magnetophosphene

A number of transient phenomena were reported for human subjects in the first 4 T whole-body systems, including vertigo, difficulty in balancing after leaving the magnet, nausea, headache, numbness or tingling, magnetophosphenes, and an unusual metallic taste in the mouth.

2010, Xiaoping Hu, David G. Norris, “Advances in high-field magnetic resonance imaging”, in Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering:

A flash of light seen when the optic nerve is subjected to a strong changing magnetic field (such as in an MRI).


aromatize

en-verb

aromatize (third-person singular simple present aromatizes, present participle aromatizing, simple past and past participle aromatized)

aromatizes (present singular third-person)
aromatizing (participle present)
aromatized (participle past)
aromatized (past)

/əˈɹəʊmətaɪz/

(transitive) To make aromatic, fragrant, or spicy.


aromatise

aromatise (third-person singular simple present aromatises, present participle aromatising, simple past and past participle aromatised)

aromatises (present singular third-person)
aromatising (participle present)
aromatised (participle past)
aromatised (past)


lip-smacking

en-adj

lip-smacking (comparative more lip-smacking, superlative most lip-smacking)

more lip-smacking (comparative)
most lip-smacking (superlative)


anopsia

(ophthalmology) A defect in the visual field


chrome yellow

en-noun

chrome yellow (countable and uncountable, plural chrome yellows)

A natural yellow pigment derived from lead(II) chromate.


malodorously

en-adv

malodorously (comparative more malodorously, superlative most malodorously)

more malodorously (comparative)
most malodorously (superlative)


malodorousness

The state or condition of being malodorous.


gargalesis

From Ancient Greek γαργαλίζω (gargalízō, “tickle”) + -esis.

der

Pending a better nomenclature we suggest for the former the term knismesis and for the latter the term gargalesis, with the adjectives knismic and gargalic, hyperknismesis and hyper-gargalesis for excess, etc.

1897, G. Stanley Hall, Arthur Alliń, “The Psychology of Tickling, Laughing, and the Comic”, in The American Journal of Psychology, 9(1) (Oct., 1897), pp. 1-41:

Gargalesis, the heavy tickle associated with play and laughter and seemingly with pleasure, may be limited to the primates, but not solely to human beings.

1999 Christine R. Harris, "The Mystery of Ticklish Laughter," American Scientist, 87(4) (July-August 1999), p344

The second type of tickle called gargalesis is evoked by a heavier touch to particular areas of the body such as armpits or ribs. Such kind of stimuli usually results in laugher and squirming.

2009 August 18-21, Alena Neviarouskaya, Dzmitry Tsetserukou, Helmut Prendinger, Naoki Kawakami, Susumu Tachi & Mitsuru Ishizuka, "Emerging System for Affectively Charged Interpersonal Communication," ICROS-SICE International Joint Conference 2009, p3380

Heavy tickling often leading to laughter.


knismesis

From Ancient Greek κνησμός (knēsmós, “itching”) + -esis.

One can readily elicit knismesis in oneself (this is easily demonstrated by dragging a fingernail lightly over one’s skin). However, one cannot produce gargalesis in oneself; the present investigation focuses on this peculiar fact.

1999, Christine R. Harris, Nicholas Christenfeld, “Can a machine tickle?”, in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 6(3) pp. 504-510:

Light tickling often accompanied by an itching sensation.


I lost my glasses

Indicates that the speaker has lost his or her glasses.

我唔見咗我副眼鏡 /我唔见咗我副眼镜

ngo⁵ m⁴ gin³ zo² ngo⁵ fu³ ngaan⁵ geng³⁻²

我兮目鏡拍無去 /我兮目镜拍无去

góa ê ba̍k-kiàⁿ phah-bô--khì / góa ê ba̍k-kiàⁿ phah-bô--khìr

我兮目鏡拍毋見 /我兮目镜拍毋见

góa ê ba̍k-kiàⁿ phah-m̄-kìⁿ / góa ê ba̍k-kiàⁿ phàng-kìⁿ / góa ê ba̍k-kiàⁿ phàng-kiàn


biblical blue

A particular bluish color mentioned in the Hebrew Bible.


typhl-

From the Ancient Greek τῠφλός (tŭphlós, “blind”).


bisson

en-adj

bisson (comparative more bisson, superlative most bisson)

more bisson (comparative)
most bisson (superlative)

From Middle English bisen, bisne (“blind, purblind”), from Old English bisene (“blind”), probably from bi- (“near”) + sīen (“sight”) in the sense of "near-sighted, short-sighted". Compare Dutch bijziende (“mole-eyed”), German beisichtig (“short-sighted”). More at by, see.

He was a septuagenary, […] He was rugose, pachydermatous, bottlenosed, almost bisson, breviped, tardigradous, and affected with trepidation, partial surdity, and most perceptible seity. Archaisms, exoticisms, and exolete lingo marked his allocution to the conflux.

1856, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, page 32:


flesh-colored

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

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

a flesh-colored crayon

Of the color of flesh, especially a white person's skin.


dichromat

One whose vision exhibits dichromacy; one who can distinguish only two primary colors.


purpurin

en-noun

purpurin (countable and uncountable, plural purpurins)

A red anthraquinone dye, extracted from madder, that is used as a biological stain


blinky

en-adj

blinky (comparative more blinky, superlative most blinky)

more blinky (comparative)
most blinky (superlative)

She struck a match and relighted the candle and everyone looked at each other by its winky, blinky light.

1906, E. Nesbit, chapter 2, in The Railway Children:

[…] the rosary beads that hung from her belt like a zoot-suiter's key chain were blinky bright […]

1997, Don DeLillo, Underworld, New York: Scribner, Part 6, Chapter 4:

flickery, prone to flicker (of lights, shining objects)


trichromatic

trikromaattinen

having perception in three primary colours


stenchy

stenchy (comparative stenchier, superlative stenchiest)

stenchier (comparative)
stenchiest (superlative)

From Middle English stenchi (“malodorous”), equivalent to stench + -y. More at stench, -y.

Soon, the incessant wind would dry the stenchy wallow to corduroyed cement.

2003, Suzann Ledbetter, A Lady Never Trifles with Thieves:

Having a stench or foul odour, malodorous.


supersalty

supersalty (comparative more supersalty, superlative most supersalty)

more supersalty (comparative)
most supersalty (superlative)

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

Gypsum forms in sediment when seawater becomes supersalty as it evaporates in warm, tropical environments.

2002, Ralph Lee Hopkins, Hiking the Southwest's Geology: Four Corners Region:

With ever-expanding portion sizes, supersalty foods are displacing fresh fruits and vegetables, which are rich in potassium.

2008 May, Men's Health, volume 23, number 4, page 141:


eye test

A series of examinations carried out by an optician to assess a patient's vision.


brothiness

It is served quite loose and soupy: the creamy brothiness is lovely.

2007 May 2, Mark Bittman, “Laid-Back Risotto”, in New York Times:


orthoptics

The study and treatment of muscular irregularities of the eye.


exophoria

en-noun

exophoria (countable and uncountable, plural exophorias)

(ophthalmology) A form of heterophoria in which there is a tendency of the eyes to deviate outward.


visual snow

(medicine) A condition in which a person sees television-like static or noise in their field of vision, especially when against a dark background


dewy-eyed

en-adj

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

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

One she saw clearly—a dewy-eyed, lovely woman who murmured loving, broken words.

c. 1910, Stewart Edward White, chapter 1, in The Call of the North:

Bill Clinton has never shied away from displays of dewy-eyed, lip-biting sentimentality.

2000 June 12, Romesh Ratnesar, “The Victory Lap?”, in Time Europe:

Having eyes with a moist, glistening appearance, especially as indicating that one is on the verge of crying or that one is experiencing strong emotions.

teary-eyed

having eyes with a moist, glistening appearance


pupilar

of or pertaining to the pupil (of the eye)


berryish

berryish (comparative more berryish, superlative most berryish)

more berryish (comparative)
most berryish (superlative)

The red, mostly merlot but with dollops of cabernet sauvignon and cabernet franc, is berryish, beefy, concentrated and soft.

2009 August 23, Howard G. Goldberg, “The Nautical Spirit”, in New York Times:

Tasting of berries (especially in describing wine)


stink eye

Miss Mae gave me the stink eye, just on general principle, when I came into the kitchen. She was so good at the stink eye that even if you hadn't done something wrong, you felt like you did.

2008, Michael Harmon, The Last Exit to Normal, page 35:

"Stink eye" is a Hawaiian pidgin expression for a disapproving glance, a mean or dirty look.

2015, John H. Elliot, Beware the Evil Eye Volume 1, page 24:

(idiomatic) An unpleasant look (as in a gaze).


red-haired

It is observed, that the red haired of both sexes are more libidinous and mischievous than the rest, whom yet they much exceed in strength and activity.

1726, Jonathan Swift, chapter VIII, in Gulliver's Travels, Part IV:

Talk to that noble sage at Pylos, Nestor, / then go to Meneláos, the red-haired king / at Sparta, last man home of all the Akhaians.

1961, Homer, translated by Robert Fitzgerald, The Odyssey, Book One, Prentice Hall, published 2001, lines 320–22:


Müller-Lyer illusion

en-noun

Müller-Lyer illusion (plural Müller-Lyer illusions)

Devised by Franz Carl Müller-Lyer (1857–1916), a German sociologist, in 1889.

An optical illusion consisting of a stylized arrow whose midpoint appears to be closer to the tail end.


chromostereopsis

A visual illusion whereby an impression of depth is conveyed in two-dimensional colour images, usually a combination of red with either green or blue.


Penrose stairs

After a drawing by Lionel Penrose and Roger Penrose.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Penrose stairs.

