yellowsn.

Brit.

/ˈjɛləʊz/, U.S.

/ˈjɛloʊz/

Forms: see yellow adj. and n.

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: yellow n.

Etymology: < the plural of yellow n.

I. Senses referring to diseases or emotional states.

1. Jaundice; any of various diseases, esp. of livestock, characterized by jaundice or other yellow discoloration of tissues.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of cattle, horse, or sheep > [noun] > disorders of cattle or horses > jaundice

yellows1561

pantas1575

1561 in W. Rye Depositions Mayor & Aldermen Norwich 1549–67 (1905) 65 (modernized text) The horse had a disease running through him which was called the yellows.

1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 454/1 Arquatus,..that hath the yellowes, or the iaunders.

1607 Merry Devil Edmonton v. ii. 16 If I doe not indite him at the next assisses for Burglary, let me die of the yellowes.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) iii. ii. 52 His horse..raied with the Yellowes .

1733 W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farming 220 This is apt to gripe them, and bring on the Yellows.

1799 A. Young Gen. View Agric. County Lincoln 377 They lose many lambs of the yellows, from August to the middle of September.

1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. II. 1133 The Yellows, which is a disease to which cows are very subject.

1871 G. H. Napheys Prevention & Cure Dis. iii. ix. 995 Jaundice is also known under the name of the yellows.

1931 ‘M. J. Farrell’ Mad Puppetstown i. iii. 172 She let the hound puppy loose outside the stable yard, to sleep in the hay barn or to contract yellows as seemed best to it.

1951 Land (Sydney) 14 Sept. 29/2 Your sheep are apparently affected with Toxaemic Jaundice and commonly referred to as ‘Yellows’.

2009 Weekly Times (Austral.) (Nexis) 28 Jan. 91 The accumulation of copper can lead to the ‘yellows’, a condition characterised by kidney failure and death.

†2. Jealousy; envy. Cf. yellow adj. 3a. Obsolete.

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the mind > emotion > jealousy or envy > [noun] > jealousy

jealousnessc1380

jealoustea1382

heart-burningc1425

jealousyc1425

zealousy1542

zelotypia1566

heartburn1579

yellownessa1586

yellows1601

green-eyed monstera1616

zelotypy1623

green eyea1845

jealous-hood1846

1601 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor v. i. sig. M2 You haue a spice of the yealous yet both of you, (in your hose I meane).

1638 R. Brathwait Barnabees Journall (new ed.) i. sig. F2 Alwayes frolick, free from yellows.

1683 R. Dixon Canidia v. xii. 114 His Course Wife is troubled with the Yellows.

†a. The damaged condition of wheat grains caused by the larvae of the wheat midge, Sitodiplosis mosellana; (apparently also) the wheat midge itself. Obsolete.

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1771 C. Gullet in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 62 350 What the farmers call the yellows in wheat, and which they consider as a kind of mildew, is..occasioned by a small yellow fly with blue wings, about the size of a gnat.

1776 W. Boutcher Treat. Forest-trees (new ed.) xix. 143 In the preserving of crops of wheat from the yellows, and other destructive insects.

1815 Farmer's Mag. Aug. 385 The mildew and yellows have been discovered among the Wheat.

1815 Farmer's Mag. Aug. 385 (note) The yellows in wheat is a small grub that eats the corn out of the ear before it is ripe.

1851 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1850: Agric. 5 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (31st Congr., 2nd Sess.: U.S. House of Representatives Executive Doc. No. 32, Pt. 2) VI. Early sown wheat, however is frequently attacked by the Hessian fly and yellows.

b. A disease of peach trees characterized by yellowing and distortion of foliage and other parts, and caused by a mycoplasma-like organism; = peach yellows n. at peach n.¹ and adj. Compounds 2.

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the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > type of disease > caused by insects > associated with crop or food plants

cockle1777

ear cockle1777

raddleman1798

purple1807

yellows1808

sedging1820

gout1828

sedge-root1837

leaf blister1858

tulip-root1875

root-knot1888

1808 R. Peters in Mem. Philadelphia Soc. for Promoting Agric. 1 24 The ‘yellows’ are seen making destructive ravages in Mr. Heston's peach plantation.

