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Yellow butterflies, to Brits
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sulphurs
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (plural of sulphur English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: sulphur )
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Yellows \Yel"lows\, n. (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 ...
Usage examples of sulphurs.
And so the nauseous balloon sank, fold on midnight fold, upon its own boneless self, fissuring volcanic sulphurs, immense rectal airs, outgassed whistles and whimpers of self-pitying despair.
Many alchemists postulated two sulphurs in the metals, an inward and an outward.