true blue

en-noun

true blue (countable and uncountable, plural true blues)

A mild Liberalism prevailed, a Liberalism that would be regarded as hide-bound Toryism now, but was daring enough in those days. One man who had been to work in Northampton proclaimed himself a Radical; but he was cancelled out by the landlord, who called himself a ‘true blue’.

1939, Flora Thompson, “At the ‘Wagon and Horses’”, in Lark Rise to Candleford: A Trilogy, London: Penguin Books, published 1973, →ISBN, pages 65–66:

(countable) A faithful partisan or supporter of a cause, person, political party, etc.

vankkumaton tukija

faithful partisan or supporter of a cause, etc.

(uncountable, historical) A blue dye from Coventry, England, famous for not washing out.

true blue

(color models and color spaces) A precisely defined pure blue, as for example web color #0000FF = RGB(0,0,255).


birth control glasses

(plural only, US, military slang) The brown-framed prescription eyeglasses issued to new recruits in the U.S. military, and perceived as notoriously unattractive.


monocular

You are not such a foolish woman as to like to be seen with Fred Mostyn, that little monocular snob, after the aristocratic, handsome Basil Stanhope.

Of any optical system suitable for use by one eye at a time.


monocular

The moony monocular set in his eye / Appeared to be scanning the Sweet Bye-and-Bye.

1911, Ambrose Bierce, “lord”, in The Devil’s Dictionary, New York, N.Y., Washington, D.C.: The Neale Publishing Company, →OCLC:


pean

Derived from Middle French penne (“feather”), from penna (“feather”); doublet of pen and penna.

der+

(heraldry) A heraldic fur of gold spots on a black field.


pean

(heraldry) In blazon, a heraldic fur of a black field with gold spots.

kontraguldhermelin

of black colour with gold spots on a coat of arms


burnt orange

burnt orange:


burnt orange

en-adj

burnt orange (comparative more burnt orange, superlative most burnt orange)

more burnt orange (comparative)
most burnt orange (superlative)

As for her beauty look, the Jennifer’s Body star had dyed her long tresses a burnt-orange shade, and styled them slightly curled at the ends and down across her shoulders. She also repped a bubblegum-pink manicure with an abstract black design.

2023 May 19, Chelsey Sanchez, “Megan Fox Makes Her Red-Carpet Comeback in a Body-Sculpting Sheer Gown”, in Harper's Bazaar:


retinal

From retina + -al (“of or pertaining to”).

(ophthalmology, relational) Of or pertaining to the retina.

intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cell

melanopsin-containing retinal ganglion cell


retinal

en-noun

retinal (countable and uncountable, plural retinals)

/ˈɹɛt.əˌnæl/

/ˈɹɛt.əˌnɔl/

(biochemistry, organic chemistry) A yellow to orange aldehyde derived from vitamin A that is formed from rhodopsin by the action of light and in combination with proteins forms the visual pigments of the retinal rods and cones.


tritanopia

tritanopia (countable and uncountable, plural tritanopias)

From trito- (“third (color)”) + an- (“without”) + -opia (“vision”).

Tritanopia is an extremely rare hereditary condition corresponding to a loss in function of the short wavelength sensitive cones. To produce transient tritanopia, the eye of the normal observer is first strongly adapted to a yellow light that maximally adapts the pigment of the long and middle wavelength cones, but has relatively less influence on the short wavelength sensitive cones.

1990, T. E. Frumkes, “7: Classical and Modern Psychological Studies of Dark and Light Adaptation”, in K. Nicholas Leibovic, editor, Science of Vision, page 203:

1997, M. Alpern, K. Kitahara, D. H. Krantz, 9: Perception of Colour in Unilateral Tritanopia, Alex Byrne, David R. Hilbert (editors), Readings on Color, Volume 2: The Science of Color, page 231,
M. Alpern et. al 1983 gives results of colour matching and colour discrimination for each eye separately of a subject who acquired tritanopia in his left eye while remaining a normal trichromat with his right one.

People with an inborn blue-green blindness (tritanopia) may completely lack the function of these receptor cells.[…]The inheritance of inborn tritanopia is not sex-linked; the gene for the S-cone opsin is localized to chromosome 7.

2016, Daniel Kernell, Colours and Colour Vision: An Introductory Survey, page 167:

(ophthalmology) A form of color blindness in which the retina is deficient in or lacks cone cells containing opsins that respond to the color blue, resulting in an inability to distinguish blue from green.


foul-smelling

en-adj

foul-smelling (comparative more foul-smelling, superlative most foul-smelling)

more foul-smelling (comparative)
most foul-smelling (superlative)


sweet-smelling

sweet-smelling (comparative more sweet-smelling, superlative most sweet-smelling)

more sweet-smelling (comparative)
most sweet-smelling (superlative)

It was always rather refreshing to find oneself among the sweet-smelling timber and the more peaceful atmosphere of a wood-working place, on a day-work and not piece-work basis.

1944 November and December, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 341:


body odour

en-noun

body odour (countable and uncountable, plural body odours)

The unpleasant smell emitted by a person's body, caused by bacteria multiplied by sweat.


red hair

red hair (countable and uncountable, plural red hairs)


murrey

murrey (countable and uncountable, plural murreys)

From Middle English murrey, murreye, from Middle French moré, morée, from Latin moratum, morata, from neuter and feminine respectively of moratus (“mulberry-colored”), from morum (“mulberry”) + -atus (“-ate”).

murrey:

(heraldry) A tincture, the colour of mulberries, between gules (red) and purpure (purple).


unhearing

[She] flung herself / Down on the great King's couch, and writhed upon it, / And clench'd her fingers till they bit the palm, / And shriek'd out 'traitor' to the unhearing wall, […]

1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Elaine”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 179:

Camille said, as if unhearing, "Of course Apollo isn't with us permanently, you know!"

2001, Joyce Carol Oates, Middle Age: A Romance, paperback edition, Fourth Estate, page 272:


blear

en-verb

blear (third-person singular simple present blears, present participle blearing, simple past and past participle bleared)

blears (present singular third-person)
blearing (participle present)
bleared (participle past)
bleared (past)

From Middle English bleren, from Old English *blerian.

When winter blears bleakly the forest,
And the water binds gray to its blue,
Safe and sound in her covert I leave her,
Till spring calls again my canoe.

1865, Alfred Billings Street, “My Canoe”, in Forest Pictures in the Adirondacks, New York: Gregory, page 33:

1888, David Atwood Wasson, “Babes of God” Part II in Poems, Boston: Lee & Shepard, p. 36,
Now, one among the foremost, looking up
By chance, with horror saw, in farthest sky
Fronting their course, a troublous film of cloud,—
A strange, dark, troublous film of cloud,—
Blearing the beauty of the crystal wall.

He stared at but did not see the bleared reflection of the flanking cherubs a hundred feet above the steel-grey veneer of water.

1946, Mervyn Peake, “Here and There”, in Titus Groan, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode:

(transitive, of an image) To blur, make blurry.


coppery

en-adj

coppery (comparative more coppery, superlative most coppery)

more coppery (comparative)
most coppery (superlative)

coppery:

That night I dreamed I had a very disagreeable taste in my mouth, which caused me to spit all the time. I awoke and found my mouth full of saliva, with a coppery taste, and sure enough, I was obliged to spit.

2002, E. P. Anshutz, New, Old and Forgotten Remedies, page 380:

Venetian women who wanted coppery hair colors applied bleaching mixtures, such as one that contained alum, sulfur, soda, and rhubarb. Then they sat in the sun, where heat produced a chemical reaction that developed the color.

2006, Victoria Sherrow, Encyclopedia of Hair: A Cultural History, page 155:

Resembling the metal copper, especially in color.


tartness

en-noun

tartness (countable and uncountable, plural tartnesses)

From Middle English *tartnesse, from Old English teartnes (“sharpness, severity, asperity”), equivalent to tart + -ness.

inh

The characteristic of being tart; sharpness of taste.


deodorize

en-verb

deodorize (third-person singular simple present deodorizes, present participle deodorizing, simple past and past participle deodorized)

deodorizes (present singular third-person)
deodorizing (participle present)
deodorized (participle past)
deodorized (past)

To mask or eliminate the odor of, or an odor in, (something).


compound eye

en:a visual organ found in arthropods such as insects and crustaceans

A visual organ found in arthropods such as insects and crustaceans. It consists of one to thousands of tiny independent photoreception units.


laughter lines

Especially visible when smiling or laughing.

She wanted to hear his man's voice and see the laughter-lines come and go round his eyes.

Wrinkles at the outer corners of the eye.


alizarin

en-noun

alizarin (countable and uncountable, plural alizarins)

Borrowed from French alizarine, corresponding to alizari + -in.

glass headed pins,
oil-golds and copper greens,
anthracite blues, alizarins,

1946, Elizabeth Bishop, “Roosters”, in North and South:

In 1883, the German output of alizarin, the brilliant red chemical that imitated natural carmine, reached twelve thousand tons, dwarfing the amount being produced by Perkin's factory in London.

2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of all Maladies, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 82:

(organic chemistry) A red substance, 1,2-dihydroxyanthraquinone, extracted from madder root and used as a dye.


bluey

bluey (countable and uncountable, plural blueys)

‘Doc’ […] shouldered his bluey and whistled up his lame fox-terrier before formally wishing them all well.

1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 318:

(Australian slang) A collection of clothes and other belongings rolled up into a bundle for carrying; a swag.

(Australian slang) A blue cattle dog, especially a blue heeler.

(Australian slang) A person with ginger hair.


deliciously

en-adv

deliciously (comparative more deliciously, superlative most deliciously)

more deliciously (comparative)
most deliciously (superlative)


-opia

Attested classically as -ωπία in a few words, such as ἀμβλυωπία (ambluōpía). Apparently equivalent to -οψία (-opsía).

(medicine, ophthalmology) vision (used to form names of visual defects)


ametropia

en-noun

ametropia (countable and uncountable, plural ametropias)

From a- + Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron, “measure”) + -opia.

af

(medicine, ophthalmology) Any of several disorders of the eye (spherical or cylindrical) resulting from faulty refractive ability.

ametropia

any of several disorders of the eye resulting from faulty refractive ability


anisometropia

From an- + iso- + metr- (“measure”) + -opia.

(ophthalmology) A condition in which the two eyes of an individual have different refractive power.

anisometropia

condition in which the eyes have different refractive power


nyctalopia

en-noun

nyctalopia (countable and uncountable, plural nyctalopias or nyctalopiae)

nyctalopias (plural)
nyctalopiae (plural)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek νυκταλωπία (nuktalōpía), from νύξ (núx, “night”), ἀλαός (alaós, “blind”), and ὄψ (óps, “eye”).

(medicine) The inability to see clearly in dim light; night blindness


hemianopia

hemianopia (usually uncountable, plural hemianopias)

(ophthalmology) Alternative form of hemianopsia


hemianopsia

hemianopsia (countable and uncountable, plural hemianopsias)

(ophthalmology) Blindness in one half of the field of vision of either or both eyes.


hypermetropia

hypermetropia (countable and uncountable, plural hypermetropias)

/ˌhaɪpə(ɹ)məˈtɹəʊpɪə/

From Ancient Greek ὑπέρμετρος (hupérmetros, “excessive”) + ὀπός (opós) (genitive of ὄψ (óps, “eye”)) + -ia.


quadrantanopia

en-noun

quadrantanopia (countable and uncountable, plural quadrantanopias)

(ophthalmology) The loss of vision in one or more quadrants of the field of view.


listenership

listenership (countable and uncountable, plural listenerships)

/ˈlɪsənəʃɪp/

/ˈlɪsənɚʃɪp/

From listener + -ship (suffix denoting a property or state of being).

suffix

Following are the main features found in the talk of three of the six Thanksgiving celebrants. [...] 3. Pacing. (a) faster rate of speech, (b) inter-turn pauses avoided (silence is evidence of lack of rapport), (c) faster turntaking, (d) cooperative overlap and participatory listenership.

