kokumi

Borrowed from Japanese 濃く味, from 濃い (koi).

Coordinate term: umami

As processors add to their products' flavor spectrum, one of the taste sensations many are targeting is kokumi. Bruns describes kokumi as a flavor enhancement that goes beyond umami, which is generally achieved with glutamic acid.

2007, Meat & Poultry, volume 53, numbers 1–6, page 46:

The uthors then had to quantify the compounds suspected of giving the kokumi taste and evaluate their potential contribution by recombination and omission sensory studies.

2013, G. Reineccius, D. Peterson, “3: Principles of food flavor analysis”, in David Kilcast, editor, Instrumental Assessment of Food Sensory Quality: A Practical Guide, page 84:

A sixth taste, kokumi, has recently been proposed. This is not in itself a specific taste, but a taste enhancer, which increases the intensity of salt, sweet, and umami tastes. Kokumi is produced in food by calcium ions and particularly by the tripeptide glutathione (γ-L-glutamyl-L-cysteinyl-glycine), and acts by inducing a response in calcium-sensing receptor cells [134].

2014, Andreas Karau, Ian Grayson, “Amino Acids in Human and Animal Nutrition”, in Holger Zorn, Peter Czermak, editors, Biotechnology of Food and Feed Additives, page 224:

The secret behind the more delectable of the two dishes is the kokumi ingredients Youssef has spiked it with. Kokumi is a flavour concept originating in Japan that some foodies think could rank alongside the four familiar fundamental tastes, salt, sweet, bitter and sour. With many food flavours actually due to smell rather than taste, the fact that I experience kokumi’s potency with my nose disabled certainly suggests something special is going on.

2015 August 8, Andy Extance, “Refined Taste”, in New Scientist, number 3033, archived from the original on 2015-09-05, page 38:

“When you reheat a stew, or a slice of lasagne in your microwave after the flavours have had time to develop, you enjoy what’s known as the sixth taste sensation kokumi—which is lesser known than the other five tastes—sweet, salty, sour, bitter and umami.”

2023 July 6, Zoe Wood, quoting Martyn Lee, “Deliveroo dinner parties and overcooking eggs: Britons’ kitchen skills and blunders”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

A taste, recognised by some Japanese researchers, associated with certain γ-L-glutamyl peptides which activate a calcium-sensing receptor also sensitive to glutathione.


transpupillary

Trabeculectomy was combined with PPV, cataract surgery, or both when completion of transpupillary PRP was not expected to be possible after surgery.

2015 August 15, “Long-Term Outcomes and Prognostic Factors of Trabeculectomy following Intraocular Bevacizumab Injection for Neovascular Glaucoma”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:


bronde

en-noun

bronde (countable and uncountable, plural brondes)

Blend of brunette + blonde or brown + blonde, popularised from circa 2010.

I'm a bronde.

(countable) A person having this hair colour.


starry eyes

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(chiefly anime and manga) Eyes with exaggerated starry highlights, with an expression of wonder or delight.


ERG

(ophthalmology) Initialism of electroretinogram.


black as the ace of spades

en-adj

black as the ace of spades (not comparable)


albous

Whites:- albous or albus is a pure white […]

1841, Edward Newman, John Van Voorst, A Familiar Introduction to the History of Insects; Being a New and Greatly Improved Edition of The Grammar of Entomology:

Frons: piceous, scarcely convex; rugose-punctate; sparse, lanceolate, small, griseo-albous squamae.

1940, Stanford University, Natural History Museum, Microentomology: Contributions to Entomology from the Natural History Museum of Stanford University, Volumes 5-8:

These included dark coloured flower, light coloured flower, albous flower, pink flower, red flower, small flower, biflorate and triflorate mutants.

1998, Society of Cytologists and Geneticists, India, The Journal of Cytology and Genetics, Volume 33:


nigrous

Of pillared mists, in nigrous smoking gloom, […]

1816, George Thomas, Freedom; with other poems:

Sternum: nigrous, clad less densely with longer, usually fusiform, similarly colored squamae; […]

At this hour, just before dawn, another nigrous presence came hovering over him to darken his face.

2008, Glen Craney, The Fire and the Light: A Novel of the Cathars and the Lost Teachings of Christ:


coccineous

From Latin coccineus, suffixed with -ous.

coccineous:

This is allied to Lanieri, but is at once distinguished by the thorax, posterior coxae, femora and tibiae being entirely coccineous, and the four anterior legs black.

1872, Transactions of the American Entomological Society:

The species is well distinguished in its soft delicate texture, much convoluted plicate thallus, bright coccineous medulla up to the apices of the laciniae, […]

1975, Dharani Dhar Awasthi, A monograph of the lichen genus Dirinaria:

Because I have over 300 photos and no longer a limit of 24-27 shots on this new camera, I was able to snap a couple of pictures of this coccineous bird.

2007, Sand-dee Rose Waybill, The Fortieth Year of a Wollongong Woman:


cinerous

From Latin cinereus, suffixed with -ous.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:cinerous.

Alternative form of cinereous (“ash-colored”)


badious

From Latin badius (“reddish brown, chestnut colored”), with the suffix adapted to -ous.

uder

Head castaneous; thorax latericious; abdomen badious; legs ochraceous.

1898, Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, Volume 26, Linnean Society of London:

Abdomen subovate and short; basal segment apically badious with postpetiole punctate, […]

1919, Zoological Society of London, Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London:

Its branching type and vaguely badious colour suggest a close relationship with B. spiralifera, which shares the same habitat.

1977, Societas, Opera Botanica, Issues 41-45:

badious:

badious:


merangiotic

Due to the merangiotic nature of rabbit retina, most of the blood supply of the inner retina is derived from the choriocapillaris [47 ], which would likely lead to rapid retinal damage, if blocked by a non-permeable implant.

2015 November 26, “Ultrathin Polyimide Membrane as Cell Carrier for Subretinal Transplantation of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Derived Retinal Pigment Epithelium”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

(ophthalmology) Having blood vessels localized to a specific region of the retina.


unflavorsome

en-adj

unflavorsome (comparative more unflavorsome, superlative most unflavorsome)

more unflavorsome (comparative)
most unflavorsome (superlative)


Kanizsa triangle

en-noun

Kanizsa triangle (plural Kanizsa triangles)

It is called a Kanizsa triangle, after the Italian psychologist Gaetano Kanizsa, who created it in 1955.

2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 67:

An optical illusion in which a number of spatially separated fragments give the illusory impression of the contours of a triangle.


aureolin

In preparing a palette for it the colors used were aureolin, cobalt, crimson-lake, yellow ochre, brown ochre, raw sienna, burnt sienna, light-red […]

aureolin:

A yellow pigment used in painting, composed of potassium cobaltinitrite.


anacusic

Only vibrotactile responses could be obtained in 59 ears in the presence of effusion, while only 8 ears in an effusion-free condition were classified as anacusic.

1997, Ted L. Tewfik, Vazken M. Der Kaloustian, Congenital Anomalies of the Ear, Nose, and Throat, page 99:

In the anacusic ear, eustachian tube obliteration, using muscle, bone, or foreign materials, may be indicated.

2003, Michael E. Glasscock, Aina J. Gulya, Glasscock-Shambaugh Surgery of the Ear, →ISBN, page 449:

Hearing loss may be conductive, sensorineural, or mixed, and the degree of loss may be mild, moderate, severe, profound, or total (anacusic).

2006, Meyer Michael Cohen, Perspectives on the Face, →ISBN, page 89:


niff

Whew, there's a bit of a niff in here. Is that your socks?

Police helicopters blared loudspeaker warnings about the smelly man. Soon afterwards, a nosy motel receptionist noticed a nasty niff from a new guest.

2014, Nick Arnold, Horrible Science: Body Owner's Handbook, page 159:

(UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, informal) A bad smell.


moschiferous

en-adj

moschiferous (comparative more moschiferous, superlative most moschiferous)

more moschiferous (comparative)
most moschiferous (superlative)


keratic

He also told me that he could see, on the cornea of my right eye, two keratic precipitates.

2005, Hugh Cook, Cancer Patient, →ISBN, page 50:

The patient then developed an allograft reaction; keratic deposits were present on the posterior surface of the graft, and the aqueous humour in the pocket between the membrane and the graft showed a positive ray with cells.

2009, CIBA Foundation Symposium, Corneal Graft Failure, →ISBN, page 11:

Oedema may be so extensive that the keratic precipitates are not appreciated.

2012, A.K. Gupta, Clinical Ophthalmology, →ISBN:

(ophthalmology) Arising from the cornea.


keratotorus

In contrast to keratoconus, which can be regarded as an irregular deformity, there is keratotorus in which there is regular increase in curvature over a limited area of the cornea.

1972, Arnold Sorsby, Modern ophthalmology: Topical aspects, →ISBN, page 246:

The effect of such a peripheral ectasia may be the development of irregular astigmatism, although in this case it would result from keratotorus which is an inverse form of keratoconus.

1980, Ronald A. Schachar, Norman S. Levy, Les Schachar, Radial Keratotomy, page 159:

There is some consensus that keratoconus, keratotorus, keratoglobus, and pellucid zone degeneration are related because these different conditions have been found to coexist in families.

2000, Daniel M. Albert, Frederick A. Jakobiec, Principles and Practice of Ophthalmology, →ISBN, page 735:

(ophthalmology) A corneal herniation accompanied by severe regular myopic astigmatism.


oleogustus

Coined in 2015 by researchers at Purdue University, Indiana, USA, from oleo- (“oil”) and Latin gustus (“taste”).

2015, C. A. Running, B. A. Craig, R. D. Mattes, Oleogustus: The unique taste of fat, Oxford University Press:

(biochemistry, neologism) A proposed basic taste sensation triggered by fatty acids.


army green

en-noun

army green (countable and uncountable, plural army greens)

Any of several hues of dull green used by various militaries for their uniforms.


wok hei

Borrowed from Cantonese 鑊氣 /镬气 (wok6 hei3).

Seafood flavors combine with the pork stock and it's simmered until the liquid evaporates and the contents are brought just to the brink of burning, resulting in creamy-textured noodles and a magic boost of wok hei flavor.

2016, Glenn van Zutphen, Living in Singapore: Fourteenth Edition Reference Guide:

The slightly seared flavour imparted to food that has been traditionally cooked in a seasoned wok.


infravisible

(fantasy) Visible by means of infravision.


gunmetal gray

gunmetal gray (countable and uncountable, plural gunmetal grays)

She's wearing a gunmetal gray dress that’s tasteful in front, and practically obscene from the back.

2012, John Locke, Wish List (Donovan Creed), John Locke Books, →ISBN, page 18:

(US) Alternative spelling of gunmetal grey.


boss-eyed

en-adj

boss-eyed (comparative more boss-eyed, superlative most boss-eyed)

more boss-eyed (comparative)
most boss-eyed (superlative)

"[…] That aint dishonest—so you needn't look boss-eyed at me […]"

1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XI, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 187:

We should change our hours of sitting because the nation can not properly be represented by Members who become boss-eyed workaholics because they start at 9:30 in the morning and work through until after midnight.

1990, Harriet Harman, in Hansard, 7 December, 1990, [www.hansard-corpus.org]

Dialectologists have produced dialect maps showing different usages in different areas. For example, in England, a map could show different terms for "cross-eyed:" cock-eyed in Northumberland, Westmoreland and parts of the Midlands, boss-eyed in South-East England and East Anglia, squint-eyed in Devon and parts of Somerset, and cross-eyed in Cheshire, Derbyshire and the Isle of Man […]

2005, Margaret Maclagan, “Regional and Social Variation”, in Martin J. Ball, editor, Clinical Sociolinguistics, John Wiley & Sons, page 17:

The reality, according to Susan, was that he was slurring his speech, occasionally spitting out the words in her ear, in an effort to be heard above the night club music, and starting to go slightly boss-eyed with the drink.

