yellows

• POS: Noun Plural
• HYPHEN: yel=lows

CIDE DICTIONARY

yellows, n. 

•  A disease of the bile in horses, cattle, and sheep, causing yellowness of the eyes; jaundice.  [1913 Webster]

  "His horse . . . sped with spavins, rayed with the yellows."  [1913 Webster]
•  A disease of plants, esp. of peach trees, in which the leaves turn to a yellowish color; jeterus.  [1913 Webster]
•  A group of butterflies in which the predominating color is yellow. It includes the common small yellow butterflies. Called also redhorns, and sulphurs. See Sulphur.  [1913 Webster]

ROGET THESAURUS

yellows

Jealousy

N jealousy, jealousness, jaundiced eye, envious suspicion, suspicion, green-eyed monster, yellows, Juno, jealous, jealous as a barbary pigeon, jaundiced, yellow-eyed, envious, hornmad.