1981, Deborah Tannen, “New York Jewish Conversational Style”, in International Journal of the Sociology of Language, volume 30, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 137:

Marsha refers to the characteristic which Pam identified, showing verbal agreement, as "a bad habit," claiming that rather than showing good listenership, it often masks not listening ("tune 'em out").

1994, Deborah Tannen, “Gender Differences in Conversational Coherence: Physical Alignment and Topical Cohesion”, in Gender and Discourse, New York, N.Y., Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 124:

These categories form a continuum that shows the degree of floor control, i.e. the left end of the continuum indicates that the speaker has little floor control and is more likely to engage in listenership, while the right end of the continuum shows strong influence on floor control (the speaker can dominate the floor, taking away the floor from the previous speaker).

2001, Hiroko Futo, “Turn-taking in Japanese Conversation”, in Laurence Horn, editor, Turn-taking in English and Japanese: Projectability in Grammar, Intonation, and Semantics (Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics), New York, N.Y., London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 94:

[W]omen tend to provide and expect more listener feedback such as "yeah," "mhm," and "uhuh," so they often get the mistaken impression that men are not listening when they are, while men often mistake women's signs of listenership for signs of agreement, and feel misled when they later learn that the women did not agree.

2012, Deborah Tannen, “Turn-taking and Intercultural Discourse and Communication”, in Christian Bratt Paulston, Scott F[abius] Kiesling, Elizabeth S. Rangel, editors, The Handbook of Intercultural Discourse and Communication (Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics), Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, part III (International Discourse Features), page 149:

(linguistics) The act of paying attention to a conversation or speech; listening.


deliciousness

en-noun

deliciousness (usually uncountable, plural deliciousnesses)

The state or quality of being delicious.


butternut

butternut (countable and uncountable, plural butternuts)

Juglans cinerea
Juglans cinerea#Translingual

A North American walnut tree, Juglans cinerea.

A dye made from the fruit of this walnut tree.

He made a delicious butternut soup.

Butternut squash
butternut squash#English

(informal outside South Africa) Butternut squash.


unblinking

en-adj

unblinking (comparative more unblinking, superlative most unblinking)

more unblinking (comparative)
most unblinking (superlative)


LASIK

In LASIK surgery, a computer-controlled laser is used to reshape the cornea.

After LASIK, most patients see well enough to pass a driver's license exam without glasses or contact lenses.

(ophthalmology) Abbreviation of laser in situ keratomileusis: corrective eye surgery for various refractive disorders in which an excimer laser reshapes the cornea.


sables

Argent, a fesse between 3 cressauntes Sables. Sables, a sunne Argent.

1899, Thomas Abingdon, A Survey of Worcestershire, page 465:

[…] this letter H sables and to the Creast upon the Healme on a wreathe silver & sables a Turtle-dove azure manteled gules doubled silver. Fifthly the Greke Reader the field silver & sables & perty^([sic]) per cheveron in the first these two Greke letters Α Alpha and Ω Omega sables & in the second a Cicade or Grasshoper silver […] Rob: Cooke alias Clarencieulx Roy D'Armes / The foregoing is taken from Baker's transcript of the original grant (v. Baker's MSS. in the University Library, Cambridge, vol. xxvi., p. 27).

1899, The Genealogical Magazine, page 126:

The arms of his father, John Smith, were ratified and confirmed by Christopher Barker, Garter King of Arms, on March 12, 1545, and according to the description of them given in the dead, his crest was "an eagle rysing sables, holding in his right claw a pen argent, issuing thereout flames of fyer set upon a wreath argent and azure, mantelles gules, lined argent, botoned gold."

1900, Ex Libris Society (London, England), Journal, page 33:

(uncommon) Alternative form of sable (“heraldry: black”)


crystal violet

A dye, derived from gentian violet, that is used as an acid-base indicator and as a biological stain.


goggle-eyed

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

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

[…] now and then we met a goggle-eyed pilgrim trudging along, and staring about him as if he waited only for night and opportunity to have additional reasons for hurrying to Jerusalem.

1783, William Beckford, Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents, Letter 13:

Urging a Harvard University audience to bridge "the gulf between scientific and nonscientific cultures," England's Sir Charles P. Snow, physicist and novelist, mapped the abyss by noting: "I've often asked distinguished English writers and the like a rather simple question, such as 'What idea, if any, do you have of the second law of thermodynamics?', and an air of goggle-eyed stupefaction comes over the party.

1974, Esther Pasztory, The Iconography of the Teotihuacan Tlaloc, Studies in Pre-Columbian Art and Archaeology No. 15, Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University, Washington, D.C., p. https://books.google.ca/books?id=L0QClI2QOwQC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
The frequency of goggle-eyed figures and water symbolism in Teotihuacan art has misled investigators into assuming that ll figures with these associations represent Tlaloc.

1993, Bob Cryer, Hansard, Mines health and safety, 26 October, 1993, https://web.archive.org/web/20190212095659/https://www.hansard-corpus.org/
The Minister knew that it was controversial, but as he is an arrogant, right-wing, goggle-eyed extremist, he does not care.

Having prominent eyes; with the eyes widely opened or protruding, either naturally or from astonishment or curiosity.


green belt

From green (adjective) + belt (“band worn around the waist; thing resembling a belt, a strip or stripe”).

compound

Senses relating to an area of land with plants on it.

A strip of land with plants in a place which is otherwise bare.

kasveja kasvava alue

A strip of land on which trees are planted to protect against desertification, soil erosion, etc.

suojametsäalue

A strip of land next to a building, open space, road, etc., with plants on it, intended for exercise or recreation.

viheralue

The LCC [London County Council] would initiate the campaign for the Green Belt, which the men at the top of London Transport would support.

2012, Andrew Martin, “Enter Yerkes”, in Underground Overground: A Passenger’s History of the Tube, London: Profile Books, →ISBN, page 149:

(chiefly British) An area of agricultural land around an urban area that is protected from large-scale building.

حزام أخضر

When the club is fully developed and has a reasonable spectrum of ranks in it, the training schedule should be stable to encourage the habit of training. […] The advanced (above green belt) class meets for an additional hour, three times per week (Monday, Wednesday, and Friday).

1995, Elmar T. Schmeisser, “The University Dojo: Teaching a Traditional Martial Art in a Nontraditional Setting”, in Carol A. Wiley, editor, Martial Arts Teachers on Teaching (Io Series; 53), Berkeley, Calif.: Frog, North Atlantic Books, →ISBN, page 129:

He estimates it was around 1964 when the Japanese stylists of karate brought in the green belt to bridge the gap between white and brown.

2011, Yvonne Cruz, “Cruz Karate Studios”, in Grandmaster Freddie G. Cruz: Biography of a True Legend in the Martial Arts World, [S.l.]: Bookemon, →ISBN, page 217:

Any green belt martial artist could've done that. Because they were just ordinary goons, hired guns.

2014 October, Sharit Sinha, “The Revelation”, in Blood Rush, 3rd edition, [S.l.]: Sharit Sinha, published December 2017, →ISBN, page 36:

A belt which is green in colour worn by a person who has achieved a certain (usually intermediate) level of skill in a martial art, especially judo or karate; also, the level of skill represented by this belt.

vihreä vyö

belt which is green in colour worn by a person who has achieved a certain (usually intermediate) level of skill in a martial art; the level of skill represented by this belt

After a month I distinctly remember one of the ‘green belts’ giving me a thorough but gentle working over in one of the sparring sessions, I was impressed not just with his ability to defeat me, but with the ease with which he did it.

2012, Noel C., “What Karate Means to Me”, in Tom Hill, editor, Essays for Black Belt, Luton, Bedfordshire: Andrews UK, →ISBN, page 22:

Develop a career progression ladder for black belts and green belts.

[2012, T. M. Kubiak, “Mentoring Black Belts and Green Belts”, in The Certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt Handbook, Milwaukee, Wis.: ASQ Quality Press, →ISBN, part V (Mentoring Responsibilities), page 306:

A person who has earned the rank of green belt in a martial art.


fair-haired

en-adj

fair-haired (comparative more fair-haired or fairer-haired, superlative most fair-haired or fairest-haired)

more fair-haired (comparative)
fairer-haired (comparative)
most fair-haired (superlative)
fairest-haired (superlative)

Not noticeably belonging to any one group is often upsetting, and these feelings of isolation, of not fitting in, easily carry over into adolescence—a time when everyone, even the fairest-haired among us, must struggle awfully hard just to seem seminormal.

1997, Sandra Scarry, John Scarry, The Writer’s Workplace: Paragraphs to Essays; Building College Writing Skills, Fort Worth, Tex.: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, →ISBN, page 531:


fustiness

en-noun

fustiness (usually uncountable, plural fustinesses)

[…] I was running away from drabness, fustiness, snobbery, the claustrophobia of close horizons, and from my inability, although I am quite an attractive rat, to make headway in the rat-race.

1980 [1962], Ian Fleming, chapter 1, in The Spy Who Loved Me, →ISBN, page 3:

[T. E.] Lawrence said that in the end he felt himself to be fighting not for the imperial British but for the rebellious Arabs. All too often he conflicted with British bureaucratic fustiness.

2014 March 2, Jan Morris, “Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Scott Anderson, review: A skilful account of T. E. Lawrence and his role in the painful birth of an emerging Middle East [print version: A rock in Arabia's shifting sands, 1 March 2014, p. R26]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review):


flavorful

en-adj

flavorful (comparative more flavorful, superlative most flavorful)

more flavorful (comparative)
most flavorful (superlative)

Guokui, a Chinese flatbread, stars at this new Greenwich Village spot. A big, crisp, nicely burnished oval that’s baked in a clay oven, this style of guokui comes with an improbably thin layer of filling that packs a flavorful punch.

2020 August 11, Florence Fabricant, “A Filled Chinese Flatbread Comes to Manhattan”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-08-11, Off the Menu:


amethystine

amethystine (comparative more amethystine, superlative most amethystine)

more amethystine (comparative)
most amethystine (superlative)

His cubic forms phosphoric Fluor prints, / Or rays in spheres his amethystine tints.

1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 80:

Certainly […] no spot more dazzlingly becircled with blue seas, amethystine peaks, and islets magically scattered on pellucid water, could have been chosen for the greatest naval battle of modern times.

1881, James Albert Harrison, Spain, page 499:

Like amethyst, especially in colour; violet-purple.


perfumery

en-noun

perfumery (countable and uncountable, plural perfumeries)

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

(uncountable) The manufacture of perfume.


testaceous

en-adj

testaceous (comparative more testaceous, superlative most testaceous)

more testaceous (comparative)
most testaceous (superlative)

Of a dull orange or brownish colour, like brick.


hypoalgesia

en-noun

hypoalgesia (usually uncountable, plural hypoalgesias)

A decreased sensitivity to painful stimuli.


earpiece

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

My glasses won't stay on, as I've broken the left earpiece.

