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s quite widely, but in small quantities, and always combined. It is isolated as a soft yellowish white metal, analogous to potassium in most of its properties. Symbol Rb. Atomic weight, 85.2.

son have a large ruff of erectile feathers, variable in their colors, on the neck, and yellowish naked tubercles on the face. They are polygamous, and are noted for their pugnacity in the breeding season. The female is called reeve, or rheeve.

A yellowish red crystalline substance related to anthracene, and obtained from opianic acid.

Reddish; of a yellowish red or brownish red color; tawny.

equal proportions, namely, two parts of red to one each of blue and yellow; also, of a yellowish brown color. The morn, in russet mantle clad. Shak. Our summer such a russet livery wears. Dryden.

A kind of turnip commonly with a large and long or ovoid yellowish root; a Swedish turnip. See Turnip.

ant (Colchichum autumnate) of Europe, resembling saffron. -- Saffron wood (Bot.), the yellowish wood of a South African tree (Elæodendron croceum); also, the tree itself. -- Saffron yellow, a shade of yellow like that obtained from the stigmas of the true saffron (Crocus sativus).

Having a color somewhat like saffron; yellowish. Lord (1630).

Having a yellowish color; of a pale, sickly color, tinged with yellow; as, a sallow skin. Shak.

The highly perfumed yellowish heartwood of an East Indian and Polynesian tree (Santalum album), and of several other trees of the same genus, as the Hawaiian Santalum Freycinetianum and S. pyrularium, the Australian S. latifolium, etc. The name is extended to several other kinds of fragrant wood.

Of the color of sand; of a light yellowish red color; as, sandy hair.

ordinary quince, having a rough, brittle, dull brown rind, the flesh being of a dirty yellowish white color, very soft, and deliciously sweet. Called also naseberry. It is eatable only when it begins to be spotted, and is much used in desserts.

A minute yellowish body present in the interior of certain rhizopods.

Calcium tungstate, a mineral of a white or pale yellowish color and of the tetragonal system of crystallization.

A yellowish alloy of copper and zinc. See Simplor.

s membranes of the body, such as the pericardium and peritoneum. Blood serum, the pale yellowish fluid which exudes from the clot formed in the coagulation of the blood; the loquid portion of the blood, after removal of the blood corpuscles and the fibrin. -- Muscle serum, the thin watery fluid which separates from th…

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

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

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

A yellowish or reddish brown color; sorrel.