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Yellow

adjective

(compar. yellower; superl. yellowest)

Of the color intermediate between green and orange in the color spectrum; of something resembling the color of an egg yolk. Synonyms: xanthous, yellowish.

Easily frightened. Synonyms: chicken, chickenhearted, lily-livered, white-livered, yellow-bellied.

Changed to a yellowish color by age. Synonym: yellowed.

Typical of tabloids. Synonyms: scandalmongering, sensationalistic. "Yellow press"

Cowardly or treacherous. "Too yellow to stand and fight"

Affected by jaundice which causes yellowing of skin etc. Synonyms: icteric, jaundiced.

noun

Yellow color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons. Synonym: yellowness.

verb

(past & past part. yellowed; pres. part. yellowing)

Turn yellow.

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"Yellow" Quotes from Famous Books

... with dedications. In these pamphlets of Moxon, Browning's wonderful apples of gold were certainly not presented to the public in pictures or baskets of silver; yet the possessor of the eight parts in their yellow paper wrappers may now be congratulated. Only one of the numbers—A Blot in the 'Scutcheon—attained the distinction of a second edition, and this probably because the drama as published was helped to a comparative popularity ...

— Robert Browning • Edward Dowden

... looked away toward the window, his glance seeming to rest on the white world of winter outside, across which the yellow streaks of sunlight fell like a golden tracery. He interlaced his fingers thoughtfully upon his knees while he waited for an answer. But Prescott ...

— Before the Dawn - A Story of the Fall of Richmond • Joseph Alexander Altsheler

... extend here and there to the foot of the cliff like giant buttresses. They are reached, despite the steepness of the hill, by an easy winding road that leads, with long, meandering turns, down to the yellow, sandy beach of the little bay. Clotilde and Julia made a sketch of the old Celtic temple while the gentlemen were smoking; then they amused themselves for some time watching the rising waves spreading upon the sand its fringes of ...

— Led Astray and The Sphinx - Two Novellas In One Volume • Octave Feuillet

... the Ballard line advanced, the fullback's toe ripped into the pigskin, sending it whirling, high in air, far into Bannister's territory; the yellow oval fell into the outstretched arms of Captain Butch Brewster, on the Gold and Green's five-yard line, and—"We're off!" shrieked Hicks, excitedly. "Come on, Butch—run it back! Oh, ...

— T. Haviland Hicks Senior • J. Raymond Elderdice

... was infested with man-eating tigers, and very often the villagers implored him to rid their neighborhood of some one of the yellow raiders which had been killing their children, pigs, or cattle. During ten years he had killed seven tigers in the Futsing region. He often said that his gun had been just as effective in carrying Christianity to the natives as had his evangelistic work. Although Mr. Caldwell ...

— Camps and Trails in China - A Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, and Sport in Little-Known China • Roy Chapman Andrews and Yvette Borup Andrews

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