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A wading bird with long legs; as, the green-legged shank, or knot; the yellow shank, or tattler; -- called also shanks.

now believed to have been the wood of the Acacia Seyal, which is hard, fine grained, and yellowish brown in color.

spots or patches. The tangled water courses slept, Shot over with purple, and green, and yellow. Tennyson. To be shot of, to be discharged, cleared, or rid of. [Colloq.] "Are you not glad to be shot of him" Sir W. Scott.

the Western plains. Its upper parts are varied with dark brown and light brown. It has a yellow throat, yellow local streaks, a black crescent on its breast, a black streak below each eye, and two small black erectile ear tufts. Called also horned lark. -- Shore plover (Zoöl.), a large-billed Australian plover (Esacu…

draught. -- Siberian pea tree (Bot.), a small leguminous tree (Cragana arborescens) with yellow flowers. It is a native of Siberia.

curing generally in cleavable masses, but also in rhombohedral crystals. It is of a light yellowish brown color. Called also sparry iron, spathic iron.

olor by the action of fire. -- Raw sienna, sienna in its natural state, of a transparent yellowish brown color.

To separate or part as if with a sieve. When yellow sands are sifted from below, The glittering billows give a golden show. Dryden.

Ferruginous quartz, of a blood-red or brownish red color, sometimes with a tinge of yellow.

A small green and yellow European finch (Spinus spinus, or Carduelis spinus); -- called also aberdevine.

A yellow-flowered composite plant (Helenium autumnale) the odor of which is said to cause sneezing.

r and representing different stages of the morbid process, are known respectively as red, yellow, and white, softening.

An alkaloid produced by the action of hydrochloric acid on solanidine, as a tasteless yellow crystalline substance.

een, with a metallic luster, and are ornamented on the sides of the back with markings of yellow, like epaulets or shoulder straps. -- Soldier moth (Zoöl.), a large geometrid moth (Euschema militaris), having the wings bright yellow with bluish black lines and spots. -- Soldier orchis (Bot.), a kind of orchis (Orchis…

A genus of yellow-flowered composite perennial herbs; golden- rod.

and sops in wine. Spenser. -- Sops of wine (Bot.), an old European variety of apple, of a yellow and red color, shading to deep red; -- called also sopsavine, and red shropsavine.

A yellowish or reddish brown color; sorrel.

Of a yellowish or redish brown color; as, a sorrel horse.

mackerel, and bull mackerel. (b) In the United States, a handsome mackerel having bright yellow round spots (Scomberomorus maculatus), highly esteemed as a food fish. The name is sometimes erroneously applied to other species. See Illust. under Mackerel. -- Spanish main, the name formerly given to the southern portio…

The common yellow water lily (Nuphar advena).