2014, D. J. Roberts, chapter 1, in This is the Modern World, Bloomington, IN: Author House, page 4:

Suddenly it was OK to be weird or gay or geeky, a fey boy or a tough girl, a weed or a nerd, wonky-toothed or boss-eyed. Bowie was all these things and he was the coolest rock star ever.

2016 January 11, Stuart Maconie, “How Starman David Bowie fell to earth and ch-cha-changed an entire generation”, in Irish Mirror:

"'Thou shouldst a' married, Jock,' said I.
"He gurgled in his cup and set it down; his good eye turned upon us, twinkling.
"'And where's the maid would look on boss-eyed Jock?' he said.

1906, Dion Clayton Calthrop, King Peter, London: Duckworth, page 220:

"There's some roads a man has to be led, an' there's some roads a boss-eyed man can only follow wi' one eye shut. But this road can't be lost by a blind man nor a boss-eyed man nor a cripple and he's neither, thank God."

1915, D. H. Lawrence, chapter V, in The Rainbow, page 130:

Blind in one eye; having one injured eye.


shifty-eyed

shifty-eyed (comparative more shifty-eyed, superlative most shifty-eyed)

more shifty-eyed (comparative)
most shifty-eyed (superlative)

(informal, idiomatic) Giving the impression of being dishonest, especially signified by avoiding eye contact.


suborbit

Electrode pairs (bipolar) were placed at the supra- and suborbit of the right eye and at the external canthi of the eyes.

2016 January 21, “Implicit Processing of the Eyes and Mouth: Evidence from Human Electrophysiology”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:


scanpath

We conclude that inhibitory tagging is a viable mechanism for dynamical planning of scanpaths.

2016, Lars O. M. Rothkegel, Heiko H. Schütt, Hans A. Trukenbrod, Felix A. Wichmann, Ralf Engbert, “Influence of initial fixation position in scene viewing”, in arXiv:

The path followed by the viewer's eyes when reading a document or observing a scene.


Troxler effect

First identified by Swiss physician Ignaz Paul Vital Troxler in 1804.

An optical illusion whereby, when a person fixes the gaze on a particular point, an unchanging stimulus away from the fixation point appears to fade away and disappear.


phi phenomenon

The optical illusion whereby viewing a series of still images in rapid succession gives the impression of continuous motion.


transcaruncularly

(ophthalmology) In a transcaruncular manner.


the eyes are the window to the soul

One can tell much about a person's character or personality from their eyes.


microsmatic

microsmatic (comparative more microsmatic, superlative most microsmatic)

more microsmatic (comparative)
most microsmatic (superlative)

Having a poorly developed sense of smell.


Mr. Magoo glasses

From J. Quincy Magoo, the extremely myopic main character of Mister Magoo and other American TV shows and advertisements in the 1960s.

(informal) Extremely thick eyewear or the thick frames necessary to support them, particularly eyewear with thick black circular frames.


Perkin's mauve

Discovered in 1856 by William Henry Perkin, a chemistry student, during an attempted synthesis of quinine.


poke someone's eye out

en-verb

poke someone's eye out (third-person singular simple present pokes someone's eye out, present participle poking someone's eye out, simple past and past participle poked someone's eye out)

pokes someone's eye out (present singular third-person)
poking someone's eye out (participle present)
poked someone's eye out (participle past)
poked someone's eye out (past)

Hey, watch where you're throwing that thing! You could've poked Jeff's eye out.

(idiomatic) To damage or harm someone's eye to the point that it can no longer see.


EOG

A ground electrode located between Fpz and Fz. The electro-oculogram (EOG) was recorded bipolarly from two electrodes placed at the outer canthi of the right eye and below the left eye.

2015 August 26, “Effects of Relaxing Music on Mental Fatigue Induced by a Continuous Performance Task: Behavioral and ERPs Evidence”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

(ophthalmology) Abbreviation of electrooculogram or electrooculography.


side-eye

side-eye (third-person singular simple present side-eyes, present participle side-eyeing or side-eying, simple past and past participle side-eyed)

side-eyes (present singular third-person)
side-eyeing (participle present)
side-eying (participle present)
side-eyed (participle past)
side-eyed (past)

When I'm working my attention isn't caught straight ahead into the blinkered page, it's side eyeing whatever's peripheral, whatever's random.

2003, Faye Kicknosway, “Hat Trick”, in Mixed Plate: New and Selected Poems (Wesleyan Poetry), Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, →ISBN, page xiv:

When we fell out in front for the trek to breakfast, we side-eyed Walter when he walked out the door. Me looking to find some something. In his eyes. In his walk. In the pores of his skin. Some sign. Any sign.

2004, Lee Stringer, chapter 20, in Sleepaway School: Stories from a Boy’s Life, New York, N.Y.: Seven Stories Press, →ISBN, page 119:

But I do have to side-eye the fact that the interviews w/ the Jacksons are being aired in between episodes that deal with men being molested as children…it seems like it was intentional and that ish ain’t cool.

2010 November 2, “Liberian Girl” [pseudonym] (commenter), “Hot Shot: Oprah [Winfrey] Visits Michael Jackson’s Children”, in That Grape Juice.net, archived from the original on 2017-05-25:

The show went well. Not the best on the tour, not even the best in the past month, but it went off without a hitch, despite everyone on the crew side-eyeing Dan, looking for him to start acting strange again.

2014, Z. Rider, chapter 7, in Ashley Davis, editor, Suckers: A Horror Novel, Erwin, Tenn.: Dark Ride Publishing, →ISBN, page 62:

Seven months after his poolside epiphany, the 26-year-old [Taylor Hall] is sitting on a couch at Newark's Prudential Center, slugging from a protein shake and side-eying NHL Network highlights on the television.

2018 April 12, Alex Prewitt, “Taylor Hall Raises the Bar for Himself, Devils in MVP-Caliber Season”, in Sports Illustrated, New York, N.Y.: Meredith Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-04-15:

"She'll be all right", says [Tionne] Watkins, side-eyeing [Rozonda] Thomas with a cat-like grin.

2019 June 1, Nosheen Iqbal, “TLC: ‘I will never forget the day we were millionaires for five minutes’”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-07-10:

A new study of activity and mortality in older women [...] also side-eyes the validity, utility and origin of the common 10,000-steps-a-day exercise goals built into so many of our phones and activity monitors and suggests, instead, that any moving, whether or not it counts as exercise, may help to extend people’s lives.

2019 June 16, Gretchen Reynolds, “You may not need to take 10,000 steps a day to reduce risk of heart disease, finds women’s study”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-07-01:

(transitive) To look at out of the corner of one's eye, particularly with animosity, or in a judgmental or suspicious manner.

sandít

to look at out of the corner of one's eye


gingerous

en-adj

gingerous (comparative more gingerous, superlative most gingerous)

more gingerous (comparative)
most gingerous (superlative)

Mrs. Lammle opens her nostrils and bites her under-lip; Mr. Lammle takes his gingerous whiskers in his left hand, and bringing them together, frowns furtively at his beloved, out of a thick gingerous bush.

1864 May – 1865 November, Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1865, →OCLC:


funduscope

(ophthalmology) An instrument for examining the interior of the eye (that is, for funduscopy).


knife-coloured

knife-coloured (comparative more knife-coloured, superlative most knife-coloured)

more knife-coloured (comparative)
most knife-coloured (superlative)

Broken lumps of cloud whirling across a knife-coloured sky like wreckage on a Thames flood. Moon running over the house fronts like a spotlight. When it fell on the willows, they trembled like girls caught in dark corners […]

1967, Joyce Cary, The Horse's Mouth, page 96:

There are certain harsh, knife-coloured mornings in springtime that are more plangently evocative than any leaf-blown autumn day.

Having the colour of a knife's metal blade; especially, having the glint that reflects off the blade.


Necker cube

The Necker cube was first published as a rhomboid in 1832 by Louis Albert Necker.

An optical illusion consisting of a wireframe drawing of a cube, where a given face may be perceived as being either on the front or the back of the cube.


black as Newgate's knocker

black as Newgate's knocker (not comparable)

(UK, simile) Completely black in colour.


Brobdingnagian vision

Compound of Brobdingnagian + vision; ultimately from Brobdingnag, a fictional land of giants in Gulliver's Travels.

Lilliputian vision (micropsia) denotes an apparent diminution, and Brobdingnagian vision (macropsia) an apparent enlargement, in the size of objects, although the terms may also be used to denote the apparent approach or recession of the visual world

1985, Oliver Sacks, Migraine: Understanding a Common Disorder, Berkeley: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 84:

A hallucination or visual disorder in which objects appear larger or nearer than they are; macropsia.


Lilliputian vision

Compound of Lilliputian + vision; ultimately from Lilliput, a fictional land of tiny people in Gulliver's Travels.

A hallucination or visual disorder in which objects appear smaller or more distant than they are; micropsia.

Gulliver's Travels
Lilliput and Blefuscu


spit fire

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His intention was to steal cattle all the way to Mexico but the vivid memory of that spit fire's lips altered his plans.

2011, Sue Robinett, Shana; Legend of Mah-cou-ah Her-moomch Eh Tivo (woman Walks Like a Man), →ISBN:

Oh yes Ms. Bobbyjean was a spit fire alright.

2012, C. L. Ellis, Hussy, →ISBN, page 201:

Her name is Marisol who lives in Spain, a spit fire of a gal, pretty as a daisy to say the least who loves to entertain her friends and has become with no fault of her own the mother/ house nanny to her family of four men, her father, and her three brothers.

2013, Jimmy Correa, How My Prank Stories In Social Media Web Sites Got Me Committed In The Psychiatric Ward At Bellevue Hospital., →ISBN, page 59:


outhear

en-verb

outhear (third-person singular simple present outhears, present participle outhearing, simple past and past participle outheard)

outhears (present singular third-person)
outhearing (participle present)
outheard (participle past)
outheard (past)

Dogs can outhear human beings.


olivescent

Becoming olive; approaching an olive colour.


corner of the eye

en-noun

corner of the eye (plural corners of the eye)

side of the eye where upper and lower eyelids join.


wolf-grey

His coat was the true wolf-grey, and to all appearances he was a true wolf himself.

1906 May–October, Jack London, chapter 6, in White Fang, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., published October 1906, →OCLC, part 3 (The Gods of the Wild), page 171:

wolf-grey:

A grey colour, as that of the fur of a wolf.


prick up

en-verb

prick up (third-person singular simple present pricks up, present participle pricking up, simple past and past participle pricked up)

pricks up (present singular third-person)
pricking up (participle present)
pricked up (participle past)
pricked up (past)

(intransitive, of ears) To rise and become more alert.

Either the rubble-wall builder, be he bricklayer or mason, must acquire much of the skill of the plasterer, or the plasterer must learn to pack up brick or stone rubble into the form of a wall, and to give more effect to the mortar with which he plasters, than when he pricks up against a lathed partition or ceiling, or renders the face of a brick wall;

If a lime plaster finish is required for covering lath work, it will be necessary to prick up the first coat with 3 parts of sand to 1 of lime, and to every 3 cubic feet of the mixture 1 lb. of well-beaten hair is added.

2015, W Verrall, The Modern Plasterer, →ISBN, page 322:

If the walls are rough or uneven, they should be first pricked up, and then floated.

