective] eOE Prose Charm: Against Elf-Sickness (Royal 12 D.xvii) in G. Storms (1948) 224 Gif him biþ ælfsogoða, him beoþ þa eagan geolwe þær hi reade beon sceoldon. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. iv. x. 159 If corupt colera haþ þe maistrie in þe body, þe skyn is ȝelowȝ [L. glauca] oþir citrine. a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng (Harl.) l. 3978 (MED) Þe ye þat ys ful of Iawnes, Alle þenkeþ hym ȝelogh yn hys auys. c1400 (?c1390) (1940) l. 951 Bot vn-lyke on to loke þo ladyes were, For if þe ȝonge watȝ ȝep, ȝolȝe watȝ þat oþer. a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer (Hunterian) (1891) l. 310 Sorowe thought and gret distresse..Made hir ful yolare [perhaps read yolowe]. a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. (Rawl.) (1898) 222 Yolow coloure in the face meddelite with palnesse. 1564 P. Moore i. vii. f. xivv Coloure of the eyes and face yelowe, like the iaundise. 1600 W. Shakespeare i. ii. 182 Haue you not a moist eie, a dry hand, a yelow cheeke, a white beard. View more context for this quotation 1688 R. Holme ii. 428/1 Morphew is a disease that dyeth the skin yellow. 1756 (Royal Soc.) 10 936 These infant negroes, labouring under an icterus, look of a yellow colour. 1770 22 Feb. Does not your cheek turn yellow with envy, in considering the incorrupt inflexibility of Shelburne? 1818 Ld. Byron lxxxviii. 45 No, I never Saw a man grown so yellow! How's your liver? 1836 C. Dickens 1st Ser. II. 319 ‘The Misses Crumpton’, were..very upright, and very yellow. 1911 Sept. 371/1 She came into my office with a yellow skin, but very little evidence of the condition she was in. 2009 M. Phillips & H. Liftin xvi. 136 She looked up at me and said, ‘Your eyes look yellow.’ By the next morning my skin was yellow too. I had hepatitis B. the world > life > the body > hair > colour of hair > [adjective] > light hair OE (1966) 187 Flaua cesaries, geola feax. a1275 St. Margaret (Trin. Cambr.) l. 138 in A. S. M. Clark (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Michigan) (1972) 44 Ar herte was ful sore for hire wite fleisc ant for ir yelewe here. c1300 St. Eustace (Laud) l. 182 in C. Horstmann (1887) 398 With red heued, ȝeolu and crips. c1330 Sir Degare (Auch.) l. 784 in W. H. French & C. B. Hale (1930) 311 (MED) Boþe his berd and his fax Was crisp an ȝhalew as wax. c1390 (Vernon) l. 192 Hir hed was ȝolow as wyre Of gold fyned wiþ fyre. c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 675 This Perdoner hadde heer as yelow as wex [v.rr. ȝelw, ȝelowe, ȝalowe]. 1440 J. Capgrave (1977) l. 1140 Sche had fayre ȝelow here. 1591 E. Spenser Ruines of Time in 10 Rending her yeolow locks. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) i. iv. 21 He hath but a little wee-face; with a little yellow Beard. 1721 E. Ward 24 Some of a Scotch Complexion were, With freckly Cheeks and yellow Hair. 1895 Nov. 135/2 A little fairy with yellow curls who was pelting him with bon bons. 1922 C. E. Montague vii. 91 The average German soldier, the docile blond with yellow hair, long skull, and blue..eyes. 1993 17 Apr. (Weekend section) 18/4 [The boxer] bobs around in a natty shirt and yellow dreadlocks. 2010 26 July 65/2 The cook's wife, who had..a dishlike face, mean little eyes, and a dirty cloud of yellow hair. the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > decayed > decaying 1566 W. Painter I. xx. f. 43 When the Wheate was yelowe, her litle ones were not fledged. 1590 R. Greene ii. sig. L The riping corne growes yeolow in the stalke. 1609 W. Shakespeare civ. sig. G2v Three Winters colde, Haue from the forrests shooke three summers pride, Three beautious springs to yellow Autumne turn'd. View more context for this quotation 1667 J. Milton xi. 435 The green Eare, and the yellow Sheaf. View more context for this quotation 1730 J. Thomson Autumn in 186 When Autumn's yellow lustre gilds the world. 1796 12 116 Brief paper, even and thin, but yellow with age. 1849 G. P. R. James I. vii. 132 The yellow autumn time of the year. 1850 R. W. Emerson Shakspeare in v. 199 They [sc. the Shakspeare Society] have left..no file of old yellow accounts to decompose..to discover whether the boy Shakspeare poached. 1876 G. W. Thornbury 201 Dead yellow Autumn lurks amid The laurel's glossy leaves. 1914 15 June 471/1 Turning over the big yellow pages of the issue of June 9, 1864, in search of a suitable quotation for our ‘Fifty Years Ago’ department. 1988 J. Frame xi. 71 Many homes had an old piano with stiff yellow keys. 2016 (Nexis) 20 Aug. (Gardening section) 2 Remove old yellow and diseased leaves from courgettes, cucumbers and melons. the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [adjective] > starched the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing agents > [adjective] > starching preparations 1587 A. Fleming et al. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1287/2 Threescore of the most comelie yoong men of the citie, as batchellers apparelled all in blacke satten dublets, blacke hose, blacke taffata hats, and yellow bands. 1614 R. Niccols xii. sig. C8 Loud gingling spurres he wore, to bid them stand And view the fashion of his yellow band. 1615 N. Grenfield 118 He makes no mention of the yellow Ruffes, of their perfumed shagged haire, which neuer grew vpon their owne head. 1618 (new ed.) 4 Yellow bands are become so common, to euery young giddy-headed Gallant, and light heeld Mistresse, that me thinks a man should not hardly be hanged without a yellow band, a fashion so much in vse with the vaine fantasticke fooles of this age. a1627 T. Middleton et al. (1652) v. i. 53 That Suit..will disgrace my Masters fashion for ever, and make it as hatefull as yellow bands. a1650 S. D'Ewes (1845) (modernized text) I. v. 79 Mrs. Turner had first brought up that vain and foolish use of yellow starch, coming herself to her trial in a yellow band and cuffs; and therefore, when she was afterwards executed at Tyburn, the hangman had his band and cuffs of the same colour, which made many after that day of either sex to forbear the use of that coloured starch, till it at last grew generally to be detested and disused. 1662 sig. L Mrs. Turner in her yellow Ruff & Cuff being put into a cart was carried to Tyburn and there executed. 1674 J. Prince Ep. Ded. sig. A2v The Notion of the present Virtue we find with some, differs as much from the Ancient, as the Mode-Cravett, does from the Yellow Ruffs of our Ancestors. 1747 W. Warburton in W. Shakespeare III. 91 She [sc. Anne Turner] was hanged at Tyburn, and would die in a yellow ruff of her own invention. 1876 2 278/1 Mrs. Anne Turner..was hung at Tyburn in a yellow ruff. 1995 58 181 Anne Turner's case—and the peculiar detail of the yellow ruff—allows us one perspective on the making and meaning of the greatest court scandal of the seventeenth century. 1654 E. Gayton iii. ix. 127 The view of an old Wallet, lin'd with yellow Boyes, Turn'd his Asse-Funeralls to gallant joyes. 1665 J. Davies tr. P. Scarron (new ed.) ii. 121 What a number of good yellow pieces they got together, will not easily be credited. 1741 16 Jan. 3/2 I ask'd him what Money it was? he said it was brave large yellow Money. 1764 28 July 253/2 I saw Bareav take a yellow watch out of Lacey's hands. 1822 A. Thornton II. xix. 406 Regular markets in various public and private houses are kept by the principal agents, who receive the white and yellow queer, as it is called, from the wholesale houses. 1894 J. D. Astley II. xvi. 276 [He] returned to ask me ‘what colour it [sc. a watch] was’. I said it was a yellow (gold) one. 1921 G. F. Lydston iv. 51 A h'off-colored spark, a leather wit a kid's roll h'in it, an' a yellow clock an' slang [i.e. watch and chain] that looks like it might h'a been 'is grandpa's. 1927 5 467 Yellow one, a gold watch. 1980 P. O'Farrell 15 That fellow has the yellow kelters and plenty—he is rich. 1824 in E. Milligan tr. F. Magendie Appendix 485 The yellow elastic tissue of animals, in which the proportion of fatty matter is greater than in the tendons, presents the same phenomena. 1834 29 Nov. 342/2 This property, I say, resides in the elastic tissue, in the yellow fibres composing the middle coats of the arteries. 1861 J. Leidy iii. 175 It [sc. elastic tissue] composes the yellow ligaments of the vertebral arches. 1906 G. Mann xi. 557 In ordinary tendons, but also in yellow tendons, such as the ligamentum nuchæ, white fibrous tissue occurs as fibrils along with yellow fibrous tissue, composed of elastin, and along with mucin. 1910 F. J. S. Gorgas 326 Yellow cartilage has round or oval cells containing nuclei and nucleoli. 1966 S. Seifter & P. M. Gallop in H. Neurath (ed. 2) IV. xx. 179 Elastic tissue, like elastin, has a yellow appearance and is often referred to as ‘yellow connective tissue’. 2009 J. Clancy & A. J. McVicar (ed. 3) ii. 56/2 There are four types of true connective tissue: white fibrous tissue, yellow elastic tissue, loose areolar connective tissue, and adipose connective tissue. 1878 13 July 8/5 Yellow Sponge... Nine eggs, whites and yolks, beaten separate,..one pint sugar, one pint flour [etc.]. 1881 26 Yellow Cake.—2 cups sugar, 1 do. butter, 1 do. milk, 4 do. flour, the yolks of 8 eggs [etc.]. 1921 15 Sept. 560/1 Three-layer cake, consisting of one layer of yellow cake between two layers of chocolate cake. 1975 3 Feb. 25/2 The cake..was made of thin layers of yellow sponge cake and filled with a whipped cream laced with brandy. 2005 E. Klivans iii. 30 Chocolate cupcakes with billows of white frosting, or yellow cupcakes with vanilla buttercream. the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > wearing specific coloured clothing a1350 in R. H. Robbins (1959) 26 Þer stont vp a ȝeolumon, ȝeȝeþ wiþ a ȝerde, ant hat out an heh þat al þe hyrt herde. 1598 L. A. tr. M. Martínez xx. sig. Hh4v In this seconde battle was plainely seene what aduantage the yellow Knight had ouer his aduersarie. 1634 J. Russell 59 His Yellow Regiment so bravely led, That now they might have di'd their Name quite red. 1770 G. Baretti I. xix. 127 The bull bursts out and makes to the yellow knight who stands ready to receive him. 1848 W. M. Thackeray lxvi. 610 The yellow postilion was cracking his whip gently. 1901 6 Dec. 9/2 Before the yellow men from Iowa realized what had been taking place, our score had begun. 2008 (Nexis) 17 June (Neighbor section) 1 Moments later, a girl on the yellow team nearly swiped the red flag. 3. the mind > emotion > jealousy or envy > [adjective] > jealous the mind > emotion > jealousy or envy > be or become jealous or envious [verb (intransitive)] > be jealous c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 1071 Ialousye That wered of yelowe gooldes a gerland. a1600 T. Deloney (1612) ii. sig. A4v Fie, fie, vpon these yellow hose..haue wee thus long bin your wiues, and do you now mistrust vs? 1602 T. Dekker sig. G4 Ha, ha, ha; by my ventoy (yellow Lady) you take your marke improper. 1607 T. Dekker & J. Webster i. sig. B2v Iealous men are eyther knaues or Coxcombes, bee you neither: you weare yellow hose without cause. 1623 P. Massinger iv. ii. sig. I1v If I were The Duke..I should weare yellow breeches. ?1629 M. Parker (single sheet) Why therefore, Shouldst thou deplore, Or weare stockings that are yellow. 1632 P. Massinger & N. Field iii. sig. F4 If my Lord Bee now growne yellow. 1665 R. Brathwait 91 Your yellow humour interprets this to be too much familiarity. 1710 E. Ward I. xx. 248 Yet tho' your Kinsman be a jolly Fellow, Am I i'th' least (as Women call it) Yellow? 1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in II. 226 Yellow, jealous; a jealous husband is called a yellow gloak. 1858 H. Aïdé II. i. 7 Well, the filly's cut you out, Rita: won in a canter, you see! You've got to wear the yellow shoes, and all your own fault. the mind > emotion > fear > cowardice or pusillanimity > [adjective] 1856 3 May 1/2 Though you [sc. P. T. Barnum] thought our minds were green, We never thought your heart was yellow. 1892 19 Sept. 3/1 They..said..that I could not hit hard, and that I had a ‘yellow streak’—meaning that I was afraid. 1900 5 Nov. Simply tell him that he is a base and cowardly falsifier and slanderer, and ask the yellow coward to remember that he is maliciously lying about as gallant fellows as ever carried sword or musket. 1918 J. M. Grider (1927) 264 One of our noblest he-men, a regular fire-eater to hear him tell it, has turned yellow at the front. 1932 E. Wallace xv. 121 The yellow jury..acquitted 'em on a murder charge. 1974 30 Jan. 24/3 It frightens me when moderate voices are taken to be from weak and yellow men. 2006 R. Croker (2007) 39 Grab those yellow bastards by the hair if you have to and drag 'em back to their guns! 4. the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > Mongol > [adjective] ?1562 W. Ward tr. R. Roussat sig. Q.ii It sygnifyeth the man to be iniurious..and specially yf he be of an adust colour and somewhat blacke or elles yellow [Fr. iaune]. 1612 B. Jonson iv. iii. sig. I3 Your sciruy, yellow Madril [1616 Madrid] face is welcome. View more context for this quotation 1688 J. A. Colom sig. B2 The Inhabitants are white or jollow Mores, commonly an upright and good..people. 1726 N. Uring 161 They deal with them..chiefly for Salt, which those yellow People pay for in fine Pieces of strip'd Silk. 1787 W. Jones in (1791) 2 2 That the Turks have any just reason for holding the coast of Yemen to be a part of India, and called its inhabitants Yellow Indians. 1819 W. Lawrence (1822) 225 Compare the ruddy and sanguine European with the jet-black African, the red man of America, the yellow Mongolian, or the brown South-Sea Islander. 1859 26 Aug. 3/4 A little boy..had entered Mrs Thompson's shop, and told her that he had seen a ‘yellow woman’ (a gipsy) going away with the child in her arms. 1876 W. H. Dixon II. xxvi. 270 Our master in the White House has spared one moment from the contemplation of his Black Agony on the Gulf to a consideration of our Yellow Agony on the Slope! 1897 23 July 6/1 The danger of cheap Oriental labour—the Yellow Menace, as it is sometimes called. 1910 IX. 851/1 Mongolic or Yellow Man prevails over the vast area lying east of a line drawn from Lapland to Siam. 1943 C. Headlam Diary 30 Apr. in S. Ball (1999) x. 367 I think that one dislikes being hustled by the Japanese more than anything else. It seems so terribly humiliating to have ‘to take it’ from this horrible yellow race. 1969 31 July 10/7 ‘It's time to teach those yellow bastards a lesson,’ says a beefy Soviet colonel. 2014 (Nexis) 1 Dec. They wiped out the red man, they drugged the yellow man, they enslaved the black man. the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > mixed race > [adjective] > person > person white and black 1796 S. Cullen III. iv. 119 I do remember to have once..seen a little yellow girl peeping out of Mrs. Riot's cabin. 1802 9 Dec. (advt.) Any person that will deliver the following negro men to me..; Ben, a small black man;..Jack, a small yellow man; Jem, a mulatto man, [etc.]. 1834 20 Mar. 2/2 A huge looking ‘yaller gall’ was hammering away at the eyes of a small white man.., because he called her a snow ball. 1856 (sheet music) 3 Oh! down in Alabama, before I was set free, I lov'd a dark-ey'd yellow girl. 1927 S. A. Brown in C. Cullen 132 Had a stovepipe blonde in Macon Yaller gal in Marylan In Richmond had a choklit brown Called me huh monkey man—Huh big fool monkey man. 1937 C. Himes in Jan. 64/3 The nervous profile of the driver bent low over the wheel. A yellow nigger. 1965 D. R. Smock in viii. 136 This yellow man [i.e. the light-skinned man] is a clerk. 1978 21 Nov. 18/2 I was a ‘yella’ gal, a mixture of blood. 1990 15 Oct. 44/2 The Nigerian men are fanatical about ‘yellow’ women. 2007 T. Price-Thompson in T. Price-Thompson & T. Stovall 139 You might be yella, but you best nevah forgit you is still a nigger. 2013 @TishaRaquel 6 Sept. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Sean just really sent my yellow ass to voice mail. I'm finna cry myself to sleep and die. 2016 (Nexis) 29 Apr. The man held the railing and tried to jump over it and that was when the yellow man held him and started shouting for help. 1898 15 Mar. 6/1 He was a..yellow-fellow. It was obvious that aboriginal blood predominated in his veins. 1913 W. K. Harris 115 Plenty tucker, no yeller-fellers (half-castes). 1964 23 57 Yeller boys can be difficult sometimes. 1975 X. Herbert 52 Women..of obvious Aboriginal strain, ‘yeller girls’ or ‘creamy pieces’, as they're called, half and quarter. 2010 K. McGinnis 198 His older, blacker brothers had always had it in for the little yella git his mother was so ashamed of. society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > seafaring warrior or naval man > leader or commander > [adjective] > type of captain 1757 5 Mar. One abuse in the management of naval affairs which seems to want redress, is the great number of yellow Admirals, as they are called. 1898 11 July 1/2 For the remainder of those in the senior rank there is..a prospect of their attaining the rank of flag officer with the ‘yellow’ attachment. 2007 B. Lavery iv. 78 The order of seniority was immutable unless an officer died or was retired as a ‘yellow’ admiral. society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > [adjective] > relating to party known by colour 1770 A. Brice v. 135 Disasters sad one guilty Wretch betide, Who dar'd, un-franchis'd, join the Yellow Side. 1818 ‘Gloucestershire Freeholder’ 53 Any man, whether yellow or blue..who will remove them [sc. the corn laws], is truly desirable. 1834 F. Witts 12 Aug. (1978) 97 The respective parties mustered when the poll was over at their headquarters, the Bell Hotel being the Blue house and the King's Head the yellow. 1874 A. Trollope I. ii. 14 He remained there for three or four days..staying at the ‘Yellow’ inn. 1912 9 Nov. 30/2 He touted for the yellow vote with a twelfth of July whine about ‘our Protestant liberties’ in danger. 1999 (Nexis) 29 Apr. 4 The race to succeed Paddy [Ashdown] to lead the yellow party. society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > paper > [noun] > woven paper 1798 in J. Owen (new ed.) (end matter) A poetical version of the four gospels..printed on yellow wove paper. 1809 10 June It may be had at the very low price of One Shilling per quire for the yellow wove. 1822 21 July (advt.) Five volumes, crown 8vo. beautifully printed on yellow laid paper. 1854 C. Tomlinson 23 That which is not coloured, is called yellow-wove or yellow-laid, according to the kind of mould in which it is cast. 1880 L. Wolf 128 A yellow wove is what the outer world would decidedly call blue. 1937 E. J. Labarre 22 ‘Yellow wove’..is not yellow but azure, or even of a creamy colour. 8. society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > novel > [adjective] > types of novel 1843 (Amer. Copyright Club) 11 You have seen this crimson and yellow literature triumphant on every hand. 1846 A. Judson Let. 5 Mar. in 20 Mar. 26/4 Wherever you go..you will see Graham, and Godey, and the Columbian, and other varieties of ‘yellow literature’, deposited in the book-cases, spread upon the tables, [etc.]. 1880 18 Dec. 627/2 When it appears in a cheap form it is heaped with contumely, and branded with the title of ‘a yellow novel’, as though its colour were a crime. 1909 14 Nov. 7/1 The same racial influence which, in its more proper tongue, is still inexhaustibly facile in yellow novels. 1926 B. Webb i. 55 Whether we ordered from the London Library or from Mudie's a pile of books on Eastern religions, or a heterogeneous selection of what I will call ‘yellow’ literature. 2003 36 144 The popular sensational literature or ‘yellow novels’ that [Emily] Dickinson loved to read. society > communication > journalism > [adjective] > characterized by specific style society > communication > journalism > journalist > [adjective] > others society > communication > journalism > journal > newspaper > [adjective] > sensational 1896 14 Nov. 6/2 The ‘yellow kid’ fad is about to submerge the football interest in New York city. 1896 13 Dec. 20/3 The public is bound to respect such employment of the forces and facilities of journalism. There is no appeal made to low taste;..there is no catering to an alleged ‘demand’ for the spice of lubricity; there is no concession to the ‘yellow kid’ abomination.] 1897 31 Jan. 6/6 (headline) Victory for the yellow journalism. 1897 19 Mar. 4/1 The yellow journals must go. They cannot keep up the supply of filth demanded by the readers of garbage-cart literature. 1898 2 Mar. 7/2 The yellow Press is for a war with Spain, at all costs. 1898 Aug. 328 All American journalism is not ‘yellow’, though all strictly ‘up-to-date’ yellow journalism is American! 1902 E. Banks xviii. 212 The very first thing I was asked to do in the line of ‘yellow’ work, was to walk along Broadway at midnight and ‘allow’ myself to be arrested. 1906 (Weekly ed.) 9 Nov. 714 The President of the United States sent his Secretary of State to New York to throw the whole weight of Mr. Roosevelt's..authority and influence against the ‘yellow’ candidate [sc. Hearst]. 1909 G. K. Chesterton 131 The Yellow Pressman seems to have no power of catching the first fresh fact about a man. 1951 7 407 Vasconcelos has always maintained that Botana was more than a ‘yellow’ journalist. 1985 C. McCullough viii. 188 The news was imparted to the many with the irresponsible and exaggerated drama the yellow media have made their trademark. 2000 18 June 30/2 Now he is an adult royal, the yellow press may start treating him like one and mount an armed invasion of his privacy. 2017 (Nexis) 25 Jan. 8 The advent of social media has given yellow journalism a platform for distribution. 1887 11 July 7/1 After the third inning he retired to right field and there made a couple of ‘yellow’ errors. 1896 G. Ade 8 It was a yellow show, and I'm waitin' for forty-five cents change. 1907 Apr. 684/1 Outside of what Billy designated ‘yellow’ plays..the game..was a good one. 1918 11 May 5/3 A storm of protest went up that the referee gave a yellow decision. society > occupation and work > worker > those involved in labour relations > [adjective] > opposed to militant action or unionism 1901 23 Feb. 7/5 By the side of the [French] miners' union, which appears to be a regular Socialist organization known as the ‘Red Union’, was formed a new union..which opposes the tricolour flag to the red flag and is known as the ‘Yellow Union’. 1901 9 Mar. 5/1 Complaints of workmen having been threatened with dismissal if they should refuse to join the Yellow Syndicate. 1902 9 June 8/6 These representatives of what are called the ‘yellow’ syndicates of the Continent..were, it was alleged, not bona-fide trade unionists, and their unions were only bastard unions. 1909 17 Sept. 1/4 A small organization of workers [in Sweden], classed among the ‘yellow unions’ and hitherto accused of running the errands of the employers. 1920 12 Sept. 7 The railwaymen..will be content to follow the lead of the General Confederation of labour and stick to the Amsterdam International, which the dictators of Russia have labelled ‘yellow’—that is to say ‘blackleg’. 1922 B. G. de Montgomery vi. 58 The bus-traffic and road-transport were organized by the members of the ‘yellow’ or anti-strike syndicates, and by the bourgeois class. 1939 A. Philip in H. A. Marquand 51 The Confederation of Professional Unions, a ‘yellow’ organization benefiting from employer support. 1957 M. P. Fogarty xv. 192 Widespread support was given to the yellow unions, notably by the clergy. 1972 7 206 France was regarded as the classical land of yellow trade unionism. 2006 38 152 The unions with ‘yellow’ leadership in the maritime area were those representing caulkers, painters..and polishers. 2014 (Nexis) 6 May We submit to the yellow unions, that are colluding with the state and capital to pester members to return to work outside an agreement, to desist from these desperate attempts. 1940 Mass-observ. Arch. 29 June in A. Calder & D. Sheridan (1984) iii. 77 We had an air raid ‘yellow’ message this morning, and the telephone girl had worked the factory warning for a minute before she was told that she ought to do nothing before the ‘red’ came through. 1941 14 June (Mag. section) 8/2 In the course of his duties he [sc. an air raid warden] used to receive what was called ‘The Yellow Warning’. This was a signal that enemy planes were at the coast and that the wardens were to be on the alert, although the siren was not sounded until the red warning went. 1963 22 Jan. 10/3 The service have issued a ‘yellow warning’. This is intended to warn hospitals to cut down on routine admissions so as to make room for emergencies. 2013 M. Divine & A. E. Machate viii. 183 Use this exercise to practice maintaining a ‘yellow state’ of passive alertness. For example, when going to a restaurant, ensure that your yellow radar is switched ‘on’. 2016 (Nexis) 22 June 1 A yellow warning has been issued for rain and localised flooding in the South East. 1973 8 192 One popular model has red, white and blue quark triplets. This obviously American model can be expected to be followed by models with other patriotic colors or with equal representation of white, black and yellow quarks.] 1975 B. 58 335 Blue and yellow quarks are shorter-lived. 1998 Nov. 81 A blue quark will bind with a red quark and a yellow quark, forming a ‘white’ object that has no color charge. 2007 F. Close vii. 98 A red quark and a blue quark can mutually attract, and the attraction is maximised if in turn they cluster with a yellow quark. B. n. 1. the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > [noun] eOE (1890) 119/1 Uenetum, geolu [eOE Épinal Gloss. geolu, eOE Erfurt Gloss. geholu]. 1396–7 in J. T. Fowler (1898) I. 214 [Hangings] cum avibus de yalow. c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 82 His colour was bitwixe yelow [v.r. ȝelw] and red. c1450 in A. Macdonald & J. Dennistoun (1842) III. i. 199 Courtenes of singill worsat palyt of red and grein and yhalou. c1540 (?a1400) (2002) f. 85 All hor colours to ken were of clene yalow. 1541 in J. W. Clay (1902) VI. 135 A crose of yolowe opone his brest. 1607 R. C. tr. H. Estienne 296 A punick colour, that is, yellow drawing to a red. 1630 Bp. J. Hall liv. 129 I doe not like these reds, and blewes, and yellowes, amongst these plaine stalkes and eares. 1666 J. Davies tr. C. de Rochefort i. xv. 94 The belly and under the wings are of a gilt-yellow. 1700 T. Tryon xxxiv. 207 Muscovado Sugar..is of a lively, whitish and bright Yellow, with a sparkling Grain. 1765 H. Walpole (ed. 2) I. iii. 53 Blues, reds, greens and yellows not being blended in the gradations. 1805 R. Jameson 11 Among the varieties of this species of colour..are..brass yellow, gold yellow, and bronze yellow. 1824 M. R. Mitford I. 265 The narrow lane bordered with elms, whose fallen leaves have made the road one yellow. 1889 J. K. Jerome vii. 97 Harris always keeps to shades or mixtures of orange or yellow, but I don't think he is at all wise in this. His complexion is too dark for yellows. Yellows don't suit him. 1948 R. M. Pearl iv. 189 Emerald-green stones colored by chromium are called imperial jade. Mutton-fat jade is also a favored color, and others include bright yellow, blood red, and mauve. 1963 H. C. Bosman 119 Her hair was bleached the yellow of tamboekie grass in winter. 2010 R. Skloot (2011) x. 89 The lounge..was filled with overstuffed chairs, couches, and shag carpet, all in dust-covered browns, oranges, and yellows. the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > colouring matter > [noun] > pigments eOE (1974) 14 Crocus, gelu [eOE Corpus Gloss. gelo]. a1475 in J. O. Halliwell (1855) 86 (MED) For ȝelowe: take wyld woode, and sethe hit in lye, and ley thy clothe there in, and anone take hit owte, and ley hit for to dry. 1560 W. Ward tr. G. Ruscelli 65 For to make the yellowe, take little apples.., and stampe theim grossely in a morter. 1606 H. Peacham 64 Your yealow is made in this manner [etc.]. 1653 J. Bulwer (rev. ed.) xviii. 289 In the Kingdome of Goer they paint their nails with yellow. 1738 G. Smith tr. ii. 37 Take fine King's Yellow, neal it in a Crucible, one part Yellow, and three parts Flux. 1756 R. Rolt Fustic,..A yellow wood, used by dyers, yielding a fine golden yellow. 1845 P. Barlow Manuf. in VIII. 539/1 A yellow termed rust yellow is made with acetate of iron thickened with gum for light yellows. 1859 T. J. Gullick & J. Timbs 224 The ochres are the most permanent yellows. 1899 29 Dec. 5/1 Martius's yellow. This substance has many an alias, some alluring, some otherwise, golden yellow, Manchester yellow, saffron yellow, nap[h]thalene yellow. 1930 R. Power xxxi. 182 There was only a tiny little grain of yellow left. 2007 R. Rushforth 41 Genista tinctoria, the dyer's broom, provides a good strong yellow. 2. the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > yellow thing > [noun] OE tr. Pseudo-Apuleius (Vitell.) (1984) clxv. 208 Ðeos wyrt þe man..banwyrt nemneð ys ðreora cynna.., þridde is geoluw; ðonne is seo geoluwe swaþeah swiþost læceon gecweme. ?a1450 tr. Macer (Stockh.) (1949) 143 (MED) Leuchantemon..hauyþ white floures abowte þe ȝelow. ?a1475 Noble Bk. Cookry in at Yelwe Put it to whyt sugure and colour the tone half with saffron..and put som of the whit in the eggshell and in the mydl put in of the yallow to be the yolk. 1650 sig. A2v The Men were frighted, and did smell Oth' yellow [i.e. sulphur]. 1723 J. Nott sig. Bb7 Boil the Yellow of a Lemon peel 'till it is very tender. 1833 T. Hook II. vii. 130 The arrival..of Lady Frances Sheringham herself and her maid, in a ‘yellow [i.e. a yellow carriage] and two’. 1900 8 Mar. 178 The upper tail coverts are red, with a few yellows dispersed among them. 1988 (Nexis) 11 Feb. 3 d When you enter the dining room..you can see the blue ribbons... They aren't all blue: A few reds and yellows hang among the first-prizes. 2005 12 Mar. (Mag.) 22/3 When we worked with purples ($500 chips), we practised with purples. The same went for yellows ($1,000 chips) and chocolates ($5,000 chips). the world > food and drink > food > eggs > [noun] > egg-yolk eOE (1974) 23 Fitilium [probably read vitellus], aegergelu. eOE (Royal) (1865) i. i. 22 Genim æges þæt geoluwe & meng lyhwon [read lythwon] wið hunig. eOE (Royal) (1865) i. lix. 130 Banwyrt do on sure fletan & on hunig, æges geola meng tosomne, smire mid. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. xii. i. 597 Þe bigynnynge of generacioun of a brid..comeþ of þe white, and his mete is þe ȝelewe [emended in ed. to ȝolke]. 1598 W. Phillip tr. J. H. van Linschoten ii. 232/1 Euery time it [sc. a snake] layeth it hath fortie or fiftie egs..whereof the yellow is seperated from the white, like hennes egs. 1676 tr. H. C. Agrippa lxxxii. 285 The Bird is generated of the yellow of the egge, but is nourished by the white of the egge. 1772 M. Berdoe 47 The blood was contained in the yellow of the egg in vessels almost imperceptible to the eye. 1823 17 Oct. 240/1 To the yellow of one egg, add one table spoonful of brown sugar. 1879 7 Feb. 7/1 Dr Ponteres mixes a tablespoon of cod liver oil with the yellow of an egg, and adds to these..a few drops of the spirits of mint and half a glass of sugared water. 1921 K. Mansfield 26 May (1996) IV. 241 Im lying lapping up the yellows of eggs & taking my temperature. 1986 E. M. Mickler iv. 75 You hard-boil your eggs, cut 'em in half, longwise, and then take the yellow and toss it out. 2008 Summer 137 In the master's palm the yellow Of an egg, still perfect. the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > of specific colour 1368 in R. R. Sharpe (1890) II. 108 [His black girdle with silver buckles he bequeaths to the crucifix..and another of] yolw [with silver buckles to the image of S. Mary]. a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng (Harl.) l. 3446 Wymples, kerchyues, saffrund betyde; Ȝelugh vnder ȝelugh þey hyde. 1455 in (1891) 15 149 A nother coope of dyuers workes of yelowe and braunche with a tuft of blue and grene silke be hynd. 1532 in J. B. Paul (1905) VI. 23 Tway elnis franche ȝallow to lyne the said cote. 1548 f. ccxxvii Quene Anne ware yelowe for the mournyng. 1600 T. Nashe sig. B3v To weare the blacke and yellow [rhyme followe]. 1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Prol. 16 A long Motley Coate, garded with Yellow . View more context for this quotation 1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto lvi. 218 In this Procession were..also the rich Custodes of their Idols... They that carryed them were clothed in yellow. 1715 J. Addison No. 10. 60 When he appear'd in Yellow, his Great Men hid themselves in Corners. 1800 6 279 There were convents of women, who entered into orders while young virgins..and who were dressed in yellow. 1886 6 Feb. 43/3 The blonde who wears yellow must have all the gold in her tresses, and none in her complexion. 1901 M. M. Jackson 234/1 Cambric or lawn can be used. About eight yards of black and two yards of yellow is needed. 1916 B. A. Whitney v. 88 ‘What a pretty blouse,’ I say to a friend, and add with brutal frankness, ‘but you ought not to wear yellow.’ 1969 J. Elward iii. 59 Yellow, I think. I look good in yellow. Maybe a veil. 2005 Dec. 44/2 The two points of view [among Watford fans] could be broadly summarized as ‘He's a scummer and not fit to wear the shirt’ and ‘He's in yellow, so he's one of us now’. 1587 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Iland Brit. (new ed.) iii. viii. 232/2 in (new ed.) I In euerie floure [of saffron] we finde commonlie three chiues, and three yellowes. 1630 M. Drayton viii. 68 I thinke for her I haue a Tyer, That all Fayryes shall admyre, The yellowes in the full-blowne Rose, Which in the Top it doth inclose Like drops of Gold Oare shall be hung, Vpon her tresses. 1678 (Royal Soc.) 12 947 Saffron is oftentimes burnt, and in knots, spotted and mixed with the yellows that are within the shells. 1954 17 Apr. 16 (caption) Diane, 6, and Marilyn, 10,..helped pull out the stamens, or ‘yellows’, from the lilies to prevent the pollen from staining the white petals. the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > member of (moth) > yellow the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Rhopalocera (butterflies) > [noun] > family Pieridae > genus Colias > member of the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Fringillidae (finch) > [noun] > subfamily Carduelinae > genus Carduelis > carduelis tristis the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Columbiformes (pigeons, etc.) > domestic pigeon > [noun] > other types 1794 W. Hayes I. 26 They [sc. Yellow Gold-finches] inhabit New York, where they are called York-yellows. 1842 J. Sproule (ed. 2) x. 330 An important division among the varieties of the common turnip, is that of whites and yellows. 1855 2 515 Tumblers, Blues, Blacks, Silver, Yellows. 1895 Dec. 30 I should like to know if any of the other members have bred from a pair of Yellows, and if so, with what result as regards the colour of the offspring. 1913 J. H. Comstock & A. B. Comstock ii. 87 Callidryas philea... This is the largest of all the yellows found in the eastern United States, the wings expanding from three inches to nearly four inches. 1958 Sept. 149/3 The trumpet group [of miniature daffodils] includes one tiny yellow species, one very small white one, and several yellows that may safely be called small. 1999 14 Aug. 26/4 (advt.) Gouldians, just moulted, normals, yellows, split blues, £15–£25. 1817 M. Edgeworth Ormond in III. xxiv. 128 That visage was..dismal beyond all imagination;—the corners of the mouth drawn down, the whites or yellows of the eyes upturned. 1836 22 May 164/3 An ill-looking creature speaks like a bagpipe, and turns up the yellows of his eyes. 1954 11 Aug. 14/4 Pete was white-faced, showing the yellows of his eyes. 2002 K. Rushby v. 112 This caused him to tip his head back more and more, revealing the yellows of his eyes. the world > matter > chemistry > elements and compounds > metals > specific elements > gold > [noun] society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > precious metal > [noun] > gold 1858 W. B. Parsons in L. R. Hafen (1941) App. 329 We commenced sending prospecting parties into the mountains, but they returned every night with ‘nary yellow’. 1901 M. E. Ryan xviii. 227 She would watch some strange miner dig and wash the soil in his search for the precious yellow. the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > other types of dog > [noun] > Labrador 1880 16 Sept. 132/2 Out of the brindles and yellows Lion, a well made dog with as good a shaped head as any in the class, got H. C. 1894 R. B. Lee viii. 192 Livers, yellows, &c., [have] red or flesh-coloured noses. 1937 8 Jan. 17/5 Labradors, too, have their sub-divisions, being divided into blacks and yellows. 1973 8 Feb. (Suppl.) 325/1 Some of the yellows were a light creamy colour. 1995 Mar. 35/2 The fifth generation of direct descendancy from Hyde Ben, the first ever yellow registered. 2009 A. Reznik 19/1 Labs are incredibly photogenic. The yellows are easiest to photograph. society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > billiards, pool, or snooker > [noun] > ball > ball of specific colour > in snooker 1898 26 Feb. 5/7 Whilst sometimes the yellow and sometimes the green might be played upon, yet it only appeared to be to get them out of the way. 1950 L. H. Dawson iii. 346 At the beginning of the game [of snooker] Yellow is placed on the right-hand corner of the D. 1977 6 May 29/4 After potting the yellow he more or less forced Barnes to take green, brown and blue. 2012 Mar. 11/2 Trump elected to nestle the cue-ball in behind the yellow but left it short, snookering himself. society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > vehicular traffic > [noun] > traffic control > traffic lights > specific 1900 28 Mar. 8/3 The Boston railroads are considering favorably the new signal lights of Prof. Louis Derr..who..decided that yellow should be ‘caution’ signal and green the ‘safe’ signal. 1911 Jan. 63/1 You certainly know when you pass the distant signal, and if you pass the light at yellow you can stop before you get to the home. 1928 Sept. 93/1 The advantage of preparing an operator stopped by a red light to be ready to start when the green appears is believed to be outweighed by his tendency to ‘jump’ the light, starting on the yellow and endangering cross-traffic that has not cleared the intersection. 1989 10 Aug. 4 An engine driver was fined £60 yesterday after being found guilty of driving a..train through a red light and causing a collision... [He] claimed the lights were on yellow. 1999 F. A. Leib 133 She ran a yellow at the next light. 2008 K. Martin 416 The stoplight changed in front of her and she was too far away to try to make it through the intersection on yellow. society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > vehicular traffic > [noun] > traffic control > line on road for parking restriction 1975 J. Symons xv. 132 Parked on a double yellow. 1991 J. O'Connor (1992) 57 The Bambino was on a double yellow outside Harrods, down the road. 1998 M. Waites (1999) ix. 73 Larkin prayed that the city-centre rush hour meant all the traffic wardens would be too busy to ticket them for parking on a yellow. 2016 (Nexis) 8 Mar. 28 This south-London district is all middle-class sensibilities, where edginess is leaving your Nissan Qashqai on a single yellow. society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > association football > [noun] > card shown to warn player 1978 28 Apr. e1/6 We had one man ejected and four more with one yellow already. 1996 26 June 70/5 Deschamps..would like to see rules changed to make bans start for three rather than two yellows. 2001 18 May c7/3 VanDeusen picked up another yellow in the first half when she swatted an opponent's stick out of her way. 2014 10 Mar. (Football section) 2/1 Rösler first retaliated after a Stefan Schwarz foul and then gained a second yellow for dissent. 