An impossible loop of endlessly ascending and descending stairs, or an optical illusion appearing to depict such a loop.


bromocresol purple

(organic chemistry) A sulfonephthalein derived from a brominated derivative of cresol; it is used as an acid-base indicator


olent

en-adj

olent (comparative more olent, superlative most olent)

more olent (comparative)
most olent (superlative)

From Latin olens, present participle of olere (“to smell”).

, Chapter IX
Which butterfly of the wide air shall brag
“I was preferred to Guido” — when 'tis clear
The cup, he quaffs at, lay with olent breast
Open to gnat, midge, bee and moth as well?


legal blindness

A degree of visual acuity that is low enough to determine that a person needs special assistance.


turpsy

turpsy (comparative turpsier, superlative turpsiest)

turpsier (comparative)
turpsiest (superlative)

Back at his canvas he drew some more with Prussian blue, wiped his hands on a turpsy rag, and went over to the telephone.

1960, John Bratby, Breakdown, Hutchinson, published 1960, page 24:

There was the fresh, turpsy smell of conifers, and from a quarter of a mile away the salty tang of shifting sea water.

1996, Chris Pullen, Mercenary 11: Oliver's Army, 22 Books (1996), →ISBN, page 4:

I had lived with him, scarcely conscious that he had an individual smell at all. But now I could recognise it at once - soapy, mentholy, a little sweaty, musky, turpsy. I passed the material under my nose, and his presence was filling my head.

2002, Ronald Frame, Permanent Violet, Polygon, →ISBN, page 185:


five senses

The five major senses in most animals: sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch.


six senses

extrasensory perception
extrasensory perception

The five senses and the sixth sense; sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch and extrasensory perception.


comitant

(ophthalmology) Describing the degree of eye misalignment when looking at objects that does not depend on direction of gaze


thermoception

/ˌθɜː(ɹ)məʊˈsɛpʃən/

/ˌθɜː(ɹ)məˈsɛpʃən/

[…] a region which has been shown to be involved in a variety of interoceptive modalities like thermoception, visceral sensations, thirst and hunger.

2006, Fernando Cervero, Handbook of Clinical Neurology, Series 3, Volume 81: Pain, page 251

Aristotle failed to specify proprioception (the sense of how our body parts are positioned in space relative to one another), equilibrioception (the sense of linear acceleration and head position), thermoception (the sense of heat and cold) and nociception (the sense of pain).

2007 August 19, Daniel B. Smith, “Without a Net”, in New York Times:

The frog, with its selective eye for instantly usable information; the pit viper, with its thermoception, which at night can sense the blood temperature of its prey; the common house fly, which equilibrates its flight with two cilia—these have supplied a new species of engineers with models.

2008, Georges Canguilhem, Paola Marrati, Todd Meyers, Knowledge of life, page 175:

(biology) The sense of heat and cold: the ability of humans, and many other organisms, to perceive temperature.


dacryostenosis

(ophthalmology) Obstruction of the nasolacrimal duct.


nasolacrimal duct

en-noun

nasolacrimal duct (plural nasolacrimal ducts)

(anatomy, ophthalmology) a duct that transmits tears from the lacrimal sac to the inferior meatus of the nose


farsee

en-verb

farsee (third-person singular simple present farsees, present participle farseeing, simple past farsaw, past participle farseen)

farsees (present singular third-person)
farseeing (participle present)
farsaw (past)
farseen (participle past)

From far + see. Compare Dutch verziend (“farseeing, long-sighted”), German fernsehen (“to look from afar, watch television”).

cog

As Yoda would put it, if you want to 'farsee' into your future needs, first make sure your homework you have done.

2006, Arthur Goldstuck, The hitchhiker's guide to going mobile:

To see by foresight; see clairvoyantly; view or sense telepathically.


prasine

From Middle English [Term?], from a combination of Middle French prame (inherited from Late Latin prasinus) and Middle French prasine (borrowed from Late Latin prasinum), both ultimately from Latin prasinus (“leek-green”), from Ancient Greek πράσινος (prásinos), from πράσον (práson, “leek”).

It is possible that just as chrysocolla is silicated malachite, so prasine is phosphated malachite; the physical appearance of these minerals strongly confirms this view.

1864 November 5, William Crookes, editor, The Chemical News and Journal of Physical Science: […] , volume 10, number 257, London: J. H. Dutton, […] , →OCLC, Revision of the Mineral Phosphates, page 217, column 1:


prasine

en-adj

prasine (comparative more prasine, superlative most prasine)

more prasine (comparative)
most prasine (superlative)

He recalled, in passing, the sweetness in his lap, her round little bottom, her prasine eyes as she turned toward him and the receding road.

1969, Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 5, in Ada, or, Ardor: A Family Chronicle, Harmondsworth, London: Penguin Books, published 1970, →ISBN, part 2, page 287:

prasine:


overaccommodate

en-verb

overaccommodate (third-person singular simple present overaccommodates, present participle overaccommodating, simple past and past participle overaccommodated)

overaccommodates (present singular third-person)
overaccommodating (participle present)
overaccommodated (participle past)
overaccommodated (past)

(ophthalmology) To adjust the focus of the eye so that the image resolves at a point behind the retina.


doe-eyed

en-adj

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

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

The graphic energy of their martial arts combat was toned down, their slit-eyed ethnic specificity was made into doe-eyed racial ambiguity and their cynical sneers softened into eager grins.

2000, Dudley Jones, Tony Watkins, A necessary fantasy?: the heroic figure in children's popular culture, page 273:

[H]owever hard she pushed the tough-talkin' shtick, she remained doe-eyed, glowing and somehow unassailably demure.

2014 January 21, Hermione Hoby, “Julia Roberts interview for August: Osage County – 'I might actually go to hell for this ...': Julia Roberts reveals why her violent, Oscar-nominated performance in August: Osage County made her feel 'like a terrible person' [print version: 'I might actually go to hell for this ...' (18 January 2014, p. R4)]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review):

Having eyes that are large, attractive, gentle, and innocent-looking.


lyncean

lyncean (comparative more lyncean, superlative most lyncean)

more lyncean (comparative)
most lyncean (superlative)


aniline green

en-noun

aniline green (countable and uncountable, plural aniline greens)


Chartres blue

Chartres blue (usually uncountable, plural Chartres blues)

Chartres blue:

(glassworking) A shade of blue created for the stained glass windows of Chartres Cathedral, containing traces of red for enhancement.

bleu de Chartres

blue used for the windows of Chartres Cathedral


ultrablond

en-adj

ultrablond (comparative more ultrablond, superlative most ultrablond)

more ultrablond (comparative)
most ultrablond (superlative)

Of course, there was the requisite shot from when they both appeared on Oprah, hand-holding shots on red carpets with Celia in a flame of an orange dress and Kick in a smooth tuxedo sporting the ultrablond hair from one of his summer blockbuster movies.

2007, Sharon Naylor, It's Not My Wedding (But I'm in Charge), page 50:

As her partner, Maxim Beloserkovsky has too little freshness and too much calculated charm in his dancing; and he is distractingly ultrablond in a way that strongly recalls too many Soviet male dancers of yesteryear.

2009 May 21, Alastair Macaulay, “Adrift in a Spectacle of Balanchine and Tchaikovsky”, in New York Times:


circle contact lens

en-noun

circle contact lens (plural circle contact lenses)

A cosmetic contact lens that makes the eyes' irises appear larger, popular in East Asia.

大眼仔

contact lens that makes the iris appear larger


steel blue

steel blue:

A grayish shade of the color blue, like the metal steel

blau acer

a grayish shade of the color blue, like the metal steel


lacrimal apparatus

lacrimal apparatus (plural lacrimal apparatuses)

(anatomy, physiology, ophthalmology) The system containing the orbital structures for the production and drainage of tear.


en-proverb

En-us-it's all fun and games until someone loses an eye.oga


octonocular

The Tarantula (d) is a Spider of Apulia, of the octonocular kind[…]

1745, Richard Mead, A mechanical account of poisons, page 102:

Spiders are mostly octonocular[…]

1815, Cotton Mather, The Christian Philosopher, page 158:


moonblind

en-adj

moonblind (comparative more moonblind, superlative most moonblind)

more moonblind (comparative)
most moonblind (superlative)


piceous

piceous (comparative more piceous, superlative most piceous)

more piceous (comparative)
most piceous (superlative)

From Latin piceus (“like pitch; pitch-black”) + -ous (suffix forming adjectives denoting possession or presence of a quality). Piceus is derived from pix (“pitch, tar”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peyH- (“fat; milk”)) + -eus (suffix forming adjectives indicating the sources of attributes). The English word is cognate with Italian piceo (“like pitch; of a dark brown colour”), Spanish piceo (“like pitch; of a dark brown colour”).

cog

I do not therefore require of you to believe, that the ancient rocks and compact bodies were diſſolved, but that many new ones were formed by the deluge, which had incloſed the ſpoils of the ſea within them. [...] What other rational account will you give of that ſhell of a nautilus, which was found buried in a ſtratum of a piceous ſubstance below the bed of the river Arbis, where Artaxerxes commanded a bridge to be built over it?

1741, Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke et al., “Letter XCIX. Otanes, Chief Architect and Superintendent of the Royal Places, to Cleander.”, in Athenian Letters: or, The Epistolary Correspondence of an Agent of the King of Persia, Residing at Athens during the Peloponnesian War. […], London: James Bettenham, →OCLC; Athenian Letters: … In Two Volumes, new edition, volume I, London: Printed for T[homas] Cadell Jun. and W[illiam] Davies […], 1798, →OCLC, page 425:

(obsolete, rare) Of or pertaining to pitch (“a sticky, dark brown substance obtained from distilling turpentine or wood tar, or crude oil or tar”); having a quality like pitch; pitchlike, pitchy.

piceo

of or pertaining to pitch; having a quality like pitch

piceous:

Piciroſtris. Oblong, black: ſilvery-ſilky: ſnout half way and legs piceous.

