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lotches, which are variously arranged. The ground color varies from reddish gray to tawny yellow.

A impure earthy ore of iron or a ferruginous clay, usually red (hematite) or yellow (limonite), -- used as a pigment in making paints, etc. The name is also applied to clays of other colors.

Provided with ochrea, or sheathformed stipules, as the rhubarb, yellow dock, and knotgrass.

Yellowish white; having a faint tint of dingy yellow. Gray.

ontal bone of the male. The color of the body is chiefly reddish chestnut, the cheeks are yellowish white, and the fore and hind legs above the knees and the haunches are striped with purplish black and cream color.

its fruit for thousands of years, and its branches are the emblems of peace. The wood is yellowish brown and beautifully variegated.

A common name of the yellowish green mineral chrysolite, esp. the variety found in eruptive rocks.

A beautiful bird (Moho nobilis) of the Hawaiian Islands. It yields the brilliant yellow feathers formerly used in making the royal robes. Called also yellow-tufted honeysucker.

To convert into opal, or a substance like opal. Lyell.

(called ophelic acid) extracted from a plant (Ophelia) of the Gentian family as a bitter yellowish sirup, used in India as a febrifuge and tonic.

Turkey and the East Indies in loose granules, or sometimes in larger masses, of a reddish yellow color, with specks of white. It has a strong smell and acrid taste, and was formerly used in medicine as an emmenagogue and antispasmodic. Dunglison.

Yellow or gold color, -- represented in drawing or engraving by small dots.

nly ten in number, inclosed in a leathery rind, which is easily separable, and is reddish yellow when ripe.

An American ranunculaceous plant (Hidrastis Canadensis), having a yellow tuberous root; -- also called yellowroot, golden seal, etc.

Deep orange-yellow; dark yellow. Shak.

An orange-yellow variety of the mineral thorite, found in Norway.

d World singing birds of the family Oriolidæ. They are usually conspicuously colored with yellow and black. The European or golden oriole (Oriolus galbula, or O. oriolus) has a very musical flutelike note.

Arsenic sesquisulphide, produced artificially as an amorphous lemonyellow powder, and occurring naturally as a yellow crystalline mineral; -- formerly called auripigment. It is used in king's yellow, in white Indian fire, and in certain technical processes, as indigo printing. Our orpiment and sublimed mercurie. Chauce…

A yellow pigment of various degrees of intensity, approaching also to red.

, or designating, a nitrogenous acid of osmium, H2N2Os2O5, forming a well-known series of yellow salts.