3. the mind > emotion > jealousy or envy > [noun] > jealousy > colour attributed to jealousy the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > [noun] > other yellows > as colour of jealousy a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) ii. iii. 107 If thou hast The ordering of the Mind too, 'mongst all Colours No Yellow in't. View more context for this quotation 1649 Duke of Newcastle ii. 28 Dev. Your yellow is joy, because:— Lad. Why yeallow Sir is jealous. 1854 3 June 342/3 Sir Frederick, who has really a streak of yellow in his composition.., is equally the victim of uneasiness, because his lady exhibits no jealousy on her side. the mind > emotion > fear > cowardice or pusillanimity > [noun] 1893 21 Feb. I said a year ago that Corbett has a streak of yellow in his composition and I now repeat it. 1896 G. Ade vi. 57 This is how I found that streak of yellow in him. 1918 29 Mar. 8/6 Ye ain't so red because ye're shakin', An' the short, quick breaths ye're takin' Ain't a sign there's yellow runnin' down yer spine. 1951 L. L'Amour in June 145/1 Just because that coyote has yellow down his spine is no reason I forfeit this range! 2015 (Nexis) 10 Sept. He comes customized with a big streak of political yellow, too. society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > English coins > [noun] > guinea or twenty-one shillings 1722 16 The Numbers full, the Yellows tumble in. 1821 W. Liddle 88 Nae risk Of yellows, or white dollars tinin'. 1994 Mar. 70/2 Gold British coins known as sovereigns were commonly called ‘yellows’ or ‘yellow mould’. society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > [noun] > attachment to party > one attached to party > member of party known by colour 1755 Aug. 339/2 The blues being in the old interest, and the yellows in the new. 1785 A. Luders I. 40 He should not have voted for the yellows, if he had not been made easy on this demand. 1868 ‘H. Lee’ III. li. 52 He would not vote yellow. 1881 J. Morley I. 91 Making citizenship into something loftier and more generous than the old strife of Blues and Yellows. 1953 3 July 422/1 He marched off to the polling booth.., voted ‘yellow’ and gave the money to the Suffolk hospital. 1989 28 Oct. (West Germany Suppl.) 20/2 A so-called ‘traffic light’ coalition between reds, greens and yellows (liberals). 2016 (Nexis) 9 Sept. The ‘yellows’ were quick to point out that he could have put his hand in his pocket a bit more often to fund the NHS when he was still in Downing Street. 6. the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > Mongol > [noun] 1775 J. Adair 3 To form one creation of whites, a second creation for the yellows, and a third for the blacks, is a weakness, of which infinite wisdom is incapable. 1808 C. Schultz (1810) II. 198 In attending to the amusements of the whites, the yellows, and the blacks, I had almost forgotten to mention the reds. 1886 July 50 The ‘whites’ have made a complete surrender to the ‘yellows’. 1901 May 837 If they [sc. the Japanese] are to colonise at all they must colonise among the yellows and the blacks. 1942 25 June 6/4 The white people must..fight together against the yellows led by Japan. 2013 (Nexis) 22 Feb. a8 I don't think God loves whites any more than He does blacks, browns, yellows or reds. the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > black person > [noun] > light-skinned 1873 3 May 562/1 The ablest men in the House are those who show the least, if any, signs of white blood... There is a feud between the blacks and the yellows. 1922 18 Mar. 42/2 Negro society is..divided into three parts: Yellows, Browns and Blacks. a1966 M. B. Tolson (1979) 134 The slumming party of whites From Muskogee, Oklahoma, Tugged and stumbled toward the front entrance. The yellows and browns and blacks belly laughed. 2014 @kissmeQuan 30 Apr. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Y'all on here lusting after these fine yellows and I get to wake up to one everyday. 2017 @__QueenBee___ 24 Feb. in twitter.com (accessed 3 Oct. 2017) [In response to I always say Ima get a dark gal. And then a yella approach. Really just want some chocolate rn mama. So just wait.] U got something against us yellows? lol. society > communication > journalism > journal > newspaper > [noun] > sensational 1897 19 Feb. 6/2 The junior yellow appears to have withdrawn its trained corps of word-painters, fiction writers, and inspired artists from Cuba... Meantime the senior yellow..is diligently preparing for war. 1901 Apr. 408/2 The killing at the Vulcan Shops made the yellows froth head-lines. 1903 7 Nov. (Sat. Review) 796 A pretty southern widow who did newspaper work for the yellows. 1942 23 July So say the fellows who print the daily yellows And for the news into the depths descend. 2010 (Nexis) 29 Aug. f10 Just as the yellows created the Spanish-American War, the ratings-seeking cable news departments must have created the war in Iraq. the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > warning of imminent danger or evil > [noun] > specific types of warning 1940 Mass-observ. Arch. 1 Aug. in A. Calder & D. Sheridan (1984) iii. 78 Soon after eleven we were remarking that it was time we got the yellow, when the telephone went. 1943 G. Greene iv. i. 223 Yellow's up... About time for the Red I should think. 1978 ‘G. Vaughan’ xiii. 84 President Turner had been in touch with the other Nato head of state and their forces had gone on yellow. 2014 (Nexis) 23 Jan. 13 The Met Office issued a ‘yellow’ for rain. the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > sedatives, antispasmodics, etc. > [noun] > sedative > specific drugs > tablet 1952 (U.S. House Representatives, 82nd Congr., 2nd Sess.) I. 53 These are all sleeping tablets and they are sought after by people who want the drugs for nonmedical purposes... The yellow ones are sometimes called Yellow Jacks, Yellow Jackets, Yellow Baskets, or Yellows. 1958 W. Motley 418 They took the bennies for kicks... Or reds and yellows with bennies to give an additional kick. 1961 ii. 70 Subject stated he purchased eight ‘yellows’ (Nembutal) for one dollar. 1967 ‘Iceberg Slim’ (1969) vi. 133 Kid, I put a coupla ‘yellows’ in your bag so you can ‘come down’ and get some ‘doss’. 1987 (Nexis) 16 Aug. Drugspeak... Barbiturates and tranquillisers: Barbs..nebbies/nembies, yellows (Nembutal). 2006 M. M. Lewis 83 Seconal, Tuinals, Placidyls. There were reds, there were yellows, there were greens. 1974 B. 49 455/1 Index α..refers to three possible colours of quarks, namely, red, yellow and blue. 1984 F. Halzen & A. Martin i. 5 The antiquarks are assigned the complementary colors: cyan (), magenta (Ḡ), and yellow (). 2005 J. L. Heilbron 271/2 Quark color comes in three varieties (sometimes taken to be red, yellow, and blue). Phrases1838 7 Nov. The French admiral is lying sulkily in the bay here, and is looking quite yellow with jealousy. 1843 Sept. 123/1 One who cannot represent a wall flower without turning yellow with envy. 1915 W. L. Phelps v. 173 The evident truth is that he had a Satanic pride, that he was yellow with jealousy. 1998 K. Sampson 270 Those flags should be gracing a European Cup final, not some well-done-Arsenal backslapping session. I'm yellow with envy. Compounds C1. a. a1593 C. Marlowe tr. Ovid Certaine Elegies ii. iv, in J. Davies & C. Marlowe (?1599) sig. F3v Yellow trest [1603 Amber trest] is she. 1607 T. Walkington ix. sig. H7v Now to discerne a man of a cholerick complection, he is alwaies either oringe or yellow visag'd because hee is most inclined to the yellow iaundice. 1611 R. Cotgrave Saulx vitelline,..yellow-barked Willow. 1645 J. Milton On Christ's Nativity: Hymn xxvi, in 12 The yellow-skirted Fayes. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis x, in tr. Virgil 521 Camers the yellow Lock'd. 1747 S. Trowell & W. Ellis 258 The yellow striped Lilly is very much valued here. 1771 T. Smollett II. 19 It was the singularity in S——'s conduct..that reconciled him to the yellow-gloved philosopher. 1783 J. Latham II. ii. 461 Yellow-fronted Warbler. The forehead and crown are of a bright yellow. 1787 J. Hawkins 233 A long yellow-hilted sword. 1798 J. Middleton i. iv. 18 A full crop of yellow blossomed broom covers the ground. 1823 E. James II. xiii. 327 Great numbers of minute sand-pipers, yellow-shanked snipes, killdeer plovers,..and telltale goodwits about the river. 1832 J. Rennie 174 The Yellow-barred Iron..occurs in woods. 1841 W. M. Thackeray in Oct. 395/2 ‘Get some of that yellow-sealed wine, Tiggins,’ says the captain. 1859 C. Darwin iv. 85 Another disease attacks yellow-fleshed peaches far more than those with other coloured flesh. 1860 N. Hawthorne III. iii. 30 Those immense seven-storied, yellow-washed hovels. 1880 A. H. Swinton 94 The groups of Yellow-ringed Gnats. 1890 19 Aug. 4/5 The church has been draped with yellow-fringed black hangings. 1906 (Brit. Mus.) II. iii. 235 Yellow-pinioned Finch. 1908 C. F. Holder xxiii. 342 The boatmen..called it the ‘yellow-finned tuna’... This was in 1904, and ever since the new tuna, with its vivid lemon finlets, has appeared every August or September. 1919 J. Joyce Ulysses x. [Wandering Rocks] in June 40 Two barefoot urchins, sucking long liquorice laces, halted near him, gaping..with their yellow slobbered mouths. 1927 29 Mar. 15 ‘Guess you're right,’ answered the Old Red Rooster, scratching his bright red comb with his yellow toed foot. 1966 E. Palmer xvi. 262 By far the showiest is the yellow-beaked Stapelia, Stapelia flavirostris, with dark flowers marked with yellow and ornamented with silver hairs. 1992 (Nexis) 6 Apr. b1 The black-footed ferret and yellow-cheeked vole no longer exist in this province but are found elsewhere. 2011 M. Kenefick et al. 178 Yellow-chinned Spinetail Certhiaxis cinnamomeus cinnamomeus... Small yellow chin patch only visible at very close range. 2012 109 4269/1 We have identified an influenza A virus from little yellow-shouldered bats captured..in Guatemala. (b) 1783 J. Latham II. ii. 440 Yellow-backed Warbler. 1874 Jan. 346 One or two yellow-backed railway novels. 1936 J. Bond xix. 384 In the hills and mountains of Jamaica, on the borders of the forest or in pastures, the striking Yellow-backed Finch is common. 2002 Winter 36/2 75 mammal species..inhabit the shady forest interior—Palm civet, Yellow-backed duiker, potto and Giant flying squirrel among them. 1617 S. Ward 85 To the Fashion-mongers, both the statelier sort, and the light-headed yellow-banded Fooles, tell the one that the richest lining and inside is a good Conscience. 1790 J. Gerard 4 A large and fine pair of conus literatus, or yellow-banded alphabet cones. 1832 Ld. Tennyson Eleänore in (new ed.) 26 The yellowbanded bees. 1940 25 July 7/4 Goldfinches with yellow-banded wings and scarlet masks. 2015 I. Das (new ed.) 146 Yellow-banded mangrove snake. Cantoria violacea. 1793 G. Riley (ed. 2) IV. 143 The Oblong Yellow-bodied Fly, with black transverse lines. 1865 J. G. Wood vi. 139 To see the yellow-bodied Wasp..dart into the dark mass. 2010 23 Mar. 41/5 The classic mayfly.., yellow-bodied and translucent-winged, whose mating swarms on the riverbank are one of the great sights of the natural world in England. 1730 M. Catesby I. iii. Pl. 50 The yellow brested Chat... The Bill black; the Head and all the Upper-part of the Back and Wings, of a brownish Green; the Neck and Breast yellow. 1776 P. Brown 80 The yellow-breasted Flycatcher. 1849 T. B. Macaulay I. iii. 313 The yellow-breasted martin was still pursued in Cranbourne Chase for his fur. 1966 78 7 Yellow-breasted Crake (Porzana flaviventer).—Two birds have been seen on three occasions..in the same patch of decaying water hyacinth. 2015 (Nexis) 21 June 17 The number of yellow-breasted buntings, once one of the most common birds in Eurasia, had fallen by 90% between 1980 and 2013. 1783 J. Latham II. ii. 459 Yellow-browed Warbler. 1890 H. Seebohm 137 Temminck's Yellow-browed Bunting differs from all other Buntings known to occur in Japan in having a conspicuous yellow stripe over each eye. 1968 85 74 Melidectes rufocrissalis. Yellow-browed Honey-eater. 2012 Apr. 78/3 Despite the freeze, there were still plenty of Yellow-browed Warblers in the South-West. 1872 419/1 White petaled, yellow-centred flowers. 1934 1 July 3/6 A flare that is accented by the little yellow-centered daisies all around the bottom. 2004 G. C. Wertkin & L. Kogan 332 A green leafy vine, with yellow-centered red flowers at regular intervals, generally forms a border. 1571 T. Hill xii. f. 12v Flie and eschue the companye of a wanne, and yellow coloured man. 1767 D. P. Layard in (Royal Soc.) 56 13 A rusty yellow-colored crust covering the stalactites. 1893 7 July 7/2 The long yellow-coloured needles of this compound were also obtained upon passing hydrobromic acid gas over the oxybromide of Blomstrand at a gentle heat. 2016 (Nexis) 10 Sept. 29 Turmeric is a yellow coloured spice. 1824 8 Feb. 92/1 We even saw one gentleman..waving a yellow covered pamphlet in his hand. 1915 H. Young 23 The little yellow covered novels were the cause of it. 2015 (Nexis) 31 May This team really are re-writing the pages of Wisden, cricket's yellow-covered bible. 1776 P. Brown 50 Yellow crowned Thrush. 1839 6 209 The Yellow Crowned Warbler is ash coloured during half of the year; of a beautiful blue in the other. 1925 J. Ferguson in 18 Like stately flowers, yellow-crowned. 1985 12 July a21/3 (advt.) Yellow crowned Amazon parrot, good talker, imitator, cage included. $300. 2004 Feb. 34/3 A native yellow-crowned night heron had lived on Bermuda before the English arrived. 1592 T. Nashe (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. C2v In praise of Ladie Manibetter, his yeolowfac'd Mistres. 1758 G. Edwards I. 49 The Yellow-faced Parrakeet. 1839 F. Trollope I. viii. 176 In about half an hour she returned, accompanied by a bald-headed, yellow-faced personage. 1946 58 140 Yellow-faced Grassquit. Tiaris olivacea olivacea (Linnaeus). A common bird along brushy arroyos and roadways and around farm yards. 2015 (Nexis) 13 Feb. 10 We came across a yellow faced whip snake under some corrugated iron. 1806 G. Pinckard II. vi. 141 Let me caution you not to believe..that the yellow-fanged monster is let loose amongst us. 1954 J. R. R. Tolkien iii. iii. 50 It was the yellow-fanged guard. 2012 (Nexis) 30 June 63 His yellow-fanged grin adapts well to a 3D close-up. 1659 R. Lovell 161 Figge-wort... K[inds] as the great, Indian, and yellow floured. 1712 J. Mortimer 214 The Toad Flax of Valentia is yellow flowered. 1845 31 63 A yellow flowered Sea-Lavender is a rarity. 1888 J. Pennell & E. R. Pennell 11 Across the yellow-flowered sand-dunes. 1948 G. D. H. Bell xiii. 118 On dry soils are often found small, yellow-flowered clovers contributing a certain amount of keep for grazing animals. 2004 Winter 6/3 Butter-and-eggs Linaria vulgaris..is a pretty, yellow-flowered plant..that covers roadsides and old fields. 1641 J. Johnson 59 If this yellow footed youngster treads but upon the toe of a wife, he makes her to forget her nuptiall duty. 1704 at Geese If dry pulled, red-footed, red-billed, and full of hairs when pulled, she [sc. a dead goose] is old; but if yellow-footed and billed, young. 1894 R. Lydekker 172 Yellow-footed Pouched Mouse, Phascologale flavipes. 1993 Apr. 444/3 Yellow-footed chanterelles were being given away for $8.50 a pound. 2016 D. J. Irschick & T. E. Higham v. 113 The yellow-footed rock wallaby, Petrogale xanthopus, lives on steep cliff faces. ?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer xvii. 247 And tooke one Podes..; And him the yellow-headed king, laid hold on at his waste. 1743 G. Edwards I. 44 The Yellow-headed Linnet. This Bird being of Kin to Linnets or Canary-Birds, I choose to call it by this Name. 1864 23 811 I found this same Yellow-headed Cut-worm making severe havoc in a cornfield. 1925 W. Beebe vii. 143 Great yellow-headed vultures who swept down out of mid-heaven to see whether my prostrate body meant death. 2006 June 17 (caption) A yellow-headed blackbird balances on a bulrush. 1742 W. Ellis June 41 The Roller is apt to..cause the Turneps to grow sick and yellow-leaved. 1825 H. W. Longfellow Autumn in 1 Oct. 29 Maple yellow-leafed. 1914 W. J. Bean II. 620 A yellow-leaved form of the Jersey elm originated in the nurseries of Messrs Dickson at Chester in 1900. 2005 Dec. 10/1 Red cabbage ‘Kalibos’..looks great with red lettuce and the hardy, yellow leaved Fuchsia ‘Genii’. 1871 28 Dec. 1005/2 Captain Bolton saw the yellow-lit eyes of the animal glaring down. 1995 I. Banks (1996) v. 87 I could make out the driver, sitting staring ahead in the yellow-lit cab. 1835 31 Oct. Mr John Nelson, best buff-marked mule; Mr Giles, best yellow-marked ditto. 1942 June 730/2 As he turned his broad yellow-marked back side, I speared him. It was a French angelfish. 2007 14 July 1 c/1 The blooms have yellow-marked red petals with red-brown centers. 1783 J. Latham II. 337 Yellow-necked Flycatcher. 1889 (at cited word) The yellow-necked caterpillar..feeds in communities on the foliage of apple, hickory, and walnut in the United States. 1979 27 72/2 The hoarding habits of yellow-necked mice are well known. 2007 L. Beletsky iv. 177 The Yellow-necked Spurfowl is a large chickenlike bird with a distinguishing bare, yellow throat. 1799 (London ed.) 3 205 The yellow-robed God..meditated on her charms. 1889 S. Langdon iii. 50 A long procession of yellow-robed..monks. 2010 (Nexis) 20 Mar. The two daughters took turns to kneel, holding on to lit joss sticks while a yellow-robed priest chanted. 1787 P. H. Maty tr. J. K. Riesbeck III. lviii. 118 The inhabitants are..yellow skinned [Ger. bleich von Farbe], soft fleshed, and full of wrinkles. 1844 H. Stephens II. 248 A yellow-skinned chicken makes the most delicate roast. 1935 J. S. Huxley & A. C. Haddon iv. 114 The Chinese and certain other yellow-skinned peoples of Asia. 2002 19 Aug. 70/3 The customer went for the Apriums—yellow-skinned, pink-fleshed plum-apricot hybrids. 1607 E. Topsell 110 Or else sometimes conies are white, black, gryseld, tauny, blewish, yellow-spotted, ash-coloured, and such like. 1728 E. Chambers at Circulation Mr. Fairchild..inoculated a yellow spotted Jessamine Tree, into another Jessamine Tree; he found..in a Fortnight's time, yellow Spots began to appear. 1853 E. C. Gaskell xiii. 247 I began admiring the yellow-spotted lilac gown that I had been utterly condemning only a minute before. 1999 R. D. Estes (rev. ed.) xx. 214 Bush hyrax or yellow-spotted rock dassie, Heterohyrax brucei. 2010 5 Mar. 20/7 Luke Pearce, a fisheries officer, stumbled across a yellow-spotted bell frog in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales. 1614 B. Rich 35 These yellow starcht bandes shoulde bee euer best suited, with a yellowe Coate. 1850 N. Hawthorne xx. 271 This yellow-starched and velveted old hag. 2000 A. R. Jones & P. Stallybrass in L. Cowen Orlin vii. 143 Another portrait in this group..is of Dorothy St. John..who wears a yellow-starched collar and cuffs. 1758 G. Edwards I. 101 The Yellow-tailed Fly-catcher. 1823 J. Latham VI. 232 Yellow-tailed Warbler. 1991 Feb. 168/2 A fricassee of yellow-tailed snapper..with wild mushrooms and snow peas in a ginger cream sauce. 2005 Apr. 7/1 The Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo..was feared to have been wiped out but farmers have since reported sightings of the bird. 1754 M. Catesby & G. Edwards (rev. ed.) I. 62 The yellow-throated creeper. 1859 Ld. Tennyson Elaine in 147 Yellow-throated nestling in the nest. 1954 7 Aug. 19 There are reports that the yellow-throated honeyeater sometimes pulls hair from human heads. 2001 Summer 31/2 Solitary vireos and palm and yellow-throated warblers glean insects from the lush vegetation. 