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Mineral t/ low; a waxy or spermaceti-like substance, commonly of a greenish yellow color.

• Colorless
  Without color; not distinguished by any hue; transparent; as, colorless water.
• Mineralogize
  To study mineralogy by collecting and examining minerals.
• Yellow-golds
  A certain plant, probably the yellow oxeye.
• COLORADOGROUP
  A subdivision of the cretaceous formation of western North America, especially developed in Colorado and the upper Missouri region.
• Mineralogies
  of Mineralogy
• Yellowhammer
  A common European finch (Emberiza citrinella). The color of the male is bright yellow on the breast, neck, and sides of the head, with the back yellow and brown, and the top of the head and the tail quills blackish. Called also yellow bunting, scr
• COLORBLIND
  Affected with color blindness. See Color blindness, under Color, n.
• Mineralogy
  The science which treats of minerals, and teaches how to describe, distinguish, and classify them.
• Yellowish
  Somewhat yellow; as, amber is of a yellowish color.
• COLORIMETRY
  The quantitative determination of the depth of color of a substance. 2. A method of quantitative chemical analysis based upon the comparison of the depth of color of a solution with that of a standard liquid.
• Color sergeant
  See under Sergeant.
• Spermaceti
  A white waxy substance obtained from cavities in the head of the sperm whale, and used making candles, oilments, cosmetics, etc. It consists essentially of ethereal salts of palmitic acid with ethal and other hydrocarbon bases. The substance of sp
• Yellowlegs
  Any one of several species of long-legged sandpipers of the genus Totanus, in which the legs are bright yellow; -- called also stone snipe, tattler, telltale, yellowshanks; and yellowshins. See Tattler, 2.
• COLORSERGEANT
  See under Sergeant.

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