1848 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 1st Ser. i. 9 'Fore they think on 't they will sprout (Like a peach thet's got the yellers), With the meanness bustin' out.

1937 Amer. Home Apr. 15/2 When the smaller of the two [peach trees] also developed the yellows, that dread disease which destroys whole orchards, I promptly dug it out and burnt it.

2014 Canad. Jrnl. Plant Pathol. 36 158/2 Based on the main symptom of yellows, we collected 60 samples from diseased peach trees and symptomatically inferred that the disease was associated with phytoplasmas.

c. Any of various other diseases and physiological disorders of plants characterized by yellowing of foliage or other parts. Frequently with distinguishing word.Diseases of this kind are most commonly caused by viruses and mycoplasma-like organisms.

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the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > type of disease > deficiency diseases

chlorosis1805

leaf scald1870

leaf scorch1899

sand drown1922

yellows1926

iron deficiency anaemia1932

1895 L. H. Bailey Blackberries (Bull. Cornell Univ. Agric. Exper. Station No. 99) 426 There are four diseases of the blackberry which may be mentioned here,—the red rust or yellows, root-gall, anthracnose, and cane-knot.

1926 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 13 647 Asters affected with yellows never show mottling.

1933 Times Lit. Suppl. 16 Mar. 187/2 A disease of the tea-bush known as ‘yellows’ is due to a deficiency of sulphur in the soil.

1957 New Scientist 8 Aug. 31/3 At least 2,800 tons of beet were lost from yellows infection..in the Shotley peninsula.

2014 Sci. Amer. Mar. 56 American elms are also highly vulnerable to another disease known as elm yellows, spread by American leafhoppers carrying phytoplasma bacteria.

†II. Senses referring to plants or substances.

4. Chiefly English regional.

a. Either of two plants yielding a yellow dye, weld ( Reseda luteola) and dyer's greenweed ( Genista tinctoria). Obsolete.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plants used in dyeing > [noun] > names applied to various dye-plants

dyer's weed1578

yellows1601

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxxiii. v. 471 An hearb called likewise Lutea. [Note] Some take it to be weld or yellows.

1638 J. Ford Fancies v. 72 Burnish my forehead with the juyce of yellowes.

1790 W. Marshall Agric. Provincialisms in Rural Econ. Midland Counties II. 445 Yellows,..dyers' weed.

1920 W. E. Brenchley Weeds of Farm Land xiii. 214 Genista tinctoria, L.—Alleluia, base broom,..yellows.

b. Any of several yellow-flowered arable weeds of the family Brassicaceae, esp. charlock ( Sinapis arvensis) and wild turnip ( Brassica rapa subsp. campestris). Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1738 G. C. Deering Catalogus Stirpium 149 Napus sylvestris... Flowers in June and July, very common on Banksides, and among the Corn too plentifully, the Country People here [sc. near Nottingham] call them the Yellows.

1802 G. Culley Let. 12 June in M. Culley & G. Culley Farming Lett. (2006) 307 I think I never saw so many small or top weeds amongst corn and other grain, and especially yellows, what you call kale and we masicks, and cress and wild mustard.

5. English regional (Cornwall). Mining. Yellow copper ore (typically, chalcopyrite) occurring in tin mines. Obsolete.

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the world > the earth > minerals > ore > [noun] > metal ore > copper ore > types of

red copper1507

misy1543

grey copper1590

yellow ore1630

grey orea1728

pitch ore1776

red copper ore1776

fahlerz1796

tile-ore1823

cuprite1850

lettsomite1850

velvet copper-ore1850

yellows1851

meneghinite1852

peacock copper1858

peacock ore1858

horseflesh ore1868

plush-copper1881

1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. I. 145/2 Till a comparatively recent date, tin was the only metal which was sought for; and, in many cases, the mines were abandoned when the miners came to the ‘yellows’, that is, the yellow sulphuret of copper.