1806, Charles Linné [i.e., Carl Linnaeus], William Turton, A General System of Nature, through the Three Grand Kingdoms of Animals, Vegetables, and Minerals, […] In Seven Volumes, volume II (Animal Kingdom), part I (Insects), London: Printed [by Dewick & Clarke] for Lackington, Allen, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 215:

The colour of the upper part is a mixture of yellowish-white and piceous disposed in dots, exactly resembling mosaic work, [...]

1828 June 17, Thomas Bell, “VII. Description of a New Species of Agama, Brought from the Columbia River by Mr. [David] Douglass.”, in The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, volume XVI, London: Printed by Richard Taylor, […]; and by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, […]; and William Wood, […], published 1833, →OCLC, pages 105–106:

Abdomen with shining cinereous tomentum, and with five lines of piceous spots; [...] Tibiæ piceous towards the tips; tarsi piceous.

1868 February 6, Andrew Murray, “On an Undescribed Light-giving Coleopterous Larva (Provisionally Named Astraptor illuminator)”, in The Journal of the Linnean Society. Zoology, volume X, London: Sold at the [Linnean] Society [of London]’s apartments, […]; and by Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, and Williams and Norgate, published 1870, →OCLC, paragraph 16, page 90:

Front and middle legs yellow, coxae black behind, femora piceous posteriorly; [...]

1940 September, R. A. Cushman, A Review of the Parasitic Wasps of the Ichneumonid Genus Exenterus Hartig (United States Department of Agriculture Miscellaneous Publication; no. 354), Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 12:

Agabus elongatus [...] Legs rufous; metafemur piceous.

1995, Anders N. Nilsson, Mogens Holmen, “Subfamily Colymbetinae”, in N. P. Kristensen, editor, The Aquatic Adephagia (Coleoptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark. II. Dytiscidae (Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica), volume 32, Leiden, New York, N.Y.: E[vert] J[an] Leiden, →ISBN, →ISSN, paragraph 95, page 110:

From the year of its establishment, darkness seemed to have found a home in Beet College. Dark pink for the brick buildings, dark green for the doorjambs and the benches, dark iron for the hinges, dark stone for Nathaniel's Tomb; darkness in the piceous roots of trees that broke through the earth like bones through skin.

2008, Roger Rosenblatt, chapter 1, in Beet: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Ecco Press, →ISBN:

Gyrophaenia uteana Casey [...] [H]ead piceous, pronotum dark rufo-testaceous to piceous; elytra reddish-brown with sutural region and posterior angles piceous, abdomen yellowish- or reddish-brown, apical portion often darker, piceous; [...]

2018, Jan Klimaszewski et al., “Tribe Homalotini Heer, 1839”, in Aleocharine Rove Beetles of Eastern Canada (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae): A Glimpse of Megadiversity, Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature, →DOI, →ISBN, paragraph 162, page 378:

(chiefly entomology) Resembling pitch in colour; a very dark brown.


blear eye

LIPPITU′DO, Ophthal′mia chron′ica of some. Lippitude, Blear eye, Lappa, Lipa, Xerophthal′mia, Lema, Lemē, Glama, Gramia.

[1839, Robley Dunglison, “LIPPITUDO”, in Medical Lexicon. A New Dictionary of Medical Science, […], 2nd edition, Philadelphia, Pa.: Lea and Blanchard, successors to Carey and Co., →OCLC, page 362:

(medicine) A disease of the eyelids, involving chronic inflammation of the margins, with a gummy secretion of sebaceous matter.


Naples yellow

en-noun

Naples yellow (countable and uncountable, plural Naples yellows)

Naples yellow:


antimony yellow

antimony yellow (countable and uncountable, plural antimony yellows)


tenné

tenné:

(heraldry) A rarely-used tincture of orange or bright brown.


tenné

Arms : Quarterly of eight , I or a lion rampant tenné, on a chief sable three escallops or, 2 azure a tower domed argent, 3 barry or and gules,[…]

1985, Stained Glass Before 1700 in American Collections: Corpus Vitrearum Checklist:


verditure

verditure (usually uncountable, plural verditures)


oculiform

en-adj

oculiform (comparative more oculiform, superlative most oculiform)

more oculiform (comparative)
most oculiform (superlative)

an oculiform pebble


prasinous

prasinous (comparative more prasinous, superlative most prasinous)

more prasinous (comparative)
most prasinous (superlative)

From Latin prasinus, from Ancient Greek πρᾰ́σῐνος (prắsĭnos, “leek-green, light green”).

der

prasinous:


aphakial

aphakial eyes

(ophthalmology, dated) Pertaining to or exhibiting aphakia; aphakic.


beaglepuss

From Franco-American Novelty Company's brand name "Beagle Puss Disguise Kit", apparently from beagle + puss (“face”).

Vonnegut did not write the book, and the photo on the book jacket of Trout looked suspiciously like Farmer, wearing Boss Mule work gloves, beagle puss and mustache, sunglasses, mufflers, etc.

1990, Howard Waldrop, Night of the Cooters: More Neat Stories, Kansas City: Ursus Imprints, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, LCC PS3573.A4228 N54 1990, page 60:

The punchline: a bewildered Ung wearing a beaglepuss and trying to type with a rubber chicken […]

2004 September 13, George Jones, Maximum PC 2005 Buyer's Guide, Indianapolis: Que, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 23:

Julian Assange personally reads every document to be published, types it up and formats it on his laptop while wearing a beaglepuss.

2010 August 22, JDog, “The Greatest Rube Goldberg Machine: How WikiLeaks Documents Reach Julian Assange”, in Writing Rendezvous, retrieved 2011-11-15:

(uncommon) A novelty pair of horn-rimmed glasses with attached eyebrows, plastic nose, and bushy mustache, caricaturing Groucho Marx.


Groucho glasses

Joe handed Groucho glasses to each of them and then indicated the guns.

2000, Chloe Green, Going Out in Style, New York: Warner, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, LCC PS3557.R363 G65 2000, page 58:

I felt like I was going down on a pair of Groucho glasses.

2004 May, Gus Mattox, “Fuzz Down Below”, in Out, →ISSN, page 93:

Dan Menaker handed me a pair of Groucho glasses as I entered the room.

2006 October 17, Joe Klein, “Afterword”, in Primary Colors: A Novel of Politics, Trade Paperback edition, Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, LCC PS3550.A1 P75 2006, page 378:

And there on the wall with trick sunglasses you can use to look behind you, Groucho glasses, and the glasses with the eyeballs on springs was something very, very creepy.

2011, David Anderegg, Nerds: How Dorks, Dweebs, Techies, and Trekkies Can Save America and Why They Might Be Our Last Hope, New York: Penguin, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 21:


purpureal

en-adj

purpureal (comparative more purpureal, superlative most purpureal)

more purpureal (comparative)
most purpureal (superlative)

/pɜːˈpjʊə.ɹɪ.əl/

From Latin purpureus (“purple, violet; brown, reddish; clothed in purple; (figurative) brilliant, shining; beautiful”) + English -al (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives). Purpureus is either derived:
* from purpura (“the colour purple; purple-fish (Hexaplex trunculus)”) (from Ancient Greek πορφῠ́ρᾱ (porphŭ́rā, “purple-fish; purple dye obtained from it; purple-dyed cloth; purple stripe or other adornment of a garment”), from πορφύρω (porphúrō, “to redden”)) + -eus (suffix forming adjectives from nouns); or
* from Ancient Greek πορφύρεος (porphúreos, “of a purple colour”), from πορφῠ́ρᾱ (porphŭ́rā) (see above) + -εος (-eos).

der

[G]liding thro' his daughter's honour'd ſhades, / The ſmooth Penéus from his glaſſy flood / Reflects purpureal Tempe's pleaſant ſcene?

1744, [Mark Akenside], “Book the First”, in The Pleasures of Imagination. A Poem. In Three Books, London: […] R[obert] Dodsley […], →OCLC, page 16, lines 296–298:

[T]he fair star / That gems the glittering coronet of morn, / Sheds not a light so mild, so powerful, / As that which, bursting from the Fairy's form, / Spread a purpureal halo round the scene, / Yet with an undulating motion, / Swayed to her outline gracefully.

1813, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Canto I”, in Queen Mab; […], London: […] P. B. Shelley, […], →OCLC, page 6:

Of all that is most beauteous—imaged there / In happier beauty; more pellucid streams, / An ampler ether, a diviner air, / And fields invested with purpureal gleams; [...]

1815, William Wordsworth, “Laodamia”, in Poems […], volume I, London: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […], →OCLC, page 229:

But not ere him who summoneth / I first have seen, enwound / With glooming robes purpureal, cypress-crowned; [...]

1893, Francis Thompson, “The Hound of Heaven”, in The Works of Francis Thompson, volume I (Poems), New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons […], published 1913, →OCLC, page 112:

Above the altar-lace / he mounted a triptych of the Assumption / with coarse, purpureal clouds, a prescient Madonna / drawn from Leonardo's "Our Lady of the Rocks."