The arm on a pair of glasses that hooks over the ear to hold them in place.


leaf green

A bright green like the usual colour of leaves.


shufti

UK 1940s, originally military slang. From Egyptian Arabic شُفْتِ، شُفْتِي (šufti, “have you seen?”, literally “you saw”), a conjugation of شَاف (šāf, “to see”).

uder

شُفْتِ، شُفْتِي

"Perkins, we are asking you to be that one man. I want you to lay down your life, Perkins. We need a futile gesture at this stage. It will raise the whole tone of the war. Get up in a crate, Perkins, pop over to Bremen, take a shufti, don't come back. Goodbye, Perkins. God, I wish I was going too."

1961, Peter Cook, Beyond the Fringe (AfterMyth of War):

"Caucasus mountains," said the driver. "I think. Let's have a shufti at the map."

1992, Tom Holt, Tall Stories, Orbit, published 2004, page 276:

2005, J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Raincoast Books ; Bloomsbury, page 431,
"When we come face to face with [a ghost] down a dark alley we're going to be having a shufti to see if it's solid, aren't we, we're not going to be asking, 'Excuse me, are you the imprint of a departed soul?'"


electroretinography

en-noun

electroretinography (usually uncountable, plural electroretinographies)

(ophthalmology) A diagnostic test to used to measure the electrical responses of various cell types in the retina.


deodorizer

A substance or device that removes or masks odors/odours; a device to dispense deodorant.


pungently

en-adv

pungently (comparative more pungently, superlative most pungently)

more pungently (comparative)
most pungently (superlative)


filemot

An anglicized form of feuillemorte / French feuille-morte.

filemot:

Synonym of feuillemorte: the color of a dead or faded leaf: dull brown or yellowish brown.


olid

en-adj

olid (comparative more olid, superlative most olid)

more olid (comparative)
most olid (superlative)

Borrowed from Latin olidus from olēre (“to smell”).

The febrile attack is usually somewhat severe in all its stages, the pricking sensation occurs during the hot fit, and is like that of pin-points struck into the skin; the sweat is copious, but proves by its sour and olid smell that it is a morbid secretion, and hence affords no relief.

1824, John Mason Good, The study of medicine: with a physiological system of nosology:

An olid smell made the boy catch his breath.

1999, Christian Petersen, Let the Day Perish:

It was dark and musty, the carpet giving off an olid smell of mildew.

2000, Chris R. Jamison, The Chesler Legacy, page 46:


blee

en-noun

blee (countable and uncountable, plural blees)

From Middle English blee, ble, from Old English blēo, bleoh (“color, hue; complexion, form”), from Proto-West Germanic *blīu (“color, blee”).
Cognate with Scots ble, blee, blie (“color, complexion”), Old Frisian blī, blie (“color, hue; complexion”) (whence North Frisian bläy, Saterland Frisian Bläier), Middle Dutch blie, blye (“color”). Doublet of bly.

inh

Then the captain, young Lord Leigh, with his eyes so grey of blee,— / Toll slowly.

1850, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Rhyme of the Duchess May”, in Poems. … In Two Volumes, new edition, volume II, London: Chapman & Hall, 193, Piccadilly. (Late, 186 Strand), →OCLC, stanza XXVI, page 57:

IT was a Mothering Sunday ; / The sky was clear to see / Above the white, white snowdrop, / And the crocus of golden blee.

1893, “A Story of Mothering Sunday.”, in The Sunday at Home, volume 40, Religious Tract Society, page 381:

The captain wonderful to see / With eyes a-change in depth and blee; / A-change, a-change for ever and aye, / Blue, and purple, and black, and gray; / And hair like the weed that finds a home / In the depth of a trail of white sea-foam.

1896, Emily Henrietta Hickey, “The Ship from Tirnanoge”, in Poems by Emily Hickley, page 48:

1913, Francis Thompson, "Stolen Fruit of Eden-Tree (‘The Schoolmaster for God’)", in Brigid M. Boardman (ed.), The Poems of Francis Thompson: A New Edition, Continuum, 2001, lines 59 to 64.
The fruit thereof is fair and fine, / And golden of its blee, / That well the Son of God might think / It came of Paradise—tree, / Nor deem how its root with cold Pit-fire / Is suckled evilly.

"Live, live," and "Here, here," the blackbird / From the top of the bare ash-tree, / Over the acres whistles / With beak of yellow blee.

1931 October, Padraic Colum, “Before the Fair”, in Lascelles Abercrombie, editor, New English Poems: A Miscellany of Contemporary Verse Never before Published, London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 14 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, →OCLC, page 142:


watchet

en-noun

watchet (countable and uncountable, plural watchets)

From Middle English wachet, waget; compare French vaciet (“whortleberry”), Latin vaccīnium (“blueberry”).

watchet:

I was going by his Highneſs's order to my Lady Iſabellas chamber: She lies in the watchet'-coloured chamber, on the right-hand, one pair of ſtairs.

1764 December 24 (indicated as 1765), Onuphrio Muralto, translated by William Marshal [pseudonyms; Horace Walpole], chapter V, in The Castle of Otranto, […], London: […] Tho[mas] Lownds […], →OCLC, pages 175–176:


sightlessness

the characteristic of being sightless; blindness


sightlessly

en-adv

sightlessly (comparative more sightlessly, superlative most sightlessly)

more sightlessly (comparative)
most sightlessly (superlative)


towheaded

en-adj

towheaded (comparative more towheaded, superlative most towheaded)

more towheaded (comparative)
most towheaded (superlative)


trifocals

From tri- + focal (see focus). Coined by John Isaac Hawkins, their inventor, in 1826.

(optics) Spectacles with corrective lenses that have three different powers per eye.


aeruginous

aeruginous (comparative more aeruginous, superlative most aeruginous)

more aeruginous (comparative)
most aeruginous (superlative)

Borrowed from Middle French erugineux, from Latin aerūginōsus (“rusty”).

aeruginous:

There was definitely some aeruginous material on that door handle.

It is not possible to adequately discuss aeruginous (copper rust) corrosion products without introducing several principles of corrosion and descriptions of minerals.

2002, David A. Scott, Copper and Bronze in Art: Corrosion, Colorants, Conservation, Getty Publications, →ISBN, page 11:

Pertaining to copper rust; in particular, resembling the greenish colour of copper rust.


atrous

atrous (comparative more atrous, superlative most atrous)

more atrous (comparative)
most atrous (superlative)

Male atrous leadcolourd^([sic]) on the upper side, under side a mixture of whitish and ferruginous with cuspidate fasciae ;

1830, Jonathan Stokes, Botanical Commentaries- Volume 1:

Head atrous, viridescent on lateral frontal spaces and occiput, gulae, basal part of mentum on each side of median tooth brightly viridescent; prothorax atrous, with viridescent tints on disc and wide brassy-green basal and lateral margins.

1917, Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales:

Perithecia sparse, innate, then erumpent for apical portion, subglobose, atrous, with ostiollar portion a little enlarged.

1968, Iconographia Mycologica - Issues 22-27:

An imposing portrait of a Caucasian male holding an atrous book with a sheepish smile hung ominously over the bed.

The throng shouted, female Eligor flung flowers from the roofs as the rhythmic chiming of iron-shod riding beasts came clearer, and the first of the mighty array swung into view in the broad, atrous streets that curved round the spired Grand Union of Imperial Opal.

2014, Mark Alan Lindsley, Future Earth, page 405:


wayfarers

I can see you / Your brown skin shining in the sun / You got your hair slicked back and those Wayfarers on, baby

1984, “The Boys of Summer”, in Don Henley (lyrics), Building the Perfect Beast:

I'm tense, my hair is slicked back. Wayfarers on, my skull is aching.

1991, Bret Easton Ellis, “Dry Cleaners”, in American Psycho, London: Picador, →ISBN, page 81:

(capitalized) A pair of Ray-Ban Wayfarer glasses.


horn-rimmed

A little bald-headed man with huge horn-rimmed spectacles, and a very handsome and athletic youth in a blue lounge-suit completed the group.

1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:

(of eyeglasses) Having the frames made from horn or tortoiseshell or a material that resembles it, and characterized by their bold appearance on the wearer's face, in contrast to metal frames, which appear less pronounced.


couching

From Middle English couchynge; equivalent to couch + -ing.

[C]ataract surgery has been employed for more than 20 centuries. The primary surgical technique for the large majority of this time was a procedure called couching. The first written description of couching is from an Indian surgeon, Susruta, circa 600 BC, involving the insertion of a needle into the eye and displacement of the lens out of the visual axis through either inferior or superior dislocation.

2006, Sanduk Ruit, Geoffrey C. Tabin, Charles C. Wykoff, “Cataract Surgery”, in Fighting Global Blindness: Improving World Vision through Cataract Elimination, Washington, D.C.: American Public Health Association, →ISBN, page 21:

(ophthalmology) An early, largely obsolete, method of treating a cataract by using a sharp object to displace the opaque lens in the eye.


red-eye

en-noun

red-eye (countable and uncountable, plural red-eyes)

The noun is derived from red + eye; sense 2.3 (“strong but poor-quality whiskey”) and sense 3 (“overnight airplane flight”) are probably so named because they may cause people to develop bloodshot eyes.
The verb is derived from the noun.

Agkistrodon contortrix Linnaeus.—Cotton-mouth, Highland Moccasin, Rattlesnake Pilot, Red-eye.

[1905, F. N. Notestein, “The Ophidia of Michigan with an Analytical Key”, in Seventh Report of the Michigan Academy of Science: […], Lansing, Mich.: Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co., state printers, →OCLC, page 120:

Agkistrodon contortrix
Agkistrodon contortrix#Translingual

(countable) Any of various animals that have red eyes.

(US) Either of two subspecies of the copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix), a venomous pit viper native to the United States: either the broad-banded copperhead or Texas copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix laticinctus), or the highland moccasin or northern copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen).


puppy dog eyes

A facial expression showing credulous or unsophisticated innocence or naivety.


colorway

Each colorway has a variety of tones (light, medium, and dark) and print styles (floral, dots, stripes, abstract, and geometric).

2011, Emily Cier, Quilt Remix: Spin Traditional Favorites into 10 Fresh Projects, C&T Publishing, →ISBN, page 33:

(art) Any of the schemes of two or more colors in which a design is available.


pupillary

Borrowed from Latin pūpillāris, as if the form were *pūpillārius.

(law) Of or pertaining to person below a certain legal age, or to a ward.


primary colour

Red, blue and green are additive primary colours.

Magenta, yellow and cyan are subtractive primary colours.

(British spelling) Any of three colours which, when added to or subtracted from others in different amounts, can generate all other colours

color primari

any of three colours which can generate all other colours


redolence

redolence (countable and uncountable, plural redolences)


TTY

teletypewriter (originally), or a text display device, as used by the deaf to read voice communication converted to text by a communication assistant device (CA).


TTY

(text messaging, Internet slang) Initialism of talk to you.


eyewear

American manufacturers are now describing spectacles as "eyewear".

1925, Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Sir Francis Cowley Burnand, Sir Owen Seaman, editors, London charivari:

Use of safety eyewear by Jones saved his sight when he was holding a chisel, another employe lifted up a hammer to hit the chisel and accidentally struck Jones in the nose and safety glasses.

1974 October 14, “Wise Owl Club inducts two”, in St. Petersburg Times / Manatee Times, retrieved 2010-09-01, page 3:

ANSI divides sunglasses into three categories: fashion spectacles that shield eyes from only 70% of UV-B and less than 60% of UV-A; everyday eyewear that screens out 95% of UV-B and between 60% and 92% of UV-A; and special-purpose glasses that absorb almost 99% of ultraviolet rays.

