Word Meanings - YELLOWCOVERED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Covered or bound in yellow paper. Yellow-covered literature, cheap sensational novels and trashy magazines; -- formerly so called from the usual color of their covers. [Colloq. U. S.] Bartlett.

• Yellowtail
  Any one of several species of marine carangoid fishes of the genus Seriola; especially, the large California species (S. dorsalis) which sometimes weighs thirty or forty pounds, and is highly esteemed as a food fish; -- called also cavasina, and w
• COVERSEDSINE
  The versed sine of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions.
• Callisthenic
  Alt. of Callisthenics
• Cheapening
  of Cheapen
• Colorable
  Specious; plausible; having an appearance of right or justice.
• Covering
  of Cover
• Literature
  Learning; acquaintance with letters or books.
• Yellowbill
  The American scoter.
• Yellowthroat
  Any one of several species of American ground warblers of the genus Geothlypis, esp. the Maryland yellowthroat (G. trichas), which is a very common species.
• COVERSHAME
  Something used to conceal infamy. [Obs.] Dryden.
• Callisthenics
  See Calisthenic, Calisthenics.
• Cheapen
  To ask the price of; to bid, bargain, or chaffer for.
• Colorado beetle
  A yellowish beetle (Doryphora decemlineata), with ten longitudinal, black, dorsal stripes. It has migrated eastwards from its original habitat in Colorado, and is very destructive to the potato plant; -- called also potato beetle and potato bug. S
• Yellowbird
  The American goldfinch, or thistle bird. See Goldfinch.
• Bartlett
  A Bartlett pear, a favorite kind of pear, which originated in England about 1770, and was called Williams' Bonchretien. It was brought to America, and distributed by Mr. Enoch Bartlett, of Dorchester, Massachusetts.
• Yellowtop
  A kind of grass, perhaps a species of Agrostis.

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