yellow
adj 1: similar to the color of an egg yolk [syn: {yellowish}]
2: (informal) easily frightened [syn: {chicken}, {chickenhearted},
{lily-livered}, {white-livered}, {yellow-bellied}]
3: changed to a yellowish color by age; "yellowed parchment"
[syn: {yellowed}]
4: typical of tabloids; "sensational journalistic reportage of
the scandal"; "yellow journalism" [syn: {scandalmongering},
{sensationalistic}, {yellow(a)}]
5: (archaic) showing or experiencing a state of disordered
feeling or distorted judgment as through bitterness or
melancholy; "all looks yellow to the jaundiced
eye"-Alexander Pope [syn: {jaundiced}]
6: cowardly or treacherous; "the little yellow stain of
treason"-M.W.Straight; "too yellow to stand and fight"
7: affected by jaundice which causes yellowing of skin etc
[syn: {jaundiced}]
n : the quality or state of the chromatic color resembling the
hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons [syn: {yellowness}]
v : turn yellow; "The pages of the book began to yellow"