1973, Derek Walcott, “[Homage to Gregorias] Chapter 10”, in Another Life, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 63:

violâtre

(literary, poetic) of a purple colour — see also purple


Mars brown

Presumably from the colour of the planet Mars.


gliff

en-verb

gliff (third-person singular simple present gliffs, present participle gliffing, simple past and past participle gliffed)

gliffs (present singular third-person)
gliffing (participle present)
gliffed (participle past)
gliffed (past)

Compare Middle English glyffen (“to give a glancing look; to become startled or frightened”).

cog

(UK, Scotland, dialect, transitive) To glimpse.


odouriferous

en-adj

odouriferous (comparative more odouriferous, superlative most odouriferous)

more odouriferous (comparative)
most odouriferous (superlative)


violescent

violescent (comparative more violescent, superlative most violescent)

more violescent (comparative)
most violescent (superlative)


laurel green

laurel green:

A green-gray color, like that of a leaf of a laurel


laurel green

Of a green-gray color, like that of a leaf of a laurel.


pine green

en-noun

pine green (countable and uncountable, plural pine greens)

pine green:

A dark blue-green color, like that of a pine tree.


pine green

Of a dark blue-green color, like that of a pine tree.


infravision

(fantasy, gaming) A superhuman ability to see in the dark.


quadchromatic

(rare) Having color vision using four primary colors; tetrachromatic


ochroleucous

en-adj

ochroleucous (comparative more ochroleucous, superlative most ochroleucous)

more ochroleucous (comparative)
most ochroleucous (superlative)

ochroleucous:

Yellowish-white; having a faint tint of dingy yellow


four-eyed

(slang, chiefly derogatory) Wearing spectacles.


porraceous

porraceous (comparative more porraceous, superlative most porraceous)

more porraceous (comparative)
most porraceous (superlative)

/pɔːˈɹeɪʃəs/

From Latin porrāceus, from porrum, porrus (“a leek”).

If the lesser Intestines be wounded, he will be troubled with poraceous Vomiting, and what he eats or drinks will pass out of his Wound in less than half an hour[.]

1676, Richard Wiseman, Several Chirurgical Treatises, page 432:

During the night she vomited porraceous matter.

1914, Georges Dieulafoy, A Text-Book of Medicine, page 880:

[B]ut [I] had to say that the "foliage" was "emerald" or indeed (I discovered this in a Victorian book of verse by a gentleman called Bradford) that the "verdure" was "porraceous".

1956, Paul Dehn, For Love and Money, page 79:

My pignoration, see, is this smaragd, of porraceous hue. Bless my tripudiation, stellify my verses.

1986, Les Murray, editor, The New Oxford Book of Australian Verse, page 214:

porraceous:

(originally medicine now rare) Resembling the leek in colour; greenish.


echometry

From echo + -metry, compare French échométrie.

The acoustics system design for echometry is significantly different from that of tissue-structure mapping in that diffuse backscatter is essential.

1992, Robert John Weber, David N. Perkins, Inventive Minds: Creativity in Technology, page 139:

Manufacturers of IOLs are of course aware of this fact and determine the A- or ACD constants of their lenses in such a way that optimum results are achieved with contact echometry.

2004, H. John Shammas, Intraocular Lens Power Calculations, page 148:

In order to apply echometry to the diagnosis and follow-up of congenital glaucoma, we carried out the following study with normal children with the aim of finding out the values of axial lengths in developing normal eyes and in congenital glaucomas.

2008, Roberto Sampaolesi, Jorge Zarate, Juan Roberto Sampaolesi, The Glaucomas: Volume I - Pediatric Glaucomas, page 42:

Considered as the father of medical ultrasound, John Wilde was the first one to describe echometry, which enabled him to distinguish healthy cells from cancerous ones.

2017, Alexandru Mihai Grumezescu, Design of Nanostructures for Theranostics Applications, page 499:

The scientific measurement of sounds or echoes.

(medicine, ophthalmology) The use of ultrasound echos to make biometric measurements (as opposed to making images, which is called medical ultrasound).


archil

en-noun

archil (countable and uncountable, plural archils)


erythrosin

erythrosin (countable and uncountable, plural erythrosins)

(chemistry) A red substance formed by the oxidation of tyrosin.


owly-eyed

en-adj

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

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

Gabe looked owly-eyed at the fellow and then prissed his mouth.

1961, John Myers Myers, I, Jack Swilling, Founder of Phoenix, Arizona, Hastings House, published 1961, page 118:

Wide-eyed, naturally or from an expression of fear, shock, surprise, or excitement.


isabelline

isabelline (comparative more isabelline, superlative most isabelline)

more isabelline (comparative)
most isabelline (superlative)

The isabelline (or Daurian) shrike is a greyish-yellow and hunts from prominent perches, impaling the corpses on thorns as a larder.

As Mr. Tristram has remarked, in regard to the inhabitants of the Sahara, all are protected by their “isabelline or sand-colour.”

1871, Charles Darwin, “Birds—concluded”, in The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. […], volume II, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, Part II (Sexual Selection), page 224:

Isabelline -us: pale yellow with some red and brown [chronic lemon with a little carmine and roman sepia].

[1906, John Bernhard Smith, Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology:

(chiefly of animals) Coloured a greyish yellow.


acorea

(pathology) the congenital absence of the pupil in an eye


saucer-eyed

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

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

The village children gaped saucer-eyed at the newcomers.

2009, Philip Reeve, No Such Thing As Dragons, Scholastic, published 2010, →ISBN, page 36:

Barlow[…] had just spent the Summer of Love in San Francisco. Having seen waves of saucer-eyed youth wash up in the Haight, and gotten fairly dilated himself, he believed that civilization was “headed over the falls.”

2018 June 14, Chris Jennings, “‘Mother American Night’ Review: The Opening of a Western Mind”, in Wall Street Journal, →ISSN:

Having round, wide-open eyes, naturally or from an expression of fear, astonishment, etc.


solferino

en-noun

solferino (countable and uncountable, plural solferinos)

/ˌsoʊlfəˈɹiːnəʊ/

So called from Solferino in Italy, where a battle was fought at about the time of its discovery.

A brilliant purple-red dye derived from aniline


cecutiency

From Latin caecutire (“to be blind”), from caecus (“blind”).

[T]here is in them [moles] no cecity, yet more then a cecutiency[…]

1646, Thomas Browne, “Of Molls”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC, 3rd book, page 152:

[H]e persevered steadily and unobtrusively in his philanthropic designs, and, at the same time, pursued his scientific and philosophical labours with redoubled energy, to enable him to check, if possible, the national cecutiency.

1827, M. Samuels, Memoirs of Moses Mendelsohn^([sic]), 2nd edition, London: Longman and Co., page 20:

[I]t is important in considering cecutiency to include those whose better eye is completely normal if the individual's visual capacity is limited because of problems in the other eye.

1964, Reverend Thomas J. Carroll, Impaired Vision and Blindness: The Prevention of Disability, Social Isolation, and Untimely Death, Cleveland, Ohio, pages 33–34:

In addition, cecutiency is often accompanied by uncertainty about the future stability, improvement, or progression of the visual impairment.

2000 [1981], Walter C. Stolov, Michael R. Clowers, editors, Handbook of Severe Disability: A Text for Rehabilitation Counselors, Other Vocational Practitioners, and Allied Health Professionals, U.S. Department of Education; Rehabilitation Services Administration, →ISBN, page 385, DIANE Publishing:

(rare, dated) Partial blindness, or a tendency toward blindness.


chrysaniline

chrysaniline (countable and uncountable, plural chrysanilines)

(organic chemistry) A yellow substance obtained as a by-product in the manufacture of rosaniline, used to dye silk a golden-yellow colour.


anchusin

Borrowed from New Latin Anchusa (“the plant alkanet”) + -in.

(organic chemistry) A resinoid colouring matter obtained from alkanet root.


eagle eye

haukansilmä

someone with good eyesight, someone with an eye for detail


olivaster

en-adj

olivaster (comparative more olivaster, superlative most olivaster)

more olivaster (comparative)
most olivaster (superlative)

From French olivastre (attested by 1575; compare modern French olivâtre). For more, see olive, -aster.

Of colour, they are rather black than olivaster and that their arms and legs are chained with manilios and armlets of silver, brass, ivory and the like

1634, T[homas] H[erbert], A Relation of Some Yeares Trauaile, Begunne Anno 1626. into Afrique and the Greater Asia, […], London: […] William Stansby, and Jacob Bloome, →OCLC:

(archaic, uncommon) Of the color of the olive; tawny.


popeye

en-noun

popeye (countable and uncountable, plural popeyes)

Coryphaenoides cinereus (syn. Macrurus cinereus), a deep sea fish.


exophthalmia

exophthalmia (countable and uncountable, plural exophthalmias)

(medicine) protrusion of the eyeball so that the eyelids will not cover it, in consequence of disease.


raccoon eyes

From raccoon + eyes, in reference to the colour surrounding the eyes of raccoons.

Alternative form: coon eyes

(idiomatic, informal) The state of the orbits of the eyes (especially the undereye region) having a bluish-purplish coloration.


graveolence

From Latin graveolentia. Compare French gravéolence. See graveolent.

[…] to destroy in the flower of its beauty, then ruthlessly casts it from him as a rank and loathsome weed, without reflecting that he first robbed it of its redolence; was himself the cause of that graveolence which he then finds so offensive.

1841, William Hodgson, The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte:

(rare) A strong offensive smell; rancidity.


senocular

From Latin sēnī (“six each”), from sex (“six”) + oculus (“eye”).

spiders[…], for the most part octonocular, and ſome[…] senocular

1713, W[illiam] Derham, Physico-Theology: Or, A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God, from His Works of Creation. […], London: […] W[illiam] Innys, […], →OCLC:


barwood

barwood (countable and uncountable, plural barwoods)

From bar + wood, since it was imported from Africa in bars.

(uncountable) Red wood of a leguminous African tree, Baphia nitida, used as a dyewood and for ramrods, violin bows and turner's work.


cockeye

From cock + eye. See cock (“to turn up”).

(engineering) The socket in the ball of a millstone, which sits on the cockhead.


intort

en-verb

intort (third-person singular simple present intorts, present participle intorting, simple past and past participle intorted)

intorts (present singular third-person)
intorting (participle present)
intorted (participle past)
intorted (past)

Latin intortus, past participle of intoquere (“to twist”) equivalent to in- (“in-”) + torquereto (“twist”).

