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noun

Yolk n. (Written also yelk)

The yellow part of an egg; the vitellus.

(Zool.) An oily secretion which naturally covers the wool of sheep.

Yolk cord (Zool.), a slender cord or duct which connects the yolk glands with the egg chambers in certain insects, as in the aphids.

Yolk gland (Zool.), a special organ which secretes the yolk of the eggs in many turbellarians, and in some other invertebrates.

Yolk sack (Anat.), the umbilical vesicle. See under Unbilical.

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"Yolk" Quotes from Famous Books

... Quarter like the smell of a fire, and various persons of both sexes had called to inspect, to sympathise, and to take tea, which Audrey was continually making throughout the late afternoon. Musa had had an egg for his tea, and more than one girl had helped to spread the yolk and the white on pieces of bread-and-butter, for the victim of destiny had his right arm in a sling. Audrey had let them do it, as a mother patronisingly lets her ...

— The Lion's Share • E. Arnold Bennett

... you caught, Louise," he said, ladling the thick white gravy dotted with crumbly yellow egg yolk upon her plate with lavish hand. "That Lawford Tapp knows where the critters school, if ...

— Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper • James A. Cooper

... has a flexible or leathery shell; it is quite round, and somewhat larger than a hen's egg. The whole heap is thrown into an empty canoe and mashed with wooden prongs; but sometimes naked Indians and children jump into the mass and tread it down, besmearing themselves with yolk and making about as filthy a scene as can well be imagined. This being finished, water is poured into the canoe, and the fatty mess then left for a few hours to be heated by the sun, on which the oil separates and rises to the surface. The floating oil is afterwards skimmed ...

— The Naturalist on the River Amazons • Henry Walter Bates

... be of a fine clear amber colour. If not perfectly bright after straining, you may clarify it in this manner. Put it into the stew-pan. Break the whites of two eggs into a basin, carefully avoiding the smallest particle of the yolk. Beat the white of egg to a stiff froth, and then mix it gradually with the soup. Set it over the fire, and stir it till it boils briskly. Then take it off, and set it beside the fire to settle for ten minutes. Strain ...

— Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches • Eliza Leslie

... dear nurse will leave you alone; but, for all that, she that has eaten the yolk is scarce like ...

— Becket and other plays • Alfred Lord Tennyson

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