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sulphurs

Yellows \Yel"lows\, n.

  1. (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.

  2. (Bot.) A disease of plants, esp. of peach trees, in which the leaves turn to a yellowish color; jeterus.

  3. (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.

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sulphurs

n. (plural of sulphur English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: sulphur)

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.