2016, William Millar, Plastering: Plain and Decorative, →ISBN, page 218:

(plastering) To apply an undercoat of plaster in order to create a smooth surface for the final coat.


phantom eye syndrome

phantom pain and visual hallucinations after the removal of an eye


bee purple

en-noun

bee purple (countable and uncountable, plural bee purples)

Karl von Frisch discovered that honey bees can see six colors—blue, blue-green, yellow, bee purple, ultraviolet, and bee violet.

2010, Martha Scott, Honey Bee, Where Are You?:

A color that is a mixture of ultraviolet light and yellow light (the two extremes of the visual spectrum of the bee, analogous to the way purple for humans is a mixture of red and violet, the two extremes of the human visual spectrum).


sunwear

sunglasses (as a clothing category in retail)


punctal plug

The punctal plug has been found useful in treating keratoconjunctivitis sicca (dry eye) and is believed to be suitable for treating other ophthalmic ailments where retention of lacrimal fluid on the surface of the eye and in the lacrimal lake is desired or where sustained release of an ophthalmic medication to the eye by using the plug as a medication carrier is desired.

1976 April 13, Jerre M. Freeman, Punctum plug and method for treating keratoconjunctivitis sicca (dry eye) and other ophthalmic aliments using same, US Patent 3949750 (PDF version):

(ophthalmology) A small device that is inserted into the tear duct of an eye to block the duct, preventing the drainage of liquid from the eye.


autocuer

From auto- + cuer, introduced in the 1970s.

A device for the deaf, consisting of a pair of eyeglasses with LEDs attached, used to convert speech into visual patterns for the wearer.


psychosensory

Relating to the mental processing of information received via the senses.


visual pollution

the presence of an undesirable sight that can ruin the aesthetic appeal of an area; the visually unattractive elements of a landscape.


Ehrenstein illusion

Ehrenstein illusion (plural Ehrenstein illusions)

Studied by the German psychologist Walter Ehrenstein (1899–1961).

An optical illusion in which the sides of a square placed inside a pattern of concentric circles take an apparent curved shape.


olfact

en-verb

olfact (third-person singular simple present olfacts, present participle olfacting, simple past and past participle olfacted)

olfacts (present singular third-person)
olfacting (participle present)
olfacted (participle past)
olfacted (past)

From Latin olfactus, past participle of olfaciō (“smell”).

There is a Machiavelian plot,
(Tho' ev'ry nare olfact it not)


lime green

en-noun

lime green (countable and uncountable, plural lime greens)

A bright, light-green colour, like that of a lime.


gunmetal grey

gunmetal grey (countable and uncountable, plural gunmetal greys)

gunmetal grey:

A dark grey colour with a tint of blue; gunmetal.


gunmetal-gray

(US) Alternative spelling of gunmetal-grey.


biclops

Then again, maybe a cyclops should be easier to blind than a biclops because you only need get one eye.

1999 October 31, Michael Barnes, “Re: cyclops”, in rec.games.roguelike.angband (Usenet), message-ID <e97cbf5949%litening@litening.dircon.co.uk>:

>> The triclops *claimed* that she was a prisoner that stayed behind when
> So, am I a biclops?
You tell us. You may have 3 eyes for all we know.

2002 February 2, Gareth Kitchener, “Re: [322] What A Way To End It. What A Frelling Way To End It!”, in uk.media.tv.sf.farscape (Usenet), message-ID <v7uo5u4p8a991taah6kqm255kbsqtoudlu@4ax.com>:

Morris (Leela's father, a cyclops): Hey, it's what's-his-name from the surface. The biclops.


autorefractometry

The subjective verification of refraction is a must even after autorefractometry.

2003, Khurana, Ophthalmology, →ISBN, page 69:

Refraction was measured three times using autorefractometry (ARK-900, NIDEK, Gamagori, Aichi, Japan) and an average value was calculated.

2005, Steve M. Reece, Focus on Glaucoma Research, →ISBN, page 51:

Nevertheless, in expert hands, it is a very useful method and very close to reality; it does not allow the level of precision necessary for refractive surgery whereby, like autorefractometry, it may be used as an indication to be verified using other instruments.

2007, Paolo Vinciguerra, Fabrizio I. Camesasca, Refractive Surface Ablation, →ISBN, page 49:

(ophthalmology) The use of an autorefractometer


autorefractometer

The computerised, autorefractometer quickly gives information about the refractive error of the patient in terms of sphere, cylinder with axis and interpupillary distance.

2003 -, Khurana, Ophthalmology, →ISBN, page 69:

The autorefractometer is now routinely used as the first approach.

2007, Paolo Vinciguerra, Fabrizio I. Camesasca, Refractive Surface Ablation, →ISBN, page 48:

The advent of autorefractometer has changed the scenario of eye examination procedure. Today many practitioners have started relying more on autorefractometer for the simple reason of its speed and accuracy.

2014, Ajay Kumar Bhootra, Clinical Refraction Guide, →ISBN, page 85:

(ophthalmology) A device that uses infrared light to measure the refractive status of the eye.


Hollywood cerise

From the series of color pencils named Venus Paradise.

Hollywood cerise:


ultra pink

ultra pink (Crayola shocking pink):

A very bright pink color, related to shocking pink.


palatinate purple

palatinate purple:


cooling glasses

/ˈkuːlɪŋ ˈɡlɑːsɪz/

/ˈkuːlɪŋ ˈɡlæsɪz/

Very high purity fused silica glasses are made, which have negligible thermal expansion. Hence, they are suitable for making items of high accuracy such as space telescopes. Photochromatic (also called photochromic) glasses are those glasses that darken in sunlight. These are useful for making cooling glasses.

2013, Srikumar Koyikkal, “Inorganic Chemicals”, in Chemical Process Technology and Simulation, New Delhi: Asoke K. Ghosh, PHI Learning, →ISBN, section 4.7.5 (Other Types of Glasses), page 158:

A loud implosion and a thick blanket of black smoke are what remained of the twin tower of Prime Trust Heights in Moulivakkam, which was demolished at 6.52 pm on Wednesday. […] "I have an umbrella, cooling glasses, binoculars, water bottle, and I am all set to take a selfie when the building comes down," said Ananth, a class 10 student.

2016 November 3, Shruti Suresh, “Gone in 3 seconds: Building demolished using implosive technique”, in Deccan Chronicle, Hyderabad, Telegana, India, archived from the original on 2017-04-29:

Suddenly, Somu took his cooling glasses from his pocket and asked him to wear them and later, Ramu slowly managed to see. Somu advised Ramu on the necessity of wearing sun glasses during summer season.

2017, Shipra Agarwal, “Sample Paper 3”, in Mrunal Patel, editor, CBSE Board Class 12 Physics Solved Papers (2008–17) in Level of Difficulty with 3 Sample Papers (Latest Pattern), 4th edition, New Delhi: Disha Publications, →ISBN, page 399:


salmon-coloured

en-adj

salmon-coloured (comparative more salmon-coloured, superlative most salmon-coloured)

more salmon-coloured (comparative)
most salmon-coloured (superlative)

salmon:

Having a pale pinkish colour, as of cooked salmon.


pair of goggles

en-noun

pair of goggles (plural pairs of goggles)

Protective eyewear consisting of two lenses set in a flexible frame to fit snugly against the face.


dysaudia

dysaudia (usually uncountable, plural dysaudias)

defective articulation stemming from auditory disability


Skobeloff green

Skobeloff green:

There is one very bright empire green, and those shades of bluish green to which new names have been affixed, i.e., Troika, Strogoif and Skobeloff; also two series of bright pinks and reds.

1904, “Color card notice”, in Millinery Trade Review, volume 29, page 18:

The colors that dominated were black, brown and Skobeloff green, giving the space a calm, natural vibe.


Evans blue

Named after Herbert McLean Evans, an American chemist.

(organic chemistry) An azo dye with very high affinity for serum albumin.


aviator sunglasses

Originally developed in 1936 by Bausch & Lomb for pilots to protect their eyes while flying.

A style of sunglasses with dark, often reflective lenses and very thin metal frames.


nosesore

(figurative, rare) Something that smells foul to the nose.


alacrima

(pathology) A congenital inability to produce enough tears (absence or inadequacy of tear production).


dacryocyst

(anatomy, ophthalmology) The lacrimal sac.


spirit blue

A blue aniline dye used as an indicator in agar for detection of lipase activity in bacteria.


bainin

bainin (countable and uncountable, plural bainins)

Borrowed from Irish báinín, from bán (“white”) + -ín (diminutive suffix).

By the time it had some of the dirt and grease removed (part scouring) it had become the creamy natural colour (bainin) with which we are all familiar, and although the patterns are worked in other fashion colours and yarns, the true Aran is only made from the thickish bainin woolen yarn.

2012, Shelagh Hollingworth, Traditional Aran Knitting, page 14:

(Ireland) the creamy white colour of such yarn or cloth


dust-colored

en-adj

dust-colored (comparative more dust-colored, superlative most dust-colored)

more dust-colored (comparative)
most dust-colored (superlative)

In the weak eyes of Venus, and in every reddish dust-colored hair in his shock of hair, there was a marked distrust of Wegg and an alertness to fly at him on perceiving the smallest occasion.

1865, Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend:


Egyptian blue

en-noun

Egyptian blue (countable and uncountable, plural Egyptian blues)

From Egyptian + blue, from being a blue invented by Ancient Egyptians.

calcium copper tetrasilicate
calcium copper tetrasilicate#English

A pigment made from calcium copper tetrasilicate (“CaCuSi₄O₁₀”), the first artificial pigment, a blue, used by Egyptians for over 3 millennia, before dying out during the Roman Empire; one of the few alternates to lapis lazuli during ancient times.

Chinese purple

the first artificial purple, one of the first artificial pigments

Prussian blue

the first artificial pigment widely used in the modern world; not an ancient pigment


Han purple

From Han + purple.
From being a purple pigment last used during the Han Dynasty.

barium copper disilicate
barium copper disilicate#English

A pigment made from barium copper disilicate (BaCuSi₂O₆), the first artificial purple pigment, used by Chinese for over 2 millennia before dying out at the end of the Han dynasty.

Egyptian blue

the first artificial pigment, and chemically similar to Han purple


cophosis

From New Latin cōphōsis, from Ancient Greek κώφωσις (kṓphōsis).


Mountbatten pink

Mountbatten pink (countable and uncountable, plural Mountbatten pinks)

Named after the British naval officer Lord Mountbatten.

Mountbatten pink:

Before long all the destroyers in his flotilla were painted medium grey with a dash of Venetian red, a tone that quickly became known as Mountbatten pink.

2016, Kassia St Clair, The Secret Lives of Colour:

(historical) A pinkish-grey camouflage colour, used to paint several ships of the British Royal Navy during World War II.


Camotint

Blend of camouflage + tint, coined by inventor Sidney Cotton.

Then an F.24 camera was installed in each wing, and the whole airframe painted in a pale duck-egg green 'Camotint' finish for 'invisibility.'

1980, Chaz Bowyer, Supermarine Spitfire, page 43:

But by the time it left Habbaniya it had been transformed into a civilian aircraft GAGAR and once again painted in the Camotint blue-green camouflage.

2011, Jeffrey Watson, Sidney Cotton: The Last Plane Out of Berlin:

Then Niven took off on September 1 in a single-engined Beech 17 which had been painted in Camotint, and photographed Wilhelmshaven once more.

2014, Dave Humphrey, Legends & Heroes - behind the lens, page 60:

(historical) Any of several pale camouflage colours used by the British Royal Air Force during World War II, especially Camotint green.


-scopic

From -scope + -ic.
Etymology tree
English -scope
English -ic
English -scopic

etymon

Forming adjectives relating to observation or viewing.