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch 594 Tarts, cake-bread, marchpanes, and other pastrie works, well wrought, beaten and tempered with the sweet liquor gathered by the yellow winged Bee. 1764 G. Edwards III. 239 The Yellow-winged Pye. 1811 A. Wilson III. 76 Yellow-winged sparrow... It inhabits the lower parts of New York and Pennsylvania. 1844 A. W. Kinglake xviii. 294 The yellow-winged Angel [of Death]. 1995 (Nexis) 23 Aug. 14 A swarm of ‘at least 170’ yellow-winged darter dragonflies has also arrived on the south coast. 2002 G. M. Eberhart II. 35/2 The largest carnivorous bat in Africa is the Yellow-winged bat (Lavia frons), with a wingspan of only 16 inches. 1727 R. Furber 10 St. John's-Wort, a yellow flowering Shrub. 1789 E. Craven 286 I saw a yellow looking Turk sitting on the sofa. 1832 E. Lankester 213 The yellow flowering pea. 1853 Mar. 72 Deutzia Gracilis..blooms all winter and spring. So does the yellow-blooming Jasminum Nudiflorum. 1864 tr. F. Gerstäcker vii. 68 They blew out their dim, yellow-burning tallow candle. 1933 3 May 8/6 The yellow-blooming shrub [sc. forsythia]..has been in its full glory for several weeks. 1970 19 May 20/1 [The lump] began oozing a yellow-looking liquid. 2001 4 Apr. ii. 12/1 The aptly named London Rocket, a yellow-flowering plant which emerged after the Great Fire and the Blitz. c. (a) 1590 W. Clever 21 The arteries discoloured with yellow blacke humours. 1688 G. Parker & J. Stalker 76 Paint the shadows with a colour more red than ordinary, for which Vermilion, yellow Pink, and white, are most proper. 1771 J. R. Forster tr. P. Osbeck II. 114 The body is like a jelly, oblong, narrow, of a yellow-grey colour. 1812 G. Shaw VIII. 466 Yellow-olive Parrakeet. 1849 A. H. Clough in T. Burbidge & A. H. Clough 36 My gay green leaves are yellow-black, Upon the dank autumnal floor. 1940 W. Faulkner iv. ii. 328 There were three buzzards soaring against the high yellow-blue. 2003 67 227 The sub-ground section of the wall was made of..brick bonded with light yellow-grey mortar. (ii) c1550 sig. B.ijv He that hath the vysage scryte and lene and yelowe browne, by reason he shulde be slye and cunnynge of all thynges that he medleth withall. 1661 W. Rabisha 87 Fry it of a pure yellow brown. 1796 W. Withering (ed. 3) IV. 177 Pileus yellow brown. 1859 ‘G. Eliot’ 9 May (1998) 77 The rich yellow-brown of the oaks. 2007 Jan. 44/3 The yellow-brown tiger's eye is said to be perfect for detectives, as well as bringing luck to those who work on or near water. 2016 (Nexis) 23 Mar. Researchers..tested reactions of smokers to cigarettes in unattractive colours, such as yellow-brown and green. 1560 T. H. tr. Ovid sig. B.ivv His fayre and yelowe golden heare Betwene the bowes dyd hange. 1871 8 Mar. 189/1 A baby face, with big, wondering child's eyes, looking out from a profuse mass of yellow-golden hair. 1946 S. Spender i. 15 In the foreground yellow-golden fields, with above a flat wall of greyish sky. 2014 (Nexis) 3 Apr. 9 It's a magic, refreshing yellow-golden ale. 1598 W. Phillip tr. J. H. van Linschoten i. xlix. 90/2 They [sc. pineapples] are of a faire colour, of a yellow greene [Du. wt den groenen geel]. 1629 J. Parkinson xviii. 488 The white garden Arrach..hath diuers leaues..of a whitish yellow greene colour. 1768 G. White Let. 17 Aug. in (1789) 55 The yellow-green of the whole upper part of the body is more vivid. 1816 J. F. Stephens IX. ii. 404 Upper part of the back and scapulars yellow-green. a1887 R. Jefferies (1889) 269 The broad descending surfaces of yellow-green oak. 2005 Feb. 16/2 Use a large flat brush to paint several thin coats of limeade, darkened with a touch of yellow green on all surfaces. 2009 23 Nov. 93/1 The fruit's peel was smooth and yellow-green. 1704 at Martagon Being of a yellow orange, with small black spots on the inside. 1732 J. Martyn tr. J. P. de Tournefort I. Pref. p. xii It becomes obscure, milky, yellow-orange-coloured. 1862 C. O'Neill Maize colour, a low toned yellow orange. 1925 C. H. Townsend 79 Violet red above and yellow-orange below, its handsome coloration may have suggested its other name, Lady-fish. 2002 Aug. 91/2 When provoked, great crested newts will curl on their sides exposing a bright and yellow-orange belly. 2006 (Nexis) 7 May 1 e He's just driving, the car's visor snapped down against the yellow-orange of the setting sun. eOE Cleopatra Gloss. in W. G. Stryker (Ph.D. diss., Stanford Univ.) (1951) 283 Lutea, þæt giolureade. a1425 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus (Pierpont Morgan) v. xiv Yf þey ben browne in coloure, oþer citryn ȝolwer [e] de. 1671 J. Webster 274 Some [lead ores] are of a brown black, some are yellow-red like Minium. 1819 J. F. Stephens XI. ii. 324 The breast is yellow-red. 1997 L. Hoke tr. H. Pickler & C. Schmitt-Riegraf b i. 31/1 A slight pleochroism from brown-red to yellow-red. 2000 17 June (Travel section) 4/3 Through the green are glimpses of the gaudy yellow-red bracts of the heliconia plant. OE (2011) 102 Giluus, geoluhwit. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas i. i. 12 A Henne that faine would hatch a brood..Sits close thereon, and with her liuely heat, Of yellow-white balls, doth lyue birds beget. 1891 F. W. Farrar II. xli. 76 That yellow-white plant, which grows on an old oak in the wood. 1898 E. von Arnim 55 Coral-pink petals, paling..to a yellow-white. 1997 (Nexis) 30 Apr. The walls are painted a warm yellow-white. 2007 26 Sept. 7/1 Its body is covered with red spots and it sports a yellow-white strip on its head. eOE Prose Charm: Against Elf-Sickness (Royal 12 D.xvii) in G. Storms (1948) 224 Gif hit biþ wæpnedman..and se andwlita biþ geolwe blac, þone mon þu meaht gelacnian æltæwlice, gif he ne biþ þæron to lange.] 1614 J. Sylvester tr. J. Bertaut Panaretus 54 in Her yellow-sallow skin. 1757 J. Duncombe tr. Horace in W. Duncombe et al. tr. Horace II. 32 Your Sailors sweat; and, yellow-pale, To Jove averse you pray. 1832 C. Webbe 24 Whose chin looks yellow-bright, That's the rogue. 1886 R. F. Burton tr. (Lady Burton's ed.) III. 3 All manner trees bearing yellow-ripe fruits. 1916 D. H. Lawrence 50 Flutter for a moment, oh the beast is quick and keen,—Extinct one yellow-fluffy spark. a1930 D. H. Lawrence (1936) i. 3 In the yellow-gleamy sunset, wild birds began to whistle faintly. 1988 U. K. Le Guin in G. Dozois 198 In the late dusk, lights shone yellow-bright through doorways and through unchinked cracks between boards. C2. a. 1757 5 Mar. One abuse in the management of naval affairs which seems to want redress, is the great number of yellow Admirals, as they are called. 1846 3 Jan. 3/6 The effect of this will be..to place the other ex-chancellors in as hopeless a position as if they were ‘Yellow Admirals’. 1895 27 119 On the summit of Gentle Annie, in fine weather, I met with what appeared to be a smaller and very bright variety of the Yellow Admiral butterfly, but I could not catch any. 1947 A. W. B. Powell 54 Yellow admiral (Vanessa itea)... The fore-wings are black and reddish-brown, divided by a broad diagonal patch of yellow. 2007 B. Lavery iv. 78 The order of seniority was immutable unless an officer died or was retired as a ‘yellow’ admiral. 2014 (Nexis) 5 Oct. (Entertainment section) Red and yellow admirals have captured my heart and it is the biggest thrill to see one. the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > warning of imminent danger or evil > [noun] > specific types of warning 1941 10 Dec. 1/5 Army planes took to the skies at the first warning—a yellow alert. 1968 28 Aug. 279/1 NATO forces had quickly been placed on ‘Yellow Alert’. 1969 17 Sept. 1/8 A yellow alert..on hospital beds..means that all cases not in need of immediate attention will not be admitted to hospitals. 2004 2 May iv. 1/1 Public discussion about a possible terror strike..has become far more than just another yellow alert for the nation. c1425 J. Lydgate (Augustus A.iv) ii. l. 2682 (MED) But liche a fool he hym silf doth quite, Þat awmber ȝelwe cheseþ for þe white. 1552 R. Huloet Ambre called lambre or yelow Ambre. 1653 T. Nicols 169 The white Amber is astringent and temperately hot, the yellow Amber hotter. 1712 J. Browne tr. P. Pomet et al. II. iv. 384 The hard Bitumens that we sell, are the Yellow Amber..; The Liquid are Naphtha of Italy, and the Petroleum. 1871 A. Hope & A. Harvey vi. 105 Yellow amber should be of the palest primrose hue, but there is another shade that is now much prized, namely, the black amber. 1913 4 197 Large loads of wood came from Norway; copper, saltpetre, and yellow amber from the North. 1995 No. 53. 204 Originally it was noted that yellow amber, if rubbed, attracted light, dry substances. society > communication > indication > insignia > [noun] > specific emblems, badges, or cognizances > political 1663 G. Oldisworth 425 He might make us like the Jews, wear yellow badges. 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ III. v. xxxvii. 127 To Deronda just now the name Cohen was equivalent to the ugliest of yellow badges. 1938 5 Dec. 9/3 It is reliably stated that another decree is likely to be issued shortly compelling Jews of both sexes, while outdoors, to wear a yellow badge inscribed with the Star of David. 1962 D. Bridger & S. Wolk 38/1 (caption) The yellow badge the Nazis required Jews to wear in Germany and Nazi-occupied countries. 2008 119 189 Christians convicted for the mutilation of hosts and images were likened to the Jews, and were obliged to wear the same distinctive yellow badge. 2013 K. M. Dell'Orto et al. tr. C. Guttstadt viii. 215 The French government..refused to introduce the yellow badge in the southern zone, despite demands by the Germans. society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > vehicular traffic > [adjective] > indicating no parking society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > vehicular traffic > [noun] > traffic control > line on lamp-post for parking restriction 1947 13 May 4/7 The restricted lengths of streets will be marked by yellow bands painted on all lamp-posts. 1959 8 Dec. 5/6 Vast numbers of cars..are left at the kerbside all day in all parts of central London except the yellow-band streets. 1962 R. Jeffries iv. 36 Parked my car in a yellow-band area. 1967 R. Rendell ii. 17 The car drew up... ‘Not on the yellow band, Drayton,’ Burden said sharply. 1971 (Electronic ed.) 22 Apr. 454 The growing practice of vehicle owners parking their vehicles near to and adjacent to school premises, even where notices and yellow bands point out that this is illegal. 2014 @StuartRance 18 June in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Near me they park on a yellow band which makes blue-badge space inaccessible. the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > ointments, etc. > [noun] > ointment > specific 1746 H. Pemberton tr. 365 Unguentum basilicum flavum, Yellow Basilicum. Take of olive oil a pint; yellow wax, yellow rosin, Burgundy pitch, of each a pound; of common turpentine three ounces. 1836 1/1 An aggravated chilblain on the heel of his right foot..was dressed with yellow basilicon. 1902 G. D. Hood 727 The nostrums vulgarly employed to ‘bring boils to a head’—such as soap and sugar, or the yellow basilicon ointment—are useless, and much better avoided. 1979 R. Gamble i. 13 A tin of yellow basilicon ointment pulled the living daylights out of you if you had a fester. society > education > learning > learner > college or university student > [noun] > first-year student 1865 G. MacDonald II. i. 5 The speaker kindled with wrath at the presumption of the yellow-beaks. 1868 G. MacDonald II. 65 His grandmother yielded, and Robert was straightway a Bejan or Yellow-beak. society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > martial arts > [noun] > belt ?1942 M. Feldenkrais 166 A white belt is worn by beginners, corresponding to the sixth Kyu. The next grade, the fifth, is indicated by a yellow belt. 1966 12 June v. 7/3 (caption) Cho..attempts another side kick on Cohen, a yellow belt. 1979 17 June 39/1 For several years he went to judo classes, reached yellow-belt standard (three below black belt). 2009 (Nexis) 26 Aug. 3 A Taekwondo Australia spokeswoman said Jameson was very young to get a yellow belt. the world > life > the body > secretory organs > secretion > [noun] > fluid secretion > humours > specific humours 1634 ‘Philiatreus’ sig. A6v Divers parts are appointed for the ingendring of diverse humors excrementitious, as the lever for breeding of yellow byle: the melt, of black byle, the stomack, the tryps, and the braine of phlegme. 1758 J. Mackenzie ii. iii. 397 In bodies abounding with yellow bile, the blood is hot and thin, moves with great rapidity through the pipes, disposes the body to inflammations and acute distempers. 1880 J. W. Legg xxix. 652 There can be no doubt that the bilious diseases of the ancients owe their origin to the place which the yellow bile had amongst the four humours of the body. 1937 F. D. Brooks xv. 437 The choleric, having a surplus of ‘yellow bile’, is high-strung, quick-tempered, and irritable. 2010 31 Oct. 43/1 Jaundice was obviously an overflow of yellow bile. 1993 F. Rich ix. 70 Look what I got!.. A yellowbone, and ain't she a pretty one! 2009 @daworker 26 Apr. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) I checked out your you tube. You are a very sexy yellow-bone woman. 2011 @Ash_N_Kusher 19 June in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Yellabones are lite and brite like da sun, den redbones got da lite wit da reddish tint behind da skin. 2016 (Nexis) 16 Nov. A member of the rapper's entourage..agrees that being ‘yellow bone’ is an advantage. 2017 @NowStarringCam 8 July in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) White girls like either super black dark skins or yellow bones or light skins like me preferably if you half white lol they just go for it. 1940 Feb. 35/2 Modern air conditioning trips joyously along the Yellow Brick Road of experimental adjustment. 1954 4 Apr. 27/2 It gives the author a chance to lead Bernard Feston..along a pleasing Yellow Brick Road of Adventure in Spain. 1973 ‘E. John’ & B. Taupin Goodbye Yellow Brick Road in 23 Oh I've finally decided my future lies beyond the yellow brick road. 1990 Dec. 25/1 Follow the yellow brick road and arrive in dreamland because what happened next is pure fairytale. 2015 J. Dreby i. 1 Surmounting legal barriers..marks the first step on the yellow brick road toward the American dream. 1884 24 Apr. Two yellow cabs took up their stand opposite the Grand Central depot. 1885 30 Jan. The yellow cabs in New York came out with a profit on their first year's business. 1923 10 Mar. 4/5 Yellow cabs on the streets of Chicago are a common sight. 1973 ‘D. Jordan’ xi. 46 New York was throbbing..I could hear it even before my yellow cab had reached the Triborough Bridge. 2010 (National ed.) 22 Feb. a18/1 The share-a-cab program..amounts to a sea change in the strictly defined social world of the yellow cab. the world > plants > particular plants > algae > [noun] > other algae 1861 1 459 (table) No silicious spicula. No yellow cells [Fr. cellules jaunes]. 1883 8 5 The small Medusæ buds already contain the peculiar yellow cells so characteristic of the free Medusæ. a1933 J. A. Thomson (1934) I. iii. 51 Most Radiolarians have as partners numerous unicellular plants belonging to the class of Algae. These minute organisms used to be called ‘yellow cells’, but they are inmates of the Radiolarian. 2004 A. C. Baker in E. Rosenberg & Y. Loya viii. 178 By correctly identifying the role of these ‘yellow cells’, he [sc. Karl Brandt] initiated a line of scientific inquiry that would ultimately lead to the recognition of these algae to be vastly more important than anyone had previously suspected. 1918 (Amer. Expeditionary Forces) I. 23 L. F. K. Gr. Gelbkreuz. (Lange Feld Kanonengranate Gelbkreuz). A gas shell of the same type as the long H. E. shell known as the ‘Yellow Cross’. 1918 18 July 1/2 Symptoms of sickness make us [sc. the German army] suppose that the enemy is using a new gas which resembles our ‘yellow cross’. 1918 7 Dec. 1911/2 (heading) Mustard (yellow cross) burns. 1928 25 Mar. 17/5 The Germans..still possessed the advantage of their new methods of artillery and the new yellow-cross gas, not yet adopted by the enemy. 1997 H. H. Herwig x. 414 Yellow Cross (mustard) gas, on the other hand, was to target supply dumps or entire army corps, for it lingered in the air and clung to the ground and water for days and even weeks. society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > other mediums of exchange > [noun] > uncoined metal as medium of exchange > gold 1628 R. Gomersall iv. i. 42 What is Gold but yellow durt? 1703 101 Dig on, dig on, at last you'll make your Grave in the bottomless Pit, where your yellow Dirt will be chang'd into blewish flames of stinking Sulphur. 1753 A. Murphy 24 Nov. 49 Convenience stamped an imaginary value upon yellow Dirt. 1846 Oct. 224/2 In this enlightened age we may affect to speak scornfully of the world's ‘yellow dirt’, and rail at the covetousness of those beings who make it their chief idol. 1898 28 Jan. They..will prospect along the route to the Copper river, and when they find the yellow dirt in paying quantities they will locate. 1900 17 Feb. 8/2 Many a good fellow, from lack of just a modicum of the poetically-despised ‘yellow dirt’, has lost courage and died in despair. 1947 28 Apr. 8/2 [She] began life in a two-room log cabin, the daughter of a prospector whose pickax hit yellow dirt in Colorado. 1779 1 June The Content armed Ship..has laid many Months, unserviceable and yellow flagged, in this Harbour. 1867 J. E. Ollivant tr. P. Kollonitz 16 The yellow-flagged boat of the quarantine. 2001 5 Apr. b3/4 His crew warned people all day to keep away from yellow-flagged areas. a1835 Young Johnstone (Motherwell) xxiv, in F. J. Child (1886) II. iv. 293/2 ‘Nut-brown was his hawk,’ they said, ‘And yellow-fit was his hound.’ 1949 15 Feb. 3/1 A young yellow-foot rock wallaby—an exceptionally rare capture these days—was delivered to Adelaide Zoo yesterday afternoon. 1971 1 May 31/2 Mr. Wohl still has eleven other turtles and tortoises..: a North African tortoise; a Greek female tortoise; a South American yellow-foot tortoise; [etc.]. 2016 @KirkhopeAviatio 20 May in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) On tour at Arkaroola Sanctuary we spotted a yellow foot wallaby. society > faith > sect > non-Christian religions > Buddhism > Buddhist sects and groups > [noun] > Mahayana > Tibetan > Gelug or yellow hat school society > faith > sect > non-Christian religions > Buddhism > Buddhist sects and groups > [adjective] > Mahayana > Tibetan > Gelug or yellow hat school 1729 II. i. v. 487 The Lamas..have the Head and Beard shaved very close, and wear yellow Hats. 1736 R. Brookes tr. J.-B. Du Halde et al. IV. 451 They would have met with no better Treatment than the rest, because they were of the Yellow Hats [Fr. ils..portent le chapeau jaune]. 1747 IV. ii. iv. 450/2 They being of the yellow Hat, or Chinese Party. 1872 S. Johnson iii. vi. 746 The true Thibetan papacy of the ‘yellow hat’ Lamas, as distinguished from the older and ruder ‘red hat’ priests, goes back to Thsong-kha-pa. 1931 C. Bell viii. 129 With the enthronement of the fifth Dalai Lama as sovereign over the whole country, the power of the Yellow Hats was greatly increased. 2016 (Nexis) 30 Dec. The head of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism, also known as the Yellow Hat school, visited him in 1577. society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > racing with vehicles > bicycle race > [noun] > award to winner 1932 16 July 10/8 Leducq is still wearing his yellow jersey signifying his leadership. 1964 16 June 6/6 Metcalfe (England) won his seventh yellow jersey with another aggressively defensive ride. 1991 27 July 3/2 Yellow jersey Miguel Indurain still held the three minutes lead which he took by finishing second in last Friday's epic Pyrenean stage. 