2002, Sunita Agarwal, Athiya Agarwal, David J. Apple, Textbook of Ophthalmology, Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers, India, psge 338,
If we tilt the head to the right, the right eye will intort and the left eye will extort. […] So, if the right eye intorts, it means the superiors in that eye (RSR and RSO) work and if the left eye extorts it means the inferiors of that eye (LIO and LIR) work.

For the right labyrinth, however, both vertical semicircular canals produce clockwise slow phases (ipsilateral eye intorts, contralateral eye extorts).

2003, Thomas Brandt, Vertigo: Its Multisensory Syndromes, page 194:

Figure 18.12. The needles are withdrawn from the sclera, and the sutures are pulled to advance the anterior tendon laterally, while the eye is intorted by rotating it with the large hook.

2007, Kenneth Weston Wright, Color Atlas of Strabismus Surgery: Strategies and Techniques, page 185:

These conditions are reversed after every hemicycle, i.e. the previously higher intorted eye is then lowered and extorted, and the previously lowered extorted eye becomes higher and intorted (Fig. 3.7).

2011, Peter Urban, Louis R. Caplan, Brainstem Disorders, page 124:

(medicine, ophthalmology) To twist inwards.


croceous

en-adj

croceous (comparative more croceous, superlative most croceous)

more croceous (comparative)
most croceous (superlative)

From Latin croceus, from crocus (“saffron”). See crocus.

Of a deep reddish yellow, like that of saffron.


yellowred

yellowred (comparative more yellowred, superlative most yellowred)

more yellowred (comparative)
most yellowred (superlative)

Coxa grey, grey haired, femur blackbrown, yellowwhite haired along the distal lateral border, tibia redbrown to blackbrown, yellowred haired at base, then black haired.

Head: Triangular; clypeus enclosed; cheeks surrounding clypeus are nearly straight extending in front of compound eyes; antennae pinkish or of yellowred tile with last article darker; second article longer than third one [...]

1971, Benakeio Phytopathologiko Institouto, Chronika tou Benakeiou Phytopathologikou Institoutou:

“I’ll do it,” said Dolly, and getting up, she carefully passed the spoon over the frothing sugar, and from time to time shook off the clinging jam from the spoon by knocking it on a plate that was covered with yellowred scum and blood-colored syrup.

2003, Leo Tolstoy, Amy Mandelker, Constance Garnett, Anna Karenina:

(uncommon) Alternative form of yellow-red


alhenna

Borrowed from Arabic الحِنَّاء (al-ḥinnāʔ), preserving the Arabic article اَل (al-).

Lawsonia inermis
Lawsonia inermis#Translingual


dishwater blond

dishwater blond (comparative more dishwater blond, superlative most dishwater blond)

more dishwater blond (comparative)
most dishwater blond (superlative)

She had a pert, dishwater blond hairdo, kind of like a Doris Day cut.

2006, Pierce Scranton, Death on the Learning Curve, Elite Books, published 2006, →ISBN, page 129:

Of a dark blond color bordering on light brown.


dishwater blond

en-noun

dishwater blond (plural dishwater blonds)

dishwater blond:

"Dishwater blond is just as attractive as it sounds. Get highlights."

2006, Christina Dodd, Trouble in High Heels, Signet, published 2006, →ISBN, page 21:

A dark shade of blond, bordering on light brown.

Russ tipped the magazine slightly to reduce the glare from the lamp. The dishwater blond in the picture smiled at him, Russ thought, in just the right way.

2003, David M. Pierce, Elf Child, The Hatworth Press, published 2003, →ISBN, page 1:


bluenette

A girl with pale blue hair and a translucent dress wears see-through underwear (she's not a natural bluenette).

2000 November, B. Werde, “The Love”, in CMJ New Music Monthly:

(slang) A person with blue hair, especially a woman.


almagra

almagra (usually uncountable, plural almagras)

Borrowed from Spanish almagra (more commonly almagre), from Arabic الْمُغْرَة (al-muḡra, “red clay or earth”).


Mittler's green

A green pigment made from chromium oxide.


blue-red

en-adj

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

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

From blue + red. Compare Old English blēorēad (“blue-red, purple”).

cog

blue-red:

This unquiet feeling increases as the hue progresses, and it may be safely assumed, that a carpet of a perfectly pure deep blue-red [translating Blaurot] would be intolerable.

1840, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Goethe's Theory of Colours:

A dye-stuff which dyes wool and silk in acid-bath in fine red-violet tints, dissolves in water with a blue-red color and a yellowish fluorescence, is sparingly soluble in alcohol, insoluble in ether and benzene, […]

1898, The Year-book for Colorists and Dyers, page 85:

Amyl alcohol extracts a blue-red color from material dyed with magenta, but extracts a yellow color from aurin, while from orchil a pink or violet color is obtained.

1908, Samuel Philip Sadtler, A Hand-book of Industrial Organic Chemistry:

(V), C₁₄H₉O₃NBr₂, dark crystals with cantharides luster, blackens above 230°, does not m. 310°, sol. in NaOH with blue-red color and very faint fluorescence.

1925, Chemical Abstracts, volume 19, page 2649:

Standing and moving to under one of the lights by the nav station I could see a dark blue-red mark across the right side of my rib cage. Prodding gently I realised I had just cracked or broken one or more ribs.

2013, Crispin Latymer, Where the Ocean Meets the Sky, page 48:

When hemoglobin is unoxygenated, blood assumes a darker blue-red color. Thus, blood coming from the lungs is well oxygenated and appears red. Blood leaving the tissues has given up its oxygen and appears blue-red.

2014, Barbara L. Herlihy, The Human Body in Health and Illness, page 289:

She ran her fingers down his leg, tugging up his jeans to reveal a blue-red bruise already starting to swell.

Of a colour between blue and red; purple or crimson.

a blue-red cock (rooster)

Consisting of the colours blue and red individually.


blue-red

en-noun

blue-red (countable and uncountable, plural blue-reds)

Let us suppose a red represented by the equivalent number, five, with one part of blue added to it, thus causing it to be a blue-red or crimson.

1981, The Technical Educator, an Encyclopædia:

A blue-red monochromatic color plan includes any hues created when blue-red is combined with white, black, and/or gray.

2014, Joen Wolfrom, Color Play, page 104:

A colour between blue and red; purple or crimson.


yellow-red

en-adj

yellow-red (comparative more yellow-red, superlative most yellow-red)

more yellow-red (comparative)
most yellow-red (superlative)

From Middle English *yelwered, *ȝeoluread, from Old English ġeolurēad (“reddish yellow, orange”), equivalent to yellow + red.

inh

The spar buoy is a red and white horizontally striped pole with a yellow top and has a yellow-red ball at the top and a yellow triangular flag beneath the ball.

1953, Sailing Directions for Northern U.S.S.R., page 20:

After a few days the silver appeared to become more colloidal and the sections were stained a yellow-red color.

1953, International Review of Cytology, volume 2, page 86:

I'd been told many times that my yellow-red hair and peach skin were beautiful, that their contrast with my dark eyes was compelling.

2008, Traci L. Slatton, Immortal, page 6:

Her yellow-red eyes reflected the torches on either side of her throne. A black cape with a crimson lining finished the outfit, connecting to two red stones on her fingers. She could drop any mortal man dead just by her looks.

2010, Alexandra Livingston, Defy the Gods, page 8:

yellow-red:

Of a colour between yellow and red; orange.

Consisting of yellow and red colours individually.


yellow-red

Obviously one will be red, but will the other hue be a yellow-red (orange) or a red-purple?

1930, Benson H. Paul, C. A. Plaskett, Charles Nicholas Ainslie, A Method for Determining the Color of Agricultural Products:

The cultural meanings associated with yellow and yellow-red (orange) are varied.

2017, Jim Long, The New Munsell Student Color Set, page 33:


shutter shades

From the trademarked name of a brand of sunglasses created by Shutter Shades, Inc., in 2007. Similar louvered/slatted sunglasses which existed as early as the 1950s and were popular in the 1980s were known by other names, such as "Venetian blinders".

"Never trust anything you read online," Tanya said, pushing up her shutter shades.

2012, Alec Nevala-Lee, The Icon Thief, Signet, →ISBN:

A style of sunglasses which have frames containing horizontal slats as opposed to tinted lenses.


philomot

One of them was blue, another yellow, and another philomot

1712 January 14 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison], “THURSDAY, January 3, 1711–1712”, in The Spectator, number 265; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume III, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:


carthamin

Carthamus tinctorius
Carthamus tinctorius#Translingual

(organic chemistry) A red pigment obtained from the safflower, Carthamus tinctorius.


alizari

en-noun

alizari (countable and uncountable, plural alizaris)

From French alizari (“madder root (commercial name)”), from Greek αλιζάρι (alizári, “madder”), from Ottoman Turkish آلاجهری (ala cehri).

bor

the able Holland merchants dispersed it in all the markets of Europe , after they had mixed it with the alizaris of Levant

1849, United States. Dept. of Agriculture, Annual Reports of the Department of Agriculture:

(archaic) The madder of the Levant; wild madder (Rubia peregrina).


spadiceous

en-adj

spadiceous (comparative more spadiceous, superlative most spadiceous)

more spadiceous (comparative)
most spadiceous (superlative)

From Latin spadix, spadicis (“a date-brown or nut-brown color”). See spadix.

Of those five [horns] which Scaliger beheld, though one spadiceous, or of a light red, and two inclining to red, yet was there not any of this complexion among them.