French white

An especially pure form of white lead, particularly as used in paints.


red-billed

(Of a bird species) having a red coloured beak or bill.


pair of sunglasses

en-noun

pair of sunglasses (plural pairs of sunglasses)

A pair of glasses with tinted lenses designed to protect the eyes from sunlight.


ophthalmopathic

(ophthalmology) Relating to eye disease.


choleglobin

A bile pigment that is a breakdown product of hemoglobin


circumlental

(anatomy) Surrounding the lens of the eye


wine-dark

The traditional translation/calque of Ancient Greek οἶνοψ (oînops), equivalent to wine + dark.

Near-synonyms: vinous, vinaceous, wine-blue, winelike

He had that type of countenance which dim tradition was already beginning to assign to the Son of Man—the perfectly oval face, the waved and wine-dark hair, the glowing complexion, the eyes whose depths seemed to be lighted by some holy spiritual flame within—of Him who had been fairer than the children of men.

2015, Frederic W. Farrar, Gathering Clouds: A Tale of The Days of Saint Chrysostom:

The Trojan War was probably real enough, but the myths of Aeneas crossing the wine-dark Mediterranean to lay the foundations of the Roman Empire in Italy, and Brutus's subsequent journey to fill Britain with descendants of the Trojans, are myths.

2015, Anthony Adolph, Brutus of Troy: And the Quest for the Ancestry of the British, page 200:

en:resembling wine, in its dark color or otherwise

(literary, especially of the sea) Resembling the dark color (or perhaps other properties) of red wine.

wine-dark:

Of a specific color among several that represent red wine.


wine-dark

wine-dark:

A specific color among several that represent red wine.


blue-gray

en-adj

blue-gray (comparative more blue-gray, superlative most blue-gray)

more blue-gray (comparative)
most blue-gray (superlative)

blue-gray:

аҡбуҙ

color — see also the hyponyms listed above

күк

can mean 'blue', 'gray', 'blue-gray', or 'green'

åskblå (dark gray-blue, literally "thunder[storm sky] color")

blunket

a color, generally a light bluish gray or blue or gray


blue-grey

blue-grey (comparative more blue-grey, superlative most blue-grey)

more blue-grey (comparative)
most blue-grey (superlative)


gray-blue

gray-blue (comparative more gray-blue, superlative most gray-blue)

more gray-blue (comparative)
most gray-blue (superlative)


grey-blue

grey-blue (comparative more grey-blue, superlative most grey-blue)

more grey-blue (comparative)
most grey-blue (superlative)

Alternative form of gray-blue: Synonym of blue-gray


retinosis

en-noun

retinosis (countable and uncountable, plural retinoses)

Any degenerative condition of the retina.


dacryocele

(embryology, ophthalmology) Synonym of dacryocystocele


dacryocystogram

From dacryo- + cystogram or dacryocyst + -o- + -gram.

(ophthalmology) A radiograph of the lacrimal apparatus.


dacryolithiasis

From dacryo- + lithiasis or dacryolith + -iasis.

(ophthalmology) The formation, or the presence of dacryoliths.


takiltu

(historical) An Akkadian blue or purple dye.


granny specs

(informal) A pair of spectacles with round lenses in a light metal frame.


under-accommodate

en-verb

under-accommodate (third-person singular simple present under-accommodates, present participle under-accommodating, simple past and past participle under-accommodated)

under-accommodates (present singular third-person)
under-accommodating (participle present)
under-accommodated (participle past)
under-accommodated (past)

The mean refractive error at six metres for the subjects was !-0.14D. and so the average total accommodation exerted was (0.14 + 2.51) 2.65D. for a dioptric distance of 3.0D. Thus, all of the observers under-accommodated for the near fixation distance when white light was used.

1963, British journal of physiological optics:

When Cegalis measured accommodative responses to changes in convergence distance caused by ophthalmic prisms, he found that although subjects initially under-accommodated the target, they quickly adapted for near target distances, with no significant after-effects.

1996, Mark T. Bolas, Scott S. Fisher, John O. Merritt -, Stereoscopic Displays and Virtual Reality Systems, →ISBN:

We have reported that defective accommodation is common in children with Down syndrome" even at 3 months of age;" that is, the children under-accommodate for near targets.

2000, Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science:

(ophthalmology) To adjust the focal point of the eye so that the image of the target falls short of the retina.


under-accommodated

en-adj

under-accommodated (comparative more under-accommodated, superlative most under-accommodated)

more under-accommodated (comparative)
most under-accommodated (superlative)

The eye is under-accommodated for near objects but over-accommodated for distant ones.

1975, Frederick M. Toates, Control theory in biology and experimental psychology, page 129:

Assume that the receptors are aligned with a point on the nasal side of the pupil, (a) For an under-accommodated image, light rays on the nasal side are better aligned with receptors than those on the temporal side, (b) For an over-accommodated image, temporal light rays are better aligned with receptors than nasal rays.

2002, Ian P. Howard, Brian J. Rogers, Seeing in Depth - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 363:

If the eye is over-accommodated the derivative of the changes in lens power and the derivative of the changes in contrast will have the opposite signs as these two signals will be out of phase; and vice versa for an under-accommodated eye.

2008, Christopher Dainty, Adaptive Optics for Industry and Medicine, →ISBN:

(ophthalmology) Involving a focal point that falls short of the retina.


over-accommodated

over-accommodated (comparative more over-accommodated, superlative most over-accommodated)

more over-accommodated (comparative)
most over-accommodated (superlative)

(ophthalmology) Involving a focal point that falls behind the retina.


chronostasis

From chrono- (prefix meaning ‘time’) + -stasis (suffix meaning ‘slowing down, stopping’).

confix

(optics) A visual illusion in which a regular movement seems to pause the first time it is observed.


cresolphthalein

en-noun

cresolphthalein (countable and uncountable, plural cresolphthaleins)

(organic chemistry) A derivative of phenolphthalein used as a pH indicator


chalk-white

en-adj

chalk-white (comparative more chalk-white, superlative most chalk-white)

more chalk-white (comparative)
most chalk-white (superlative)

I burn, burn like a wicker cabinet / chalk-white and oh so frail / I see our time has gotten stale

1998, Eve 6 (lyrics and music), “Inside Out”, in Eve 6:

Six utterly chalk-white people were cramped together beneath the parasol, sharing the little circle of shadow it was casting down onto the moderately sundrenched beach.


carboxyeosin

en-noun

carboxyeosin (countable and uncountable, plural carboxyeosins)

(organic chemistry) Any carboxy derivative of eosin, but especially 5(6)-carboxyeosin whose diacetate is used as a fluorescent dye


deaf person

deaf person (plural deaf persons or deaf people)

deaf persons (plural)
deaf people (plural)


crushed strawberry

(art) A pinkish-red colour like strawberries that have been crushed.


pyrrhous

en-adj

pyrrhous (comparative more pyrrhous, superlative most pyrrhous)

more pyrrhous (comparative)
most pyrrhous (superlative)

From Ancient Greek πυρρός (purrhós) + -ous.


boxcarring

(ophthalmology) Synonym of cattle trucking (“diagnostic feature of retinal artery occlusion caused by the segmentation of the blood column within the retinal vessels”).


chatpata

(India, cooking) either spicy or sour or tangy.


monolid

An eye that does not have a crease on the eyelid.


transcaruncular

(ophthalmology) Of an ophthalmological operation: between the lacrimal caruncle and the adjacent scleral tissue, usually to treat caruncular inflammation and/or intumescence.


beta movement

en-noun

beta movement (countable and uncountable, plural beta movements)

The optical illusion whereby a series of static images shown in rapid succession on a screen appear to show a moving image.


damn my eyes

(archaic) An expression of surprise, outrage, or frustration.


snot-green

en-adj

snot-green (comparative more snot-green, superlative most snot-green)

more snot-green (comparative)
most snot-green (superlative)

snot-green:

Of a yellowish-green color like that of mucus.


oculoskeletal

Relating to, or affecting the eyes and the skeleton


sulfoindocyanine

en-noun

sulfoindocyanine (countable and uncountable, plural sulfoindocyanines)

(organic chemistry) A C-sulfate derivative of indocyanine that is a fluorescent dye


magnetoperception

(biology) The perception, by an organism, of a magnetic field


corrective lens

corrective lens (plural corrective lenses)

Her driver's licence requires her to wear corrective lenses while driving.

An optometer is an instrument for measuring refractive errors in eyes—in order that corrective lenses may be prescribed.

1969, Kurt Vonnegut, chapter 3, in Slaughterhouse-Five, New York: Dial, published 2005, page 71:

A lens worn in front of the eye to correct disorders of the vision such as myopia.


iron blue

Any of several blue pigments, but especially Prussian blue or Turnbull's blue.


staring contest

staring contest (plural staring contests)

a game in which two people maintain eye contact for as long as possible, the loser being the one who is the first to blink or look away.


Bonney's blue

Named after British gynaecological surgeon Victor Bonney (1872–1953).

(gynaecology) An antiseptic solution used to sterilise and stain the vagina, cervix and surrounding skin during gynaecological procedures, and therefore reducing postoperative infection.


oculodigital

(pathology) Relating to the eyes and the fingers


Hermann grid

Named after German physiologist Ludimar Hermann (1870).

named-after

An optical illusion where ghostly grey blobs are perceived at the intersections of a light-coloured grid on a black background.


Mach band

Any of a series of bands of slightly different shades of grey that make up an optical illusion where the contrast between the bands appears to be exaggerated as soon as they contact one another.


Cornsweet illusion

en-noun

Cornsweet illusion (plural Cornsweet illusions)

It was described in detail by Tom N. Cornsweet in the late 1960s.

An optical illusion where an edge between regions of the same shade causes them to be perceived as different shades.


watercolor illusion

watercolor illusion (plural watercolor illusions)

An optical illusion in which a white area takes on a pale tint of a thin, bright, intensely colored polygon surrounding it if the coloured polygon is itself surrounded by a thin, darker border.


dansyl amide

(organic chemistry) The fluorescent dye 5-(dimethylamino)naphthalene-1-sulfonamide


wine-blue

en-adj

wine-blue (comparative more wine-blue, superlative most wine-blue)

more wine-blue (comparative)
most wine-blue (superlative)

Near-synonyms: wine-dark, winelike

We trudge on then by the moor path, to the high brow of the wine-blue purple-dark hill, and fling ourselves down there, and dream there and see there a grasshopper, carting back to his home in the hollow, a straw.

1928, Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography, London: The Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished as Orlando: A Biography (eBook no. 0200331h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, July 2015:

He'd love to sip a pint in a decent pub who never will, though down by wineblue Black Sea . . . ah!

1984, Christopher Pollnitz, Neither Nuked Nor Crucified and Other Poems, page 175:

Beside the wineblue sea, magnificent silver tanks big as a mountain gleamed in the sun.

1988, E. C. Curtsinger, Towers, Crosses, page 255:

And the sea, as you row, allures like a woman:
Rose at dawn, wineblue at noon, gold at dusk,
More of a drug than lotos-syrup.

1997, Jeffrey Carson, Poems, 1974-1996, page 7:

The sun that coloured Lissa's wineblue depths
That tanned Porta Pia's red pikes
And chased into the dungeons the creep of the Vatican […]

2002, Astrid Sæther, Ibsen and the Arts, page 26:

Now I have come in as you see, with my ship and companions sailing over the wine-blue water to men of alien language.

en:of a color like that of dark wine, blue-purple variants

Of a colour ranging between indigo and purple, like that of dark wine.

wine-blue:

Of a specific color among several that represent red wine.


wine-blue

en-noun

wine-blue (countable and uncountable, plural wine-blues)

Mulder and Maumené have given it the name of œnocyan or wine-blue, as its color, when neutral, is blue; the red color of genuine wines is due to the presence of tartaric and acetic acid acting upon the wine-blue.