1988 July 4, Anastasia Toufexis et al., “Health & Fitness: Do Your Shades Do the Job?”, in Time:

When one of the daily robberies ends with him accidentally merking the robber (a real player, which the NPCs aren’t supposed to be able to attack), Guy gets his hands on the victim’s sunglasses—a pair of eyewear that allows him to see, like “Rowdy” Roddy Piper in They Live, the secret messages (and, in this case, powerups and side missions and stats) scattered across his world.

2021 August 6, A. A. Dowd, “The Ryan Reynolds action-comedy Free Guy is a Truman Show for the Fortnite age”, in The A.V. Club:

A vision aid or similar device worn over the eyes, such as eyeglasses, contact lenses, or protective goggles.


Orange GGN

(organic chemistry) An orange azo dye, 1-(m-sulfophenylazo)-2-naphthol-6-sulfonic acid, used as a food colouring


color blind

en-adj

color blind (comparative more color blind, superlative most color blind)

more color blind (comparative)
most color blind (superlative)

Because mass incarceration is officially colorblind, it seems inconceivable that the system could function much like a racial caste system.

2012, Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow, →ISBN, page 183:

MAHER: Well, whatever. I just said we shouldn't have two national anthems. We're one country. It's not a good idea. We've seen what happens in other countries where you have, you know- when you separate things out. That's never where America was. That's never where liberalism was. It was about being a colorblind society.[…]

2021 September 16, Bill Maher, 7:52 from the start, in Bill Maher on Getting Anger from Both Sides, Our Divided Country & Norm Macdonald’s Passing, Jimmy Kimmel Live!:

Don Demel[…] said his parents had raised him “colorblind.” But the reason for the discontent was clear: Other white people in Fort Bend “did not like certain people coming here,” he said. “It’s race. They are old-school.”

2022 October 23, Michael H. Keller, David D. Kirkpatrick, “Their America Is Vanishing. Like Trump, They Insist They Were Cheated.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(of a person or process, figurative) Holding no prejudice based on skin color or race; not paying attention to skin color.


corbeau

Borrowed from French corbeau m (“raven”).

The local corbeaux, black, heavy, hunched, hopped about the slopes of rubbish; the children of the shanty town ran between the traffic on the rubbish-strewn highway to get to the dump.

2011, V. S. Naipaul, A Way in the World, →ISBN:

A whale man, if you see a whale. It beach. It taking up the whole of La Tinta. You not see the corbeaux? The Marines say they think it must be dead.

2014, Lawrence Scott, Night Calypso, →ISBN:

Across the blue sky, a big black bird, a vulture, a corbeau. It swooped down low and landed, its long, ringed legs trembling as it anchored itself on the branch of a thick-trunked tree. Around it, more corbeaux, cemetery gargoyles guarding the dead.

2016, Elizabeth Nunez, Prospero's Daughter, →ISBN, page 317:

Coragyps atratus
Coragyps atratus#Translingual

By 8 August, it was necessary to conscript beggars to bury the dead because the corbeaux, special bearers of plague-striken corpses, no longer sufficed for the task.

1972, David Victor Glass, Roger Revelle, Population and social change, page 234:

The next day she died and her body was removed by the corbeaux (the men who carted away the dead) - an ignominious death like that of Jesus Christ, wrote the annalist.

2001, A Social History of the Cloister, →ISBN, page 212:

By late summer, the magistrates themselves admitted their helplessness. They called in the notorious and dreaded corbeaux—convicts promised a commutation of their sentence in exchange for performing the dangerous task of removing the bodies.

2012, Marie-Hélène Huet, The Culture of Disaster, →ISBN, page 28:

(historical) A man who carts away the dead plague victims.

corbeau:

A very dark shade of green, almost black.


eosin

en-noun

eosin (countable and uncountable, plural eosins)

Borrowed from German Eosin, coined by Heinrich Caro, from Ancient Greek ἠώς (ēṓs, “dawn”) + -in.

Thus the fluorescence of the familiar dye eosin can be excited quite well by ultra-violet or short-wave blue light, but is much better excited by visible green light with a wavelength close to that of the emitted radiation.

1999, Dan J. Goldstein, Understanding the Light Microscope, page 91:

Eosins are acid xanthene or phthalein dyes. Eosin Y, eosin B, phloxine and erythrosin (which unlike other eosins, is halogenated with iodine), are the common members of this group of dyes.

2000, J. Ochei, A. Kolhatkar, Medical Laboratory Science: Theory And Practice, page 450:

The hematoxylin and eosin stain (H&E) is the most widely used histological stain.

2012, John D. Bancroft, Christopher Layton, “10: The hemotoxylins and eosin”, in S. Kim Suvarna, Christopher Layton, John D. Bancroft, editors, Bancroft's Theory and Practice of Histological Techniques, 7th edition, page 173:

(organic chemistry) A red, acidic dye commonly used in histological stains.


odorate

From Latin odoratus, past participle of odorare (“to perfume”), from odor (“odor”).

A transcendent perfume made of the richest odorates of both the Indies, kept in a book made of the Muschie stone of Niarienburg […]

And must this be our exercise to trample the beautiful banks and the florid meadows of famous Trent, to rifle her fords for diversion, and sweeten our senses with fragrant odorates that perfume the air?

1821, Richard Franck, Northern Memoirs, Calculated for the Meridian of Scotland:

(obsolete) A fragrant substance; perfume.


moreish

en-adj

moreish (comparative more moreish, superlative most moreish)

more moreish (comparative)
most moreish (superlative)

More-ish. This wine has but one fault, and that is, it is more-ish: i.e. more of it is wanted, or there is too little of it.

1788, Francis Grose, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 2nd edition, page 322:

Tell you what, that crack is really moreish.

2004, Jesse Armstrong, Sam Bain, David Mitchell, Robert Webb, “Peep Show - Jeremy Makes It”, in IMDB, YouTube:

Although surprisingly moist, thanks to the stock (indeed, the contrast between the crisp exterior and the squidgy middle is horribly moreish), the combination of parsley, garlic and breadcrumbs reminds me of a very fancy loaf of garlic bread – and all but overpowers the sweet flavour of the cashews.

2011 December 15, Felicity Cloake, “How to cook the perfect nut roast”, in The Guardian:

The Rogers name carries a lot of weight in the Rogers family, I thought to myself with moreish resentment each time I saw him from then on.

2021, Megan Nolan, Acts of Desperation, Random House, →ISBN:

(UK, Australia, informal, of food, drink, or other consumable) Causing one to want to have more, addictive.

drink; or other consumable; drink; or other consumable


snow blindness

Photokeratitis caused by bright sunlight reflected from snow or ice.


tastebud

(anatomy) Any of the small organs on the tongue used for tasting.

بُرْعُم تَذَوُّق

a small organ on the tongue used for tasting


acquired taste

Like many another Italian War hero, young Dino Grandi had turned to the post-War Fascist movement to satisfy an acquired taste for action.

1939 July 24, “Italy: Home Again”, in Time:

Curiosity and ambition require that we discuss acquired taste. Acquired taste is distinguished from discovered taste. Discovered tastes are those which may be considered innate, basic, or automatic, such as those tastes for bland, salty, […]

2018, Joshua Zeunert, Tim Waterman, Routledge Handbook of Landscape and Food, Routledge, →ISBN:

A taste which is not natural or innate, but which has developed through habit or learning.


geru

An earthy red color, used in India to paint flowerpots and tree bases.


rose gold

en-noun

rose gold (countable and uncountable, plural rose golds)

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A gold-copper alloy used in jewelry for its reddish color.


schizochroal

Coined by Clarke in 1888 (see citation), from Ancient Greek σχίζω (skhízō, “to split”) + χρώς (khrṓs, “surface”).

der

The first group may be designated by the term Holochroal; the second group by the term Schizochroal.

1888 November 30, John M. Clarke, “The structure and development of the visual area in the trilobite, Phacops rana, Green”, in Journal of Morphology, volume ii, number 2, Boston, page 254:

(of eyes) With compound lenses, each with separate cornea, each lens separated from others by deep scleral walls and forming an image; the corneal membrane extends downward into sclera.


goo-goo eyes

N.d., Harry S. Sargent (attributed), "Just Because She Made Dem Goo-Goo Eyes", in, 1902, Jack Haverly, Negro Minstrels, Frederick J. Drake & Company, page 106,
Just because she made dem goo-goo eyes, she did up quick a chap about my size;
Now I wish I had that roll, and the watch and chain she stole,
Just because she made dem goo-goo eyes.

So why did you shoot goo-goo eyes at me?

2005, John Connolly, “The Reflecting Eye: A Charlie Parker Novella”, in Nocturnes, Atria Books, →ISBN, page 319:

I made the opposite of goo-goo eyes at him. Or at least, I tried. "I don't believe I need to make goo-goo eyes to hook up."

2006, Kelly McClymer, Getting to Third Date, Simon Pulse, →ISBN, page 97:

(informal) A romantic look at something or someone.

гла́зки m or pl (glázki) (a flirting look, lit.: "little eyes")


audism

From audio + -ism, modelled after racism and sexism. Coined by American academic Tom Humphries in 1975.

coinage

(sociology) Discrimination against deaf people in favor of hearing people.


navy blue

en-noun

navy blue (countable and uncountable, plural navy blues)

navy blue:


sniff out

en-verb

sniff out (third-person singular simple present sniffs out, present participle sniffing out, simple past and past participle sniffed out)

sniffs out (present singular third-person)
sniffing out (participle present)
sniffed out (participle past)
sniffed out (past)

Because they have far more powerful noses than humans, dogs are ideal to sniff out drugs.

(transitive) To find (something) by using the sense of smell.


pea soup

en-noun

pea soup (countable and uncountable, plural pea soups)

A greyish green or dull chartreuse colour, like the colour of pea soup.


spectacled

silmälasikuvioinen

having an appearance of wearing spectacles


cuprous oxide

cuprous oxide (usually uncountable, plural cuprous oxides)

copper(I) oxide, with chemical formula Cu₂O. Used as a pigment, fungicide and antifouling ingredient.


aromatical

en-adj

aromatical (comparative more aromatical, superlative most aromatical)

more aromatical (comparative)
most aromatical (superlative)


smooth as a baby's bottom

smooth as a baby's bottom (not comparable)

The texture has been described as being as soft and smooth as a baby's bottom

2000, Moosewood Collective, New Recipes from Moosewood Restaurant, Ten Speed Press, →ISBN, page 284:

His cheeks were as smooth as a baby's bottom, and he smelled good.

1993, Peter Robinson, A Necessary End, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 316:

He'd sanded it for hours, "Until it was smooth as a baby's bottom," he'd said, and laughed his deep, throaty laugh.

2004, Stephanie H. Meyer with John Meyer, Teen Ink: Written in the Dirt--, HCI Teens, →ISBN, page 89:


coquelicot

coquelicot (comparative more coquelicot, superlative most coquelicot)

more coquelicot (comparative)
most coquelicot (superlative)

Borrowed from French coquelicot (“red poppy”).

I still venture to retain the narrow silver round it, put twice round without any bow, and instead of the black military feather shall put in the coquelicot one as being smarter, and besides coquelicot is to be all the fashion this winter.

1798, Jane Austen, The Letters (Annotated Edition), Jazzybee Verlag, →ISBN:


ear trumpet

The second student is a hard-of-hearing, eighty-year-old man with a long, white beard and a huge ear trumpet.

