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Yolk   /joʊk/   Listen
noun
Yolk  n.  (Written also yelk)  
1.
The yellow part of an egg; the vitellus.
2.
(Zool.) An oily secretion which naturally covers the wool of sheep.
Yolk cord (Zool.), a slender cord or duct which connects the yolk glands with the egg chambers in certain insects, as in the aphids.
Yolk gland (Zool.), a special organ which secretes the yolk of the eggs in many turbellarians, and in some other invertebrates.
Yolk sack (Anat.), the umbilical vesicle. See under Unbilical.






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"Yolk" Quotes from Famous Books



... distilled can throw him with them eyes and that there Adamses' apple. You gen'elmen 'd a sight better pick out some big feller which his eyes is bunched up close together like the yallers in a double yolk aig and which his Adamses' ...
— Sundry Accounts • Irvin S. Cobb

... of a raw egg, a table-spoonful of mixed mustard, one-fourth of a teaspoonful of salt, six table-spoonfuls of oil. Stir the yolk, mustard and salt together with a fork until they begin to thicken. Add the oil, gradually, stirring all the while. More or less oil ...
— Miss Parloa's New Cook Book • Maria Parloa

... she came down to a breakfast of which the tea was smoked and her solitary egg was scarcely warm; when she opened this latter, the yolk successfully eluded the efforts of her spoon to get it out. It may be said at once that this meal was a piece with the entire conduct of Mrs Bilkins's house, she being a unit in the vast army of incapable, stupid women who, sooner or later, drift into the letting of lodgings as a means of ...
— Sparrows - The Story of an Unprotected Girl • Horace W. C. Newte

... impulse to fling a spoonful of egg yolk at her father's younger sister. Aunt Halet often inspired such impulses, but Telzey had promised her mother to avoid actual battles on the Jontarou trip, if possible. After breakfast, she went out into the back garden with Tick-Tock, who immediately walked into a thicket, ...
— Novice • James H. Schmitz

... bottle, but a good sweet kind which can be bought at French Epicerie or German Delicatessen depots for about two dollars and fifty cents a gallon. Make the batter by mixing together four heaping tablespoonfuls of flour, (cost one cent,) a level teaspoonful of salt, the yolk of one egg, (cost one or two cents,) two tablespoonfuls of oil, (cost one cent,) and one gill of water, or a quantity sufficient to make a thick batter; just as you are ready to use it, beat the white of the egg, and stir it into the batter; the cost will be three or four cents, and the ...
— Twenty-Five Cent Dinners for Families of Six • Juliet Corson


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