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Having the color of the willow; resembling the willow; willowy. Walton.

Abounding with willows. Where willowy Camus lingers with delight. Gray.

The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.

One engaged in the same work with another; a companion in work.

the rainbow, or of the solar spectrum, which is between the orange and the green. Her yellow hair was browded [braided] in a tress. Chaucer. A sweaty reaper from his tillage brought First fruits, the green ear and the yellow sheaf. Milton. The line of yellow light dies fast away. Keble. Yellow atrophy (Med.), a fatal…

In France, an official government publication bound in yellow covers.

Covered or bound in yellow paper. Yellow-covered literature, cheap sensational novels and trashy magazines; -- formerly so called from the usual color of their covers. [Colloq. U. S.] Bartlett.

Having yellow eyes. Yellow-eyed grass (Bot.), any plant of the genus Xyris.

A certain plant, probably the yellow oxeye. B. Jonson.

See Yellow-hammer.

The American scoter.

The common yellow warbler; -- called also summer yellowbird. See Illust. of Yellow warbler, under Yellow, a.

A large squeteague.

A rock trout (Pleurogrammus monopterygius) found on the coast of Alaska; -- called also striped fish, and Atka mackerel.

A common European finch (Emberiza citrinella). The color of the male is bright yellow on the breast, neck, and sides of the head, with the back yellow and brown, and the top of the head and the tail quills blackish. Called also yellow bunting, scribbling lark, and writing lark. [Written also yellow-ammer.]…

The act or process of making yellow. Softened . . . by the yellowing which time has given. G. Eliot.

Somewhat yellow; as, amber is of a yellowish color. -- Yel"low*ish*ness, n.

l species of long-legged sandpipers of the genus Totanus, in which the legs are bright yellow; -- called also stone snipe, tattler, telltale, yellowshanks; and yellowshins. See Tattler, 2.

The quality or state of being yellow; as, the yellowness of an orange.

Any one of several plants with yellow roots. Specifically: