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yellow cat

Bashaw \Ba*shaw"\, n. [See Pasha.]

  1. A Turkish title of honor, now written pasha. See Pasha.

  2. Fig.: A magnate or grandee.

  3. (Zo["o]l.) A very large siluroid fish ( Leptops olivaris) of the Mississippi valley; -- also called goujon, mud cat, and yellow cat.

Usage examples of "yellow cat".

There he licked the hot blood off his fingers and watched as that ugly yellow cat calmly devoured a small water snake over by the irrigation ditch.

When I came into his presence, he was seated, and in his lap was a fat yellow cat.

Caleb had slid in between the seats, and his eyes were yellow cat eyes.

Scratch, the inn's yellow cat, crouched atop it with his eyes closed and his tail wrapped around his feet.