2012, Joseph DiMona, This Was Burlesque:

A conical device designed to channel sound to the apex, placed in the ear to serve as a hearing aid.


black as coal

I wanna see it painted / painted black / black as night / black as coal

1966, The Rolling Stones (lyrics and music), “Paint It, Black”, in Aftermath:


macular degeneration

(pathology) A disease of the retina of the eye resulting in loss of central vision.

黃斑變性 /黄斑变性

disease of the retina of the eye resulting loss of central vision

exudative age-related macular degeneration

neurovascular age-related macular degeneration


alkanet

en-noun

alkanet (countable and uncountable, plural alkanets)

Sanguinaria canadensis
Sanguinaria canadensis#Translingual


lubricous

en-adj

lubricous (comparative more lubricous, superlative most lubricous)

more lubricous (comparative)
most lubricous (superlative)

Learned borrowing from Latin lūbricus (“slippery”). Doublet of lubricious.

lbor

But my Leech—a leech
Fit to suck blood, with lubricous round rings,
Capaciously expatiative, which make
His little body like a red balloon,
As full of blood as that of hydrogene,
Sucked from men’s hearts

1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts:


olivaceous

en-adj

olivaceous (comparative more olivaceous, superlative most olivaceous)

more olivaceous (comparative)
most olivaceous (superlative)

olivaceous:


olivaceous-umber

olivaceous-umber (comparative more olivaceous-umber, superlative most olivaceous-umber)

more olivaceous-umber (comparative)
most olivaceous-umber (superlative)

olivaceous-umber:

Having the color of a green olive with a brown tint.


gentian violet

en-noun

gentian violet (countable and uncountable, plural gentian violets)

(chemistry) Also known as crystal violet, a chemical dye used in the Gram stain test, and is also a fungicide. Chemically: hexamethyl pararosaniline chloride, C₂₅H₃₀ClN₃


pair of glasses

pair of glasses (plural pairs of glasses)

A pair of lenses set in a frame worn on the nose and ears in order to correct deficiencies in eyesight or to ornament the face.


pair of eyeglasses

pair of eyeglasses (plural pairs of eyeglasses)


pair of specs

(colloquial) A pair of lenses set in a frame worn on the nose and ears in order to correct deficiencies in eyesight or to ornament the face.


pair of spectacles

pair of spectacles (plural pairs of spectacles)


cendrée

grey:

(heraldry, rare) Grey, ashen; the blazoning term for grey.


graveolent

en-adj

graveolent (comparative more graveolent, superlative most graveolent)

more graveolent (comparative)
most graveolent (superlative)


cosmic latte

cosmic latte:

We just can't leave God out of our lives even if there isn't the slightest possibility that an anthropomorphic God exists that can stand outside the universe and look on the cosmic latte color and see us.

2003, Frederick Kramer, Thickets of Qualia, page 208:

Between the walls, which have been redone a univeige, a cosmic latte shade—the floors have similarly been buffed of my traces.

2016, Joshua Cohen, Book of Numbers, page 8:

A creamy white color calculated to be the average color of the universe.


melanopsin

A type of photopigment (an opsin) found in the retina; it is involved in the regulation of circadian rhythms


rose quartz

en-noun

rose quartz (usually uncountable, plural rose quartzes)

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rose quartz:

A light rosy pink color like that of the gem.


oculate

en-adj

oculate (comparative more oculate, superlative most oculate)

more oculate (comparative)
most oculate (superlative)

From Latin oculātus, from oculus (“eye”).


magnetoreception

The ability to sense the Earth’s magnetic field—a trait known as magnetoreception—is well documented among many animals, but researchers have struggled to show that humans are also capable of the feat. Until now.

2019 March 18, George Dvorsky, “Some Humans Can Sense Earth’s Magnetic Field, Fascinating Experiment Suggests”, in Gizmodo, Gawker Media, retrieved 2021-01-13:


magnetoception

(biology, physics) The ability of birds or other animals to detect magnetic fields as an aid to navigation.


deodorise

en-verb

deodorise (third-person singular simple present deodorises, present participle deodorising, simple past and past participle deodorised)

deodorises (present singular third-person)
deodorising (participle present)
deodorised (participle past)
deodorised (past)

Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of deodorize.


AION

anterior isch(a)emic optic neuropathy
w:anterior ischemic optic neuropathy

(ophthalmology) Initialism of anterior isch(a)emic optic neuropathy.


intraocular

(ophthalmology) Inside or within the eye.


NAION

(ophthalmology) Initialism of non-arteritic AION.


AAION

(ophthalmology) Initialism of arteritic AION, Arteritic anterior ischaemic optic neuropathy (UK), Arteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (US).


suprachiasmatic

When I tell you that the suprachiasmatic nucleus is composed of 20,000 brain cells, or neurons, you might assume it is enormous, consuming a vast amount of your cranial space, but actually it is tiny.

2017, Matthew Walker, Why We Sleep, Penguin, published 2018, page 18:

Situated above the optic chiasm; specifically, designating a nucleus or region in the paraventricular region of the hypothalamus.


puccoon

en-noun

puccoon (countable and uncountable, plural puccoons)

Borrowed from Powhatan poughkone. Doublet of poke.

The puccoon dye was used as a sort of body rouge; it rubbed off on English linen quite easily, as Byrd's men discovered.

2002, Stephen G Ausband, Byrd's line, page 62:

(countable, botany) Any one of several plants yielding a red pigment which is used by the North American Indians, such as the bloodroot and two species of Lithospermum, Lithospermum hirtum and Lithospermum canescens.


lacmus

From Dutch lakmoes, from lak (“lac”) + moes (“pulp”).


British racing green

British racing green (countable and uncountable, plural British racing greens)

Any of a range of dark green colours, originally associated with British racing cars.


pungence

pungence (usually uncountable, plural pungences)

From Latin pungēns, present participle of pungō (“to sting”).

The pungence of the garlic made my eyes water.

The quality of odor/odour that stings the nose, said especially of acidic or spicy substances.

kanekanetanga

The quality of an odour which clings to the nose


ferruginous

en-adj

ferruginous (comparative more ferruginous, superlative most ferruginous)

more ferruginous (comparative)
most ferruginous (superlative)

Borrowed from Latin ferrūgineus, from ferrūgo (“rust”).


audient

Borrowed from Latin audientem, accusative singular of audiēns (“hearing, listening; attending, paying attention to”) (or directly from audiēns), the present active participle of audiō (“to hear, listen to; to attend, pay attention to”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewis (“clearly, manifestly”) (from *h₂ew- (“to perceive, see”)) + *dʰh₁-ye/o- (“to render”).
The noun may be borrowed from Late Latin audiēns (“catechumen”), from the participle audiēns.

der

The prosochist is that person whom the noun itself designates by means of an audient intonation, an audient indication, or an audient comma, as the paricular individual to whose notice the par-e-theme presents the different objects mntioned, or implied, in the sentence; as, Master, I have brought unto thee my son. (Master.)

1849, James Brown, An English Grammar, in Three Books. […], book II, Philadelphia, Pa.: Published by John T. Lange, […], →OCLC, part II, lesson II, section 2 (The Pronoun Denomination), footnote, page 113:

And, as we sate, we felt the old earth spin, / And all the starry turbulence of worlds / Swing round us in their audient circles, till / If that same golden moon were overhead / Or if beneath our feet, we did not know.

1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Ninth Book”, in Aurora Leigh, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1857, →OCLC, page 398:

Nyarlathotep … the crawling chaos … I am the last … I will tell the audient void …

1920 November, H[oward] P[hillips] Lovecraft, “Nyarlathotep”, in The United Amateur, volume 20, number 2, Spokane, Wash.: Published for the United Amateur Press Association by E. B. Ault, →OCLC, page 19; republished in The Doom that Came to Sarnath, New York, N.Y.: Del Rey Books, Ballantine Books, February 1971 (May 1991 printing), →ISBN, page 57:

aŭskultanta

listening, paying attention — see also attentive


aphakia

en-noun

aphakia (countable and uncountable, plural aphakias)

From New Latin, from Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, privative prefix) + φᾰκός (phăkós, “lentil”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā, noun suffix). Equivalent to a- + phakia.

af

(ophthalmology) The absence of the lens of the eye, causing hypermetropia and a loss of accommodation.


rose-colored glasses

Phrase appears as early as 1830 according to OED. From rose-color or rose-colored (meaning "pleasant"), from the notion that roses are widely regarded as uncommonly beautiful.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rose-colored, glasses.


oaky

en-adj

oaky (comparative oakier, superlative oakiest)

oakier (comparative)
oakiest (superlative)

Describing the taste of wine that has been aged in oak and acquired tannins from the wood.


yellow-haired

I was down at the New Amsterdam / Staring at this yellow-haired girl

1993, “Mr. Jones”, performed by Counting Crows:


duction

en-noun

duction (countable and uncountable, plural ductions)


dry eye

dry eye (countable and uncountable, plural dry eyes)

dry eye syndrome
dry eye syndrome#English

(uncountable) An eye disease caused by decreased tear production; short for dry eye syndrome.


squinty

en-adj

squinty (comparative squintier, superlative squintiest)

squintier (comparative)
squintiest (superlative)


saporous

saporous (comparative more saporous, superlative most saporous)

more saporous (comparative)
most saporous (superlative)

From Latin saporus (“that relishes well, savory”), from sapor (“taste”).


unsee

en-verb

unsee (third-person singular simple present unsees, present participle unseeing, simple past unsaw, past participle unseen)

unsees (present singular third-person)
unseeing (participle present)
unsaw (past)
unseen (participle past)

From un- + see. Compare Middle English unseen, unsen (“to fail to see, be unable to see”).

We have shown the world, and it cannot be unseen, it cannot be unknown, it cannot be forgotten, that Christianity cannot be defended on any ground where Infidelity can get an inch of fair play against it.

1829, Robert Taylor, “Infidel Mission.—Fifteenth Bulletin”, in The Lion, volume IV, number 10, page 304:

I have only seen the performance once; and I would not unsee it again if I could; but none the less I am a broken man after it.

1897 March 20, George Bernard Shaw, "Shakespeare in Manchester", printed in 1906, Dramatic Opinions and Essays with an Apology by Bernard Shaw, Volume 2, Brentano's (1922), page 215

once you’ve seen this you bear always the burden of its sight. And, as Laura says, you can’t unsee it.

1969, Joseph McElroy, Hind's Kidnap, page 180:

Once you saw the face of a god in those jumbled blacks and whites, it was everybody out of the pool—you could never unsee it.

Once one has “seen” the well-known gestalt psychology drawing of the young woman in a fur coat, she cannot be “unseen” after one notices the alternative, an old crone

1991, E. Roy Weintraub, Stabilizing Dynamics, page 94:

(chiefly in the negative) To undo the act of seeing something; to erase the memory of having seen something, or otherwise reverse the effect of having seen something.


dacryocystitis

(pathology, ophthalmology) inflammation of the lacrimal sac


lacrimal sac

lacrimal canaliculi
lacrimal canaliculus

(anatomy, ophthalmology) The upper dilated end of the nasolacrimal duct that is situated in a groove formed by the lacrimal bone and the frontal process of the maxilla and receives the lacrimal canaliculi.

淚囊 /泪囊

dilated upper end of the nasolacrimal duct


druse

Borrowed via French from German Druse (“crystallized piece of ore”); compare dross.

der

(ophthalmology) A tiny yellow or white accumulation of extracellular material that builds up in Bruch's membrane of the eye.

drusa

a tiny yellow or white accumulation of extracellular material that builds up in Bruch's membrane of the eye


deafie

Coordinate term: blindie

(endearing or derogatory, slang) A deaf person.


dyewood

en-noun

dyewood (countable and uncountable, plural dyewoods)

Cochineal was cultivated in individual households, indigo was common, and several dyewoods were indigenous.