2005 6 Sept. 20/1 Hammond..was out of contention for the yellow jersey after the first day after missing a 22-minute break on the stage from Glasgow to Castle Douglas. the world > life > source or principle of life > age > old age > [noun] > process of growing old a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) v. iii. 25 My way of life Is falne into the Seare, the yellow Leafe. View more context for this quotation 1775 4 Shall she attempt, tho' in the yellow leaf Of time to give thy chilly soul relief? 1824 Ld. Byron in 29 Oct. My days are in the yellow leaf. 1839 H. Hallam III. vi. iii. 330 He..settled himself at a distance from all dramatic associations..with the hope, doubtless, of a secure decline into the yellow leaf of years. 1913 L. Strachey in Jan. 68 The radiant creatures of Sceaux had fallen into the yellow leaf. 1935 C. Isherwood vii. 107 Yes, I shall be fifty-three... I find it difficult to become accustomed to the thought that the yellow leaf is upon me. 2004 (Nexis) 21 Dec. The beds of potatoes she dug at the back have fallen, as they say, into the yellow leaf. the mind > emotion > fear > cowardice or pusillanimity > [adjective] 1835 28 Mar. 51/2 An ugly, sallow, yellow livered, fat fellow. 1857 4 Nov. [He] was pacing up and down his cell, cursing the ‘great old kicked [sic]’ for a pusillanimous, chicken-hearted, yellow-livered quack. 1894 10 Aug. Edinburg and all the inhabitants thereof are being roundly damned for having ‘cowardly souls’ by the baseball cranks who left here yesterday... Down wid 'em, the yellow-livered sassennachs [sic]. 1935 S. Lewis xv. 156 The meanest, lowest, cowardliest gang of yellow-livered, back-slapping, hypocritical gun-toters. 2015 W. W. Johnstone & J. A. Johnstone v. 42 Bass had said he'd be danged if he'd be giving any orders and cowering with some yellow-livered general. society > education > learning > learner > college or university student > [noun] > first-year student 1854 Oct. 433/1 The etymology attributed to the word bejaune is rather curious. It is said to mean yellow neb.] 1879 21 Aug. 2/1 He was known as a Bejan—that is a Bec-jaune, or yellow neb. 1910 S. R. Crockett xxiv. 196 Their [sc. older students'] circle is formed. They want no ‘yellow nebs’. 1929 E. Mims v. 140 What a chance for somebody to write a book on..the Yellow Nineties. 1984 68 437 For a time the ‘Yellow '90s’ were in vogue. 2015 K. Mahoney 12 The Yellow Nineties were celebrated by twentieth-century critics as a moment of rebellion, critique, and rebirth. society > communication > book > matter of book > [noun] > index society > communication > information > action of informing > [noun] > information retrieval > index society > communication > book > kind of book > reference book > [noun] > directories > telephone directory society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > [noun] > telephone directory > classified section or supplement 1871 16 May 4/3 (advt.) For full particulars see Yellow Pages in South-Western Time-tables for May. 1908 No. 117. (verso rear cover) See the yellow pages in back of this book. 1909 23 June 1/2 (advt.) The stranger in New York will find a helpful guide in the Information Section, ‘Yellow Pages’, of the Telephone Directory. 1925 3 Aug. 3 (advt.) The yellow pages of the Telephone Book... The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company. 1969 5 May 26/2 Yellow Pages are the classified guide that will be part of everyone's GPO telephone directory soon. 1982 S. Brett i. 10 The random selection method of sticking a pin in the ‘Theatrical and Variety Agents’ section of the Yellow Pages. 2001 T. Hogg & M. Blau vii. 225/1 If no one you know has used an agency, look in parenting magazines or the yellow pages. 2015 J. S. Cooper vi. 104 The good thing about staying in cheap hotels is that they always have a Yellow Pages. the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > poison > [noun] > other poisonous substances the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > rain > [noun] > with suspended particles or pollution the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > [noun] > parts of > stamen or pistil > pollen and related parts 1755 R. Gibson vii. 155 Scheuch Zerus relates, that in the Year 1677, there was a yellow Rain fell near Zurich, which was found swimming in the Form of Powder upon an adjacent Lake. 1850 5 511 Yellow rain fell at the Mumbles at 11 A.M.; leaving spots like ochre. Wind S.W. Weather fine. 1903 5 Mar. 5/2 The phenomenon of ‘yellow rain’ was observed at some of the southern..stations. 1981 24 Nov. c1 The United States has been trying since 1976 to verify reports that chemical weapons, known popularly as ‘the yellow rain’, are being used against remote villages in Laos, Cambodia and, more recently, Afghanistan. 2011 (Nexis) 24 Mar. The ‘yellow rain’ seen Wednesday in the Kanto region surrounding Tokyo was caused by pollen, not radioactive materials as many residents had worried. 2014 (Nexis) 27 Apr. (Mag.) 32 The CIA has written up its official history of yellow rain, but refuses to declassify it. the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > grain dishes > [noun] > rice dishes 1655 tr. C. Sorel vii. 8 Dressing the pottage, and the yellow Rice [Fr. le ris iaune] for Dinner, I had put into the pot a certain laxative. 1730 C. Carter 53 Take out some of your Rice, and colour it with Saffron... Lay your Mutton on the Top, and lay the Yellow Rice round in Heaps. 1892 19 Mar. 5/2 The principal dishes were..kabobs, potato wafers, yellow rice, curries. 1934 G. Ross 31 Arroz con pollo, tender chicken prepared with yellow rice. 1972 7 Aug. 44/3 The..items were, of course, yellow rice and beans. 2012 26 May d7/1 Bobotie was often served for lunch with yellow rice. the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > type of disease > viral diseases > associated with food or crop plants the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > type of disease > fungal > associated with crop or food plants > various diseases 1808 Sept. 398 The winter wheats have suffered most severely from the yellow rust, or blight, as it is called. 1907 2 129 He has discovered and grown several wheats which show to a greater or lesser degree immunity to the attacks of Puccinia glumarum, Yellow Rust. 2016 (Nexis) 3 Jan. Yellow rust has been reported in small areas in Ropar district. the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > class or grade of wine > [noun] > high class or grade 1786 No. 63. 252 I have often..heard it remarked, that there was no such claret in Edinburgh as Bob Easy's yellow seal. 1823 W. Scott I. ii. 33 He could do no less, in acknowledgment of the honour, than ask Meg for a bottle of the yellow seal. 1863 C. G. Leland iv. 83 That melancholy which in the long run is—like yellow-seal Hock—‘ve-ry expensive’. 1874 29 Aug. 10/2 The yellow-seal wine of Pastourol was a snappish white juice that whipped the palate and brain. 1914 E. F. Henderson tr. G. Freytag Journalists iv. ii, in XII. 100 Mr. Piepenbrink sends his regards, with the message that the wine is yellow-seal. 1916 31 May 11/5 When the Yellow Seal was brought up from the cellar it was Fishpingle who drew the cork. the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing agents > [noun] > soap > type of soap > specific 1762 12 May (advt.) Wanted immediately, a Journeyman Soapboiler, who understands making brown and yellow Soap. 1837 C. Dickens xxv. 264 Applying plenty of yellow soap to the towel, and rubbing away, till his face shone again. 1946 J. I. Rodale iii. 136 At the beginning my garden was just pure yellow stiff clay (just like yellow soap). 2009 S. Panagiotou i. 26 There were big rough blocks of yellow soap used for a heap of household cleaning tasks. the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > wash [verb (transitive)] > wash in soapy water 1836 C. Dickens 1st Ser. I. 76 The children were yellow-soaped, and flannelled, and towelled, 'til their faces shone again. 1926 L. Aminoff xxiv. 234 We understand her feelings entirely, even to the length of yellow-soaping Master Five's curly pate, ‘out o' turn’. society > communication > indication > insignia > [noun] > specific emblems, badges, or cognizances > political 1941 8 Sept. 7/7 All Jews over 16 are forbidden to appear in public in Germany without a six-pointed yellow star worn on the left of the breast. 1941 26 Sept. 24/4 The Jews must wear the yellow star because America compels our Germans over there to wear the swastika. 1967 21 Oct. 8/3 ‘Private Eye’ recently labelled me ‘D. A. N. Jew’. Now it happens that I haven't the right to claim the yellow star. 1981 6 Nov. 1296/5 Germans like Captain Ernst Janger..who declared himself ‘ashamed’..when he saw Jews in Paris wearing their yellow stars. 2004 D. Kranzler vi. 92 A Polish Jew living in Warsaw with a legitimate Swiss passport did not have to wear a yellow star and was permitted to live outside the Ghetto. 1621 T. Granger 147 I pray God that our sinnes turne not our yealow starch into red. a1640 J. Fletcher et al. Queene of Corinth iv. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher (1647) sig. Bbbbbb4/2 Has he familiarly Dislik'd your yellow Starch, or said your Dublet Was not exactly frenchifi'd? 1796 J. P. Andrews II. viii. vii. 304 The ruff became large..; it was sometimes double, sometimes wired, and sometimes stiffened with yellow starch. 1888 14 Apr. 4/6 Dip them [sc. curtains]..into a weak solution of coffee, trying it first on a small piece..and afterwards starching with yellow starch sold for the purpose. 1940 J. A. Radley i. 4 Yellow starch was for some time most fashionable, its use, however, fell into disrepute when Mrs. Turner, the poisoner, was publicly executed, and ascended the scaffold wearing a yellow-starched ruffle. 2000 A. R. Jones & P. Stallybrass in L. C. Orlin vii. 143 Throughout the 1610s and the 1620s, mantles in the Irish style and yellow starch alike became high fashion in London. society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Presbyterianism > Presbyterian sects and groups > [noun] > Hebridean 1771 J. Walker (1980) 197 Their neighbours..in the Popish Islands of Egg and Canna, still continue to call the Protestantism of Rum, by the name of Credivk Chall Vuy, that is, the Faith of the Yellow Stick or Cane. 1851 18 Nov. 6/6 There is an old story against the Highlanders of the island of Rum that they were made Protestants by the laird one day driving them to the parish kirk with a yellow stick, in consequence of which the Catholics of the other islands used to call the Protestantism of Rum the religion of the yellow stick. 1861 X. D. Macleod 342 (note) Hebridean Protestants..are..called Protestants of the Yellow Stick. 1903 Sept. 226/1 In 1772 he sold the Glenaladale Estates in consequence of the persecution of the ‘creideamh a' bhata bhuidhe’, or ‘the religion of the yellow stick’, by which name was contemptuously known the attempt made by Macdonald of Boisdale to compel the Catholics of South Uist to adopt the Protestant religion. 1983 June 13/3 The local laird..used to beat his tenants into church with a cane—earning Presbyterianism the nickname..the Religion of the Yellow Stick. the mind > emotion > fear > cowardice or pusillanimity > [noun] > trait of cowardice 1892 19 Sept. 3/1 They..said..that I could not hit hard, and that I had a ‘yellow streak’—meaning that I was afraid. 1911 H. S. Harrison v. 55 ‘A yellow streak in him, and we didn't know it!’ bellowed the Major. 1977 ‘D. MacNeil’ xi. 116 I'm not showing a yellow streak! But we're going to have casualties. 2015 (Nexis) 17 July 43 Cameron is showing his yellow streak. 1776 P. Brown 136/2 The Yellow-vented Fly-Catcher. 1865 J. Gould II. 63 (heading) Psephotus xanthorrhous, Gould. Yellow-vented Parrakeet. 1961 27 Oct. 14/3 Gardens of grass and flowering shrubs, full of golden orioles and yellow-vented bul-buls. 2016 N. Athanas & P. J. Greenfield 216 Yellow-vented Woodpecker..has a plain, unbarred yellow belly and black throat. 1824 J. Mactaggart 410 The yallow-wym'd-ask 'Neath the root o' yon aik tree. 1838 IV. 176 He can..lurk in the green moss like the yellow-wamed ask. 1877 R. De B. Trotter 81 Confound ye for a yellow-wamed limmer..if ye dinna start an' sing in five minutes, I'll droon ye in the wal, so I wull. society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > pottery or ceramics > [noun] > pottery of specific colour 1764 12 Oct. 159/1 Crates of common yellow ware sorted. 1785 J. Woodforde 7 Nov. (1926) II. 213 To Nancy for 2 new yellow Ware Chamber Pots 1. 0. 1828 E. Bulwer-Lytton II. xxvi. 285 A comfortless sort of dressing-room..where I found a yellow ware jug and basin. 1967 Apr. 9/2 During the next ten years the Bells extended their pottery production to include Rockingham and yellow wares. 2001 Apr. 72/2 The house is..a showcase for Barwick's many collections—blue and white china, yellowware and enamelware, antique wooden birdhouses. b. OE (2011) 72 Luscinus, geolewearte. c1175 Libellus de Nominibus Naturalium Rerum in T. Hunt (1991) I. 23 Florentius, geolefincg. 1575 G. Turberville 8 The brown or yellow Egle after Aristotles opinion is called in Greeke Guyseon. 1673 J. Ray 87 The Yellow Water-wagtail: Motacilla flava. 1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby ii. 141 (heading) The yellow blue-footed Persian Woodpecker of Aldrovandus. 1783 J. Latham II. 139 Yellow Grosbeak…head, neck, breast, belly, and vent, yellow. 1796 P. A. Nemnich V. 944 Yellow fingers, Strombus lambis. 1817 J. F. Stephens X. ii. 428 Yellow chatterer. (Ampelis luteus.)... Chatterer with the body above of brown green; beneath, rump, and lateral tail-feathers, yellow. 1847 P. H. Gosse & R. Hill 264 A subtle and voracious enemy, the Yellow Boa. 1872 H. A. Wickham ii. iii. 203 Many species of yellow fly-catchers perched upon the topmost twigs of the swamp-woods. 1894 Aug. 226/1 Percy was looking at the picture of a yellow tanager in a new looking bird book. 1913 65 200 Crocomorphus semicinnamomeus (Reichenb.). Yellow Woodpecker. 1974 4 May 23/8 (advt.) Country home urgently wanted for two purebred Yellow Labrador bitches. 1991 Dec. 246/1 Heaney is, like the yellow bittern, a very rare bird indeed. 2013 D. W. Beckman iii. 97/1 Along the South American coast the yellow clam Mesodesma donacium..[is] commonly harvested. (b) 1659 R. Amyas 6 Take the Liver of a Hare dryed in an Oven, and made into fine Powder; mix it with the Eggs of yellow Ants, or Pismires. 1735 J. Cockburn 16 I was no ways able to keep off the Vermine, such as Muskitoes and great yellow Ants, as large as our Bees. 1865 J. G. Wood vii. 129 The common Yellow Ant (Formica flava) so abundant in marshes and gardens. 1967 T. Lewis & L. R. Taylor ii. 34 The yellow ant (Lasius flavus) builds its nest in the earth below a stone. 2016 (Electronic ed.) 4 May When a boy, he had put ferocious yellow ants and black ants in a bottle and watched them kill each other. 1781 T. Pennant I. 176 Yellow. B [aboon] . 1894 198/2 The true baboons are exclusively African..on the East Coast, and extending right across, is the yellow baboon. 1973 26 63 Papio cynocephalus. Yellow Baboon. 2012 14 Apr. (Travel section) 21/3 A vast plain, where troops of yellow baboons played with their babies and noisily scolded wayward adolescents. 1819 Sept. 360/2 A beautiful sheet of pure spring water, in which pike, yellow bass, perch and sun fish, are abundant. 1888 G. B. Goode 33 Another species which closely resembles the Striped Bass is the Morone interrupta, generally known as the Yellow Bass. 1949 41 452 Yellow bass come into shallow water during the night. 2015 (Nexis) 9 Aug. (Lifestyle section) Drift-casting minnows along the creek channel edges is the best way to catch crappie and yellow bass. 1788 C. Catton The Yellow Bear from Carolina..is rather smaller than the European Bears;..the colour a lively bright orange, of a reddish cast. 1821 E. Griffith 236 (heading) The yellow bear. Ursus Luteolus. 1841 T. W. Harris 247 Of all the hairy caterpillars frequenting our gardens, there are none so common and troublesome as that which I have called the yellow bear. a1857 D. Thompson (1916) vi. 113 The only Bears of this country, are the small black Bear, with a chance Yellow Bear, this latter has a fine furr and trades for three Beavers in barter, when full grown. 1938 41 186 The ‘yellow bear’ caterpillar was taken several times feeding on bindweed foliage. 1959 H. H. Collins 322 The form that occurs on the southern edge of the Barren Grounds from the Anderson River to ne. of Great Slave Lake..is now known as the Yellow Bear, U. inopinatus. 2010 J. Frick-Ruppert iv. 154 The yellow bear (Spilosoma virginica), while usually pale yellow, can range in color from white to dark brown. the world > animals > birds > unspecified and miscellaneous birds > [noun] > miscellaneous 1775 J. Cook 17 Jan. (1969) II. 622 The Oceanic birds were Albatross,..Shags, Divers, the New White Bird and a small Duck such as are at the Cape of Good Hope and known by the name of Yellow-bills. 1865 P. H. Gosse 321 Yonder floats by a flock of Parrots with a most abominable combination of harsh screams. It is the Yellow-bill. 1977 G. M. Sutton 12 Both the Yellow-bill and Black-bill are confirmed eaters of caterpillars. 2008 A. Jarrett iv. 35 There were a lot of duck there—mostly yellow-bills, but with a sprinkling of shoveler and red-billed teal and a mass of coots thrown in. the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > [noun] > subfamily Muscicapinae > unspecified and miscellaneous types of a1609 J. Dennys (1613) ii. xlvii. sig. D2v Yealow bobs turnd vp before the Plough, Are chiefest bayts. 1662 R. Venables 70 Yellow Bobs are also of two sorts, the one bred in mellow light soils, and gathered after the Plough when the Land is first broken up from grazing, and are in season in the Winter till March; the other sort is bred under Cow-dung, hath a red head. 1855 W. A. Foster in 212 A yellow bob behind, And deep red hackle, fastened round With tinsel well entwined. 1896 29 Aug. 23/4 Eopsaltria australis, Latham. Yellow-breasted Robin; ‘Yellow Bob’. 1981 P. Hay 143 In the scrubland Yellow Bob Is singing in the light. 2013 I. Fraser & J. Gray 258 Eastern Yellow Robin... Other names:..Yellowbob; Bark Robin..; Wild Canary. 1776 T. Pennant (ed. 4, octavo) I. ii. 325 Yellow Bunting..; the crown of the head is of a pleasant pale yellow. 1894 R. B. Sharpe I. 70 From the curious ‘scribbling’ on the eggs the Yellow Bunting..is in many places known as the ‘Writing Lark’. 1920 10 Mar. 3/4 A flock of rooks flying past overhead and a pair of yellow buntings in a field. 2003 J. Alder 32/1 The yellow buntings nest in a dense, lichen-encrusted hawthorn hedge leading down from the castle to the sea. 1817 W. Kitchiner sig. F4 The yellow eels are apt to taste muddy. 1908 42 493 The yellow eels, as they migrate, undergo a considerable change in appearance, passing from the stage known as the yellow eel to that of the silver eel. 1998 (S. Atlantic Fishery Managem. Council) iii. 285 Yellow eels remain in estuaries or rivers for up to 14 years before undertaking the spawning migration back to the Atlantic Ocean. 2014 2 Sept. Maine..is enforcing the interstate commission's yellow eel minimum size limit, adopted in 2013, of nine inches. 1496 Treat. Fysshynge wyth Angle in (rev. ed.) sig. i.iiiv The yelow flye. the body of yelow wull: the wynges of the redde cocke hakyll & of the drake lyttyd yelow. 1664 H. Power i. 6 Stercorary or Yellow Flyes that feed upon Cow-dung. 1751 G. Edwards IV. Index 243 The great yellow Fly with black Spots. 1838 Jan. 25/1 The yellow flies and moschetoes swarmed in myriads. 1919 Apr. 368 Diachlorus femoratus, the ‘yellow fly’, was abundant and bloodthirsty, a perfect nuisance when bathing in the river. 2003 xv. 136 If they don't want a little yellow fly or a big yellow fly or a medium goddamn yellow fly, then the sonsabitches can go straight to hell for all I care. 1736 R. Brookes tr. J.