1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

Of a bright clear brown or chestnut colour.


ciliary body

(anatomy) circumferential tissue inside the eye composed of the ciliary muscle and ciliary processes


anterior chamber

en-noun

anterior chamber (plural anterior chambers)

(anatomy, ophthalmology) A space inside the eye between the cornea and the iris, filled with aqueous humour.


posterior chamber

posterior chamber (plural posterior chambers)

(anatomy, ophthalmology) A narrow space inside the eye between the iris and the lens, filled with aqueous humour.


colcothar

colcothar (countable and uncountable, plural colcothars)

(organic chemistry, obsolete) Polishing rouge; a reddish-brown oxide of iron, used in polishing glass, and also as a pigment.


Schlemm's canal

Schlemm's canal (plural Schlemm's canals)

(anatomy) a circular channel in the eye that collects aqueous humour from the anterior chamber and delivers it into the bloodstream; if it is blocked, a glaucoma results


canal of Schlemm

canal of Schlemm (plural canals of Schlemm)

(anatomy) Alternative form of Schlemm's canal


aqueous humor

(anatomy) Alternative spelling of aqueous humour


absinthe green

A moderate yellow green.
absinthe green:


absinthe yellow

absinthe yellow:


dichlorophenolindophenol

(organic chemistry) A blue chemical compound used as a redox dye.


sideglance

en-verb

sideglance (third-person singular simple present sideglances, present participle sideglancing, simple past and past participle sideglanced)

sideglances (present singular third-person)
sideglancing (participle present)
sideglanced (participle past)
sideglanced (past)

To quickly look at something to the side, usually without turning one's head; to glance sidelong.


sideglance

A quick look at something to the side, usually without turning one's head, a sidelong glance.


ROP

en-noun

ROP (countable and uncountable, plural ROPs)

(ophthalmology) Initialism of retinopathy of prematurity.


quadrantanopsia

quadrantanopsia (countable and uncountable, plural quadrantanopsias)


khaki green

khaki green (countable and uncountable, plural khaki greens)

Rae wore khaki-green. Khaki-green and khaki-brown were his favourite colours, his image.

2001, *Leila Aboulela, The Translator, →ISBN, page 61:

khaki green:

A colour between khaki and green; light olive drab.


chrysoidine

chrysoidine (countable and uncountable, plural chrysoidines)

Ancient Greek χρυσός (khrusós, “gold”) + -oid + -ine.

A yellow-orange crystalline dye, C₆H₅N₂.C₆H₃(NH₂)₂.


shooting glasses

(firearms) A type of impact-resistant eyewear worn by shooters to prevent injury due to a cartridge or gun malfunction blowing hot gas or metal particles into the shooter's face.


gold ochre

gold ochre (countable and uncountable, plural gold ochres)

/ɡəʊld ˈəʊkə(ɹ)/

gold ochre:

A dark yellowish color, a yellowish shade of ochre or olive.


Saxon green

A green colour produced by dyeing with yellow upon a ground of Saxon blue.


cudbear

cudbear (countable and uncountable, plural cudbears)

Corrupted from the name of Dr. Cuthbert Gordon, a Scotsman, who patented the process of manufacture.

ORCHELLA WEEDS. The cylindrical and flat species of Roccella used in the manufacture of Orchil or Archil, and Cudbear, are so called by the makers.

1878, Andrew Ure, Robert Hunt, Frederick William Rudler, Ure̓'s Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines: Containing a Clear Exposition of Their Principles and Practice, volume 3:

Lecanora tartarea
Lecanora tartarea#Translingual

A violet-red powder, difficult to moisten with water, prepared from certain lichens, especially Ochrolechia tartarea (syn. Lecanora tartarea), and used for making violet or purple dye.


applanation

applanation (countable and uncountable, plural applanations)

(pathology, ophthalmology) The flattening of the cornea, especially by the application of pressure.

aplanação

the flattening of the cornea by the application of pressure


blondism

Blondism artificially produced in Micronesia and Melanesia as in Polynesia indicates a blond element in the last conquering immigration.

1927, John Macmillan Brown, Peoples & problems of the Pacific, volume 2, page 276:

In the beard latent blondism is likely to come out.

1931, Carleton Stevens Coon, Tribes of the Rif, page 348:

(anthropology) The presence of blond hair and relatively pale skin and eyes in a member of a usually darker race.


scotomy

scotomy (countable and uncountable, plural scotomies)

From Ancient Greek σκότωμα (skótōma, “dizziness”).

uder

(obsolete) obscuration of the field of vision due to the appearance of a dark spot before the eye


keratoscope

(ophthalmology) An ophthalmic instrument for assessing the shape of the anterior surface of the cornea.


keratoscopy

(ophthalmology) The measurement of the shape of the anterior surface of the cornea.


keratoscleritis

(ophthalmology) Inflammation of the cornea and the sclera of the eye.


scleritis

(ophthalmology) Inflammation of the sclera of the eye.


keratocele

(ophthalmology) A herniation of Descemet's membrane in the eye.


tropaeolin

en-noun

tropaeolin (countable and uncountable, plural tropaeolins)

Any of several orange dyes of very complex composition: tropaeolin O (acid orange 6, chrysoine resorcinol), tropaeolin OO (acid orange 5), or tropaeolin OOO (acid orange 7).


magnetosensation

(biology) The ability of an animal to detect magnetic fields, and to react accordingly


battleship gray

battleship gray (countable and uncountable, plural battleship grays)


foulsmelling

en-adj

foulsmelling (comparative more foulsmelling, superlative most foulsmelling)

more foulsmelling (comparative)
most foulsmelling (superlative)


leekish

leekish (comparative more leekish, superlative most leekish)

more leekish (comparative)
most leekish (superlative)

Occasionally a church gleams white, its spire thin on a leekish onion of dark grey; and then a small town spreads itself as the trees fall away — [...]

1958, William Sansom, The icicle and the sun:

In describing garlic, Coghan contradicts other writers, for example Newton, who claims that it is a "grosse pothearb" that creates "naughty and corrupte iuyce," which in turn engenders a putrefying "leekish choler" in the body.

2009, Bianca Ryan-Lopez, Corruption and Infected Sin:

Resembling a leek, especially in colour.


hypometria

From ὑπο- (hupo-, corresponding to hypo-) + μέτρον (métron) + -ία (-ía)

af

corresponding to <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">hypo-</i>

Cerebellar dysfunction is characterized by truncal ataxia, a broad-based stance, dysmetria in which the limbs either overstep (hypermetria) or understep (hypometria), and tremor that is most pronounced when the animal attempts a goal-orientated movement (intention tremor).

2004, Johnny D. Hoskins, Geriatrics and Gerontology of the Dog and Cat, →ISBN, page 358:

(ophthalmology) Dysmetria in which the patient tends to undershoot the intended target.


hypermetria

From ὑπέρ (hupér, corresponding to hyper-) + μέτρον (métron) + -ία (-ía)

corresponding to <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">hyper-</i>

(ophthalmology) Dysmetria in which the patient tends to overshoot the intended target.


aphakic

Aphakic people are reported to be able to see ultraviolet wavelengths that are normally excluded by the lens.

(ophthalmology) Exhibiting aphakia; lacking the lens of the eye.


isabella

Unknown. Anecdotally linked to Isabella I of Castile (1451–1504) or Isabella Clara Eugenia (1566–1633).
See discussion at Isabelline (colour).

If it be exposed to heat as soon as it is moderately warm, its dark olive colour changes almost suddenly to an Isabella colour, it becomes cloudy, and an abundant precipitate falls[…]

1864, Sir William Crookes, Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science, volume 10, page 301:

A pale grey-yellow, fawn, cream-brown or parchment colour.

Isabella Clara Eugenia
Isabella I of Castile
Isabelline (colour)


aniline yellow

A yellow azo dye, 4-phenyldiazenylaniline


anomaloscope

/əˈnɒmələʊskəʊp/

From German Anomaloskop, from Ancient Greek ἀνώμαλος (anṓmalos, “irregular, uneven”) (from Ancient Greek ᾰ̓- (ă-, “a-, prefix meaning ‘not’”) + ὁμᾰλός (homălós, “even, level”)) + σκοπέω (skopéō, “to look, to look at; to examine, to inspect”) (from Proto-Indo-European *sḱop, ultimately from *speḱ- (“to see; to look, to observe”)).

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The anomaloscope contains a red-green scale from which may be read a number that is proportional to the amount of red in the mixture field, and a Y scale from which is read a number proportional to the luminance of the test color. In testing an observer, the examiner notes the scale values, which then are available for further transformation as noted for the Nagel anomaloscope.

1981, Committee on Vision, National Research Council, “Color Vision Tests”, in Procedures for Testing Color Vision: Report of Working Group 41, Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press, →OCLC, page 38:

For the differentiation between color vision defects of retinal origin and color defects as a result of optic nerve disease the determination of the neutral zone and anomaloscope examination are important.

1982, A. Pinckers, “Minimal Requirements for Color Vision Examination”, in G[uy] Verriest, editor, Colour Vision Deficiencies VI: Proceedings of the Sixth Symposium of the International Research Group on Colour Vision Deficiencies Held at the Klinikum der Freien Universität, (West) Berlin-Steglitz, 17–19 September 1981 (Documenta Ophthalmologia, Proceedings Series; 33), The Hague: Dr W. Junk Publishers, →ISBN, abstract, page 169:

Anomaloscopes are instruments that assess the ability to make metametric matches. The results are used for definitive diagnosis and quantitative assessment of color vision status. Anomoloscopes are much more difficult to administer than pseudoisochromatic plates and arrangement tests. The first anomaloscope was designed by Nagel and is based on the color match known as the Rayleigh equation, that is, R + G = Y.