1979, Kax Wilson, A History of Textiles, Westview Press, →ISBN, page 336:

He would take with him red brasilwood from the East Indies – a dye-wood that was so valued that when a few years later the Portuguese found it in the New World, they would name a country after it.

2002, Victoria Finlay, Colour, Sceptre, published 2003, page 198:

Any wood from which colouring matter is extracted for dyeing.


heterophoria

heterophoria (countable and uncountable, plural heterophorias)

By surface analysis, hetero- + -phore + -ia; from Ancient Greek ἕτερος (héteros, “other, another, different”) + -φορία (-phoría), from φέρειν (phérein, “to bear”).

uder

(pathology) Latent strabismus, which occurs only during dissociation of the left eye and right eye, whereby fusion of the eyes is absent


grey-haired

Now, I'm a grey-haired git with a sense of arrogance born of surviving this long in RAIL.

2024 January 10, Christian Wolmar, “A time for change? ... just as it was back in issue 262”, in RAIL, number 1000, page 60:


deaf as a doorpost

And grandmother sat in her rocker before the fireplace, deaf as a doorpost and half-blind as well.

2003, David Farland, The Lair of Bones, Macmillan, page 203:

(simile) Stone deaf. (unable to hear at all)


tetramethylrhodamine

(organic chemistry) A rhodamine in which four hydrogens have been replaced by methyl groups. Forms such as tetramethylrhodamine dextran are often used as fluorescent tracer dyes in cell research.


calcein

(organic chemistry) A fluorescent dye, with chemical formula C₃₀H₂₆N₂O₁₃; related to fluorescein; used in some contexts as a calcium indicator


sulforhodamine

(organic chemistry) Any derivative of a rhodamine formed by adding one or more sulfonate groups. Often used as fluorescent dyes.


glass eye

You can play a lot of tricks with a glass eye because you can take it out and pop it back in again any time you like. You can bet your life Mrs. Twit knew all the tricks.

An artificial eyeball, not necessarily made from glass, intended to replace a missing or removed eye.


Flieringa ring

(medicine) A stainless steel ring sutured to the sclera to support the globe during difficult eye operations.


supersweet

en-adj

supersweet (comparative more supersweet, superlative most supersweet)

more supersweet (comparative)
most supersweet (superlative)

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

She dipped her finger in a steaming portable spa and inhaled the heavenly scent of fair food,[…]. Philly cheesesteak sandwiches and funnel cakes, caramel corn and special-recipe baked beans, fresh-picked supersweet corn and homemade boysenberry-apple pies.

2004, Robert Elmer, chapter 4, in The Duet: A Novel, Colorado Springs, Colo.: WaterBrook Press, →ISBN, page 28:

It tasted supersweet and creamy, and had a nice crunch.

2008 November 26, Kerry McCray, “Just place in a bowl and mix”, in Modesto Bee, archived from the original on 2008-12-07:


blindsight

From blind + sight. Coined in a 1974 paper in the Lancet by Sanders et al.

On more pointed testing Sanders and I, along with the National Hospital psychologist Elizabeth K. Warrington, discovered to our amazement that Daniel's "blind" field was not blind at all in the usual sense. . . . When objects were placed in his blind field, he made virtually no errors locating them, though he could not tell us what they were. . . . "I couldn't see anything, not a darn thing," Daniel told us. All he would allow was a "feeling" about an object in some, but not all, [of] the tests. We named the extraordinary phenomenon blindsight.

1992, Lawrence Weiskrantz, “Unconscious Vision: The Strange Phenomenon of Blindsight,”, in The Sciences, volume 32, number 5, page 23:

The responsivity shown by some blind or partially blind people to visual stimuli of which they are not consciously aware.


aniseikonia

en-noun

aniseikonia (countable and uncountable, plural aniseikonias)

(pathology, ophthalmology) An ophthalmological condition where there is a significant difference in the perceived size of images.


dichromacy

di- + Ancient Greek χρῶμα (khrôma, “color”).

The quality of having two independent channels for conveying color information in the eye.


monovision

a monovision effect

Until recently, there wasn't much more one could do than to succumb to a pair of reading glasses, or try to correct the problem with either monovision contact lenses (one eye is corrected for distance, one for up close) or laser surgery .

2009 January 1, Camille Sweeney, “To Squint or to See the Light”, in New York Times:

(ophthalmology) A treatment for presbyopia in which one eye is treated to improve distance vision and the other eye is treated to improve close-up vision


out of the corner of one's eye

I caught sight of him out of the corner of my eye.

(of a look or glance) Sideways, obliquely, askance


tearless

en-adj

tearless (comparative more tearless, superlative most tearless)

more tearless (comparative)
most tearless (superlative)

My tearless retina takes pictures that can prove

1982, Judas Priest, “Electric Eye”, in Screaming for Vengeance:

Instead, a shrug and tearless eyes

2009 January 29, John Updike, “Requiem”, in New York Times:


carboxyfluorescein

(organic chemistry) A fluorescent dye that is used as a biological tracer


dijon

This is one of those dishes where you need to find a place in each bite for every flavour – intense jus, raw honey, dijon, blue cheese […].

2009 January 24, Corey Mintz, “Lunching well at Forte bistro and lounge”, in Toronto Star:

Dijon mustard, a prepared mustard containing white wine in place of vinegar


smell test

hajukoe

physiology: assessment of the sense of smell

I give the smell test to many foods when I shop.

2006 October 25, Olivia Wu, “It's a hairy crab extravaganza”, in San Francisco Chronicle, retrieved 2009-02-08:

An inspection of an object using the sense of smell, as for freshness of food or cleanliness of clothing.


nose test

Suggesting the identification of something by how it smells.

Make the "nose test" sniffing for fumes, before starting engines.

1975 June 30, Bob Bender, “Safety Checklist While Boating”, in St. Petersburg Times, retrieved 2009-02-07:


ipRGC

intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cell#English

Abbreviation of intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cell


cramoisie

cramoisie (comparative more cramoisie, superlative most cramoisie)

more cramoisie (comparative)
most cramoisie (superlative)


cramoisie

en-noun

cramoisie (countable and uncountable, plural cramoisies)


castoreum

castoreum (countable and uncountable, plural castoreums or castorea)

From Latin castoreum, from Ancient Greek καστόριον (kastórion).

One of the substances tried was castoreum.[…]If I were to judge from my own experience, I would say castoreum has very little therapeutic power, for I have not seen much benefit from its employment in those cases to which this remedy is said to be adapted.

1835 November 28, Jon Pereira, “Lectures on Materia Medica, or Pharmacology, and General Therapeutics: Lecture IX: On Castoreum”, in London Medical Gazette, volume 17, page 299:

While the role of castoreum as a means of territorial advertisement has been extensively investigated and supported, the possibility of coding for sex information has not yet been excluded.

1999, L. Sun, D. Müller-Schwarze, “Chemical Signals in the Beaver: One Species, Two Secretions, Many Functions?”, in Robert E. Johnston, Dietland Müller-Schwarze, Peter W. Sorenson, editors, Advances in Chemical Signals in Vertebrates, page 284:

Synthetic castoreums are now available, and can be as good as the natural fragrant^([sic]).

2004, Christian V. Stevens, Roland Verhé, Renewable Bioresources: Scope and Modification for Non-Food Applications, page 257:

The bitter exudate of the castor sacs of mature beavers.


ultrarich

With its tart, light sauce made from rich silky Guatemalan-style cultured cream, the dish is unabashedly luxurious and more ... Revolcado, a soupy pork-head stew— the waitress was shocked when I ordered it—it is an ultrarich spicy broth, the product of simmering a pork head until the meat falls away.

1992, Linda Burum, A Guide to Ethnic Food in Los Angeles, →ISBN, page 177:

Sporting 205 grams of residual sugar per liter, this backward, ultrarich wine will require cellaring

2002, Robert M. Parker, Pierre-Antoine Rovani, Parker's Wine Buyer's Guide, →ISBN, page 113:

Deal with hardness by putting the container in the refrigerator to soften the ice cream gently before scooping, or carefully microwave for a few seconds on low, just as you would for ultrarich super-premium ice creams from the supermarket.

2015, Alice Medrich, Pure Dessert, →ISBN, page 224:

Extremely rich in flavor; very sweet, fatty, or intensely flavorful.


pupillometer

A device used to measure the diameter of the pupil of the eye.


wenge

wenge:

A reddish shade of brown associated with this wood.


lacrimal gland

(anatomy, ophthalmology) Either of a pair of almond-shaped glands, one for each eye, that secrete the aqueous layer of the tear film.


wheaty

en-adj

wheaty (comparative wheatier, superlative wheatiest)

wheatier (comparative)
wheatiest (superlative)


neroli

en-noun

neroli (countable and uncountable, plural nerolis)

Borrowed from French néroli (“neroli”), from Nerola, a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Rome, Lazio, Italy. Marie Anne de La Trémoille, princesse des Ursins (1642–1722), Princess of Nerola but originally from France, is thought to have made neroli popular as a fragrance in her country of birth around 1670. The word is cognate with Italian nerola (obsolete), neroli.

NEROLY, a ſort of Perfume.

[1724, N[athan] Bailey, “NEROLY”, in An Universal Etymological English Dictionary: […], 2nd edition, London: […] E. Bell, J. Darby, […], →OCLC, column 2:

[page 26] Along with that double orange flower water, the neroly or quinteſſence of orange flowers will come alſo; but as this quinteſſence is the oily part it will ſwim at top; that neroly is firſt of a green colour, but after a few days it turns of a reddiſh one. [...] [page 27] [T]he neroly is ſtill infinitely ſuperior to that double water itſelf, and can admit of no compariſon at all; for half a gill of neroly does more than a quart and more of double water; [...]

1770, [Mr. Borella], “On Distilling in General. [To Make the Neroly and Orange Flower Water Double.]”, in The Court and Country Confectioner: Or, The House-keeper’s Guide; […], London: Printed for G. Riley, and A. Cooke, […]; J. Bell, […]; J. Wheble, […]; York, Yorkshire: C. Etherington, →OCLC, pages 26 and 27:

Bouquet is the white curd soap perfumed with bergamot, oils of cloves, sassafras, thyme, and neroli, and coloured with brown ochre.

1840 March, “Soap”, in The Magazine of Domestic Economy, volume V, number LVII, London: Published by W[illiam] S[omerville] Orr & Co., […]; Edinburgh: Fraser & Crawford, →OCLC, page 264:

[page 78] Now, when orange-flowers are distilled with water, we procure the otto of the blossom, which is known commercially as oil of neroli. The neroli procured from the flowers of the Citrus aurantium is considered to be of the finest quality, and is called "neroli petale." [...] [page 79] The water used for distillation in procuring the neroli, when well freed from the oil, is imported into this country under the name of eau de fleur d'orange, and may be used, like elder-flower and rose-water, for the skin, and as an eye lotion.

1857, G[eorge] W[illiam] Septimus Piesse, “Section III”, in The Art of Perfumery, and Method of Obtaining the Odors of Plants, […], Philadelphia, Pa.: Lindsay and Blackiston, →OCLC, pages 78 and 79:

[P]our in a small portion of the tincture of orange flowers, or the least drop of the essence of neroly, and pass the mixture again through a cloth; [...]

