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,

Additional info about word: AZURE

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.
• MOORSTONE
  A species of English granite, used as a building stone.
• RUBSTONE
  A stone for scouring or rubbing; a whetstone; a rub.
• 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; aëtites.
• CROSS-STONE
  See STAUROTIDE
• POLYNUCLEAR
  Containing many nuclei.
• KNOCKSTONE
  A block upon which ore is broken up.