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Yellow jack   /jˈɛloʊ dʒæk/   Listen
Yellow jack

noun
1.
Caused by a flavivirus transmitted by a mosquito.  Synonyms: black vomit, yellow fever.
2.
Yellow flag hoist on a ship in quarantine.
3.
Fish of western Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico.  Synonym: Caranx bartholomaei.





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"Yellow jack" Quotes from Famous Books



... was given to me by a shipmate—old Charlie Sams—to bring home for his wife. He picked 'em up on the beach above James Town. Took yellow Jack, he did, and died in my arms— and he only had the shells to send to his young wife and a bit of a baby he was always botherin' and talkin' about. I did two cross voyages, and one of them round the Horn, before I got home, and I couldn't find the woman, she having moved. So when I left the sea, ...
— The Grey Lady • Henry Seton Merriman
... yellow fever (yellow jack) Infectious tropical disease caused by an arbovirus transmitted by mosquitoes of the genera Aedes, especially A. aegypti, and Haemagogus; it causes high ...
— Mother's Remedies - Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers - of the United States and Canada • T. J. Ritter
... to us-Armine and Babie need their home. And suppose poor Bobus came back. No, I am accountable to them all. They didn't send me out in charge of my Mother Carey that I should run her into the jaws of Yellow Jack. I can't do it, mother. I should mind my own business far less if I were thinking about you. It would be just like your coming after me into a ...
— Magnum Bonum • Charlotte M. Yonge
... to Northerners, but I was born in the Crescent City, and have no fear of Yellow Jack; fact is, I have had the confounded disease myself. By the way, have ...
— The Telegraph Messenger Boy - The Straight Road to Success • Edward S. Ellis
... now what those rabbits he and Gwen had ferreted with glee felt, old Yellow Jack worming down the ...
— The Gentleman - A Romance of the Sea • Alfred Ollivant


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