2014, Harinder Singh Sethi, “Color Vision and Color Blindness”, in H. V. Nema, Nitin Nema, editors, Diagnostic Procedures in Ophthalmology, 3rd edition, New Delhi: Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers, →ISBN, page 22:

(ophthalmology) An instrument used to test for color blindness by measuring quantitative and qualitative anomalies in color perception.


antimetropia

en-noun

antimetropia (usually uncountable, plural antimetropias)

(ophthalmology) An extreme form of anisometropia in which one eye is myopic and the other hyperopic.


phaco

(surgery, ophthalmology, informal) Clipping of phacoemulsification.


polycoria

(medicine, ophthalmology) A pathological condition of the eye, characterized by more than one pupillary opening in the iris.


French grey

The door was French grey outside with raised metal lettering, as clean and sharp as a new knife.

1953, Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, Penguin, published 2010, page 130:

French grey:


Saunders blue

Corrupted from French cendres bleues, blue ashes.

A pigment prepared from calcined lapis lazuli; ultramarine.


claybank

I took Señorita Anabela for a walk in the lemon grove while Fergus, disfiguring himself with an ugly frown, was waltzing with the claybank girl.

1909 April, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “‘Next to Reading Matter’”, in Roads of Destiny, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC, page 82:


dacryolith

(ophthalmology) A concretion of material in a lacrymal or nasal duct.


erminois

(heraldry) In blazon, ermine with a field or instead of argent (gold with black spots).

guldhermelin

of gold colour with black spots on a coat of arms


argaman

/ˈɑː(ɹ)ɡəmən/

Borrowed from Hebrew אַרְגָּמָן (argaman, “purple, crimson”), from Akkadian 𒅈𒂵𒌋𒌋𒉡 (argamannu, “red-purple”).

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This purple light of Venus-Sophia-Lucifer was symbolized with purple colour. And this is where argaman purple was needed exclusively: as most crucial part of anointment oil mixture.

2012, Mika Virpiranta, Sun Cults versus Thunder Cults:

(historical) A particular purple dye or color.


-opsia

From Koine Greek -οψία (-opsía), related to ὀπτικός (optikós, “optic, pertaining to sight”).

(ophthalmology) Forming compound nouns denoting specific deficiencies of sight.


homochromia

(medicine, ophthalmology) The anatomical state in which the same pigmentation or coloring occurs in the eyes, skin or hair.


dacryocystorhinostomy

From dacryo- + cysto- + rhino- + -stomy or dacryocyst + -o- + rhino- + -stomy.

(ophthalmology) A surgical procedure to restore the flow of tears into the nose from the lacrimal sac when the nasolacrimal duct does not function.


dacryoadenectomy

en-noun

dacryoadenectomy (countable and uncountable, plural dacryoadenectomies)

(surgery, ophthalmology) The surgical removal of a lacrimal gland.


dacryocystectomy

dacryocystectomy (countable and uncountable, plural dacryocystectomies)

The surgical removal of a part of the lacrimal sac.


dacryocystostomy

dacryocystostomy (countable and uncountable, plural dacryocystostomies)

(surgery, ophthalmology) A surgical incision into the lacrimal sac, usually to promote drainage.


dacryocystotomy

From dacryocyst + -otomy or dacryo- + cysto- + -tomy.

(surgery, ophthalmology) A surgical incision into the lacrimal sac.


doe eyes

Large, wide-open (purportedly innocent-looking) eyes.


castaneous

en-adj

castaneous (comparative more castaneous, superlative most castaneous)

more castaneous (comparative)
most castaneous (superlative)

From the Latin castanea (“a chestnut, a chestnut tree”) + -ous (“full, full of”).

uder

Elytra piceous, gradually shaded into a castaneous margin, irregularly and minutely punctured, covered with ochraceous pubescence.

Having the colour of a chestnut; chestnut-coloured.


invisible green

(archaic, dyes) A very dark shade of green that is almost black.


methyl violet

(chemistry) An artificial dye consisting of certain methyl halogen derivatives of rosaniline.


pentachromat

One whose vision exhibits pentachromacy; one who can distinguish five primary colors.


dead-eyed

en-adj

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

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

[…]they do not explain the incredible pathos of Paul Anthony Heaven reading his lecture to a crowd of dead-eyed kids picking at themselves and drawing vacant airplane- and genitalia-doodles on their college-rule note-pads, […]

1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 911:

The prisoners watched me from inside their cells, watched dead-eyed and silent as I was dragged past.

2011, Andrew Klavan, The Final Hour, Thomas Nelson, →ISBN, page 20:

The dead-eyed man regarded me without the slightest change of expression.

2011, Joe Schreiber, Au Revoir, Crazy European Chick, Houghton Mifflin, →ISBN, pages 132–133:

With a staggering walk, ragged clothes, and a terrifying dead-eyed stare, the zombie is an instantly recognizable monster of the big screen.

2013, Janos Jantner, Drawing Horror-Movie Monsters, The Rosen Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 18:

Having eyes that lack emotion or seem vacant.


field of vision

en-noun

field of vision (plural fields of vision)

But when there is no Danger to our Eyes, either from Duſt or Light, we pull up our Eye-brows, that none of the Light may be ſtopt, but that all of it may fall upon our Eyes; by which the Sight or Field of Viſion is enlarged, and all the Objects above the Axis of Viſion are now ſeen: [...]

1759, William Porterfield, “Of the Supercilia or Eye-brows”, in A Treatise on the Eye, the Manner and Phænomena of Vision. In Two Volumes, volume I, Edinburgh: Printed for A. Miller [i.e., Andrew Millar] at London, and for G. Hamilton and J. Balfour at Edinburgh, →OCLC, book I (Of the Parts Subservient to the Eye), section I, § 8, page 7:

Prisms with their base outwards, combined with the convex lenses, have only the effect of enlarging the outer side of both fields of vision. For all the purposes we now speak of, this combination of prisms with convex lenses is quite superfluous, even in some respects troublesome.

1866 April, C. Schweigger, “On Simulated Amaurosis. (Read before the New York Ophthalmological Society.)”, in Edinburgh Medical Journal, Combining the Monthly Journal of Medicine and the Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, volume XI, part II, number X, Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, […]; London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., →OCLC, 3rd part (Periscope. Medical Jurisprudence.), page 951:

[A]ny of you who drive automobiles know that you run in and out of traffic, that you live up to the courtesies of the road, by making use of the whole field of vision. You see out of one corner of your eye that the man on your right has parked too far from the curb and out of the other corner of your eye that the man on your left is driving too close.

1925 April, Coleman R[oberts] Griffith, “Psychology and Its Relation to Athletic Competition”, in James Huff McCurdy, editor, American Physical Education Review, volume XXX, number 4 (number 206 overall), Springfield, Mass.: American Physical Education Association, →OCLC, page 194, column 2:

The average normal field of vision extends outward 90°, upward 50°, downward 70°, and inward 60° from the point of fixation.

1925 May, Nelson M. Black, “Compensation for Eye Injuries: Résumé of Work Done by Committee on Compensation for Ocular Injuries, Ophthalmic Section, American Medical Association”, in Bulletin of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, number 385, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 69:

Occasionally a clubgoer happens to notice one of the cameras and responds by thrusting a middle finger or an exposed breast into Haz’s field of vision. Otherwise, the thousands of young men and women entering and exiting the clubs are his unwitting entertainment.

2018 February, Robert Draper, “They are Watching You—and Everything Else on the Planet: Technology and Our Increasing Demand for Security have Put Us All under Surveillance. Is Privacy Becoming just a Memory?”, in National Geographic, Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-06-14:

The area that a person, an animal, etc., can see with its eyes (or each eye individually) without turning the head.

ساحة بصرية

area that a person, etc., can see without turning the head


MEM

monocular estimate method
w:monocular estimate method

(ophthalmology) Initialism of monocular estimate method.


rose bengal

4,5,6,7-tetrachloro-2',4',5',7'-tetraiodofluorescein, a stain whose sodium salt is commonly used in eyedrops to stain damaged cells and thereby identify damage.


white-haired

From Middle English white-heered, white-harid, white-herede, whyte-harede, white hared, equivalent to white + haired. Compare Old Norse hvít-hárr and hvít-hærðr (“white-haired”).

Having white hair, especially from old age.


mummy brown

mummy brown (usually uncountable, plural mummy browns)

mummy brown:

I then placed it [a wood frog (Lithobates sylvaticus)] in an open window on a whitish bottom, and the next day it was light brown. At 2 p.m., August 24th, I put it on a jet-black shelf, with black surroundings. Forty-five minutes later it was very dark, nearly mummy brown[…], but darker.

1893 August, Clarence M. Weed, “The Color Changes of Frogs”, in The Popular Science Monthly, volume XLIII, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton and Company, […], →OCLC, page 492:

Mummy Browns, from the crushings of Egyptian corpses, for the mortally ill and melancholy.

2001, M[ichelle] R. Lovric, “The Language of Colour”, in Carnevale, London: Virago, →ISBN; republished London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015, →ISBN, part 1:

Mummy brown was a common shade in artists’ colors until 1925, but it cannot be bought from any paint shop today. In 1964 Time magazine reported [“Techniques: The Passing of Mummy Brown”, Time, 2 October 1964] that London colormaker C. Roberson, which for a while had been the only distributor, had run out a few years before. “We might have a few odd limbs lying around somewhere,” managing director Geoffrey Roberson-Park told Time, “but not enough to make any more paint.”

2014, Victoria Finlay, “Mummy Brown: Funeral for Pharaohs”, in The Brilliant History of Color in Art, Los Angeles, Calif.: J. Paul Getty Museum, →ISBN, part 2 (Rocks, Minerals, Twigs, and Bugs), page 82, column 2:

The colour of this pigment, a variable brown intermediate between raw umber and burnt umber.


