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lant (Barbarea præcox), sometimes grown as a salad plant. -- Yellow dock. (Bot.) See the Note under Dock. -- Yellow earth, a yellowish clay, colored by iron, sometimes used as a yellow pigment. -- Yellow fever (Med.), a malignant, contagious, febrile disease of warm climates, attended with jaundice, producing a yell…

See in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.

minative, dative, and objective case, indicating the person or persons addressed. See the Note under Ye. Ye go to Canterbury; God you speed. Chaucer. Good sir, I do in friendship counsel you To leave this place. Shak. In vain you tell your parting lover You wish fair winds may waft him over. Prior.

See the Note under Your.

of Magnolia (M. conspicua) with large white blossoms that open before the leaves. See the Note under Magnolia.

r æolian string; -- so called by Tartini. It was long considered a false, but is the true note of the chord of the flat seventh. H. W. Poole.

A yellow dyewood; fustet; -- called also zante, and zante fustic. See Fustet, and the Note under Fustic.

the changes that have taken place during its growth. -- Zonal symmetry. (Biol.) See the Note under Symmetry.

southeast coast of Africa, but formerly occupied a much more extensive country. They are noted for their warlike disposition, courage, and military skill.