1885, The Popular Science Monthly, volume 26, page 676:

In this modestly sized canvas you find the wonderful blue colour of the Limfjord — a colour Homer called “wineblue” (oinops).

1964, The Limfjord, Its Towns and People, page 153:

en:color like that of dark wine, blue-purple variants

Any of a range of colours between indigo and purple, like those of some red wines.

wine-blue:

A specific color among several that represent red wine.


release hallucination

release hallucination (plural release hallucinations)

(pathology) A complex visual hallucination occurring in a person with partial or severe blindness.


moon eye

(veterinary medicine) A kind of diseased eye in horses.


eye-apple

From Middle English ij appel, from Old English ēagæppel (“eyeball, pupil”), from Proto-West Germanic *augapl, equivalent to eye + apple.
Cognate with West Frisian eachappel (“pupil”), Dutch oogappel (“eyeball; pupil”), German Augapfel (“eyeball”), Danish øjeæble (“eyeball”), Norwegian øyeeple (“eyeball”).


olivegreen

en-adj

olivegreen (comparative more olivegreen, superlative most olivegreen)

more olivegreen (comparative)
most olivegreen (superlative)


sightening

A colour used temporarily to enable a calico-printer to judge the pattern.


china blue

en-noun

china blue (countable and uncountable, plural china blues)

china blue:


nosocusis

Hearing loss caused by factors other than noise or pure presbycusis, such as drug use or hypertension.


aberroscope

(ophthalmology) An instrument used to observe aberration of the eye


Bismarck brown

Bismarck brown (countable and uncountable, plural Bismarck browns)

Either of a pair of brown dyes, Bismarck brown R and Bismarck brown Y.


azovan blue

(organic chemistry) Synonym of Evans blue


phoria

phoria (countable and uncountable, plural phorias)

from Ancient Greek -φορία (-phoría), from φέρειν (phérein, “to bear”).


rose-pink

en-adj

rose-pink (comparative more rose-pink, superlative most rose-pink)

more rose-pink (comparative)
most rose-pink (superlative)


gonioplasty

(surgery) The widening of the field of view of an eye


peachish

peachish (comparative more peachish, superlative most peachish)

more peachish (comparative)
most peachish (superlative)


hydrocyanine

(organic chemistry) Any of a group of dyes that can detect reactive oxygen species, reacting to form cyanine


xylochrome

en-noun

xylochrome (countable and uncountable, plural xylochromes)

(archaic) A kind of dye derived from the tannin in wood.


flake white

From the way flakes of the pigment were created and fell off the base lead during the former Dutch or stack process.

Synonym of white lead, particularly as used in paints.


benzophenoxazine

(organic chemistry) Any of a certain class of dyes.


synechiotomy

(surgery) incision into the eye to correct a synechia


Fröhlich effect

Fröhlich effect (plural Fröhlich effects)

A visual illusion wherein the first position of a moving object entering a window is misperceived.


flash-lag effect

flash-lag effect (plural flash-lag effects)

A visual illusion wherein a flash and a moving object that appear in the same location are perceived to be displaced from one another.


blindhood

en-verb

blindhood (third-person singular simple present blindhoods, present participle blindhooding, simple past and past participle blindhooded)

blindhoods (present singular third-person)
blindhooding (participle present)
blindhooded (participle past)
blindhooded (past)

“Get him up here,” Avall commanded. “Put all the Ninth Facers under double guard—and blindhood them—then lead the way.”

(transitive, rare) To render someone blind by covering their head with a hood.


millennial pink

en-noun

millennial pink (countable and uncountable, plural millennial pinks)

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Named for its popularity in fashion and design in the late 2010s among millennials.

Millennial pink is a streetwear staple.

2017, Lisa De Pasquale, The Social Justice Warrior Handbook: A Practical Survival Guide for Snowflakes, Millennials, and Generation Z, page 23:

[…] when they talk about their jobs or their dating lives or how they're secretly kind of sick of millennial pink.

2018, Rebecca Soffer, Gabrielle Birkner, Modern Loss: Candid Conversation About Grief, unnumbered page:

Millennial pink started to crop up around 2012, and by 2015 it was ubiquitous.

2019, Kaye Blegvad, The Pink Book: An Illustrated Celebration of the Color, from Bubblegum to Battleships, page 76:

millennial pink:


millennial pink

But on Instagram she found a world of recovery houses — many of them decorated in a millennial pink, hyperfeminine aesthetic — where she would be healing alongside other women who had just gone through the same procedure and would be cared for by a team of women who would cook for her, […]

2022 May 11, Sandra E. Garcia, “Butt Lifts Are Booming. Healing Is No Joke.”, in The New York Times Magazine:


dusty rose

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His heart leaped when he saw how fetching she looked in her afternoon dress, silk chiffon with pleated sleeves, in a becoming shade of dusty rose.

1999, John Jakes, American Dreams, page 80:

She'd locked the door of her Old Hollywood-inspired office, decorated in dusty rose and high-gloss white, […]

2009, Bridie Clark, The Overnight Socialite, page 138:

The sun was setting, and the Eiffel Tower was a dusty rose in the distance.

2014, Harper Lin, Croissant Murder, unnumbered page:

dusty rose:

A light, puce-like greyish pink color, like a rose covered in dust.


antique rose

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Molly pulled the heavy antique-rose drape away from the window and peered out.

2006, Linda Goodnight, A Very Special Delivery, page 270:

The walls had been painted an antique-rose hue but he'd left the plates off the outlets.

2014, Christopher Golden, Snowblind, unnumbered page:

Just before eight o'clock, Sorcha finally settles on an outfit for the morning: we're talking a delaine twill blazer in antique rose by Theory, […]

2015, Ross O'Carroll-Kelly, Seedless in Seattle, unnumbered page:

antique rose:

A rosy pink color with a slight grayish tinge, like an old dried rose.


cobalt green

cobalt green (countable and uncountable, plural cobalt greens)

cobalt green:

Any of various green inorganic pigments obtained by doping cobalt(II) oxide into colorless host oxides.


lock eyes

en-verb

lock eyes (third-person singular simple present locks eyes, present participle locking eyes, simple past and past participle locked eyes)

locks eyes (present singular third-person)
locking eyes (participle present)
locked eyes (participle past)
locked eyes (past)

To stare into the eyes of someone who is staring back into your eyes.


atomic tangerine

From the name of a fluorescent Crayola crayon released in 1972.

atomic tangerine:

The jokes are dust, and Blair, it is rumoured, is living on a jet full time, flying away from himself or, as I think more probable, under a spray-tan machine, staining himself that peculiar shade of orange that interior decorators call Atomic Tangerine, a fine mirror for his madness.

2016 April 2, Tanya Gold, “Bellanger review: a posh Islington restaurant for semi-ordinary people”, in The Spectator:

Becoming Trump requires a full hour of hair and makeup. He tapes three large photographs of the president, one in profile and two straight-on, to any mirror he’s using, and then uses Ben Nye CoCo Tan foundation to turn his skin the requisite shade of atomic tangerine, dabs on wrinkles, lengthens his nose, and so on.

2017 June 23, Jordan Kisner, “Being Donald Trump: the life of an impersonator”, in The Guardian:

Partida Creus’ “Cart Ver” is atomic tangerine in color and so delicious it’s trouble. Well integrated with lots of acidity, it smells like an Orange Crush and a strawberry michelada and tastes like strawberry ocean water

2018 March 20, Marissa A. Ross, ““Orange Wine” Needs to Go Away—Hear Me Out”, in Bon Appétit:

The first thing you should know about 79 Fresh Pond Parkway in Cambridge is that it’s not orange. Officially dubbed as “Atomic Tangerine” the home’s distinctive facade is one part quirky to nine parts endearing.

2019 July 10, Miriam Schwartz, “Cambridge home a tangerine dream”, in The Boston Herald:


Baker-Miller pink

Named after the directors at the prison at which the hostility-suppressing qualities were first tested.

Baker-Miller pink:

After years of (somewhat questionable) research, Schauss suggested that this very specific shade of pink could slow a test subject's heart rate and even reduce a propensity for aggressive, violent behavior. He believed the color, called Baker-Miller pink, had a calming effect akin to what you might experience during yoga or meditation.

2015 November 22, Liz Stinson, “Vollebak's Pink Hoodie Supposedly Calms You by Zipping Over Your Face”, in WIRED:

The least likely of this January’s diets came, obliquely, from Kendall Jenner’s official app and was a colour rather than a book. In a post titled “The story behind my pink wall!” she explained the thinking behind the pink living room wall of her expensive Los Angeles home: “Baker-Miller Pink is the only color [sic] scientifically proven to calm you AND suppress your appetite.

2017 January 10, Morwenna Ferrier, “This colour might change your life: Kendall Jenner and Baker-Miller Pink”, in The Guardian:

Schauss named the colour “Baker-Miller pink” after two of his co-experimenters, naval officers Gene Baker and Ron Miller. Baker and Miller were so impressed with Schauss’s findings that they went ahead and painted the holding cells at their naval base this shade of pink.

2018 October 13, Julie Irish, “Can pink really pacify, or is hype around its calming abilities based on a dangerous stereotype?”, in The Independent:

Such is the reputation of Baker-Miller Pink that it’s been painted on walls in a prison, a youth clinic and a psychiatric ward as a technique for reducing aggression. Norwich City F.C. even used it to cover the walls in the changing rooms for away teams in the hope that it’d dampen their fighting spirit.

2019 June 13, Megan Williams, “Juno Calypso explores the calming power of pink”, in The Creative Review:

Santa Clara County Jail is painted Baker-Miller Pink, so is a San Bernardino youth clinic, and it wasn't long before sports psychologists embraced the idea as a way of gaining an advantage over opposing teams.

2019 June 24, Bridget Galton, “Women's World Cup art in Archway”, in The Hampstead Highgate Express, archived from the original on 2019-07-09:

A shade of pink thought to reduce hostile, violent and aggressive behavior.


cadet grey

From the colour of military uniform; first used as a colour term around 1912.

cadet grey:

Moreover, according to uniform historian Fred Adolphus, Confederate cadet grey may never have been as blue or as irregular as the shade reenactors have tried to recapture, based on a comparison of reproduction cloth with museum-conserved uniforms.

2016 April 13, Romie Stott, “The Historical Reenactor Accuracy Wars”, in Atlas Obscura:

The company marched ahead of the Valley Forge Military Academy and College Regimental Band. Wrapped in cadet grey jackets, snare drummers played in harmony with bass saxophonists. Not even the breeze could make the red tassles sway atop their black and gold hats as they marched up Fifth Avenue.

2017 March 17, “Thousands Flood Fifth Avenue for NYC's St. Patrick's Day Parade”, in NBC New York:

And Lottie Moss looked every inch the party girl as she headed for a night out with her actor pal Daniel Mickelson in West Hollywood on Sunday. The 21-year-old showed off her incredible figure in a cadet grey bodycon dress as she strutted to Delilah restaurant.

2019 April 22, Connie Rusk, “Lottie Moss displays her incredible figure in a skintight grey bodycon dress as she heads on night out with pal Daniel Mickelson in LA”, in The Daily Mail:

A bluish shade of grey, similar to cadet blue.


raisin black

raisin black:

This new scooter is available in six different colors such as raisin black, silver, white dove, couture brown, rogue matt blue and moonlight silver.