1884 R. Hunt Brit. Mining 827 The family of the Williams's, who were then working Tresaven mine most profitably for tin, caused all the workings to be given up ‘because they had come to the yellows’.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	yellows
释义	yellowsn. Brit. /ˈjɛləʊz/, U.S. /ˈjɛloʊz/ Forms: see yellow adj. and n. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: yellow n. Etymology: < the plural of yellow n. I. Senses referring to diseases or emotional states. 1. Jaundice; any of various diseases, esp. of livestock, characterized by jaundice or other yellow discoloration of tissues. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of cattle, horse, or sheep > [noun] > disorders of cattle or horses > jaundice yellows1561 pantas1575 1561 in W. Rye Depositions Mayor & Aldermen Norwich 1549–67 (1905) 65 (modernized text) The horse had a disease running through him which was called the yellows. 1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 454/1 Arquatus,..that hath the yellowes, or the iaunders. 1607 Merry Devil Edmonton v. ii. 16 If I doe not indite him at the next assisses for Burglary, let me die of the yellowes. a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) iii. ii. 52 His horse..raied with the Yellowes . View more context for this quotation 1733 W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farming 220 This is apt to gripe them, and bring on the Yellows. 1799 A. Young Gen. View Agric. County Lincoln 377 They lose many lambs of the yellows, from August to the middle of September. 1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. II. 1133 The Yellows, which is a disease to which cows are very subject. 1871 G. H. Napheys Prevention & Cure Dis. iii. ix. 995 Jaundice is also known under the name of the yellows. 1931 ‘M. J. Farrell’ Mad Puppetstown i. iii. 172 She let the hound puppy loose outside the stable yard, to sleep in the hay barn or to contract yellows as seemed best to it. 1951 Land (Sydney) 14 Sept. 29/2 Your sheep are apparently affected with Toxaemic Jaundice and commonly referred to as ‘Yellows’. 2009 Weekly Times (Austral.) (Nexis) 28 Jan. 91 The accumulation of copper can lead to the ‘yellows’, a condition characterised by kidney failure and death. †2. Jealousy; envy. Cf. yellow adj. 3a. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > jealousy or envy > [noun] > jealousy jealousnessc1380 jealoustea1382 heart-burningc1425 jealousyc1425 zealousy1542 zelotypia1566 heartburn1579 yellownessa1586 yellows1601 green-eyed monstera1616 zelotypy1623 green eyea1845 jealous-hood1846 1601 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor v. i. sig. M2 You haue a spice of the yealous yet both of you, (in your hose I meane). View more context for this quotation 1638 R. Brathwait Barnabees Journall (new ed.) i. sig. F2 Alwayes frolick, free from yellows. 1683 R. Dixon Canidia v. xii. 114 His Course Wife is troubled with the Yellows. 3. †a. The damaged condition of wheat grains caused by the larvae of the wheat midge, Sitodiplosis mosellana; (apparently also) the wheat midge itself. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1771 C. Gullet in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 62 350 What the farmers call the yellows in wheat, and which they consider as a kind of mildew, is..occasioned by a small yellow fly with blue wings, about the size of a gnat. 1776 W. Boutcher Treat. Forest-trees (new ed.) xix. 143 In the preserving of crops of wheat from the yellows, and other destructive insects. 1815 Farmer's Mag. Aug. 385 The mildew and yellows have been discovered among the Wheat. 1815 Farmer's Mag. Aug. 385 (note) The yellows in wheat is a small grub that eats the corn out of the ear before it is ripe. 1851 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1850: Agric. 5 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (31st Congr., 2nd Sess.: U.S. House of Representatives Executive Doc. No. 32, Pt. 2) VI. Early sown wheat, however is frequently attacked by the Hessian fly and yellows. b. A disease of peach trees characterized by yellowing and distortion of foliage and other parts, and caused by a mycoplasma-like organism; = peach yellows n. at peach n.¹ and adj. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > type of disease > caused by insects > associated with crop or food plants cockle1777 ear cockle1777 raddleman1798 purple1807 yellows1808 sedging1820 gout1828 sedge-root1837 leaf blister1858 tulip-root1875 root-knot1888 1808 R. Peters in Mem. Philadelphia Soc. for Promoting Agric. 