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   yellow bedstraw
         n 1: common yellow-flowered perennial bedstraw; North America
               and Europe and Asia [syn: {yellow bedstraw}, {yellow
               cleavers}, {Our Lady's bedstraw}, {Galium verum}]

English Dictionary: yellow vetchling by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
yellow pitcher plant
n
  1. pitcher plant of southeastern United States having erect yellow trumpet-shaped pitchers with wide mouths and erect lids
    Synonym(s): huntsman's horn, huntsman's horns, yellow trumpet, yellow pitcher plant, trumpets, Sarracenia flava
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
yellow vetchling
n
  1. scrambling perennial Eurasian wild pea having yellowish flowers and compressed seed pods; cultivated for forage
    Synonym(s): common vetchling, meadow pea, yellow vetchling, Lathyrus pratensis
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Cheese \Cheese\, n. [OE. chese, AS. c[c7]se, fr. L. caseus, LL.
      casius. Cf. {Casein}.]
      1. The curd of milk, coagulated usually with rennet,
            separated from the whey, and pressed into a solid mass in
            a hoop or mold.
  
      2. A mass of pomace, or ground apples, pressed together in
            the form of a cheese.
  
      3. The flat, circular, mucilaginous fruit of the dwarf mallow
            ({Malva rotundifolia}). [Colloq.]
  
      4. A low courtesy; -- so called on account of the cheese form
            assumed by a woman's dress when she stoops after extending
            the skirts by a rapid gyration. --De Quincey. --Thackeray.
  
      {Cheese cake}, a cake made of or filled with, a composition
            of soft curds, sugar, and butter. --Prior.
  
      {Cheese fly} (Zo[94]l.), a black dipterous insect ({Piophila
            casei}) of which the larv[91] or maggots, called skippers
            or hoppers, live in cheese.
  
      {Cheese mite} (Zo[94]l.), a minute mite ({Tryoglyhus siro})
            in cheese and other articles of food.
  
      {Cheese press}, a press used in making cheese, to separate
            the whey from the curd, and to press the curd into a mold.
           
  
      {Cheese rennet} (Bot.), a plant of the Madder family ({Golium
            verum}, or {yellow bedstraw}), sometimes used to coagulate
            milk. The roots are used as a substitute for madder.
  
      {Cheese vat}, a vat or tub in which the curd is formed and
            cut or broken, in cheese making.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Yelp \Yelp\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Yelped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Yelping}.] [OE. yelpen, [yogh]elpen, to boast, boast
      noisily, AS. gielpan, gilpan, gylpan; akin to OHG. gelph
      arrogant: cf. Icel. gj[be]lpa to yelp. Cf. {Yap}.]
      1. To boast. [Obs.]
  
                     I keep [care] not of armes for to yelpe. --Chaucer.
  
      2. To utter a sharp, quick cry, as a hound; to bark shrilly
            with eagerness, pain, or fear; to yaup.
  
                     A little herd of England's timorous deer, Mazed with
                     a yelping kennel of French curs?         --Shak.
  
                     At the least flourish of a broomstick or ladle, he
                     would fly to the door with a yelping precipitation.
                                                                              --W. Irving.
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