Crossword clues for yellows
yellows
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Yellows \Yel"lows\, n.
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(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. (Bot.) A disease of plants, esp. of peach trees, in which the leaves turn to a yellowish color; jeterus.
(Zo["o]l.) 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.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (plural of yellow English) 2 (context archaic English) A disease of the bile in horses, cattle, and sheep, causing yellowness of the eyes. 3 (context archaic English) A disease of plants, especially peach trees, in which the leaf turn a yellowish colour. vb. (en-third-person singular of: yellow)
Usage examples of "yellows".
Wool dyes best in a slightly acid bath, and this may be taken advantage of in dyeing the yellows and blues of this group by adding a small quantity of acetic acid.
In this recipe we use in the two last dyes purely wool yellows, which dye the wool the same tint as the Fast Yellow A dyes the cotton.
Raw Material -- Storing of Raw Material -- Testing and Valuation of Raw Material -- Paint Plant and Machinery -- The Grinding of White Lead -- Grinding of White Zinc -- Grinding of other White Pigments -- Grinding of Oxide Paints -- Grinding of Staining Colours -- Grinding of Black Paints -- Grinding of Chemical Colours -- Yellows -- Grinding of Chemical Colours -- Blues -- Grinding Greens -- Grinding Reds -- Grinding Lakes -- Grinding Colours in Water -- Grinding Colours in Turpentine -- The Uses of Paint -- Testing and Matching Paints -- Economic Considerations -- Index.
Stains -- Natural Dyes -- Artificial Pigments -- Coal Tar Dyes -- Staining Marble and Artificial Stone -- Dyeing, Bleaching and Imitation of Bone, Horn and Ivory -- Imitation of Tortoiseshell for Combs: Yellows, Dyeing Nuts -- Ivory -- Wood Dyeing -- Imitation of Mahogany: Dark Walnut, Oak, Birch-Bark, Elder-Marquetry, Walnut, Walnut-Marquetry, Mahogany, Spanish Mahogany, Palisander and Rose Wood, Tortoiseshell, Oak, Ebony, Pear Tree -- Black Dyeing Processes with Penetrating Colours -- Varnishes and Polishes: English Furniture Polish, Vienna Furniture Polish, Amber Varnish, Copal Varnish, Composition for Preserving Furniture -- Index.
The result was a partial amalgamation of the blacks, whites and yellows, the result of which is shown in the present splendid race of red men.
At its base the golds and russets and yellows were strongest, but ascending its slopes were changing colors--a dark beautiful mouse color on one side and a strange pearly cream on the other.
Over the wall I could see the beach beset with frothing surf beneath a glorious cloudless sky of reds and yellows to blue at the zenith.
Their wagons were small houses on wheels, tall wooden boxes lacquered and painted in bright colors, reds and blues and yellows and greens and some hues to which he could not put a name.
Warily he watched the Green Man, walking ahead with Moiraine and Lan, butterflies surrounding him in a cloud of yellows and reds.
There were pieces of cloth, left over from dresses and jackets Catharina had made, in yellows and browns, blues and greys.