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Yellow

Being of a bright saffronlike color; of the color of gold or brass; having the hue of that part of the rainbow, or of the solar spectrum, which is between the orange and the green.

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Chromatic 84% connected

Relating to color, or to colors.

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Chromatic 84% connected

Relating to color, or to colors.

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Cowardly 84% connected

Wanting courage; basely or weakly timid or fearful; pusillanimous; spiritless.

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Cowardly 84% connected

Wanting courage; basely or weakly timid or fearful; pusillanimous; spiritless.

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Dishonorable 84% connected

Wanting in honor; not honorable; bringing or deserving dishonor; staining the character, and lessening the reputation; shameful; disgraceful; base.

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Dishonorable 84% connected

Wanting in honor; not honorable; bringing or deserving dishonor; staining the character, and lessening the reputation; shameful; disgraceful; base.

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Fearful 84% connected

Full of fear, apprehension, or alarm; afraid; frightened.

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Fearful 84% connected

Full of fear, apprehension, or alarm; afraid; frightened.

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Old 84% connected

Open country.

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Old 84% connected

Open country.

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Sensational 84% connected

Of or pertaining to sensation; as, sensational nerves.

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Sensational 84% connected

Of or pertaining to sensation; as, sensational nerves.

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Amber 76% connected

A yellowish translucent resin resembling copal, found as a fossil in alluvial soils, with beds of lignite, or on the seashore in many places. It take…

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Canary 76% connected

Of or pertaining to the Canary Islands; as, canary wine; canary birds.

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Gamboge 76% connected

A concrete juice, or gum resin, produced by several species of trees in Siam, Ceylon, and Malabar. It is brought in masses, or cylindrical rolls, fro…

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Gold 76% connected

Alt. of Goolde

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Lemon 76% connected

An oval or roundish fruit resembling the orange, and containing a pulp usually intensely acid. It is produced by a tropical tree of the genus Citrus,…

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Maize 76% connected

A large species of American grass of the genus Zea (Z. Mays), widely cultivated as a forage and food plant; Indian corn. Also, its seed, growing on c…

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Saffron 76% connected

A bulbous iridaceous plant (Crocus sativus) having blue flowers with large yellow stigmas. See Crocus.

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Straw 76% connected

To spread or scatter. See Strew, and Strow.

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Wheat 76% connected

A cereal grass (Triticum vulgare) and its grain, which furnishes a white flour for bread, and, next to rice, is the grain most largely used by the hu…

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Color 76% connected

A property depending on the relations of light to the eye, by which individual and specific differences in the hues and tints of objects are apprehen…

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Colour 76% connected

See Color.

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Discolor 76% connected

To alter the natural hue or color of; to change to a different color; to stain; to tinge; as, a drop of wine will discolor water; silver is discolore…

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Yellowish 74% connected

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

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Yellowish 74% connected

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

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Chicken 92% connected

A young bird or fowl, esp. a young barnyard fowl.

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Chickenhearted 92% connected

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Icteric 92% connected

A remedy for the jaundice.

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Jaundiced 92% connected

Affected with jaundice.

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Lily-livered 92% connected

White-livered; cowardly.

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White-livered 92% connected

Having a pale look; feeble; hence, cowardly; pusillanimous; dastardly.

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Xanthous 92% connected

Yellow; specifically (Ethnol.), of or pertaining to those races of man which have yellowish, red, auburn, or brown hair.

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Yellowed 92% connected

of Yellow

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Yellowish 92% connected

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

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Yellowness 92% connected

The quality or state of being yellow; as, the yellowness of an orange.

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