1862, Jerry Thomas, Christian Schultz, “424. Orgeat (or Almond) Syrup.”, in How to Mix Drinks, or The Bon-vivant’s Companion, […], New York, N.Y.: Dick & Fitzgerald, publishers, […], →OCLC, page 223:

The ‘Nérolis’ are largely used for ‘Hungary Water’ and ‘Eau de Cologne,’ and ‘Petit Grain’ for scenting soap.

1888, E[manuel] Bonavia, quoting George William Septimus Piesse, “The Uses and Commercial Products of the Citrus”, in The Cultivated Oranges and Lemons etc. of India and Ceylon: […], London: W[illiam] H[oughton] Allen & Co., […], →OCLC, page 143:

Many of the finest neroli oil imitations are nothing more nor less than terpeneless petitgrain oil to which has been added in some cases neroli and aldehyde C₁₀: [...] Even when preparing less costly synthetic nerolis, French petitgrain is almost invariably employed, and in the cheapest of all products Paraguay petitgrain.

1993, W[illiam] A[rthur] Poucher, “Flower Perfumes: Orange Blossom”, in Perfumes, Cosmetics and Soaps, 9th edition, volumes II (The Production, Manufacture and Application of Perfumes), London: Blackie Academic & Professional, Chapman & Hall, published 1997, →ISBN, page 156:

I remember one woman telling me that her mother chose to have neroli diffused in her room during her last weeks here on earth and the daughter was so grateful there was something that so easily evoked the memory of her mother. She could pick up her bottle of neroli whenever she was feeling sad, sniff deeply, and the memory of her mother would all come flooding back – not her dying, but her living, happy days.

1996, Valerie Ann Worwood, “The Healing Professions and Essential Oils”, in The Fragrant Mind: Aromatherapy for Personality, Mind, Mood, and Emotion, Novato, Calif.: New World Library, →ISBN, pages 213–214:

[page 97, column 2] Pale-yellow neroli oil emits a sweet, full-bodied citrus aroma with a slightly spicy, slightly bitter undertone. [...] One ton of handpicked blossoms from Citrus aurantium, Citrus bigaradia, or Citrus vulgaris yields only one quart of neroli oil, or orange blossom oil. This makes neroli oil comparatively expensive. [...] [page 98, column 2] The original eau de cologne, formulated in the eighteenth century, contained neroli, along with bergamot, lavender, lemon, and rosemary.

2002, Roberta Wilson, “Neroli”, in Aromatherapy: Essential Oils for Vibrant Health and Beauty, 2nd revised and expanded edition, New York, N.Y.: Avery, →ISBN, part 2 (An Introduction to Forty-four Essential Oils), pages 97 and 98:

Citrus × aurantium subsp. amara
Citrus × aurantium

More fully neroli oil or oil of neroli: an essential oil distilled from the blossoms of the bitter orange or Seville orange (Citrus × aurantium subsp. amara) used to make perfumes.

oli de flor de taronger

essential oil obtained from the blossom of the bitter orange


eyehole

Holonym: eyepiece

The hole to which the viewer places his or her eye in a device such as a telescope.


bronzy

en-adj

bronzy (comparative bronzier, superlative bronziest)

bronzier (comparative)
bronziest (superlative)

Her bronzy tan spoke of hours spent in the sun.

Her skin had a bronzy polish under the pale dusting powder.

1963, Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, Faber and Faber:


skelly

Probably of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse *skjelga ("to squint"; found only in the reflexive skjelgask (“to come askew; squint the eyes”)), from Proto-Germanic *skilgijaną (“to squint”), from Proto-Germanic *skelhaz, *skelhwaz, *skelgaz (“slanted; sloping; squinting”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kel- (“to bend; crook”). Compare Danish skele (“to squint”), Swedish skela (“to squint”), Scots skellie, scalie, skellice (“to squint; look to the side”), German schielen (“to squint”).

gloss

"to squint"; found only in the reflexive <i class="Latn mention" lang="non">skjelgask</i> (“to come askew; squint the eyes”)

der

w:Webster's Dictionary#Webster's New International Dictionary 1909


skelly

en-verb

skelly (third-person singular simple present skellies, present participle skellying, simple past and past participle skellied)

skellies (present singular third-person)
skellying (participle present)
skellied (participle past)
skellied (past)

"It is he—it is the very man," said Bothwell, "skellies fearfully with one eye?"

1816, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter IV, in Tales of My Landlord, […], volume II (Old Mortality), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for William Blackwood, […]; London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 87:


sandblind

en-adj

sandblind (comparative more sandblind, superlative most sandblind)

more sandblind (comparative)
most sandblind (superlative)

From Middle English sandblynde, alteration (due to association with sand) of Middle English *samblynde (“half-blind”), from Old English *sāmblind (“half-blind”), from sam- (“half-”) + blind (“blind”).

inh

O heauens, this is my true begotten Father, who being more then sand-blinde, high grauel blinde, knows me not, I will trie confusions with him.

c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], page 167, column 1:


mauveine

en-noun

mauveine (countable and uncountable, plural mauveines)

A purple dye, the first synthetic organic dye created.


undereye

Lips that have thinned over time may cause a person to appear irritable or tense, a naturally elevated brow may suggest judgment or skepticism, and undereye shadows can make a person appear weary and burdened.

2007 August 2, Laurel Naversen Geraghty, “I Am Not a Crab: When Wrinkles Lie”, in New York Times:


Brown HT

(organic chemistry) A brown synthetic coal tar diazo dye.


chalazion

chalazion (plural chalazions or chalazia)

From Late Latin chalazion, from Ancient Greek χαλάζιον (khalázion), diminutive of χάλαζα (khálaza, “hail”).

(ophthalmology, optometry) A cyst in the eyelid, caused by inflammation of a blocked meibomian gland.


bug out

en-verb

bug out (third-person singular simple present bugs out, present participle bugging out, simple past and past participle bugged out)

bugs out (present singular third-person)
bugging out (participle present)
bugged out (participle past)
bugged out (past)

Attested 1950, popularized in the Korean War (1950–53) in such phrases as “bug-out fever” (rout) and “the big bug out” (November/December 1950 retreat) and entered civilian slang by mid 1950s. Likely originated in World War II, perhaps based on 1930s cartoons featuring bugs fleeing an impending foot or boot. Ultimately based on the rapid, disorderly flight of bugs when discovered, particularly their scattering if several are discovered at once, such as under a rock or can. Compare chicken out.

She gets her nails done every Friday, so I know she's bugging out by now because her polish has moved up from the cuticle just a tiny bit, indicating that her nails ain't fresh. “Mickey, how the hell I'm just gone walk up to someone and[…]

2006 September 26, L. Divine, Drama High: The Fight, Dafina Young Adult, →ISBN:

"That's 'cause I'm taking the train into the city right now," I said, "and she's bugging out about my missing it."

2012 November 13, 50 Cent, Laura Moser, Playground, Penguin, →ISBN, page 89:

(slang, intransitive) To freak out, to go crazy, e.g. from worry.


phthalo blue

en-noun

phthalo blue (countable and uncountable, plural phthalo blues)

From phthalo and blue, from phthalocyanine.

phthalo blue:

A bright greenish-blue crystalline synthetic pigment from the group of phthalocyanine dyes.


macrosmatic

en-adj

macrosmatic (comparative more macrosmatic, superlative most macrosmatic)

more macrosmatic (comparative)
most macrosmatic (superlative)


sagey

sagey (comparative sagier, superlative sagiest)

sagier (comparative)
sagiest (superlative)


ashes of rose

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-ashes of rose.wav

There are star-fish, sea-urchins, and sea-anemones, — gorgeous creatures in ashes of rose and orange, or in pink and brown with dashes of yellow.

1883 (December), Julia C. R. Dorr, "Bermudian Days", The Atlantic Monthly, page 789

White and black added to the above combinations result in the quieter tones and tints of these — such as old rose, ashes of rose, salmon, red-brown, terra-cotta, brick red and the series of pinkish to orange greys.

1922, Edward Stratton Holloway, The practical book of furnishing the small house and apartment, page 47:

ashes of rose:


moon-eyed

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

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

From moon + eyed; parallel to the cognate, but non-synonymous, Dutch maanoog.

His moon-eyed gaze was disarming and mysterious.


sinople

en-noun

sinople (countable and uncountable, plural sinoples)

From Old French sinople, from Latin Sinōpis, from Ancient Greek Σινωπίς (Sinōpís, “of Sinope”), a town that exported a red ocher. The unexpected change to meaning "green" in heraldry occurred in French texts around 1350 for unclear reasons.

der

In heraldry, sinople (the green of blazonry) also signified love, joy, abundance.

1903, George Field, Ellis A. Davidson, A grammar of colouring, applied to decorative painting and the arts:

Espinosa (Spain and Flanders) : Argent, a tree terrassé sinople, accosted by two wolves affrontés, sable […]

1903, Isidore Singer, Cyrus Adler, The Jewish Encyclopedia: A Descriptive Record of the History, Religion, Literature, and Customs of the Jewish People from the Earliest Times to the Present Day, page 128:

This shield argent with three lions sinople (green) has remained the coat of arms of the House of Lannoy. The young knight built a home in the woods around the seigneurie of Lys.

1984, Lucile Kathryn Delano, Charles De Lannoy, Victor of Pavia, →ISBN:


fustily

en-adv

fustily (comparative more fustily, superlative most fustily)

more fustily (comparative)
most fustily (superlative)


hearie

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱ-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ew-
Proto-Indo-European *-s
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ṓws
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *h₂ḱh₂owsyéti
Proto-Germanic *hauzijaną
Proto-West Germanic *hauʀijan
Old English hīeran
Middle English heren
English hear
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English -ie
English hearie
From hear + -ie.


international orange

The width of the chrome-yellow or international orange bands should be one-seventh the height of the structure for all structures less than 250 feet […]

1937, United States Bureau of Air Commerce, Aeronautics Bulletin:

This specification covers the general requirements for international orange paint for use on steel, concrete and wood surfaces, such as galvanized steel […]

1945, United States Civil Aeronautics Administration, Civil Aeronautics Bulletin:

Colors such as black lettering on an international orange background are common and are easily visible in most conditions.

1993, Robert J. Johnson, C. Daniel Mote, John Zelcer, Skiing Trauma and Safety: Ninth International Symposium:

A reddish-orange colour used to set things apart from their surroundings, especially in the aerospace industry.


depaint

en-verb

depaint (third-person singular simple present depaints, present participle depainting, simple past depainted, past participle depainted or (archaic, rare) depainten)

depaints (present singular third-person)
depainting (participle present)
depainted (past)
depainted (participle past)
depainten (archaic participle past rare)

(archaic, transitive) To colour; to decorate with colours.


hyposmia

From Ancient Greek ὑπο- (hupo-, “under”) + ὀσμή (osmḗ, “smell”), equivalent to hypo- + -osmia.

(pathology) A reduced ability to smell and to detect odors.


malachite green

(organic chemistry) A toxic chemical used as a dye, as a treatment for infections in fish (when diluted), and as a bacteriological stain


methylene blue

(organic chemistry) A heterocyclic aromatic chemical compound with many uses in biology and chemistry.


Penrose triangle

en-noun

Penrose triangle (plural Penrose triangles)

After Roger Penrose (1931-), English mathematician, who popularised it in the 1950s.

