Cadmium yellow, Chrome yellow, Indigo yellow, King's yellow, etc. See under Cadmium, Chrome, etc. -- Naples yellow, a yellow amorphous pigment, used in oil, porcelain, and enamel painting, consisting of a basic lead metantimonate, obtained by fusing together tartar emetic lead nitrate, and common salt. -- Patent yellow (Old Chem.), a yellow pigment consisting essentially of a lead oxychloride; -- called also Turner's yellow.
Yel"low (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Yellowed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Yellowing.] To make yellow; to cause to have a yellow tinge or color; to dye yellow.
Yel"low, v. i. To become yellow or yellower.
Yel"low*am`mer (?), n. (Zoöl.) See Yellow-hammer.
Yel"low*bill` (?), n. (Zoöl.) The American scoter.
Yel"low*bird` (?), n. (Zoöl.) (a) The American goldfinch, or thistle bird. See Goldfinch. (b) The common yellow warbler; -- called also summer yellowbird. See Illust. of Yellow warbler, under Yellow, a.
Yel"low-cov`ered (?), a. 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.
Yel"low-eyed` (?), a. Having yellow eyes.
Yellow-eyed grass (Bot.), any plant of the genus Xyris.
Yel"low*fin` (?), n. (Zoöl.) A large squeteague.
Yel"low*fish` (?), n. (Zoöl.) A rock trout (Pleurogrammus monopterygius) found on the coast of Alaska; -- called also striped fish, and Atka mackerel.
Yel"low-golds` (?), n. (Bot.) A certain plant, probably the yellow oxeye. B. Jonson.
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 (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.] (b) The flicker. [Local, U. S.]
Yel"low*ing, n. The act or process of making yellow.
Softened . . . by the yellowing which time has given.
G. Eliot.
Yel"low*ish, a. Somewhat yellow; as, amber is of a yellowish color. -- Yel"low*ish*ness, n.
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.
Yel"low*ness, n. 1. The quality or state of being yellow; as, the yellowness of an orange.