Yellowfin
(Yel"low*fin`) n. (Zoöl.) A large squeteague.
Yellowfish
(Yel"low*fish`) n. (Zoöl.) A rock trout (Pleurogrammus monopterygius) found on the coast of
Alaska; — called also striped fish, and Atka mackerel.
Yellow-golds
(Yel"low-golds`) n. (Bot.) A certain plant, probably the yellow oxeye. B. Jonson.
Yellowhammer
(Yel"low*ham`mer) n. [For yellow- ammer, where ammer is fr. AS. amore a kind of
bird; akin to G. ammer a yellow-hammer, OHG. amero.] (Zoöl.) (a) A common European finch 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.] (b) The flicker. [Local, U. S.]
Yellowing
(Yel"low*ing), n. The act or process of making yellow.
Softened . . . by the yellowing which time has given.
G. Eliot. Yellowish
(Yel"low*ish), a. Somewhat yellow; as, amber is of a yellowish color. — Yel"low*ish*ness, n.
Yellowlegs
(Yel"low*legs`) n. (Zoöl.) Any one of several 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.
Yellowness
(Yel"low*ness), n.
1. The quality or state of being yellow; as, the yellowness of an orange.
2. Jealousy. [Obs.]
I will possess him with yellowness.
Shak. Yellowroot
(Yel"low*root`) n. (Bot.) Any one of several plants with yellow roots. Specifically: (a) See
Xanthorhiza. (b) Same as Orangeroot.
Yellows
(Yel"lows) n.
1. (Far.) 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. 2. (Bot.) A disease of plants, esp. of peach trees, in which the leaves turn to a yellowish color; jeterus.
3. (Zoöl.) A group of butterflies in which the predominating color is yellow. It includes the common small
yellow butterflies. Called also redhorns, and sulphurs. See Sulphur.