-B. Du Halde et al. IV. 134 The yellow Goats [Fr. les chevres jaunes], called by the Chinese, Hoang yang..their Hair is really yellow, but not so smooth as that of the common Goat. 1852 Mrs P. Sinnett tr. É. R. Huc 108 Troops of yellow goats running to hide themselves in the gorges of the mountains. 1908 I. 118 Dzeren is the Mongolian name for the yellow goat (Procapra gutturosa). 2004 (Nexis) 14 May h12 During the famines in Inner Mongolia, people started killing rare yellow goats in large numbers..to avoid starvation. the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > [noun] > suborder Callionymoidei (dragonets) > callionymus lyra (gemmeous dragonet) 1705 E. Tyson in (Royal Soc.) 25 1749 I shall take Liberty to call it the Yellow Gurnard. 1769 T. Pennant (new ed.) III. iv. 131 The English writers have called it [sc. the dragonet] the Yellow Gurnard, which having no one character of the Gurnard genus, we think ourselves obliged to drop that name. 1895 9 110 Yellow Gurnard (Trigla hirundo). 1966 18 Aug. 9/5 Sounds were detected from cod, saithe, yellow gurnard and the spiny lobster. 2009 74 474/1 Specimens of..yellow gurnard (Trigla lucerna)..,coming from the Gulf of Manfredonia in the Adriatic sea, were purchased from a local farm. the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > division Endopterygota or Metabola (winged) > [noun] > order Neuroptera > suborder Megaloptera > family Sianidae > sialis lutarius (alder-fly) 1760 J. Hawkins in App. 112 Yellow Miller or Owl Flie. The body of a yellow Martern's fur, or Ostrich Herl dyed buff colour. 1892 M. O. Marbury 489 The Yellow Miller and the White Miller are flies made in imitation of the natural insects. 1950 J. E. Leonard xiv. 285 Yellow miller. the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Carnivora > [noun] > family Herpestidae > genus Herpestes (mongoose) 1917 6 196 One yellow mongoose, since mounted. 1991 R. M. Nowak (ed. 5) II. 1174/2 The yellow mongoose frequents open country, preferably with loose soil, but may take refuge among rocks or in brush along the banks of streams when disturbed. 2008 (Nexis) 12 Jan. 7 People in Joburg are seeing more yellow mongooses in their gardens, as well as more reptiles. the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > seed eaters > [noun] > family Emberizidae > subfamily Emberizinae (bunting) > genus Emberiza > emberiza citrinella (yellow-hammer) 1612 M. Drayton xiii. 215 The Yellow-pate: which though shee hurt the blooming tree, Yet scarce hath any bird a finer pype then shee. the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Percidae (perches) > [noun] > perca fluvescens (ring perch) 1791 8 The uncommon abundance of very fine Fish, with which the lakes and rivers abound; among which are to be found..white and yellow perch. 1855 H. W. Longfellow v. 67 He..Saw the yellow perch, the Sahwa, Like a sunbeam in the water. 1924 43 81 Yellow perch, Perca flavescens..were brought in literally by the hundreds, sometimes several hundred in a single haul. 1992 P. Ramette & D. Sternberg 141 1 lb. yellow perch, or substitute, fillets, skin removed. 2011 W. Bourne viii. 99/1 Yellow perch spawn in early spring when the water temperature climbs into the high 40° F range. the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Percidae (perches) > [noun] > genus Stizostedion (pike-perches) > pike-perch 1835 3 Oct. 316/1 The yellow pike..would slightly elevate his head from his watching place, and with a slight undulation of his tail, throw himself at the devoted perch, and swallow it in an instant. 1968 13 Sept. 30A/1 I have caught a total of 26 yellow pike weighing from 3 to 6 pounds each. 2003 F. Fabricant i. 169 In New York, walleye is often sold as yellow pike, which is one of the classic ingredients of gefilte fish. the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > [noun] > family Charadriidae > genus Pluvialis > pluvialis apricaria (Eurasian golden plover) 1793 J. Sinclair VII. 394 There are also here in their season, the lapwing, the grey and yellow plover, and the night-rail. 1892 (ed. 3) 587 The Golden, Green, or Yellow Plover (Charadrius pluvialis)..is highly esteemed by gourmands. 1917 F. Carlin 116 The yellow plovers fly o'er the heather. 1954 19 Feb. 1/1 He pleaded guilty to a charge of possessing a yellow plover during the closed season. the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Parulidae (wood warbler) > [noun] > genus Dendroica > dendroica destiva (summer yellowbird) 1783 J. Latham II. ii. 515 Yellow-Poll. Rather less than the Pettichaps:..This species is found in America,..but its chief residence is in Guiana. 1873 379 Dendroeca æstiva. Yellow-poll Warbler. Common. 1914 28 Mar. 4/5 When I see..the yellow-poll warbler explore the apple and cherry trees, I am sure spring is here. 2003 May 30/1 It is the only warbler that appears all yellow at a distance. Indeed, the old folk names for the species reflect this: summer yellowbird, golden warbler, wild canary, yellow poll. the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Parulidae (wood warbler) > [noun] > genus Dendroica > miscellaneous types of 1758 G. Edwards I. 99 The Yellow Red-pole. 1876 C. Hallock v. 43 Yellow redpoll-warbler (Dendroeca palmarum). The most abundant species of the warblers here as elsewhere. 1916 J. Burroughs vii. 113 My first warbler in the spring is usually the yellow redpoll, which I see in April. 1990 23 94 Two of these watercolors survive in the collection of the Boston Athenaeum Library: a yellow redpoll warbler..and a ruby-crowned wren. the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > [noun] > subfamily Muscicapinae > other types of 1827 15 242 ‘This bird,’ Mr. Cayley says, ‘is called yellow-robin by the colonists. It is an inhabitant of bushes.’ 1948 13 May 71/5 The Western Yellow Robin..is a little fellow about four inches long with a very pretty yellow front, brown eyes and grey back. 2011 R. Thomas et al. (ed. 2) 378 Eastern Yellow Robin. Eopsaltria australis... The most common robin of eastern coastal and subcoastal forests. the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Parulidae (wood warbler) > [noun] > genus Dendroica > dendroica coronata (yellow-rump) the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Parulidae (wood warbler) > [noun] > genus Dendroica > miscellaneous types of 1731 C. Mortimer in (Royal Soc.) 36 433 Parus uropygeo luteo, the yellow Rump. 1885 10 41/2 During a short walk this morning I noticed for the first time the Yellow-rump Warbler, (Dendrœca coronata). 1980 50 257/1 Unlike other warblers, the Yellow-rump winters in flocks. 2005 (Nexis) 20 Oct. Yellow-rumps are known to probe leaves and twigs for insects and spiders. the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > means of attracting fish > [noun] > real or imitation flies 1766 R. Bowlker 103 (heading) The Yellow Sally Fly. 1856 C. Kingsley (ed. 3) 156 The delicate lemon-coloured ‘Yellow Sally’ (Chrysoperla viridis). 1992 Sept. 100/2 I had scaled and gutted a string of bluegills, stumpknockers, and catfish that we had caught on red wigglers and an artificial bug called a Yellow Sally. 2015 P. Dorsey iv. 106/2 The Yellow Sally's migration to the river's edge provides yet another opportunity to fish a stonefly nymph. the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Piciformes > [noun] > family Picidae > genus Colaptes (flicker) > colaptes auratus (golden-wing) 1855 Jrnl. 11 Apr. in Rep. Secretary of War Continued in Message President to Congr. (1858) II. ii. 727 in (35th Congr., 2nd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 2) Saw yellow-shafted flicker, (Colaptes auratus,) and meadow lark, (Sturnella neglecta). 1911 W. L. McAtee 13 Both the yellow-shafted and the red-shafted flicker are known to excavate holes in fence and gate posts. 2007 (Nexis) 29 Aug. c1 A yellow-shafted flicker hopped around eating ants. the world > animals > birds > perching birds > order Piciformes > [noun] > family Picidae > genus Colaptes (flicker) > colaptes auratus (golden-wing) 1822 J. Latham III. 410 Yellow-shafted Woodpecker;..tail dusky yellow, with black spots, and yellow shafts. 1902 6 Aug. 10/5 All spring he watched a beautiful yellow-shafted woodpecker..drumming a round hole in a hollow tree stump, and building his nest therein. 2003 E. McAuliffe (rev. ed.) 13 People also call yellowhammers flickers or yellow-shafted woodpeckers. the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > member of genus Tringa > tringa flavipes (yellow-legs) the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > member of genus Tringa > tringa melanoleuca 1785 T. Pennant II. ii. 468 Yellow-shanks Sn [ipe] . With a slender black bill. 1835 J. J. Audubon III. 573 The Yellowshank is much more abundant..to the westward of the Alleghany Mountains than along our Atlantic coast. 1892 20 365 Flock of Yellow-shank Snipe seen. 1948 9 146 I took it to the National Museum, Dublin, where it was recognised as a Greater Yellowshank, Tringa melanoleuca. 2001 D. W. Nellis 227/1 Other English common names include common yellowlegs, little tell-tale, lesser yellowshanks, yellow-legged plover, and little stone-bird. 1809 A. H. Haworth ii. 343 P[halæna bilineata]. (The yellow Shell). 1901 G. E. Simms (ed. 2) 74 The Yellow Shell Moth (Camptogramma bilineata) is a pretty little insect of a general yellow. 2013 D. Newland et al. 92 Although primarily inland moths, Yellow Shells can also occur on coastal habitats. 1777 T. Pennant (ed. 4, octavo) IV. vi. 41 [Limax] Flavus. Yellow [Slug] ..of an amber color, marked with white. 1828 W. Cobbett in 19 Oct. 671/1 The great black slug and the yellow slug live chiefly upon worms, and do not touch plants of any kind. 1971 Summer 187/1 This is probably a yellow slug, Limax flavus,..which lives in and around houses, cellars and old garden walls. 2006 (Nexis) 22 Oct. 11 Yellow slugs in Northamptonshire are reproducing three months early because warm weather has confused them. the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Boidae (boas) > types of epicrates > epicrates subflavus (yellow snake) 1567 J. Maplet iii. f. 78 The Crocodile is called yelow Snake for that he is in colour most Saffron like. 1725 H. Sloane II. 325 Serpens major subflavus..The yellow Snake. 1849 A young specimen of the large Yellow Snake, from Jamaica... They are perfectly harmless unless molested. 1860 M. Reid 22 The ‘Yellow Snake’, or South African Cobra. 1930 19 Mar. 9 Quite a curious crowd gathered at Mr. Veira's store this evening to see a large yellow snake that was caught at Kinloss. 2007 M. O'Shea 47/1 Jamaican Boa Epicrates subflavus Known as the ‘yellowsnake’ in its native land, this species has also suffered greatly since European colonization. the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Parulidae (wood warbler) > [noun] > genus Geothlypis (yellow throat) 1702 J. Petiver I. 10 Avis Mary-Landica gutture luteo. The Mary-Land Yellow-Throat. 1865 May 521/1 I miss in the woods..the Yellow Throat. 1891 8 138 In the palmetto scrub were Yellowthroats (Geothlypis) and White-eyed Towhees. 1997 J. L. Dunn & K. L. Garrett 92 Bahama yellowthroat Geothlypis rostrata... Endemic resident on Bahamas; unconfirmed reports for s. Florida. 2003 Winter 58/2 The yellowthroat is a black-faced, yellow-bellied bird of dense waterside vegetation, given away by its call that sounds exactly like a stone tossed into a pile of loose gravel. the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Noctuidae > member of subfamily Catocalinae (underwing) > yellow underwing 1720 E. Albin Descr. Pl. lxxii The 10th of June came the Moth commonly called the yellow under Wing. 1882 14 96 Triphæna pronuba (the Great Yellow Underwing Moth)... The body and wings are a dull brown or ochreous colour, and the under wings of a bright orange colour. a1941 V. Woolf (1942) 9 The commonest yellow-underwing asleep in the shadow of the curtain. 1997 10 Oct. 23/2 Although lesser yellow underwing is a common enough noctuid in Shetland it is not a species I see at all often. 2008 C. R. Adams et al. (ed. 5) 215 The larvae of the yellow underwing moth..live in the soil, nipping off the stems of young plants and eating holes in succulent crops. 1668 Bp. J. Wilkins ii. v. 151 Yellow Wagtail. 1784 J. Aikin 28 Other birds, which are seen amongst us only in the warmer months, as the redstart, whitethroat, and yellow wagtail, appear in April. 1875 9 Oct. 3/5 (advt.) To be sold... All healthy birds and in good condition, 24 Canaries,..1 male Yellow Wagtail, and 1 male Turquoisine Parrakeet. 1948 50 66 I finally found the nest of the pair of Yellow Wagtails which had scolded us so much when we walked by that place. 2010 D. T. Parkin & A. G. Knox 337 Molecular data support the separation of Yellow Wagtail into two species, ‘Western Yellow Wagtail’ M. flava, and ‘Eastern Yellow Wagtail’ M. tschutschensis. the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > arboreal families > family Parulidae (wood warbler) > [noun] > genus Dendroica > miscellaneous types of 1783 J. Latham II. ii. 482 Spotted Yellow Warbler. 1845 S. Judd i. xvii. 160 The leafless Butternut, whereon..the yellow warbler made its nest, sprawls its naked arms. 1930 W. L. Sclater ii. 525 Apalis jacksoni. Distr.—Cameroon to Uganda and Mt. Elgon... Black-throated Yellow Warbler. 1995 (Nexis) 22 Oct. Other unlikely visitors include..American yellow warblers in Ireland and yellow-billed cuckoos in the Isles of Scilly. 2011 17 487/2 Papyrus yellow warbler, the rarest and most endangered of the study species. c. c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 1071 Ialousye That wered of yelowe gooldes a gerland. 1548 W. Turner sig. E.vi Plenie maketh mention of a kynde called Narcissus herbaceus, whiche is after my iudgement our yealowe daffodyl. 1548 W. Turner sig. B.i The secund [kind of Camomile] is called in greke chrysanthemon..it maye be called in englishe yealowe camomyle. 1562 W. Turner f. 14 It [sc. Hieracium magnum] may be called in Englishe greate hawkewede, or yealow succory. 1626 F. Bacon §482 There be certain Corn-flowers which come seldome or never in other places..but onely amongst Corn: As the blew Bottle, a kind of Yellow Mary-Gold, Wilde Poppy and Fumitory. 1674 J. Blagrave 86 The Yellow-Gillow-flower plentifully groweth upon the old ruined Stones of the walls of Monasteries, Castles, and such old buildings. 1725 R. Bradley at Rose-tree The Yellow Rose has broad Leaves of a yellow Lemon Colour, and has no smell. 1736 N. Bailey 502 Among several things that will coagulate milk..the plant call'd Cheeserening, or Yellow Ladies Bed-straw, is used commonly about Nantwich. 1753 Suppl. at Aphaca There is only one known species of Aphaca, which is the yellow vetchling, called by some the bind-weed-leaved vetch. 1776 W. Withering II. 461 Yellow Medick. Butterjags. 1804 J. E. Smith (new ed.) II. 913 [Centaurea solstitialis.] Yellow thistle. 1835 30 June 237/1 These pods in the yellow medick, (medicago falcata,) are bent like a sickle. 1873 W. B. Hemsley 266 C[entaurea] moschata, Sweet Sultan, and C. Amberboï, Yellow Sultan, are Eastern species, the latter with pale yellow and the former with purple or white agreeably scented flower-heads. 1905 Aug. 10/3 The yellow Pearmain is what is known as Clark's Pearmain. 1924 W. H. Fitch et al. (ed. 5) 286 Carex flava L. Yellow sedge. 1971 R. S. R. Fitter 144 Yellow Vetch Vicia lutea..is our only yellow peaflower whose tendrilled pinnate leaves have several pairs of leaflets. 2001 A. Solomon (2002) viii. 290 This was a liquid compounded of colocynth, yellow bugle, germander, cassia, agaric, [etc.]. (b) 1597 J. Gerard ii. 567 (caption) Lamium luteum. Yellow Archangell. 1796 W. Withering (ed. 3) III. 530 Yellow Archangel. Yellow Dead Nettle, or Weasel snout. 1922 G. Bull 45 The margins of the fields are the opportunity of other flowering things—hawthorn, blackberry, yellow archangel, beautiful thistles, and that prosaically-named white star, the stitchwort. 2017 27 Apr. 33/1 There are also colonies in woodland of yellow archangel. 1785 T. Martyn in tr. J.-J. Rousseau xxvi. 409 We have a wild species called Yellow Balsam, and also by the familiar names of Quick in hand, or Touch me not. 1824 J. E. Smith I. 299 I[mpatiens] Noli-me-tangere. Yellow Balsam. Touch me not. 1908 L. F. Day I. v. 57 They [sc. flowers] grow erect, like the crocus and the primrose; droop, like the snowdrop and the cowslip, or hang suspended, like the fuchsia and the wild yellow balsam. 2006 tr. M. Eppinger & H. Hofmann 172 Yellow Balsam is easy to distinguish by its large, yellow flowers, oval serrated leaves and typical fruits. the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > medicinal trees or shrubs > [noun] > non-British medicinal trees or shrubs > cinchona tree or bark 1794 J. Relph 59 This is now known in London by the name of Yellow Bark. 1794 J. Relph 62 It will be the means of avoiding confusion, if, in future, this bark should be denominated the Royal Yellow Bark. 1837 VII. 173/2 The Carthagena yellow barks both contain quinia, but in less quantity than the Calisaya bark. 1903 1 Dec. 758 Redwood distinguishes the variety C. Calisaya vera (Wedd.) as that which formerly yielded the yellow, or true Calisaya bark of English commerce, and this was one of the species of bark most rich in quinine, sometimes distinguished as Royal yellow bark, or China Regia. 2004 M. Honigsbaum & M. Willcox in M. Willcox et al. ii. 97 Cinchona pubescens (red bark) contains near equal amounts of cinchonine, cinchonidine, and quinine... C[inchona] calisaya (yellow bark) contains all four alkaloids. the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > pulse > [noun] > bean > soya bean 1849 18 110 (table) Yellow bean. 1918 A. G. Smith (U.S. Dept. Agric.) 11 It [sc. mammoth yellow] is a yellow bean and a variety that is suitable for human food. 1983 16 Jan. (Living Extra section) 7/4 Black beans..and yellow beans..are both products of the versatile soya bean. 2000 R. Sterling 39 In Vietnam, yellow beans can be used to make dipping sauces (yellow bean sauce), and they find their way into glutinous rice preparations such as banh chung. the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > colouring matter > [noun] > dyes and dyestuffs 1652 28 Yellow berries, it is most used in washing of all other yellows, it is bright, and transparent, fit for all uses, and is sufficient without the use of any other yellow. 1668 111 Take Yellow-Berries, bruise them a little, and let them Steep in Allum-water all night, in the morning you will have very fair Yellow to Wash withall. 1712 J. Browne tr. P. Pomet et al. I. 13 The Yellow Berry [Fr. Graine jaune] is the Fruit of a Shrub which Authors call Licium. 1812 J. Smyth ii. 41 Yellow Berries are the fruit of a species of Lycium, growing plentifully in different parts of France... It is much used by the Dyers and Painters. 1895 (Royal Gardens, Kew) No. 105. 238 Like the yellow berry..this plant is also neglected owing to the falling-off in the foreign demand. 1993 D. Quataert (2002) i. 30 Yellow berry production also suffered. The competition of aniline colors lowered the price of yellow berries some 90 percent in just a few years. the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > birch and allies > [noun] 1774 J. Robinson 13 Great store of fine timber, such as oak of different kinds;..birch, white, yellow, and black, but the black is best for furniture. 1851 J. S. Springer 23 The general outlines of the Yellow Birch often resemble the Elm. 1943 R. Peattie 156 A yellow birch on Whitetop Mountain was found to be seven feet three inches thick. 2002 Spring 57/2 Made out of green-certified yellow birch and sugar maple, including some birdseye, the table included a three-dimensional topographical map of Maine. the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > Australasian trees > [noun] > eucalyptus trees 1662 tr. F. Plater et al. (new ed.) iv. iv. 590/2 A Decoction made of yellow Box [L. Buxi flavi], which is hard like Guaicum, doth the same. 1772 18 Sept. 1/2 Flute made of yellow Box. 1822 J. C. Loudon ii. iii. 405 In the garden of the convent of the Madre di Dio..is a group of figures [made from plants] representing the flight of Joseph into Egypt, in yellow box, variegated with holly, myrtle, cypress, laurel, and rosemary. 