An optical illusion depicting an impossible solid object made of three straight beams of square cross section which meet pairwise at right angles at the vertices of the triangle they form.


safranin

safranin (countable and uncountable, plural safranins)

A biological stain used in histology and cytology.


inodorous

"At Venice, please, if possible, no dreadful, no vulgar hotel; but, if it can be at all managed—you know what I mean—some fine old rooms, wholly independent, for a series of months. Plenty of them, too, and the more interesting the better: part of a palace, historic and picturesque, but strictly inodorous, where we shall be to ourselves, with a cook, don't you know?—with servants, frescoes, tapestries, antiquities, the thorough make-believe of a settlement."

1902, Henry James, The Wings of the Dove:


thymolsulphonephthalein

Thymol blue, a brownish-green or reddish-brown crystalline powder used as a pH indicator.


para red

para red (countable and uncountable, plural para reds)


paranitraniline red

paranitraniline red (countable and uncountable, plural paranitraniline reds)

The first azo dye discovered (in 1880), which dyes cellulose fabrics a brilliant red but is not very fast.


eyestalk

(anatomy) A motile stalk having an eye at the tip.


mind's ear

mind's ear (plural mind's ears or minds' ears or (less common) minds' ear)

mind's ears (plural)
minds' ears (plural)
minds' ear (plural uncommon)

From mind (noun) + -’s (possessive marker) + ear, probably modelled after mind’s eye.

compound

The thinking Sculpture helps to raiſe / Deep thoughts, the Genii of the place: / To the minds ear, and invvard ſight, / There ſilence ſpeaks, and ſhade gives light: […]

1732 (date written), Peter Drake [pseudonym; Matthew Green], The Grotto, a Poem. […], London: [s.n.], published 1733, →OCLC, page 5:

But, enough of this ſubject; for your angry voice at Aſhbourne upon it, ſtill ſounds avveful 'in my mind's ears.'

1778 February 28 (date written), James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. […], volume II, London: […] Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, […], published 1791, →OCLC, page 185:

"I must read Shakspeare [i.e., William Shakespeare]?" / "You must have his spirit before you; you must hear his voice with your mind's ear; you must take some of his soul into yours."

1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “Coriolanus”, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page 125:

[K]eep our thoughts from wandering, open our minds' ears to hear, open our mouths to sing thy praises, let us not trifle in thy house, but ever remember "thou God seest me."

[1850], T[homas] Major Lester, “Morning”, in Prayers and Hymns for the Use of Sunday Schools, London: Wertheim, Macintosh, & Hunt, […], →OCLC, page 3:

Even now I have in my mind's ears the merry gibe of some young rogue of a reader, […]

1850 March, “My Aunt Nelly’s Portfolio”, in The Churchman’s Companion, volume VII, part XXXIX, London: Joseph Masters, […], →OCLC:

The likeness of the great bass horn remained upon the retina of his mind's eye, losing nothing of its brazen enormity with the passing of hours, nor abating, in his mind's ear, one whit of its fascinating blatancy.

1916, Booth Tarkington, “Yearnings”, in Penrod and Sam, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC, page 293:

Perhaps we may hear in our minds' ears echoes of the sacred duets of Orlando di Lasso, [Claudio] Monteverdi, [Edward] Gibbons, and [William] Lawes, sung in exquisitely responsive improvised harmony to words immediately inspired in them both.

1993, Diane Kelsey McColley, “The Arts of Eden”, in A Gust for Paradise: Milton’s Eden and the Visual Arts, Urbana; Chicago, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 142:

There is harmony in the scene; harmony between heaven and earth; harmony in the sounds that the artist allows us to hear within our minds' ear, issuing from the double rank of pipes, sounding to an angel's touch.

1994, Thomas Levenson, “A Perfect Order”, in Measure for Measure: A Musical History of Science, New York, N.Y.: Touchstone, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, part 1 (By Design), page 20:

Other people do "Don't Smoke in Bed" and "I've Got Your Number" and "You Came a Long Way From St. Louis," but when I hear them in my mind's ear, hers [Peggy Lee's] is the voice I hear.

2002 January 27, Terry Teachout, “A master and mentor in song”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-01-07:

I used to be a schoolteacher, teaching children roughly between the ages of ten and thirteen, and I noticed that when they wrote stories, many of them were much better at dialogue than at narrative. […] What they could do very well was put down the things they were hearing in their minds' ear, because those things already had words.

2007, Philip Pullman, “The Writing of Stories: Making It Up and Writing It Down”, in Simon Mason, editor, Dæmon Voices: Essays on Storytelling, Oxford, Oxfordshire: David Fickling Books, →ISBN, page 42:

What's more, it is to assume that we are not, in general, capable of telling whether we are actually looking at a painting or merely imagining one, or actually hearing a string quartet as opposed to listening to our own mind's ears.

2009, David Berger, “The Beautiful and the Agreeable”, in Kant’s Aesthetic Theory: The Beautiful and Agreeable (Continuum Studies in Philosophy), London: Continuum International Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 63:

Examine as many transcriptions as you can find and compare them to the original Gesellschaft score—you will see the vast range of harmonies transcribers have heard in their minds' ear over the years!

2017, Harry George Pellegrin, Classic Guitar Method, 5th edition, Scotia, N.Y.: PAB Entertainment Group, →ISBN, page 264:

"Albers" is musically ambiguous. In its basic form, it isn't unequivocally in C major, but in our minds' ears we tend to make it be in C major.

2023, Pedro de Alcantara, “Sonic Play”, in Creative Health for Pianists: Concepts, Exercises & Compositions, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 274:

(idiomatic) The mental faculty or inner sense with which one produces or reproduces imagined or recalled sounds solely within the mind; the supposed organ within the mind which experiences such sounds.

anauralia

absence of auditory imagery, particularly the lack of an ‘inner voice’


bleu celeste

Borrowed from French bleu céleste (“sky blue”).

(heraldry) A rarely-occurring sky-blue tincture, lighter than azure.


undelicious

en-adj

undelicious (comparative more undelicious, superlative most undelicious)

more undelicious (comparative)
most undelicious (superlative)

(rare) Not delicious; disagreeable to the senses.


slant-eyed

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

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

(derogatory) Specifically refers to having the eyes of most East Asians: with epicanthic folds, as opposed to the downturned eyes of Europeans.


John Lennon glasses

Everyone in New York
Had a position on Shanker,
A story about garbage,
An unconventional sex life,
John Lennon glasses, […]

1969 (7 Apr), Judith Viorst, "New York Visit, 1969", New York Magazine 2 (no.14): 43

"[…]Or, I could go to Harvard Square, browse the coffee shops wearing my John Lennon glasses, and look for an intellectual who's smart enough to see the woman inside."

1998, Barbara Delinsky, A Woman's Place, page 335:

A bookish young man with John Lennon glasses looked up, smiled, and answered in a northern accent. "The tool is calibrated. Just waiting to hit total depth."

2003, Greg Iles, Sleep No More, page 36:

(plural only) A pair of eyeglasses (spectacles) with round lenses.

lennonky

pair of eyeglasses/spectacles with round lenses


John Lennon spectacles

A clamp-jawed man in his early thirties, a Program attorney named Sean, sat up front as well, next to a trim, bearded fellow of the same age — the good Dr. Henderson, complete with a yachtsman's physique and John Lennon spectacles.

2004, Gregg Andrew Hurwitz, The Program, page 238:

(plural only) A pair of spectacles (glasses) with round lenses.


ciliary muscle

a muscle controlling the eye's accommodation for viewing objects at varying distances


uncrying

Lots of people had loved her; they came to put flowers near and to say goodbye. They came out of her room with quiet, uncrying eyes, stood a moment by the fire in the studio, looking deep into it, and then they went away.

1944, Emily Carr, “A Visitor”, in The House of All Sorts:

[…] the pair of babies stood up to stare about them with the impassive, uncrying gaze of patriarchs.

1987, Colin Thubron, chapter 3, in Behind the Wall: A Journey through China, London: Vintage, published 2001, page 72:


intraocularly

(ophthalmology) Inside or within the eye.


esophoria

en-noun

esophoria (countable and uncountable, plural esophorias)

(ophthalmology) Inward deviation of the eye usually due to extra-ocular muscle imbalance.

esoforie

inward deviation of the eye usually due to extra-ocular muscle imbalance


odorful

en-adj

odorful (comparative more odorful, superlative most odorful)

more odorful (comparative)
most odorful (superlative)


rufescent

rufescent (comparative more rufescent, superlative most rufescent)

more rufescent (comparative)
most rufescent (superlative)

Circa 1820, from Latin rufescens, present participle of rufescere (“to become reddish”), from rufus (“red”).

The more inland, lighter race is distinguished from A. u. uropygialis in being much paler on the back, by the edgings of the forehead scallopings and auriculars being paler, and by having the brown of the forehead less deep and less rufescent.

1937, The Emu: Official Organ of the Australasian Ornithologists' Union:

Flesh unchanging or slowly rufescent.

1972, Edred John Henry Corner, Boletus in Malaysia, page 42:

Flesh white, but quickly rufescent where cut, at first full, becoming more spongy stuffed, and frequently hollow in old specimens, [...]

1975, Michael Jordan, A Guide to Mushrooms, page 72:


proptose

en-verb

proptose (third-person singular simple present proptoses, present participle proptosing, simple past and past participle proptosed)

proptoses (present singular third-person)
proptosing (participle present)
proptosed (participle past)
proptosed (past)

Because of the usual dorsal approach, the lateral and medial rectus muscles are secured by sutures, and with traction, can proptose the globe forward.

2011, Kirk N. Gelatt, Janice P. Gelatt, Caryn Plummer, Veterinary Ophthalmic Surgery, →ISBN, page 378:

When performing forced ductions for possible rectus muscle restriction, proptose the eye to stretch the rectus muscles.

2013, Kenneth W. Wright, Peter H. Spiegel, Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus, →ISBN, page 252:

Davies had worn a diaphragm in it for years, which had caused irritation and produced bad nose bleeds; his right eyeball was proptosed (displaced in its socket).

2018, Anna Rogers, With Them Through Hell, →ISBN, page 217:

(ophthalmology) To displace (an eye) in its socket; to cause exophthalmus.


Paris green

en-noun

Paris green (countable and uncountable, plural Paris greens)

Copper(II) acetoarsenite, a highly toxic blue-green compound used as a pigment, colorant, insecticide and rodenticide.


night vision

The ability, either naturally, by technology or by superpowers, to see in a low light or even dark environment.


new-car smell

Does that mean you shouldn't buy a new car? Not at all — although if you're not hung up on new car smell and the virginal feel of a pristine motor car, you might find a used car is a better bargain.

1996, Jack R Nerad, The complete idiot's guide to buying or leasing a car:

Did you know new car smell can kill you? New cars are filled with new car toxic fumes.

2004, Lindsay Price, Competition Monologues:

Who would want new car smell when you can have Maggie's gardenias?

2008, Charles Martin, Down Where My Love Lives:

(informal) A characteristic odor caused by the combination of chemicals and materials in a new automobile, including outgassing.


perfumelike

en-adj

perfumelike (comparative more perfumelike, superlative most perfumelike)

more perfumelike (comparative)
most perfumelike (superlative)

Oxidative-rancidity odors are generally sharp and acrid and usually may be described as linseed-oil-like, tallowy, fishy, or perfumelike.

1999, Ernest R Vieira, Elementary Food Science:

Resembling or characteristic of perfume.


perfumey

perfumey (comparative more perfumey, superlative most perfumey)

more perfumey (comparative)
most perfumey (superlative)


body odor

en-noun

body odor (countable and uncountable, plural body odors)