2019 November 21, “Global e-scooter/moped and e-motorcycle market omprehensive Analysis 2019-2026”, in Hitz Dairies, archived from the original on 2019-12-07:

The designs showcased were two structured, sci-fi silhouettes in the Watson-generated colour palette of raisin black and Yankees blue. The third, the showstopper, modelled by actor Pooja Hegde, was a textured grey gown paired with silver pumps.

2017 June 2, Komal Sharma, “Where AI and fashion cross paths”, in liveMint:

A faintly purplish or brownish shade of black, like that of raisins.


smoky black

en-noun

smoky black (countable and uncountable, plural smoky blacks)

smoky black:

During the summer months they sport smoky-black plumage, their wings speckled with white spots, but at this time of year they have mottled grey backs with paler underparts, making them difficult to distinguish from the more prolific common redshank (T totanus).

2019 December 6, Claire Stares, “Country diary: this elegant wader has become a local celebrity”, in The Guardian:

Past president Arthur Watson also uses words, wonderful Scots words for snowfall and nightfall, 25 of them rendered in smoky black, each in its own frame.

2019 November 20, Duncan Macmillan, “Art reviews: RSA Annual Exhibition 2019 - Mary Cameron: Life in Paint”, in The Scotsman:

A coat colour of horses that is either black or slightly lighter than black.


Tiffany blue

Tiffany blue:

You’ll enter through a Tiffany & Co. bridge inspired by the renowned Central Park and immersed in a world filled with oversized signature Tiffany blue boxes.

2019 November 28, Faima Bakar, “Tiffany & Co has a pretty bougie new ice rink at Covent Garden for free”, in Metro:

After months of rumors, it was confirmed today that luxury giant LVMH will acquire Tiffany and Co, the storied American jewelry company, for $16.2 billion dollars. The deal is the largest ever in the luxury sector, according to The New York Times. To celebrate the deal, LVMH turned its homepage Tiffany blue today.

2019 November 25, Elizabeth Angell, “Luxury Giant LVMH Just Bought Tiffany and Co. for $16.2 Billion”, in Town and Country:

The aptly named Blue Box Cafe is kitted out in marble Tiffany blue, and offers a Holly Golightly-inspired experience from $29 a head.

2019 November 19, Chloe Foussianes, “Tiffany & Co's Famous Blue Box Cafe Will Close for Two Years”, in Town and Country:

The new café also got attention for its striking blue decor. To be more specific, it’s Tiffany Blue, a color so synonymous with the jeweler that it’s trademarked.

2017 November 10, Elise Taylor, “A Peek Inside Tiffany & Co.’s New Café, Where You Can Yes, Eat Breakfast at Tiffany’s”, in Vogue:

A shade of robin egg blue used by and associated with Tiffany & Co., an American jeweller.


robin egg blue

robin egg blue:

In other festive news, Covent Garden will be opening an ice rink later this month in partnership with the luxury jewellery shop, Tiffany & Co. The installation has been themed after the robin egg blue colour that the brand is known for, with giant Tiffany boxes used as decorations

2019 November 10, Almara Abgarian, “There’s a giant gingerbread house popping up in Covent Garden tomorrow”, in Metro:

robin's-egg blue
robin's-egg blue#English


Schweinfurt green

Named after the city in which it was first made, Schweinfurt, Germany.

Paris or Schweinfurt green:

For example, Schweinfurt green, also known as emerald or Paris green, was used in wallpaper and upholstery in the 19th century and contained high levels of arsenic. Wallpaper is even said to have killed Napoleon Bonaparte.

2015 June 26, Rachel Dixon, “Why green just can’t be trusted”, in The Guardian:


Vienna green

Paris or Vienna green:

Emerald green was also called Schweinfurt green, Paris green, and Vienna green. The toxicity of dye made with emerald green was not initially recognized, until the recipe was published in 1822

2010 March 5, “Emerald Green or Paris Green, the Deadly Regency Pigment”, in Jane Austen World:


prescription glasses

Glasses made for a specific user; corrective spectacles.


champagne pink

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From the colour of 'pink' rosé champagne.

champagne pink:

Both machines are built with slender frames, milled completely from metal and Dell has even introduced a Champagne Pink color – which tragically isn’t coming to the US – to compete with Huawei’s Pink Ultrabook.

2017 August 28, Kevin Lee, “Hands on: Dell Inspiron 13 7000 (2017) review”, in TechRadar:

Emma stunned in the champagne pink off-the-shoulder gown, which featured an elaborately embroidered bodice.

2018 July 2, Connie Rusk, “Emma Roberts looks ethereal in champagne pink gown as she attends star-studded Dior show in Paris”, in Daily Mail:

Customers wanting to get their hands on the calender^([sic]) will have to race to their local store - otherwise eager shoppers may have to wait up to two weeks for the calendar to come back in stock. This year's offering contains a collection of 24 products which come in a sleek black and champagne pink box.

2018 October 19, Lottie Gibbons, “Boots' No7 2018 advent calendar has makeup bundle worth £177 for only £42 - here is the contents”, in Liverpool Echo:

The champagne-pink youngster, believed to be about two or three weeks old in this footage and the smallest in the herd, was being carefully guarded by protective adults. It's unclear from the clip if the calf is a true albino or if its unusual colouring is caused by a genetic condition called leucism.

2019 March 14, Earth Touch News, “Baby 'pink' elephant filmed frolicking on South African game reserve”, in Earth Touch News Network:

This champagne-pink nail polish lives up to its name (I mean, have you ever seen a nail polish that felt more Gatsby than this?), but you definitely don’t need a fancy-schmancy party to wear it to.

2019 July 30, Ruby Buddemeyer, “12 Pink Nail Polishes and Colors You’ll Want to Wear All Summer Long”, in Cosmopolitan:

The article in question was colored a champagne pink and adorned with so many thousands of sequins, beads and jewels, it seemed as though if Larson stood in strong sunlight the beams would refract into a thousand rainbows.

2020 February 10, Andrew Marshall, “The Internet’s Losing It Over Brie Larson’s Oscar Dress”, in We Got This Covered:

Curl up in this curvaceous, champagne pink velvet armchair with a brass-clad base for an added pop of glitz. An instant room updater.

2020 February 10, Lara Sargent, “The roaring 2020s: What’s not to love about this glamorous take on the new decade?”, in Metro:


Mexican pink

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Mexican pink:

Casillas's design, which was implemented in Australia by Evolva Architects, also contrasts the exposed concrete interior walls with inbuilt wooden furniture, white plasterboard and soaped douglas fir solid-wood floors that add warmth to the space. Colourful paintings by Chucho Reyes offset the fields of grey concrete and white walls, as does Casillas' signature yet judicious use of Mexican pink in surprising places.

2015 May 22, Ray Edgar, “Victorian Architecture Awards 2015: Camberwell's concrete monolith in the mix”, in Sydney Morning Herald:

"In Mexico," Mr Kalanick writes, "we were inspired by Mexican pink and the patterns in the local tiles; in Ireland, from the Georgian architecture and the lush greens; and in Nigeria, from the ankara, which came up again and again because of its bright colours and beautiful geometric patterns."

2016 February 2, Dave Lee, “Uber drops its U. Why?”, in BBC News:

She wears a very full, ruffled poplin skirt in a bright color, such as red, Mexican pink, yellow or blue, striped with colorful ribbons. The top has elbow-length sleeves and a bibbed front. Her hair is braided and adorned with wide ribbons, and she wears black ankle boots.

2017 April 19, “Mexico’s Folk Dances: Costumes and Features”, in Vallarta Lifestyles:

Derived from insects found on the prickly pear cactus, cochineal became one of the principal exports of colonial Mexico. Following the country's revolution (1910–20), cochineal's associations with indigenous cultures led to a widespread embrace of the intense Mexican pink derived from it.

2018 September 5, Hettie Judah, “A New Exhibition Examines The Power Of Pink”, in Vogue:

Speaking of cultural identity, Mexican pink is now the color used to identify Mexico City. We have assimilated this in such a natural way that we didn’t realize it was completely planned.

2019 December 2, Alberto Ríos de la Rosa, “Frida Escobedo and Pedro Reyes look to the future to save Mexico’s lost past”, in Document Journal:

A shade of pink, similar to fuchsia or magenta, and common in Mexican culture.


brink pink

brink pink:

Her blonde locks were styled down, as her face was touched up with some smokey eye shadow and brink pink lipstick.

2013 April 16, Rachel Levy, “Baby's almost here! Pregnant Jessica Simpson busts out of clinging black gown to attend a friend's wedding”, in Daily Mail:

Varieties like “Shindeshojo,” “Orange Dream,” “Akane” and “Coral Magic,” have stunning brink pink, orange or coral foliage in spring. Some like “Tsuma Gaki” or “Murasaki Kiyohime” come out lime green with red edging.

2017 April 27, Steve Smith, “Notes from a gardener with a Japanese maple addiction”, in Washington Herald:

If red is too bright for you, opt for this brink pink tone. Lots of gorgeous details embellish this cotton kurta from frayed layered collar, fabric loops and buttons to a pleated hemline with laces.

2019 November 20, “Ammara Khan brings effortless elegance in RTW collection 'Queen Bee'”, in Something Haute:

Rafael Nadal will be wearing a brink pink colour jacket and the same colour shoes at the tournament. His shorts will be white in colour. The tee will be sleeveless like the previous two seasons.

2020 January 14, Aryan Sharma, “Outfit Revealed For Rafael Nadal For Australian Open 2020”, in Essentially Sports:


Princeton orange

From Princeton University, which uses the colour.

Princeton orange:

He even looks exactly the way a Princeton coach should look: perfectly tailored suit, white shirt, Princeton orange-and-black tie.

2017 March 12, John Feinstein, “Ivy League plays a basketball tournament, and it's almost worth the 60-year wait”, in The Washington Post:

Having gone from 170 pounds back then up to 235 pounds less than a month after graduating, Bobo will be suiting up in Princeton orange and black as a tight end for the Tigers during the 2018 football season.

2018 July 12, Alec Etheredge, “Sports mind: Carson Bobo combines brains and sports”, in The Shelby County Reporter:

The standard Princeton Orange, Pantone 158, was created in 1959. The original cloth inspiring the shade is kept in archives for historical reference.

2019 June 7, Maha Al Fahim, “The power of orange”, in The Daily Princetonian:

I’m very proud to be a Quaker, but I’d be even more proud if I could sport that classic Princeton orange. Red and blue really don’t do me any favors.

2019 November 22, James Morrison, “Penn-Princeton Game to See Massive Turnout, Might Fill One Row of Student Section”, in Under The Button:

With a future in Princeton orange and black soon to come to fruition, Burns still has one more season in DHS Demons’ red. She is training hard for her final season of track and field, and will compete in indoor events before she prepares to defend her 3,200 crown in the spring.

2019 December 26, Brenden Ploen, “Durango High’s Madeleine Burns to run at Princeton”, in The Durango Herald, archived from the original on 2019-12-27:


Yale blue

From Yale University, which uses the colour.

Yale blue:

You could call the shade Yale blue, presidential blue, or even a dark steel blue. Regardless, it conveyed the right amount of cheeriness for the occasion and reverence for a historic moment in the British royal family's history.

2017 November 27, Megan Gustashaw, “Prince Harry’s Engagement Suit Is Just What You Should Wear on Your Big Day”, in GQ:

Neither Harvard crimson nor Yale blue courses through my veins — I am an alumnus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill — but I was at Harvard for the academic year 1968-69 on a Nieman Fellowship, awarded each year to a dozen American journalists in the hope that using the university’s vast resources might help them improve their professional skills.