1 24 The ‘yellows’ are seen making destructive ravages in Mr. Heston's peach plantation. 1848 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 1st Ser. i. 9 'Fore they think on 't they will sprout (Like a peach thet's got the yellers), With the meanness bustin' out. 1937 Amer. Home Apr. 15/2 When the smaller of the two [peach trees] also developed the yellows, that dread disease which destroys whole orchards, I promptly dug it out and burnt it. 2014 Canad. Jrnl. Plant Pathol. 36 158/2 Based on the main symptom of yellows, we collected 60 samples from diseased peach trees and symptomatically inferred that the disease was associated with phytoplasmas. c. Any of various other diseases and physiological disorders of plants characterized by yellowing of foliage or other parts. Frequently with distinguishing word.Diseases of this kind are most commonly caused by viruses and mycoplasma-like organisms. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > type of disease > deficiency diseases chlorosis1805 leaf scald1870 leaf scorch1899 sand drown1922 yellows1926 iron deficiency anaemia1932 1895 L. H. Bailey Blackberries (Bull. Cornell Univ. Agric. Exper. Station No. 99) 426 There are four diseases of the blackberry which may be mentioned here,—the red rust or yellows, root-gall, anthracnose, and cane-knot. 1926 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 13 647 Asters affected with yellows never show mottling. 1933 Times Lit. Suppl. 16 Mar. 187/2 A disease of the tea-bush known as ‘yellows’ is due to a deficiency of sulphur in the soil. 1957 New Scientist 8 Aug. 31/3 At least 2,800 tons of beet were lost from yellows infection..in the Shotley peninsula. 2014 Sci. Amer. Mar. 56 American elms are also highly vulnerable to another disease known as elm yellows, spread by American leafhoppers carrying phytoplasma bacteria. †II. Senses referring to plants or substances. 4. Chiefly English regional. a. Either of two plants yielding a yellow dye, weld ( Reseda luteola) and dyer's greenweed ( Genista tinctoria). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plants used in dyeing > [noun] > names applied to various dye-plants dyer's weed1578 yellows1601 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxxiii. v. 471 An hearb called likewise Lutea. [Note] Some take it to be weld or yellows. 1638 J. Ford Fancies v. 72 Burnish my forehead with the juyce of yellowes. 1790 W. Marshall Agric. Provincialisms in Rural Econ. Midland Counties II. 445 Yellows,..dyers' weed. 1920 W. E. Brenchley Weeds of Farm Land xiii. 214 Genista tinctoria, L.—Alleluia, base broom,..yellows. b. Any of several yellow-flowered arable weeds of the family Brassicaceae, esp. charlock ( Sinapis arvensis) and wild turnip ( Brassica rapa subsp. campestris). Obsolete. ΚΠ 1738 G. C. Deering Catalogus Stirpium 149 Napus sylvestris... Flowers in June and July, very common on Banksides, and among the Corn too plentifully, the Country People here [sc. near Nottingham] call them the Yellows. 1802 G. Culley Let. 12 June in M. Culley & G. Culley Farming Lett. (2006) 307 I think I never saw so many small or top weeds amongst corn and other grain, and especially yellows, what you call kale and we masicks, and cress and wild mustard. 5. English regional (Cornwall). Mining. Yellow copper ore (typically, chalcopyrite) occurring in tin mines. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > ore > [noun] > metal ore > copper ore > types of red copper1507 misy1543 grey copper1590 yellow ore1630 grey orea1728 pitch ore1776 red copper ore1776 fahlerz1796 tile-ore1823 cuprite1850 lettsomite1850 velvet copper-ore1850 yellows1851 meneghinite1852 peacock copper1858 peacock ore1858 horseflesh ore1868 plush-copper1881 1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. I. 145/2 Till a comparatively recent date, tin was the only metal which was sought for; and, in many cases, the mines were abandoned when the miners came to the ‘yellows’, that is, the yellow sulphuret of copper. 1884 R. Hunt Brit. Mining 827 The family of the Williams's, who were then working Tresaven mine most profitably for tin, caused all the workings to be given up ‘because they had come to the yellows’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1561
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