1852 19 June Open, undulating, and for the most part timbered with white and yellow box. 1934 31 Jan. 21/2 We lop mainly yellow box. 2000 Winter 33/2 The hollow logs are either Peppermint Gum or Yellow Box. the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > [noun] > Lawson's cypress 1840 16 July The poorest peasant's house [in the area of Sydney] is made of yellow cedar. 1884 5 Oct. 5/2 Red and yellow cedar..are the other trees most frequently met with. 1910 I. 475/1 The yellow or Alaska cedar, a very hard and durable wood of fine grain and pleasant odour. 1957 (Forest Prod. Res. Lab.) 61 ‘Yellow cedar’..is confined to the Pacific Coast area from Alaska south to southern Oregon. 2006 Sept. 16/1 The yellow cedar—actually a cypress, not a true cedar—has been dying in large areas of the Tongass National Forest. 2014 G. Greer 169 It is a member of the Anacardiaceae, along with Yellow Cedar, Rhodosphaera rhodanthema. 1597 J. Gerard ii. cliv. 437 (caption) Centaurium paruum luteum L'Obelij. Yellowe Centorie. 1777 S. Robson 79 Gentiana perfoliata... Centaurium luteum perfoliatum... Perfoliate Gentian. Yellow Centaury. 1860 4 157 The Yellow Centaury, Chlora perfoliata, is not confined to the south of England. 1919 A. R. Horwood V. 132 Yellow Centaury is found there on or on limestone, but usually in wetter stations. 1971 R. S. R. Fitter 69 Slender Yellow Centaury Cicendia filiformis.., has solitary, long-stalked flowers opening only in full sun. 2008 P. Sterry 74/1 Rarities such as Yellow Centaury and Chaffweed are waiting to be discovered. 1611 J. Florio Berilla, water persley, or yellow cresses [1598 yellow water cresses]. 1840 J. E. Jones 329/2 Berwr melyn blyneddol y dwfr, annual yellow cress, nasturtium terrestre (sisymbrium terrestre). 1904 82 R[oripa] hispida (Desv.) Britton. Hispid Yellow Cress. 1971 R. S. R. Fitter 64 The large one is Greater Yellow Cress Rorippa amphibia... The two small sprawling ones are Marsh Yellow Cress R. islandica.., and the rather less common Creeping Yellow Cress R. sylvestris. 2015 26 May (Jamie Oliver's Food Tube Mag.) 10/1 London's very own Walthamstow yellow cress. the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > buttercup and allied flowers > buttercup 1824 W. Irving I. 251 A bed of daisies and yellow-cups. a1864 J. Clare (1984) II. 917 I'll lay me down on the green sward, Mid yellow cups, and speed well blue, And pay the world no real regard. society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > fir 1734 I. Suppl. at FL Boarding with whole yellow Deals, with folding Joints, from twenty-two to twenty-four Shillings per Square. 1766 at Trellis Trellises..being generally made of regularly cut yellow-deal, or oak. 1863 E. Clarke 44 Provide and fix 1-inch yellow deal seats and risers, with all bearers, &c., complete, to the water-closets. 1905 Oct. 35/2 In fact, large quantities of Canadian and American red pine are now being used in Great Britain and sold as the yellow or red deal of the northern European timber growing countries. 2006 (Nexis) 13 Jan. 23 Another popular pale wood is pine, which goes by many names—Scot's pine, redwood, red pine, red deal, yellow deal, fir, Baltic, Siberian, Archangel. 1921 19 Feb. 702/2 Our sun is not only one star amongst 3,000 millions; it is a rather insignificant star, being entered officially as a ‘yellow dwarf’. 1995 M. Amis (1996) 65 More proximately we are warmed and hatched and raised by a steady-state H-bomb, our yellow dwarf: a second-generation star on the main sequence. 2010 (Nexis) 26 May The star, a yellow dwarf called Wasp-12, is around 600 light years from Earth in the winter constellation of Auriga, the charioteer. 1863 10 July Beans... Marrows and blue pods remain steady at 2,75@2,87, and yellow eyes 2,75@3,00 per bushel. 1975 126 93 ‘Yellow-Eye’ beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.)..were germinated on moist filter-paper in the dark at 20°. 2011 C. Dragonwagon vi. 190 Place the yellow-eyes in a large pot and add water to cover. 1663 B. Gerbier 64 Yellow Fur (called Dram) being very good. ?1667 S. Primatt 61 Yellow Fir, called Dram,..is the best sort of Fir for flooring. 1828 T. Tredgold (ed. 2) 239 Red or yellow fir is the produce of the Scotch fir tree (the Pinus sylvestris of botanists). 1882 30 Sept. 301/3 The principal tree in these forests [at Puget Sound] is the yellow Fir. 2003 E. J. Kamholz et al. 338 Depending on the color and quality of the wood, Douglas fir is often called ‘red’ or ‘yellow’ fir. 1640 J. Parkinson iii. xxvi. 402 The great purple Gentian, is very like the great yellow Gentian in most things. 1812 July 86 Yellow Gentian (Gentiana lutea) in flower. 1996 110 Great Yellow Gentian. This splendid Gentian is not for the rockery but for the border, and then the back rather than front. 1629 J. Parkinson 406 (heading) Iasminum luteum, siue Trifolium fruticans alijs Polemonium. The yellow Iasmine. 1728 R. Bradley Makebate, or Shrub-Trefoil, is yellow Jasmine. 1731 P. Miller I. at Jasminum Jasminum; humile luteum... Dwarf yellow Jasmine, commonly call'd The Italian Yellow Jasmine. 1989 (Royal Hort. Soc.) 497/2 J[asminum] humile (yellow jasmine). 1731 M. Catesby I. iv. Pl. 73 (heading) The Yellow Lady's Slipper. 1883 Mar. 680/2 Later in the season, yellow is frequently accompanied with fragrance, as in the evening primrose, the yellow lady's slipper, horned bladderwort, and others. 1905 26 July 7/2 The genus [Cypripedium] is represented by four species—the pink lady's slipper..; the showy lady's slipper..; the large yellow lady's slipper.., and the small yellow lady's slipper. 2007 Sept. 56/2 (caption) Cypripedium parviflorum var. pubescens Common name: Yellow lady's-slipper. This is the largest orchid flower in New Mexico. the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > primrose and allied flowers > yellow loosestrife 1548 W. Turner sig. E.ijv Some cal it Lycimachiam luteam..it may be called in englishe yealow Lousstryfe or herbe Wylowe. 1640 J. Parkinson 543 Common yellow Loosestrife or Willow herbe. 1800 J. E. Smith I. 227 Lysimachia vulgaris... Angl. Yellow Loosestrife. 2010 Summer 44/2 The female of the mining bee Macropis europaea only gathers pollen from the flowers of yellow loosestrife Lysimachia vulgaris. the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > mallow flowers 1597 J. Gerard ii. 790 The yellowe Mallowe riseth vp with a round stalke,..couered with broade leaues somthing rounde, but sharpe pointed; from the bosome of which leaues come foorth yellow flowers, not vnlike to those of the common Mallowe in forme. 1731 P. Miller I. at Abutilon Abutilon, Dod. The common Yellow Mallow. Abutilon Indicum: J. B. The Indian Yellow Mallow. 1876 C. E. Hobbs 145 Arbutilon condalum, Yellow mallow. 2004 D. L. Asch in A.-M. Cantwell et al. 314/1 This was Rafinesque's Sida abutilon L., or vernacularly ‘yellow mallow’, i.e., the aforementioned Abutilon theophrasti, now commonly called ‘velvetleaf’ or (East-)‘Indian mallow’. the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > orchids 1826 W. Darlington 95 C. pubescens... Noah's Ark. Yellow Mocasin flower. 1904 G. G. Niles 56 The Ram's-Head Cypripedium should bloom first,..the Pink Acaule immediately follows, and the Larger Yellow Moccasins. 2010 N. L. Jennings 140 (heading) Yellow Lady's Slipper (Yellow Moccasin Flower) Cypripedium parviflorum (formerly C calceolus). 1686 in G. F. Dow (1917) I. 59 A heape of rocks nere to a black or a yealow oack at the south westerly corner. 1798 A. Ellis 48 If you wish to colour common browns, add to it the barks of yellow oak and hemlock. 1900 H. L. Keeler 344 The Yellow Oak is one of the mid-continental trees, abundant throughout the Mississippi valley. 1917 May 82 Q. acuminata..Chestnut or yellow oak. 2002 C. Fergus 132 Yellow oak favors limestone uplands. 1762 W. Hudson 43 Yellow Oat-grass. 1842 C. W. Johnson 150/2 Avena flavescens, Golden oat, or yellow oat-grass. 1908 (War Office) 107 ‘Yellow Oat grass’, so named from the golden appearance of its Oat flowering head, is a valuable hay grass which flourishes particularly in the south of England and the Thames Valley. 2002 8 July 6/4 Ian Hart..who surveyed the flora on the site, found quaking grass and yellow oat grass and many ant hills, all indicators of old pasture. 1868 E. J. Waring et al. 138 A West Indian shrub, domesticated in India, and cultivated under the name of The Exile or Yellow Oleander. 1913 J. K. Small 110 C[erbera] Thevetia L... Trumpet-flower. Yellow-oleander. 1988 17 May 97/1 Thevetia, a relative of the oleander and commonly called yellow oleander or be-still tree, is equally poisonous, but is an excellent garden shrub for harsh climates where its constant bright yellow bells provide welcome colour. 2010 56 273 Nerium oleander (common oleander) and Thevetia peruviana (yellow oleander) are potentially lethal plants after ingestion. the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > onion, leek, or garlic > onion > other types of onion 1816 16 Mar. 1/2 (advt.) Seeds... red, white and yellow onion. 1909 J. J. H. Gregory 20 There are four varieties of the Yellow onion in cultivation, of which the Yellow Flat, called also Yellow Dutch, and Strasburg, and in the Eastern States the ‘Silverskin’, is the parent. 2004 J. Anderson 21 Here's a handy conversion table geared to today's onions, which tend to run large: 1 small yellow onion = ¼ cup chopped. 1700 E. Whitaker 5 Brewers shou'd be as curious in the Choice of Water for their first Wort, as Cooks are for their Boyling of Yellow Pease.] 1743 W. Ellis (Dublin ed.) July 36 In Essex.., they sow the Cobham Pea broad-cast in their clay Land, and the yellow Pea in their light. 1860 W. Shaw & C. W. Johnson tr. A. D. Thaer 434 The yellow pea furnishes us with another variety, which, even when dry, preserves its green hue, but is not otherwise distinguished. 1911 A. D. Darbishire 54 The bald statement that he crossed a yellow pea with a green pea leaves one completely in the dark as to the true nature of the character dealt with. 2013 9 Apr. d2/1 Food manufacturers are increasingly adding pea protein, made by processing yellow peas, to a variety of foods to pack a greater protein punch. 1775 R. Weston 182 [Capsicum] pyramidale. Yellow Pepper. 1858 249 Capsicum baccatum. Yellow Pepper. 1885 Jan. 13/3 Thinking it very strange that so excellent a sort should be unknown to the trade, no sweet yellow Pepper being found in the catalogues of this or any other country, I introduced it. 1914 M. H. Neil 172 When wanted for mangoes, take some sweet yellow peppers that have been pickled in vinegar, and stuff them with the above pepper hash. 2013 S. A. Gutierrez 47 Ají amarillo is the yellow pepper native to Peru, and here it provides gutsy heat and vibrant color. 1597 J. Gerard ii. 494 (caption) Anagallis lutea. Yellowe Pimpernell. 1760 J. Lee App. 312 Pimpernel, Yellow, of the Woods, Lysimachia. 1861 307 The most rare of these flowers are the blue and the yellow pimpernel. 2016 (National ed.) (Nexis) 18 June (Weekend section) 21 Bluebell pods as fat as peas stood among the starlike flowers of yellow pimpernel. the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > [noun] > pines and allies 1709 J. Lawson 89 Ever-Greens are here plentifully found, of a very quick Growth, and pleasant Shade; Cypress, or White Cedar, the Pitch Pine, the yellow Pine. 1756 P. Collinson Let. 20 July in J. Bartram (1992) 408 In New England there is another distinct Pitch Pine Called the yellow Pine. 1817 S. R. Brown 13 The uplands have yellow pine. 1857 D. E. E. Braman iii. 50 There is also plenty of yellow pine, white oak, and timber of other kinds, necessary for ship building. 1911 C. E. Stowe viii. 225 The whole was trimmed with a beading of yellow pine. 2007 Mar. 17/2 I was surprised that Nikiforuk didn't mention the ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa), sometimes called the yellow pine or bull pine. 1597 A. Hartwell tr. D. Lopes i. i. 115 Other trees there are likewise, called Ogheghe which beare a fruit which is like a yellow Plumme. 1687 R. Blome 249 Then there's the Custard-Apple, the Sowr-Soap, the Papaw-Apple, the Mamme-Apple, the Yellow-Plum. 1693 J. Evelyn tr. J. de La Quintinie ii. vi. iii. 175 Provisions and products of July... Some Plums, viz. the yellow Plum, and the Ceriset, or little Cherry-plum. 1845 A. Wood ii. 94 P. americana... Red Plum. Yellow Plum. 1904 3 Nov. 798/2 This is one of the best for home use and we think would be acceptable in any market not strongly prejudiced against yellow plums. 1919 Weekly Guardian (Trinidad) in L. Winer (2009) 982/2 Peter was in his usual place enjoying a plateful of yellow plums. 2000 S. Fallon & M. Rothschild (Lonely Planet Guide) 111 Perhaps there will be some surplus from the orchard or vegetable garden—wonderful mirabelles (yellow plums) if in Alsace. the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > North American trees or shrubs > [noun] > tulip-tree or flowers 1759 6 Dec. Walnut from two Foot three, to two Foot ten Inches broad, yellow poplar ditto. 1774 J. R. Peyton Let. 21 July in J. L. Peyton (1867) 127 The forest of Kentucky consists of yellow and white poplar, walnut, red bud. 1883 W. Whitman Specimen Days in 89 Here is one of my favorites now before me, a fine yellow poplar, quite straight, perhaps 90 feet high. 1955 7 May 302/2 The tulip tree is also variously known as tulip poplar, yellow poplar, whitewood and fiddle-tree. 2002 June 47/2 I made the back from particleboard and the rest from yellow poplar. the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > poppy and allied flowers > allied flowers 1548 W. Turner sig. F.i Papauer corniculatum is called..in englishe horned poppy or yealow poppy. 1796 W. Withering (ed. 3) II. 488 [Papaver] cambricum... Yellow Poppy. Mountains of Wales, and about Kendal. 1842 E. Lees xii. 134 The Yellow Poppy (Glaucium luteum) shows its curious glaucous leaves and opening corolla. 1906 F. Blersch 144 Mexican poppy or yellow poppy, usually called Mexican thistle at the cape. 1946 Jan. 67/2 The flowers [of the Tibetan blue poppy] were not so large as those of the yellow poppy. 1997 S. Wasowski & A. Wasowski 177/2 Yellow poppy Argemone mexicana. 1876 I. 394 (table) Black Poui. Tecoma serratifolia, Don...Yellow Poui. [Tecoma] spectabilis, Pl. 1962 31 Aug. (Trinidad Suppl.) p. iv/4 The visitor will see some of the most lovely flowering trees and shrubs in the world—the bougainvillaea, the clear clean beauty of the yellow and pink poui. 2014 (Nexis) 7 Sept. 6 e Cutting an oak, wild cashew, jobo, yellow poui or cedar tree doesn't necessarily mean it will get replaced with the same kind of tree. 1828 C. S. Rafinesque I. 251 Hydrastis canadensis. English Name—yellow pucoon. 1896 30 May 355/3 We found many specimens of the Yellow Puccoon... It has a thick, fleshy root-stock, which is said to have been used by the Indian natives in dyeing goods yellow. 1990 21 Aug. (News section) 6/2 Stearns..chews a few thin pieces of bitter yellow puccoon to cure a sore throat. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens iv. lvi. 516 Yellow Rattel..is called..in base Almaigne..of some Hanekammekens, that is to say, Hennes Commes, or Coxecombes. 1777 J. Lightfoot I. 322 [Rhinanthus crista galli] Yellow-Rattle, or Cock's-Comb. Anglis... The seeds..when ripe, rattle in their capsules, and indicate the time of hay-harvest. 1971 R. S. R. Fitter 124 Passing to the Figwort Family, the yellow rattles Rhinanthus are a difficult group. 2015 Summer 64/2 You'll find yellow rattle, hawkbit, horseshoe vetch, hoary plantain and fairy flax. the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > leaf vegetables > winter-cress or land-cress 1670 J. Ray 103 Eruca Monensis laciniata lutea. Jagged yellow Rocket of the Isle of Man. 1783 C. Bryant 100 There is a beautiful variety of this plant [sc. Erysimum barbarea] in gardens, with a double flower, and is generally called the yellow Rocket. 1799 Lady C. Murray II. 547 S[isymbrium] Monense. Yellow Rocket... Flowers from June to August. Native to the Isle of Mann. 1802 C. Dibdin II. lviii. 119 There is some novelty in the jagged yellow rocket, which I believe is natively a plant of the Isle of Man. a1832 (1845) XVIII. 616/1 Erysimum officinale, Barbareum, a double variety is cultivated in gardens, and is called the Double Yellow Rocket. 2006 133 537/2 Barbarea vulgaris R. Br. (Brassicaceae; yellow rocket) grows in dense patches that are conspicuous from roads bordering fields. ?1543 T. Phaer tr. N. de Houssemaine Treat. Pestilence i. vii. f. xxiv, in tr. J. Goeurot Half an ounce of yelow saunders fynelye poudred. 1738 J. Hoofnail 63 Cochineal, Dragon's Blood, Red and Yellow Sanders, Alkanet Root. 1880 R. Bentley & H. Trimen IV. 252 Sandalwood. Yellow (or white) Sanders Wood. 1997 N. Groom (ed. 2) 302 The oil is also called Sanders, White Sanders, Yellow Sanders, Citron Sanders and Santal. the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Cruciferae (crucifers) > [noun] > cress 1818 A. Eaton (ed. 2) ii. 464 Thlaspi..campestris (yellow-seed, false-flax, mithridate mustard..). 1905 (new ed.) I. 432 Lepidium campestre, Linné, Yellow-seed, and Lepidium ruderale, Linné, Pepper-grass.—Acrid plants with the same constituents as the preceding species [sc. garden cress, L. sativum]. 2016 J. Brindza et al. in K. Kristbergsson & J. Oliveira v. 73 Yellow seed (Lepidium campestre)—sauces, spreads and alcoholic beverage flavouring. 1633 T. Johnson (new ed.) ii. 553 Osyris flavasyluestris. Creeping yellow Tode-flax. 1796 P. Wakefield xv. 111 The common yellow Toadflax grows very commonly upon banks by road sides. 1882 7 Oct. 127/4 Yellow Toadflax (Linaria vulgaris), [is] known among the country people as ‘butter and eggs’. Its flowers are of a bright yellow, and each of them is ornamented with a large yellow spot. 1961 24 Oct. 8/2 Long stretches of massed yellow toadflax. 2007 226 6/2 Yellow toadflax..and Dalmatian toadflax..are known to be aggressive invasive weeds in North America. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens ii. xxviii. 181 (caption) Nymphæa lutea. Yellow water Lillie [Fr. Nenuphar iaulne, Du. Geel Plompen]. 1796 W. Withering (ed. 3) II. 489 Nymphæa lutea... Yellow Water Lilly, or Watercan. 1971 R. S. R. Fitter 224 The widespread and locally common Yellow Water-lily Nuphar lutea..has generally larger (5–15 in.) and more elongated floating leaves. 2002 J. R. Wheeler et al. II. 723 Nymphaea mexicana (Yellow Waterlily) Waterlily with bright yellow flowers held above the water surface. the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plants used in dyeing > [noun] > weld the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Compositae (composite plants) > [noun] > ragwort 1597 J. Gerard ii. 398 Luteola. Diers weed, or yellow weede. 1760 J. Lee App. 320 Yellow Weed, Reseda. 1844 H. Stephens III. 943 The ragwort, yellow weed, or weebo, Senecio Jacobæa, is often seen in pastures, in deep dry loam. 1873 June 83/3 Solidago Odora..called Yellow weed, or Golden Rod—the small sort. 2007 (Nexis) 10 Jan. 7 Ragwort (yellow weed) is poisonous to all large animals. 2014 D. Smith & B. Janssen tr. B. Schaefer ii. 14 The former [sc. luteolin] is obtained from yellow weed or weld (Reseda luteola L.), which grows widely across Europe. the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > [noun] > centaury 1783 W. Curtis 104/2 (table) Chlora perfoliata. Yellow-wort perfoliate. 1789 J. Pilkington I. viii. 384 Chlora perfoliata, perforated Yellow-Wort. 1852 A. Pratt I. 175 It is well named Yellow Wort, for not only are the blossoms of a full bright yellow colour, but the whole plant affords a good dye of that hue. 1917 26 159 The most singular disappearance of all has been that of the Yellow-wort (Chlora perfoliata); for this species, though confined to dry, upland pastures, used to abound in such localities. 