Word Meanings - AZURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Sky-blue; resembling the clear blue color of the unclouded sky; cerulean; also, cloudless. Azure stone , the lapis lazuli; also, the lazulite. (more info) lajaward, or lajuward, lapis lazuli, a blue color, lajawardi, lajuwardi, azure, cerulean,
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Sky-blue; resembling the clear blue color of the unclouded sky; cerulean; also, cloudless. Azure stone , the lapis lazuli; also, the lazulite. (more info) lajaward, or lajuward, lapis lazuli, a blue color, lajawardi, lajuwardi, azure, cerulean, the initial l having been dropped, perhaps by the influence of the Ar. azr-aq azure, blue. Cf. G. lasur,
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- COLORMAN
A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds. - AZURE
A blue color, represented in engraving by horizontal parallel lines. (more info) 1. The lapis lazuli. 2. The clear blue color of the sky; also, a pigment or dye of this color. "In robes of azure." Wordsworth. 3. The blue vault above; the unclouded - STONEBRASH
A subsoil made up of small stones or finely-broken rock; brash. - CLEARLY
In a clear manner. - CLEARER
A tool of which the hemp for lines and twines, used by sailmakers, is finished. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, clears. Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding. Addison. - STONEROOT
A North American plant having a very hard root; horse balm. See Horse balm, under Horse. - COLORATE
Colored. Ray. - COLORIMETRY
The quantitative determination of the depth of color of a substance. 2. A method of quantitative chemical analysis based upon the comparison of the depth of color of a solution with that of a standard liquid. - CLEAR-HEADED
Having a clear understanding; quick of perception; intelligent. "He was laborious and clear-headed." Macaulay. -- Clear"-head`ed*ness, n. - STONE-STILL
As still as a stone. Shak. - COLOR
1. To change or alter the bue or tint of, by dyeing, staining, painting, etc.; to dye; to tinge; to aint; to stain. The rays, to speak properly, are not colored; in them there is nothing else than a certain power and disposition to stir - UNCLOUD
To free from clouds; to unvail; to clear from obscurity, gloom, sorrow, or the like. Beau. & Fl. - STONE-BLIND
As blind as a stone; completely blind. - CLEAR-SIGHTEDNESS
Acute discernment. - COLORADO BEETLE
A yellowish beetle , with ten longitudinal, black, dorsal stripes. It has migrated eastwards from its original habitat in Colorado, and is very destructive to the potato plant; -- called also potato beetle and potato bug. See Potato beetle. - COLORADOITE
Mercury telluride, an iron-black metallic mineral, found in Colorado. - CLEAR-SEEING
Having a clear physical or mental vision; having a clear understanding. - CLEARCOLE
A priming of size mixed with whiting or white lead, used in house painting, etc.; also, a size upon which gold leaf is applied in gilding. - RESEMBLINGLY
So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness. - COLORIFIC
Capable of communicating color or tint to other bodies. - PITCHSTONE
An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch. - CAPSTONE
A fossil echinus of the genus Cannulus; -- so called from its supposed resemblance to a cap. - CLINKSTONE
An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite. - GRINDSTONE
A flat, circular stone, revolving on an axle, for grinding or sharpening tools, or shaping or smoothing objects. To hold, pat, or bring one's nose to the grindstone, to oppress one; to keep one in a condition of servitude. They might be ashamed, - CONCOLOR
Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne. - RUBSTONE
A stone for scouring or rubbing; a whetstone; a rub. - MOORSTONE
A species of English granite, used as a building stone. - GRINDLE STONE
A grindstone. - EYESTONE
Eye agate. See under Eye. (more info) 1. A small, lenticular, calcareous body, esp. an operculum of a small shell of the family Tubinid, used to remove a foreign sub stance from the eye. It is rut into the inner corner of the eye under the lid, - TURNSTONE
Any species of limicoline birds of the genera Strepsilas and Arenaria, allied to the plovers, especially the common American and European species . They are so called from their habit of turning up small stones in search of mollusks and - GALLSTONE
A concretion, or calculus, formed in the gall bladder or biliary passages. See Calculus, n., 1. - EAGLESTONE
A concretionary nodule of clay ironstone, of the size of a walnut or larger, so called by the ancients, who believed that the eagle transported these stones to her nest to facilitate the laying of her eggs; aƫtites. - CROSS-STONE
See STAUROTIDE - POLYNUCLEAR
Containing many nuclei. - KNOCKSTONE
A block upon which ore is broken up.