2018 November 21, “A spectacular Harvard-Yale football game that lifted spirits in the tragic year of 1968”, in The Washington Post:

For a talented senior class, the weekend marks the final hurrah in Yale blue. Trumbull’s Simon Whiteman, first baseman Griffin Dey and pitcher Scott Politz should all be selected in next month’s Major League Baseball draft.

2019 May 8, Chip Malafronte, “Yale enters weekend playing for pride”, in New Haven Register:

The 49-year-old put on an elegant display in a two-toned blue, one-shoulder gown. With a maya blue bodice and yale blue skirt, the pleated dress featured a bow like wrap on her left shoulder.

2019 September 7, Kellie Chudzinski, “Heather Graham cuts an elegant style in a one shoulder blue gown at the TIFF premiere of her film The Rest of Us”, in Daily Mail:

But Yale had certain advantages. Its nonprofit status sheltered it from taxes on income. It could access top outside fund managers. It had alumni in high places in business and finance who, like Swensen, bled Yale blue.

2019 September 11, Drake Bennett, Janet Lorin, Michael McDonald, “How David Swensen Made Yale Fabulously Rich”, in Bloomberg News:

While today the courts on the fifth floor sport a fresh Yale Blue coat of paint and glass backboards, in the 1970s they were drafty, completely wooden and nearly uninhabitable in the hotter months.

2020 March 4, Eamonn Smith, “Yale faculty keep fit, form bonds on the hardwood”, in The Yale News:


orbital apex syndrome

orbital apex syndrome (usually uncountable, plural orbital apex syndromes)

(ophthalmology, neurology) A collection of cranial nerve deficits associated with a mass lesion near the apex of the orbit, often leading to ophthalmoplegia.


Pullman brown

Named after Pullman, a rail company which used the colour on many of its cars.

Pullman brown:

UPS has used the color for its trucks since 1916, when it was called Pullman brown. The reason the company chose brown is "that it was the epitome of luxury at the time," a former UPS executive told The New York Times in 1998.

2012 September 29, Aleksi Tzatzev, “10 Colors That Might Get You Sued”, in Business Insider:

Home insulation company Owens Corning launched the "Think Pink" campaign to protect its unique pink hue, setting a precedent for Cadbury's deep purple chocolate wrappers, UPS's Pullman brown logos, Tiffany & Co.'s robin egg blue jewelry packaging and Christian Louboutin's red shoe soles.

2017 November 6, Marissa Miller, “How colors change the way we think, feel and consume”, in CNN:

A shade of brown originally used on Pullman cars and later by UPS.


China white

Synonym of French white (“an especially pure white lead paint”)


silver white

white lead

Synonym of white lead, particularly (historical) in the form used in 19th-century Parisian paints.


myopexy

myopexy (countable and uncountable, plural myopexies)

(surgery) fixation of muscles of the eye in order to correct myopia


self-luminous

en-adj

self-luminous (comparative more self-luminous, superlative most self-luminous)

more self-luminous (comparative)
most self-luminous (superlative)

Finally, life emerges as a self-conscious, self-luminous Intelligence in man who not only thinks, feels and moves but is also conscious of being the subject, the knower of thinking, feeling and willing and controls, directs all these fluctuating States and processes of mind either towards the service of the self or towards bondage to mundane values.

1978, Nundo Lall Kundu, Constructive Philosophy of India: Tantra, page 116:

A cognition is an illuminator in respet of its content only and this content, as the illuminated, is always other than itself. But a cognition is also aware of it as an act. but this is only in distinction from its content as other than itself. In other words, it is never its own content (visaya) and is not self cognitive or self-luminous in that sense.

2000, Shyama Kumar Chattopadhyaya, The Philosophy of Sankar's Advaita Vedanta, page 267:

The self is self-luminous and so it does not need another cognition to become known.

2007, Śaṅkaṙa-bhāratī - Volume 32, page 162:

According to the Buddhist idealist, a cognition is self-luminous ; it apprehends itself but not an external object as there is no such object ; a cognition is not apprehended by the self because there is no self at all.

2013, Jadunath Sinha, Indian Psychology Perception, page 199:

(philosophy, India) Self-aware; knowable by itself.


dacryocystography

From dacryo- + cystography or dacryocyst + -o- + -graphy.

(ophthalmology) A radiography of the lacrimal apparatus.


golden-yellow

golden-yellow:


prestriate

In front of the striate cortex of the eye


unicorn vomit

I envy how obviously homemade it is, and how the 12 pounds of sprinkles dumped on top of it make it look like a tray of unicorn vomit.

2011, Haley Massara, "The etiquette of cake", Granite Bay Gazette (Granite Bay High School, Granite Bay, California), 8 April 2011, page A10

"Well, it's awesome," I say, thinking "awesome" is a generous word for a scarf that resembles unicorn vomit.

2014, Tawni Waters, Beauty and the Broken, unnumbered page:

"Because you don't let me go deeper than that. You don't let me write anything but pretty stories that make people feel like they're tromping through unicorn vomit while holding baskets of cupcakes in their arms."

2015, Hannah Brencher, If You Find This Letter: My Journey to Find Purpose Through Hundreds of Letters to Strangers, page 69:

(slang, idiomatic, humorous) Something extremely colorful, sweet, or cloying.


have a visual on

en-verb

have a visual on (third-person singular simple present has a visual on, present participle having a visual on, simple past and past participle had a visual on)

has a visual on (present singular third-person)
having a visual on (participle present)
had a visual on (participle past)
had a visual on (past)

“We have a visual on you,” the pilot of Gopher Alpha stated, ...

2012, Robert G. Davis, Ten Short Mysteries, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 102:

“Hey, partner, where the hell's your twenty? I should have a visual on you by now and I' m overdue to begin my rounds.”

2004, Michael Pinchot, Panamanian Tundra, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 157:

“This is Alpha Sky Four. I have a visual on the suspect running east on Hudson Avenue.

2012, Sherard H. Adams, The Prince of Pentium: A Life of a Hustler and a Computer Hacker, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 25:

(transitive, law enforcement and military) see


brilliant green

(organic chemistry) A triarylmethane dye, closely related to malachite green, also used in solution for its antiseptic properties.


rosso corsa

From Italian rosso corsa (“racing red”), from rosso (“red”), corsa (“racing”).

rosso corsa:

A bright red colour commonly used on sports cars.


incomitant

(ophthalmology) Describing the eye tracking misalignment that is not dependent on direction of gaze; often used to describe strabismus


shit-brown

en-noun

shit-brown (countable and uncountable, plural shit-browns)

But being the right shade of khaki or shit-brown is not enough.

1980, Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie's Little Black Bird Book, page 60:

shit-brown:

(vulgar, informal) A dark brown colour, as of excrement.


nose blindness

From nose blind + -ness and/or nose + blindness.

The condition of being noseblind (unable to detect particular odours and smells, due to familiarity with or prolonged exposure).


SKSK

Reduplication of SK (literally “stop keying”).

reduplication

(TTY/TDD) Used to indicate the end of a conversation and that one is hanging up and/or the other person should.


paurangiotic

en-adj

paurangiotic (comparative more paurangiotic, superlative most paurangiotic)

more paurangiotic (comparative)
most paurangiotic (superlative)

(ophthalmology) Of or pertaining to a very sparsely vascularized retina, such as that found in the horse.


optical delusion

en-noun

optical delusion (plural optical delusions)

I rubbed my eyes, thinking that I was the victim of some hallucination, or that the refraction from the intense light produced an optical delusion; and, as I did so, the flaming pillar slowly twisted and thundered off whithersoever it passes to in the bowels of the great earth, leaving Ayesha standing where it had been.

1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

(dated) A vision or image that is deceptive or misleading, such as an optical illusion or a trick of the light.


cerulean blue

cerulean blue (usually uncountable, plural cerulean blues)

[…] the cars were painted in "Underground" colours with red and cream (later all red) exteriors, and cerulean blue and cream interiors.

1951 January, “The Inner Circle and its Rolling Stock”, in Railway Magazine, page 59:


Poggendorff illusion

Poggendorff illusion (plural Poggendorff illusions)

Named after Johann Christian Poggendorff, journal editor who discovered the effect in figures submitted by Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner in 1860.

An optical illusion involving the misperception of the position of one segment of a transverse line that has been interrupted by the contour of an intervening structure.


suncolored

When his head nodded, the fire blazed in the blackness of his dreams and sent suncolored streaks racing back and forth between his mind and soul.

2021, Michael Farris Smith, chapter 30, in Nick, New York, Boston, London: Little, Brown and Company, page 158:

Having a dazingly bright, yellow-orange color.


kermesic acid

(organic chemistry) A red chemical pigment from the insect kermes dye named 1-methyl-2-carboxy-3,5,6,8-tetrahydroxyanthraquinone.


farmyardy

en-adj

farmyardy (comparative more farmyardy, superlative most farmyardy)

more farmyardy (comparative)
most farmyardy (superlative)

(of food or drink) Having an earthy flavor.


problem glasses

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(Internet slang, derogatory) Women's-style glasses (prescription or not) that are interpreted as signaling a prissy demeanor, especially ones that point upwards and outwards or have colorful frames.


carboxyrhodamine

(organic chemistry) Any of a range of rhodamine dyes that have one or two carboxylic acid substituents


Prussian red

en-noun

Prussian red (countable and uncountable, plural Prussian reds)

Discovered by Prussian chemist Leopold Gmelin.

(chemistry) Potassium ferricyanide, K₃[Fe(CN)₆], a highly poisonous ferric crystal salt of potassium cyanide used as a pigment.

The colour of this compound: a hue of semi-dark brownish red


Prussian red

en-adj

Prussian red (comparative more Prussian red, superlative most Prussian red)

more Prussian red (comparative)
most Prussian red (superlative)

Prussian red:


forced perspective

en-noun

forced perspective (countable and uncountable, plural forced perspectives)

An optical illusion in which an object appears of a different size or distance away than it actually is.

pakotettu perspektiivi

optical illusion in which an object appears of different size or distance


beholdable

Bones and stones, if you can forgive this vulgar formulation, are both holdable and beholdable.

2017, Paul Kockelman, The Art of Interpretation in the Age of Computation, page 113:


mint green

mint green (countable and uncountable, plural mint greens)


niphotyphlosis

Walter calls attention to the prevalence of niphotyphlosis or snowblindness, produced by the reflection from the white sands either on the beaches or highways in Florida, and in conjunction mentions the occurrence of early presbyopia […]

1916, The Ophthalmic Year Book, page 381:

Frowning, nictitation, lachrimation, photophobia, nyctalopia and niphotyphlosis and sometimes nyctophobia in certain stages of the disease are common symptoms.

1922, VM/SAC, Veterinary Medicine & Small Animal Clinician, page 273:


yummylicious

en-adj

yummylicious (comparative more yummylicious, superlative most yummylicious)

more yummylicious (comparative)
most yummylicious (superlative)

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People staying at the hotel and even the visitors can have a yummylicious meal at these restaurants.

2013 January 1, Rashmi Rekha Arya, A Writer’s Canvas Book 2 for Classes III and IV, New Delhi, India: Vikas Publishing House, →ISBN, page 11, →ISBN:

Smitten with my perky neighbourhood, every evening will not be dusked until I rented a bicycle from nearby shops, since my first ride; tasted the never-missed yummylicious valli-kadai (tea-stall run by a couple of disciplined cooks) suiyam, ice popsicles and achu murruku from palasarraku shop; thus it became my one and only summer vacation spot.

