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Yellow Jack (The)

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The yellow fever.

“Raymond and all his family died of yellow fever, and Fernando … had passed a few weeks recovering from a touch of yellow Jack.”—A. C. Gunter: Baron Montez, book iv. chap. x.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Yea, Yes
Year
Yellow
Yellow-bellies
Yellow Book of France
Yellow-boy (A)
Yellow-boy (A)
Yellow Caps
Yellow Dwarf
Yellow Jack
Yellow Jack (The)
Yellowhammer (The)
Yemen
Yeoman (A)
Yeoman’s Service
Yeomen of the Guard
Yeth-Hounds
Yezd
Yggdrasil
Ymir
Yniol