2015 (Nexis) 19 Nov. Yellow-wort, Blackstonia perfoliata, grows in profusion on these thin soils. the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > root vegetables > yam the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > root vegetables > yam > yam plant 1836 20 Feb. Some of the other kinds are the white yam, the red yam, the yellow or afoo yam, and the Indian yam. 1913 W. Harris 42 Yellow yam and its varieties belong to Dioscorea cayennensis. 1973 N. Farki iv. 38 Rice and two pieces of yellow yam in one plate. 2011 (Nexis) 21 Feb. (Final ed.) She still enjoys Jamaican food such as white and yellow yams and bananas. 1754 J. Hill 71 The Root [of Cassumunar] is used: We have it at the Druggists. It..has by some been called the yellow Zedoary. 1858 R. Hogg 784 From the roots of Zingiber casumunar, the article known in commerce as Casumunar, or Yellow Zedoary, is obtained. 1915 15 June 798/2 Wild turmeric, or yellow zedoary, is..collected..for export to Europe as a substitute for turmeric in dyeing. 2000 A. Dalby 95 A wild relative [of turmeric], yellow zedoary, still grows in eastern India. d. OE Recipe (Vitell. C.iii) in T. O. Cockayne (1864) I. 374 Genim geoluwne stan & salt stan & pipor & weh on wæge. c1450 Med. Recipes (BL Add. 33996) in F. Heinrich (1896) 214 (MED) Tak yelew coperose & tempre hyt wyt vynegre..& þen pouder hyt & straw hyt on þe mormal. 1685 N. Grew (new ed.) iii. §i. ii. 272 The middle part is Ore of Marcasite, or Yellow Mundick. 1757 tr. J. F. Henckel iii. 34 The yellow pyrites may be easily distinguished; its peculiar characteristics are the copper and sulphur it holds. 1862 C. O'Neill 20/1 The yellow lake extensively used by artists..called ‘stil de grain’, and manufactured in Holland, is made by preparing a decoction [etc.]. 1868 J. D. Dana (ed. 5) 656 This species [sc. copiapite] is the yellow copperas long called misy. 1905 8 98 Grey magnetite quartzite, with hematite, bands of white quartzite, small streaks of yellow jasper. 1966 R. Webster (ed. 4) xi. 112 As the name ‘topaz’ has been used indiscriminately for many yellow stones, and in particular the yellow quartz (citrine), it is usual to refer to the true topaz as ‘Brazilian topaz’. 2009 C. Miller 108 Now finding a perfectly smooth round piece of yellow agate, I finger it as I wander. (b) 1580 J. Florio tr. J. Cartier 55 The dagger hafte of one of oure fellowe Marriners, hangyng on hys side, being of yellowe Copper, guilte. 1681 N. Grew iii. §ii. i. 327 Yellow Copper-Ore, from the Mine at Herngrunt. Given by Dr. E. Brown. 1712 J. Browne tr. P. Pomet et al. II. ii. xi. 337/1 Besides the different Preparations that are made of this Yellow Copper [sc. brass], the Venetians..make of it that which the French call Purpurine, which heretofore was made use of upon Coaches. 1855 J. R. Leifchild 219 The yellow copper ore, at present so valued,..was in fact cast aside as ‘mundic’. 1861 P. B. Du Chaillu viii. 90 The ‘neptune’—a plate of yellow copper, which has long been one of the standard articles of trade imported hither by the merchants. 1901 L. Ransome 80 Chalcopyrite (yellow copper).—Sulphide of copper and iron (Cu2S.Fe2S3), corresponding to 34.5 per cent of copper. 1973 14 180 African peoples themselves have generally made a clear distinction between ‘red’ copper, that is, copper in its pure form, and ‘yellow’ copper or brass. 2007 D. G. Ellingsen et al. in G. F. Nordberg et al. (ed. 3) xxvi. 530/1 Principal sulfidic [copper] ores are chalcocite (Cu2S) and chalcopyrite (CuFeS2, yellow copper ore). the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > [noun] > earthy mineral the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > clay > [noun] > bole > type of the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > colouring matter > [noun] > pigments 1552 R. Huloet Yellow earth founde in the mynes of golde or syluer, sandaraca. 1662 P. D. C. tr. N. Le Fèvre I. ii. ii. ix. 229 The Balsoms of Oyls of Roots and aromatical Substances are coloured with yellow Earth, when they come near that colour in their nature. 1794 R. Kirwan (ed. 2) I. 194 This yellow earth differs from ochres only in containing a greater proportion of argill. 1877 11 706 The Yellow Sea, in which name we again recognize the coloration given by the particles of the loess, which itself is called by the Chinese hwang-tu or yellow earth. 1883 XVI. 425/1 Bole..Stolpenite, Rock Soap, Plinthite, Yellow Earth or Felinite, Fetbol, and Ochran are varieties. 1958 W. Willetts I. i. 33 Loess, better known to us by the name ‘yellow earth’, is a fine-grained rock or soil which covers most of north-west China like a blanket. 2002 26 Jan. (Saturday section) 8/7 Its lighter part is underpainted with red and yellow earths mixed with bone black and lead white. the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > igneous rock > [noun] > other igneous 1883 74 89 The material in the upper part of the pipe was generally distinguished as ‘Yellow Ground’, that lower down as ‘Blue Ground’. 2009 112 Suppl. No. 1. 299/1 The degree of weathering varies widely on a metre-scale, with visibly fresh kimberlite outcrop typically interspersed with ‘yellow ground’ and small calcrete nodules. society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > alloy > [noun] > other alloys of copper and zinc a1535 T. More (1553) iii. v. sig. D.iii An heape of siluer or golde, white and yelowe mettal not so profitable of theyr owne nature (saue for a litle glistering) as the rude rusty mettall of yron. 1611 J. Speed ix. ii. 422/2 Vpon seizure of whose estate, this Prelate was found so well lined in purse, that the heapes of yellow mettall did moue admiration to the beholders. 1648 in W. M. Williams (1867) 103 Wayghtes of Brass..shall not..be..made of any worse Brass than Yellow Metell. 1794 Uniform for Navy of United States in G. Washington (2011) Presidential Ser. XVI. 428 The Buttons to be of yellow metal and to have the Foul Anchor on the same. 1860 7 284 A ship fastened with yellow metal ought not to be put under the head of ‘copper fastened’. 1936 May 676/2 More than 30,000,000 ounces of the yellow metal were dug,..worth more than a billion at the current valuation of the dollar. 1985 9 July 19/8 There is also the possibility of some small acquisitions in the yellow metal (non ferrous) area. 2002 D. Lundy (2003) iv. 149 Wood planking over iron frames could be coppered in the traditional way (sheathed with yellow metal) to prevent fouling but still offer some of the virtues of iron. the world > the earth > minerals > ore > [noun] > metal ore > copper ore > types of the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > sulphides and related minerals > [noun] > sphalenite group > copper iron sulphide 1630 M. Drayton ii. 19 And of thy Chariot each small peece Shall inlayd be with Amber Greece, And guilded with the Yellow oreProduc'd from Tagus wealthy shore. 1670 (Royal Soc.) 5 1043 There are divers sorts of Ore, but the chief difference is between the Yellow and the Black: the Yellow is pure Copper-ore: the Black contains also a proportion of Silver.] 1700 C. Leigh i. iv. 85 And here I shall give you a Process in making a small Essay to satisfy the Curious, what quantity of Copper the yellow Ore contains. 1854 G. Lippard ii. v. 71/2 What religion has ruled so absolutely and reigned so long, as this deep-implanted golden superstition,—this Catholic religion of the yellow ore? 1881 9 192 Yellow-ore..Chalcopyrite. 1983 3 118 The major variety was the ‘Appalachian sulfide coppers’, basically the mineral chalcopyrite (‘yellow ore’). 2003 23 Sept. 3/1 A sharp fall in the value of the US dollar sparked the 2.5 per cent rise in the yellow ore, which finished the day on the London market at $386 (£234) per troy ounce. the world > matter > chemistry > elements and compounds > metals > specific elements > phosphorus > [noun] > allotropes 1799 June 573 Another of his friends had ascertained by a great number of experiments, that all yellow phosphorus contains carbon. 1866 H. E. Roscoe xv. 133 The weight of red substance produced is exactly equal to that of yellow phosphorus used. 1944 J. A. Timm xli. 443 Yellow phosphorus is formed when the liquid solidifies. 2007 (Nexis) 21 July 18 Six tankers containing yellow phosphorus caught fire, sending noxious fumes over 35 square miles of western Ukraine. 1807 11 214 We employ the yellow prussiate, to re-produce Prussian blue. 1842 E. A. Parnell (1845) 68 The red prussiate of potash is as delicate and characteristic a test for protoxide of iron, as the yellow prussiate of potash is for the peroxide. 1913 D. Grant tr. E. Bourcart x. 188 At that strength yellow prussiate killed all the phylloxera. 1940 G. H. J. Adlam & L. S. Price (ed. 2) liii. 553 Potassium ferrocyanide,..yellow prussiate of potash..is obtained by warming a solution of a ferrous salt with potassium cyanide. 2000 R. Eisler II. xv. 914 Another anticaking agent, yellow prussiate of soda (sodium ferrocyanide), has been implicated in fish kills when inadvertently used by fish culturists. e. In names of diseases which produce yellow discoloration of tissues, esp. in the form of jaundice. See also yellow adle at adle n.the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > glandular disorders > [noun] > disorders of liver 1845 G. Budd 204 The yellow atrophy is distinguished by a deep yellow colour; imbibition of the whole tissue of the organ with bile [etc.]. 1949 H. W. C. Vines (ed. 17) xii. 314 Accidental poisoning by injection of the organic arseno-benzenes used in the treatment of syphilis causes acute yellow atrophy of the liver. 2012 140 769/1 Acute yellow atrophy was initially thought to be a specific disease entity. the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of blood > [noun] > jaundice a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 113 Afterward fel a pestilence in to al Wales of þe ȝelowe yuel [c1410 BL Add. evel; L. flava peste] þat is i-cleped þe iaundys. ?a1450 (Stockh.) (1950) 138 (MED) Camamilla..dystroyȝeth þe ȝelwȝ ewel. a1513 R. Fabyan (1516) I. lx. f. xxi Þe yelowe euyl called the Iaundyes. 1525 sig. B.iiv Also it maketh one to auoyde the yelow euyll. ?c1450 in (1896) 18 312 (MED) Celydonye..is good to drynke i-wys For þe ȝelw jawndys. 1547 A. Borde i. f. lxxv There be .iii. kyndes of this infyrmyte which be to saye the yelowe Jawnes the blacke Jawnes, and ye grene sicknes named Agriaca. 1582 S. Batman viii. liii. f. 109/1 (Addition) The yeolow Iaundes, commeth after long sicknes or thought. 1725 R. Bradley at Jaundice The Yellow Jaundice is of a Saffrony, or Lemon Colour. 1937 27 Mar. 779/2 Turmeric is not the only yellow drug that has been used to treat the yellow jaundice. 1991 19 Jan. 35/3 The studies implicating lecithin as anti-cirrhotic phospholipid..may vindicate the folkloric use of yellow flowers..as a treatment for yellow jaundice. the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of blood > [noun] > jaundice 1668 H. P. Cressy 238/1 When a certain plague call'd the Yellow plague infested Brittany, raging both against men and beasts, by a divine admonition he [sc. St Theliau] departed into a far remote countrey. 1819 J. Lingard I. ii. 108 A pestilence of the most fatal description (it was called the yellow plague) depopulated the island. 1887 T. F. Tout in IX. 414/1 The ‘yellow plague’ which was then [in 664] devastating Northumbria. 2003 14 Feb. 24/2 We learn about the yellow plague, which came from the East along the sea-routes..and was as cataclysmic as the Black Death. the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > associated with particular type of plant > flowers the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of blood > [noun] > jaundice 1568 W. Turner iii. 65 Rubarbe purgeth away choler and fleme, specialy from ye stomach and liuer, and it purgeth the bloode, and putteth away stoppinges, and the deceases that arise there vpon, the iaundes, otherwise called the guelsoght, that is the yelow sicknes. 1747 T. Carte I. 214 (note) The yellow sickness, a pestilential distemper which is mentioned by abundance of ancient writers, as laying Wales almost desolate. 1807 3 437 (note) Yellows,..Yellow sickness, or Jaundice. 1885 10 308 The only genuine instance of parasitic bacteria in plants yet mentioned by the books (DeBary, Zopf, etc.) is that of the yellow sickness of hyacinths, first described by Dr. Wakker, of Amsterdam, in 1882. 1937 2 Oct. 661/1 E. Leschke (1922) described gout and acholuric jaundice in a patient whose father ‘appeared yellow from childhood’, and whose grandfather had suffered from gout and ‘yellow-sickness’, probably acholuric jaundice, all his life. 1946 5 Dec. 615/2 It happened, however, that about this time [sc. 1877] a yellow sickness of hyacinths made its appearance in Holland, being characterised by the presence of shiny masses of bacteria in the vessels. 1993 R. Gardner in D. Gardner-Medwin et al. iii. 48 Bubonic plague appears to have occurred in several waves, but the ‘yellow sickness’ in the previous century was almost certainly severe relapsing fever with jaundice. 1834 15 98 In no case was the lung infiltrated with pus, or in the second degree of hepatization (yellow softening). 1845 G. Budd 74 This state of yellow softening. 1873 T. H. Green (ed. 2) 42 Yellow Softening.., in which, from the fine state of division and close aggregation of the fatty particles, a dead yellowish-white colour is imparted to the softened tissue. 1991 3 310/1 The gross changes are variable and may include oedema or small foci of yellow softening mostly in the grey matter or at the grey-white junction. the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of blood > [noun] > jaundice c1400 MS Sloane 7 in S. J. H. Herrtage & H. B. Wheatley (1881) 168 (footnote) For the ȝalowsouȝt, that men callin the jaundys. ?a1500 Med. Recipes (Harl.) in F. Heinrich (1896) 80 For the ȝalowsought þat is cald Iawnys. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens i. ii. 6 The infusion..cureth the Iaundise or Yealowsought. 1606 W. Ram 107 (heading) For the Iaunders and yellow sought. the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > yellow fever 1822 J. M. Good II. 72 Many nosologists have thought themselves called upon to make this form a distinct variety or even species of fever, which they have usually distinguished by the name of typhus icterodes, or yellow typhus. 1897 Apr. 167 These cities, it is true, are frequently visited by yellow typhus. 1912 H. T. Brooks 588 The chief necropsy findings are intense icterus (hence, yellow typhus, typhus icteroides) and cloudy swelling of all organs except the spleen..; hemorrhages [etc.]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022). yellowv.1 Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: yellow adj. Etymology: < yellow adj.Compare Middle High German gelben to become or turn yellow (German (now regional: Austria) gelben , also ‘to make (something) yellow, to impart a yellow colour to (something)’ (early 16th cent.)), and (originally causative) Middle Dutch geluwen to make (something) yellow, to impart a yellow colour to (something) (Dutch geluwen also ‘to become yellow’; more commonly gelen ), Middle High German gilwen to make (something) yellow, to impart a yellow colour to (something) (German gilben , also ‘to become or turn yellow’ (early 16th cent.)). Specific senses. In sense 4 apparently with reference to the fact that cleaning the brass restores its yellow colour after earlier manufacturing stages. Compare slightly later yellowing n.1 3. Prefixed form. In Old English the prefixed form ageolwian to become yellow (compare a- prefix1) is also attested. the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > making yellow > become yellow [verb (intransitive)] OE (1966) 187 Flauescit, i. maturescit, glitenaþ uel geolwaþ, splendescit. OE tr. Defensor (1969) xxviii. 204 Ne intuearis uinum quando flauescit : na beheald þu win þænne hit geoluwað. a1425 ( H. Daniel (Wellcome 225) 226 Þan uryn ȝalow, id est whyte, & whyt a lytyll ȝalowed, & namely sais excess of an egre fleume. a1500 (?a1450) Lady who buried Host (Harl.) l. 84 in (1910) 41 259 (MED) Þe perys ryped al by-dene and ȝolewyd fast for to falle. 1729 R. Savage v. 115 The green Grass yellowing into scentful Hay. 1766 S. Chandler II. iv. 69 As a dove covered with silver, and her wings yellowing with gold. 1821 J. Clare II. 157 Ash or maple 'neath thy colour yellows. 1851 M. Reid II. xv. 243 The peak [of the temple] is yellowing downward [in the sunlight]. 1880 Jan. 141/2 The old instinct to save up almost every letter of interest till it has yellowed with age. 1902 C. J. C. Hyne vii. 184 When the wick yellowed out into flame. 1955 (U.S. Dept. Agric., Technical Bull. No. 1134) 14 The leaves wilted shortly after treatment and later yellowed and died. 2007 C. Leeds v. 29 As beech leaves and bracken yellowed, the townspeople turned to the forest. the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > making yellow > make yellow [verb (transitive)] 1572 J. Higgins (rev. ed.) sig. Nn.vv To saffron, to yelowe, or to colour a thing with saffron. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas ii. i. 342 Her fierie poyson, yellowing all without. 1695 240/2 I spoke before of the Women's yellowing their Hair. 1729 J. Ralph iii. 34 The faded Scene Of russet Autumn yellowing all the Green. 1743 P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace (new ed.) I. i. xxxi. 6 The swelling Grain, That yellows o'er Sardinia's Plain. a1807 W. Wordsworth (1959) v. 168 While the morning light Was yellowing the hill-tops. 1863 ‘G. Eliot’ I. v. 82 The vellum is yellowed in these thirteen years. 1904 Oct. 386 Time may have yellowed the pages, use may have dog-eared the paper: but the print is the same as the day it left the press. 1943 27 Sept. 27/1 Flames were yellowing the sky and bullets slapped into our boat. 2001 N. Bartholomew vii. 44 He was chewing on the end of an unlit cigar, his teeth yellowed by age and poor hygiene. society > occupation and work > lack of work > [verb (transitive)] > retire (a person) 1820 Countess Granville (1894) I. 171 He..gave a droll description of himself as old and fairly yellowed out of the service. 1824 C. Ekins 50 Upon its being proposed to yellow Captain Hawke, Boscawen immediately interposed, and declared that if they yellowed him, they would lose one of the bravest men and finest fellows in the service. 1902 A. T. Mahan iii. 149 A postcaptain might be ‘yellowed’,—retired as a rear admiral. 1981 P. O'Brian iv. 120 He was made post for that, about twelve years before I was; and having the luck not to be yellowed he hoisted his flag not long ago. 1997 (Nexis) 5 Jan. Instead of becoming a rear-admiral of the blue, he will be yellowed. 1839 A. Ure 956 Yellowing or cleaning the pins, is effected by boiling them for half an hour in sour beer, wine lees, or solution of tartar. 1909 C. D. Wright 516/2 The pins are yellowed or cleaned by boiling in sour beer dregs or in a cream of tartar solution, and washing in clean water. 1971 M. Andere ii. 48 Firstly, the pins had to be scoured or ‘yellowed’ for about half an hour in a solution of tartar in a hand-turned barrel. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). † yellowv.2Origin: Apparently a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: yell v. Etymology: Apparently an alteration (after bellow v.; compare bell v.4) of yell v. Obsolete. the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > cry or shout [verb (transitive)] 1594 [implied in: W. Shakespeare ii. iii. 20 Whilst the babling eccho mocks the hounds,..Let vs sit downe and marke their yellowing [1623 yelping] noyse. (at yellowing adj.1)]. 1629 J. Mabbe tr. C. de Fonseca 244 Roaring and yellowing like so many mad Bulls. 1676 tr. 45 We used to run through their Dormitory, at the time of their first Sleep, with a great many little Doggs, yelping and yellowing. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2018). < |