2021 March 17, RuBi, With Love Yours Truly - The Roots, Walnut Publication, →ISBN, page 11, →ISBN:


eyepro

The "cool guy" factor with most commercial, off-the-shelf (COTS) eyepro is very high. And the level of protection is also very high. Current eyepro from all leading manufacturers will stop shotgun pellets fired from about thirty feet […]

2006, Hans Halberstadt, Battle Rattle, page 45:


somatogravic illusion

en-noun

somatogravic illusion (plural somatogravic illusions)

(aviation) An illusory perception of one's pitch angle, due to the effects of linear acceleration on the vestibular system of the inner ear.


eyeballs in

Subject to acceleration or deceleration such that the eyeballs are pressed into the face.


Tuscan red

Tuscan red (countable and uncountable, plural Tuscan reds)

The C.P.R. favours that old favourite of American railways, Tuscan red.

1959 November, J. N. Westwood, “The Railways of Canada”, in Trains Illustrated, page 552:

Tuscan red:

A dark shade of red, once popularly used for railcars.


naphthol blue

Dyestuffs produced from certain complex nitrogenous derivatives of naphthol or naphthoquinone.


afterscent

1861, R. H. Chermside, An Only Son, Chapter 21, in Dublin University Magazine Volume 58, No. 343, p. 185,
“Prickly plants of disappointment spring up in so many shapes! Yet some have flowers of sweet afterscent. […] ”

Men—even those strongly addicted to the weed—seldom smoked in their own houses, the female prejudice against the after-scent of tobacco running remarkably high in the early “fifties.”

1890, William Beatty-Kingston, “The Triumphs of Smoke”, in A Journalist’s Jottings, volume 2, London: Chapman and Hall, page 137:

He closed the bathroom door with a muted creak so that he could turn on the light without its pale square opening on the wall in the bedroom where his wife lay. The warm after-scent of a bath met him.

1952, Nadine Gordimer, “Another Part of the Sky”, in Short Stories from Southern Africa, Cape Town: Oxford University Press, pages 30–31:

Carlotta tells me I am less passionate. It is morning. She has just left, leaving behind her a musky afterscent of dissatisfaction.

1976, John Updike, “From the Journal of a Leper”, in Problems and Other Stories, New York: Knopf, published 1979, page 194:

the tobacco, weed and cocaine on his fingers mixed with motor oil, all of it accumulating into the afterscent of wood smoke caught and soaked in his hair

2019, Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, New York: Penguin Press, Part 2, p. 111:

A scent that follows something; a scent remaining after its source is no longer present.


blonde bombshell

blonde bombshell (plural blonde bombshells)

Derived from bombshell (“a very attractive woman”).

(slang) A very attractive woman with blonde or yellow hair.

(slang) A stereotypical blonde woman who is very assertive and sensual but unintelligent.


blorange

/ˈblɒɹɪnd͡ʒ/

/ˈblɒɹənd͡ʒ/

Coordinate term: bronde

I couldn't afford to have anybody else color my hair anymore, so I started doing it myself and it became various shades of blond and orange. Blorange, as they call it. It was pretty bad.

(informal) A pale reddish-orange hair color.


inolfactible

en-adj

inolfactible (comparative more inolfactible, superlative most inolfactible)

more inolfactible (comparative)
most inolfactible (superlative)


café wall illusion

en-noun

café wall illusion (plural café wall illusions)

Described under its current name in 1973 by Richard Gregory, according to whom this effect was observed by a member of his laboratory, Steve Simpson, in the tiles of the wall of a café at the bottom of St Michael’s Hill, Bristol.

An optical illusion in which the parallel straight dividing lines between staggered rows with alternating dark and light bricks appear to be sloped rather than parallel.


fox eye

When NaiNai was in her prime, she had a slender figure, a sweanlike neck, and a pair of fox eyes with both ends tilted up.

2010, Anchee Min, Pearl of China, 1st U.S. edition, →ISBN, page 5:

Nobu glimpsed a porcelain face, camellia lips and slanted fox eyes […]

2012, Lesley Downer, The Samurai's Daughter, Corgi edition, published 2013, →ISBN, page 132:

She stared past the hastily dyed hair, past the freckle-shielding makeup, and into the girl's sunken fox eyes.

2019 January, Deb Jannerson, “Worst-Case Scenario”, in Obra/Artifact, volume 6, page 26:

(chiefly in the plural) A type of eye associated with East Asian people, characterized as narrow, slanted, or upturned.


alizarin crimson

alizarin crimson (plural alizarin crimsons)

a shade of red that is biased slightly more towards purple than towards orange on the color wheel and has a blue undertone


ash gray

A shade of gray that resembles the color of ashes.


sepian

en-adjective

sepian (comparative more sepian, superlative most sepian)

more sepian (comparative)
most sepian (superlative)

He who dived in the swirling Maelstrom saw none to compare with them in horror: tentacular convolutions, tumid bulges, glaring orbs of sepian deformity, would have looked to him innocence beside such incarnations of hatefulness...

(archaic) Of the sepia, i.e. the cuttlefish.


oriental blue

oriental blue:


federal yellow

(dated, US) A shade of yellow used in US government vehicles and school buses, intended to be noticed quickly.


cowpiss

Inherited from Middle English cowpisse; equivalent to cow + piss.

Cows were mainly good for kicking over the milk pail, swatting you in the face with a cowpiss-soaked tail.

1964, William Humphrey, “Sam Ordway’s Revenge”, in The Ordways, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, published 1965, →LCCN, page 249:

‘⸺ing Gebler,’ he moaned in a strangled voice, ‘what was in that bottle?’ ‘Cowpiss’, said my uncle. ‘You should have asked me but you didn’t. I would have told you what it was. We took it from a sick cow to give to the veterinarian for urinalysis.’ Brendan, gasping ‘cowpiss’, ran outraged at full speed the few hundred yards outside and down the side of the mountain to throw himself in the freezing waters of Loch Dan.

1982, Stan Davies, “Shed a Tear for Brendan”, in E. H. Mikhail, editor, Brendan Behan: Interviews and Recollections, volume 2, →ISBN, page 294:

Smell like every barn in the world. Hay, mud, cowpiss.

1982, John Olive, Clara’s Play, Samuel French, Inc., published 1984, page 38:

And when the hopeful women came near, the farmers raised up crop-sprayers, and covered them in cowpiss.

1983 July 30, Alex Hamilton, “The stamp of individuality”, in The Guardian, page 6:

cows rub shoulders against their stalls / chains rattling the night / there’s wheezing everywhere, the swish of tails / the devil, riding cowpiss manure, keeps watch

1985, Daniël Daen, “The Prodigal Son”, in Rod Jellema, transl., Country Fair: Poems from Friesland since 1945, Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company; Kampen: Catalogus Uitgeversmaatschappij J. H. Kok, →ISBN, page 173:

Petey was pretty sure it was mostly straw with a little grass plus maybe oregano and cowpiss mixed in or something.

1986, Frederick Busch, Sometimes I Live in the Country, Boston, Mass.: David R. Godine, →ISBN, page 5:

Grab yourself a cold Lone Star longneck. Pop the top, take a swig, swish it around your mouth, savor the unique flavor. You’re enjoying the National Beer of Texas. Tastes like cowpiss cause it is cowpiss.

1986 October 10, “Naked Texan Meets Benito Mussolini”, in Catalyst, volume 20, number 4, Colorado Springs, Colo., page 18:

Rusi, nodding, was eating the froglegs happily enough — but he, of course, had drunk cowpiss just as willingly during our navjote.

1988, Boman Desai, “Froglegs”, in The Memory of Elephants, Chicago, Ill., London: The University of Chicago Press, published 2001, →ISBN, page 178:

[…]the virtues of drinking ‘cowpiss’ as an expurgative[…]

1990, Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, page 153:

“Hang onto the boat,” Joe called back, and ran up the steep, stony path to where he’d parked, and there it was, clean as cowpiss, his red Chevy pickup hunkered down on four flats, with the valve stems lying around on the ground where someone’d dropped them.

1990, Vance Bourjaily, Old Soldier, New York, N.Y.: Donald I. Fine, Inc., →ISBN, page 148:

He picked up Vince’s abandoned Guinness and took a swig. “Jesus, that’s real cowpiss, isn’t it?[…]”

1992 July, Bridget McKenna, “A Little Night Music”, in Amazing Stories, volume LXVII, number 4 (whole 572), page 36:

“Esoteric? Don’t be talking, man. It’s plain as cowpiss. Half the world’s problems would go away if we all accepted God and, having accepted Him, admitted that we’d been looking for Him all along.”

1997, Roger Boylan, Killoyle, Dalkey Archive Press, published 1998, →ISBN, page 66:

They flipped through a Penthouse that Brandon had been carrying in his backpack as the mosquitoes buzzed around the muddy herd of cattle. Bugs skimmed across the murky water. They watched the sun set over the distant treeline in shining streaks of orange as cowpiss splashes sounded from behind them, and in the calming air of the dusk they relaxed silently as their sweat evaporated into the fading light.

2000, John McManus, “June 1989”, in Stop Breakin Down, New York, N.Y.: Picador USA, →ISBN, page 85:

Shadow-flit, / Ink-gleam and quill-shine, late now in the day / I need their likes, freshets and rivulets / Starting from nowhere, capillaries of joy / Frittered and flittering like the scimitar / Of cowpiss in the wind that David Thomson / Flashed on my inner eye from the murky byre / Where he imagined himself a cow let out in spring / Smelling green weed, up to his hips in grass.

2001, Seamus Heaney, “Late in the Day”, in Electric Light, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 85:

“Hey—how about a snort of something good. Take a break from that cowpiss.” He brought a bottle of dark liquor from the cabin.

2003, Stuart Sheppard, Spindrift, Berkeley, Calif.: Creative Arts Book Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 204:

The water had been warm as cowpiss in the shallows but as the line squished forward the chill made me want to either get in or get out.

2010, Roger Alan Skipper, Bone Dogs, Berkeley, Calif.: Counterpoint, →ISBN, page 48:

But we signed that cowpiss agreement and now the bastard’s suing me.

2014, George Szanto, Whatever Lola Wants, Brindle & Glass, →ISBN, page 221:

He himself felt rough / (Because this lady had a cowpiss scent)

2018, The Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht, translation of original by Bertolt Brecht:


leek-green

en-adj

leek-green (comparative more leek-green, superlative most leek-green)

more leek-green (comparative)
most leek-green (superlative)

Oat crops are for the most part leek-green and promising well; some of the brown oats are whitening to harvest, and on some farms (outlying) are in stook.

1927, The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, page 4, column 3:

leek-green:

Having a light green colour as that of the top part of a leek.


stink line

One of multiple, usually wavy, lines, in a drawing, emanating from something to indicate that it smells bad.


monoeye

Tysm Hitomi!! They are both so cute! 😳💖 Why does everyone have a cute monoeye OC~

2022 December 10, Akiko✨ (@Akiko_oc), Twitter:

It's also the first day of the month, that means it's monoeye day! Cyclops art RT bomb incoming!

2022 February 1, Hitomi 👁🎧 (@HitomiOnpa), Twitter:

(chiefly anime and manga) A humanlike monster girl species with a single large eye.


candy pink

en-noun

candy pink (countable and uncountable, plural candy pinks)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-candy pink.wav

candy pink:


pRGC

photosensitive retinal ganglion cell#English

Abbreviation of photosensitive retinal ganglion cell


mRGC

melanopsin-containing retinal ganglion cell#English

Abbreviation of melanopsin-containing retinal ganglion cell


intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cell (plural intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells)

melanopsin-containing retinal ganglion cells

A type of photoreceptor cell, alongside cones and rods, that allow for vision