yellownessn.

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. v. vi. 183 As Aristotel seiþ, ȝelewhnes [a1450 Bodl. ȝelownes; L. glaucitas] of þe eiȝen is meuynge of feblenes.

c1432 ( G. Chaucer Complaint to Purse (BL Add. 22139) (1879) l. 11 That I..may..se ȝoure coloure lyche the sonne bryghte That of ȝalownys had neuyr pere.

c1494 tr. Deidis of Armorie (Harl.) (1994) 54 Bourerische..is gud aganis malancolie ande giffis blythnes and takis away ȝallownes.

a1500 Partenay (Trin. Cambr.) l. 3887 Adieu, my lady, with heres yow lownesse [read yowlownesse]!

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) iv. sig. Mm1^v A darke yellownes dyeng his skinne.

1634 T. Johnson tr. A. Paré Chirurg. Wks. i. xv. 35 That they doe not enter into it before the first and second concoction, which they may know by the yellownesse of their urine.

1664 J. Dryden Rival Ladies iii. i. 38 Like the Sun (ev'n while Eclips'd) she casts A Yellowness upon all other Faces.

1693 J. Evelyn tr. J. de La Quintinie Direct. conc. Melons 3 in Compl. Gard'ner This Yellowness appearing in some part of it or other, and not seldom with some Rift, or little Casm's about the Stalk.

1717 D. Turner Syphilis i. 39 Some others have been well cured, although this Yellowness has continu'd to the last.

1766 E. Delaval in Philos. Trans. 1765 (Royal Soc.) 55 17 The Hyacinth is a stone..which is red with a certain yellowness.

1844 A. W. Kinglake Eothen viii. 131 Doctors will tell you that the drinking of milk gives yellowness to the complexion.

1889 Chambers's Jrnl. 30 Nov. 760/1 There is a solidity and yellowness about Jupiter's light.

1910 N.Y. Times 22 Jan. 8/5 In the case of butter yellowness and excellence necessarily go together.

1937 A. Christie Dumb Witness i. 10 A faint yellowness in her skin was a warning that she could not eat rich food with impunity.

1970 Jrnl. Southern Hist. 36 574 Creole children were dying daily of fever which exhibited yellowness, black vomit, and other obvious symptoms.

2001 O. Sacks Uncle Tungsten i. 3 I loved the yellowness, the heaviness, of gold.

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. xi. sig. Oo4^v Yet all the while she spake (though with eyes cast like a horse that woulde strike at the stirrop, and with colour which blushed through yellownesse) she sate rather still then quiet.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) i. iii. 93 I will incense Ford to deale with poyson: I will possesse him with yallownesse.

1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy iii. iii. i. ii. 680 The vndiscreet carriage of some..gallant,..may..if he be inclined to yellownesse, colour him quite out.

1909 Cincinnati Enquirer 23 May iv. 1/8 He openly charges Johnson with cowardice, cold feet, yellowness and everything else in the category of pugilistic contempt.

1931 A. Spitzer Life comes to Judith xiv. 271 He sounded pathetic when he said that, as if he were apologizing for his streak of yellowness.

1958 Newsday 19 Aug. 12 c/3 All flaws are forgiven in the fight racket except the crime of yellowness.

2010 S. Sardi Angle 38 My bravery outlived its own yellowness and soon I felt completely at home in the cockpit.