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YELLOW

Volume 18 · 50 words · 1797 Edition

one of the original colours of light.

Yellow-Colour for House-painting. See Chemistry, no 699.

Naples Yellow, a beautiful colour much used by painters, formerly thought to be prepared from arsenic, but now discovered to have lead for its basis.

Yellow-Hammer, in ornithology. See Fringilla.

Yellow Fever. See Medicine, no 168.