King James Bible Dictionary

YELL, verb intransitive [It agrees in elements with call.] To cry out with a hideous noise; to cry or scream as with agony or horror. Savages yell most frightfully when they are rushing to the first onset of battle.

Nor the night raven, that still deadly yells.

YELL, noun A sharp, loud, hideous outcry.

Their hideous yells rend the dark welkin.

YELLING, participle passive Uttering hideous outcries; shrieking; as yelling monsters.

YELLING, noun The act of screaming hideously.

YELLOW, adjective [G. See Gold.] Being of a bright color; the color of gold.

YELLOW, noun A bright color, reflecting the most light of any, after white. It is one of the simple or primitive colors.

YELLOW-BLOSSOMED, adjective Furnished or adorned with yellow flowers.

YELLOW-BOY, noun A gold coin. [Vulgar.]

YELLOW-EARTH, noun A soft yellow mineral found at Webraw, in Upper Lusatia. United with clay and argillaceous ironstone.

YELLOW-FEVER, noun A malignant disease of warm climates, which often suffuses the skin with a yellowish color.

YELLOW-GOLDS, noun A flower.

YELLOW-HAMMER, noun A bird of the genus Emberiza. Its throat and the crown of the head, are yellow.

YELLOWISH, adjective Somewhat yellow; as, amber is of a yellowish color.

YELLOWISHNESS, noun The quality of being somewhat yellow.

YELLOWNESS, noun

1. The quality of being yellow; as the yellowness of an orange.

2. Jealousy. [Not in use.]

YELLOWS, noun A disease of horses, cattle and sheep, in which the eyes are tinged with a yellow color, proceeding often from obstructions in the gall-ducts. It is relieved by purges.