Word Meanings - LURID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having a brown color tonged with red, as of flame seen through smoke. (more info) 1. Pale yellow; ghastly pale; wan; gloomy; dismal. Fierce o'er their beauty blazed the lurid flame. Thomson. Wrapped in drifts of lurid smoke On the misty river tide.

Additional info about word: LURID

Having a brown color tonged with red, as of flame seen through smoke. (more info) 1. Pale yellow; ghastly pale; wan; gloomy; dismal. Fierce o'er their beauty blazed the lurid flame. Thomson. Wrapped in drifts of lurid smoke On the misty river tide. Tennyson.

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• COLORMAN
  A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds.
• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• YELLOW-GOLDS
  A certain plant, probably the yellow oxeye. B. Jonson.
• YELLOWTOP
  A kind of grass, perhaps a species of Agrostis.
• YELLOWFISH
  A rock trout found on the coast of Alaska; -- called also striped fish, and Atka mackerel.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• THROUGHOUT
  In every part; as, the cloth was of a piece throughout.
• BROWNBACK
  The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See Dowitcher.
• BLAZING
  Burning with a blaze; as, a blazing fire; blazing torches. Sir W. Scott. Blazing star. A comet. A brilliant center of attraction. A name given to several plants; as, to Chamælirium luteum of the Lily family; Liatris squarrosa; and Aletris
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• GHASTLY
  gastlich, gastli, fearful, causing fear, fr. gasten to terrify, AS. 1. Like a ghost in appearance; deathlike; pale; pallid; dismal. Each turned his face with a ghastly pang. Coleridge. His face was so ghastly that it could scarcely be recognized.
• GLOOMY
  1. Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded; as, the cavern was gloomy. "Though hid in gloomiest shade." Milton. 2. Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected; as, a gloomy temper
• TONGUELET
  A little tongue.
• WRAPPAGE
  1. The act of wrapping. 2. That which wraps; envelope; covering.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• TONGUE-SHELL
  Any species of Lingula.
• 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.
• LURID
  Having a brown color tonged with red, as of flame seen through smoke. (more info) 1. Pale yellow; ghastly pale; wan; gloomy; dismal. Fierce o'er their beauty blazed the lurid flame. Thomson. Wrapped in drifts of lurid smoke On the misty river tide.
• WRAPPER
  1. One who, or that which, wraps. 2. That in which anything is wrapped, or inclosed; envelope; covering. 3. Specifically, a loose outer garment; an article of dress intended to be wrapped round the person; as, a morning wrapper; a gentleman's
• SERPENT-TONGUED
  Having a forked tongue, like a serpent.
• CONCOLOR
  Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne.
• INFLAMER
  The person or thing that inflames. Addison.
• LOTONG
  An East Indian monkey .
• HONEY-TONGUED
  Sweet speaking; persuasive; seductive. Shak.
• SHRILL-TONGUED
  Having a shrill voice. "When shrill-tongued Fulvia scolds." Shak.
• ISABELLA; ISABELLA COLOR
  A brownish yellow color. (more info) Spanish princess Isabella, daughter of king Philip II., in allusion to the color assumed by her shift, which she wore without change from