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cry out, or shriek, with a hideous noise; to cry or scream as with agony or horror. They yelleden as feendes doon in helle. Chaucer. Nor the night raven, that still deadly yells. Spenser. Infernal ghosts and hellish furies round Environed thee; some howled, some yelled. Milton.

of 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 fat…

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.

eral 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:

A disease of the bile in horses, cattle, and sheep, causing yellowness of the eyes; jaundice. His horse . . . sped with spavins, rayed with the yellows. Shak.

A kind of pepper grass (Lepidium campestre).

See Yellolegs.