French purple

French purple (usually uncountable, plural French purples)

A dyestuff obtained from certain lichen known as orchella weeds, used for colouring woollen and silken fabrics, without the aid of mordants.


Spanish white

Spanish white (countable and uncountable, plural Spanish whites)


chiasmatic

(anatomy) Of or relating to the optic chiasma.


olfactomotor

(biology) Of or pertaining to both olfactory and motor activity, as for example where thinking about an odor triggers sniffing.


meibomian gland

meibomian gland (plural meibomian glands)

(ophthalmology, anatomy) A sebaceous gland at the rim of the eyelids, responsible for the production of meibum.


baby pink

baby pink (countable and uncountable, plural baby pinks)

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baby pink:


misty-eyed

en-adj

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

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


overaccommodation

(ophthalmology) The improper adjustment of the eye muscles so that the focal point of a target image falls behind the retina.


supersight

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The superpower of having remarkably acute vision.


Kanye glasses

This style of sunglasses, which first became popular in the 1980s, was re-popularized in the early 2010s by American rapper Kanye West.

It used to be trucker hats and Ray-Bans, followed by Kanye glasses and Day-Glo jewelry.

2010, Patrice Evans, Negropedia: The Assimilated Negro's Crash Course on the Modern Black Experience, Three Rivers Press, published 2011, →ISBN, page 181:

Finally, someone even approaching futuristic enough to pull off those damn Kanye glasses.

2012, Vice Magazine, Dos & Don'ts: 2013 Daily Calendar, Chronicle Books, →ISBN:

My freshman year, I cheered beside a guy with a huge Afro and Kanye glasses and a guy in a toga.

2013, Alyssa Newton, "Football season is here again Jag Fans", The Vanguard (University of South Alabama), Volume 53, Number 3, 12 August 2013, page 17

A style of sunglasses which have frames containing horizontal slats as opposed to tinted lenses.


smartglasses

Google Glass smartglasses are finally available in the UK for £1,000, two years after they were extravagantly launched by skydivers in the US.

2014 June 24, “Google Glass go on sale in the UK for £1,000”, in The Guardian:

Glasses worn to provide software functions through augmented reality.


mountain green

Synonym of Paris green (“pigment from copper(II) acetate and arsenic trioxide”).


Argyll Robertson pupil

en-noun

Argyll Robertson pupil (plural Argyll Robertson pupils)

Named after Douglas Argyll Robertson (1837–1909), a Scottish ophthalmologist and surgeon, who described the condition in the mid-1860s.

(ophthalmology, pathology) A bilateral small pupil of the eye that reduces in size when the patient focuses on a near object but does not constrict when exposed to bright light. It is a sign of neurosyphilis.

segno di Argyll Robertson

a bilateral small pupil of the eye that reduces in size when the patient focuses on a near object but does not constrict when exposed to bright light. It is a sign of neurosyphilis


jungle green

jungle green:

Keir, in jungle green, sneered up at Nabby Adams[.]

1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 22:

A dark bluish-green colour, like the vegetation in a tropical jungle.


jungle green

Of a dark bluish-green color, like the plants in a jungle


harvest gold

harvest gold (countable and uncountable, plural harvest golds)

harvest gold:


desert sand

desert sand:

A very light and very weakly saturated reddish yellow (orange or brown) colour that resembles the color of sand in a desert


deuteranomaly

deuteranomaly (countable and uncountable, plural deuteranomalies)

(ophthalmology) A form of anomalous trichromacy involving a reduction in sensitivity to the green area of the spectrum.


dacryocystocele

From dacryocyst + -o- + -cele or dacryo- + cysto- + -cele.

(embryology, ophthalmology) A benign, bluish-gray mass in the inferomedial canthus that forms as a result of a narrowing or obstruction of the nasolacrimal duct, usually during prenatal development.


cerulein

cerulein (usually uncountable, plural ceruleins)

A fast dyestuff with chemical formula C₂₀H₈O₆, made by heating gallein with strong sulfuric acid. It dyes mordanted fabrics green.


cyclotropia

cyclotropia (countable and uncountable, plural cyclotropias)

(medicine, ophthalmology) A form of strabismus in which, compared to the correct positioning of the eyes, there is a torsion of one eye (or both) about the eye's visual axis. Consequently, the visual fields of the two eyes appear tilted relative to each other.


blunket

blunket (countable and uncountable, plural blunkets)

From Middle English plunket (noun), from plunket (“of a blue or greyish colour”, adj), perhaps the past participle of *plunken (“to cover with lead or lead-colouring”), from Old French plonquier, plonchier (“to cover with lead”), in imitation of Old French plunkié, plonquié (“lead-coloured", also "grey cloth”); ultimately from Latin plumbum (“lead”). The adjective is attested earlier than the noun, yet it remains unclear whether the fabric (which often retained the spelling plunket) gave its name to the color or the other way around. The word is similar to blanket (“cloth”), inviting speculation that it derives (like that word) from Old French blanchet, blanquet (“whitish”), but the most common form even as late as Early Modern English was blunket, and some early works seem to identify it as dark red or violet, which makes that theory phonologically and semantically problematic.

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For quotations using this term, see Citations:blunket.

(obsolete) A color, generally a light bluish gray or blue or gray, but sometimes seemingly a dark red or violet.


blindism

[…] prolonged stay at [asylums] will unfit [the blind] in a great measure for [the actual active world]. Certain peculiar habits are too likely to be acquired, harmless enough in themselves and useful to sightless persons when together, but which attract attention and stamp one as odd in the outside world. […] all of which are roughly but forcibly classed in the school phraseology under the head of “blindisms,”[…]

1887 November, Edward B. Perry, “Education of the Blind―II: The Blind as Students”, in The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, volume XXXV, number 1, New York: The Century Company, page 163:

[…] Anne's mother was chopping what smelled like onions. Nervously, I out my hand to shake hers—a “blindism,” I realized even as I did it, since I knew her hands were busy and messy.

1989, Ved Mehta, The Stolen Light, London: Collins, →ISBN, page 102:

An idiosyncratic behaviour associated with blind people.

Coordinate term: deafism

He frequently has ‘blindism’ habits. His joints are usually lax, and his muscles flabby, and it is still more deplorable that he often has no joy in movement, and his emotional and muscular energy find a blind alley output in finger tappings, head shakings, body rockings, etc.[…]

1938, Ontario Department of Education, Report of the Minister of Education, Toronto, page 81:

To an untrained eye blindisms may resemble the uncoordinated movements typical for many patients with brain damage. As a result, blindisms have a stigmatising effect. For this reason many educational facilities in Poland offer revalidation classes.

2014 November 18, Anna Jelec, Are Abstract Concepts Like Dinosaur Feathers?: Conceptual Metaphor Theory and the Conceptualisation Strategies in Gesture of Blind and Visually Impaired Children, Poznań: Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 109:

A stereotypy characteristic of blind people, such as eye-rubbing or hand-flapping.


ophthalmopathy

en-noun

ophthalmopathy (countable and uncountable, plural ophthalmopathies)


urucum

Martius found most dressed in bits of clothing, their hair wildly tangled and their faces dyed red with urucum.

2006, William Bryant, The Birds of Paradise: Alfred Russel Wallace: a Life, page 67:

They paint them, or at least parts of them, with urucum (reddish) plant dye or even their own blood if there are no urucum plants nearby.

2012, Daniel Everett, Language: The Cultural Tool, Profile, published 2013, page 122:

Bixin results from lycopene oxidation and it is the main carotenoid found in the seed coat of urucum fruits (Bixa orellana L.), which is cultivated in tropical countries of South and Central America, Africa and Asia.

2013, Uchoa et al., ‘Antioxidant Properties of Singlet Oxygen Suppressors’, in Natural Antioxidants and Biocides from Wild Medicinal Plants, p. 78


underaccommodation

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...attributed to the fact that infantile astigmatism can disrupt emmetropization by reducing an infant sensitivity to focusing signals, thus leading to underaccomodation or alignment impairment with a physiological fix of elongated eye ball [18].

2016, Moheem Masumali Halari, Chidambra Dhariwal Halari, Otohinoyi David Adeiza, D'Souza Ryan Alex Francis, Igberi Ugochi Calista, Akanbi Hameed Ayotunde, “Prevalence of Eye Defects Among Medical Students in Dominica”, in erican Scientific Research Journal for Engineering, Technology, and Sciences, volume 18, number 1:

(ophthalmology) The improper adjustment of the eye muscles so that the focal point of a target image falls short of the retina.


visual acuity

visual acuity (countable and uncountable, plural visual acuities)

Myopia exceeding 6 D., provided the visual acuity exceed 1/4 for one of the eyes and 1/16 for the other, and there be no extended choroidal lesions.

1896, Annales d'Oculistique, English edition, page 307:

Strength of vision expressed on some definite scale.


porphyrous

en-adj

porphyrous (comparative more porphyrous, superlative most porphyrous)

more porphyrous (comparative)
most porphyrous (superlative)


beady-eyed

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

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


black as night

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:


master eye

One's dominant eye, from which visual input is preferred.


dark-haired

dark-haired (comparative more dark-haired or darker-haired, superlative most dark-haired or darkest-haired)

more dark-haired (comparative)
darker-haired (comparative)
most dark-haired (superlative)
darkest-haired (superlative)

And M. [Henri-François-Alphonse] Esquiros, in describing the Dutch generally, speaks of beauties both blondes and brunettes, ‘for black hair is not uncommon in the Netherlands.’ These words seem to imply that black hair does not preponderate; and, if not, there must be a marked difference between the Dutch and the English. Here again is confirmation of the opinion that the modern English are somewhat more dark-haired than the ancient Saxons.

1866, Luke Owen Pike, “The Evidence of Physical Characteristics”, in The English and Their Origin. A Prologue to Authentic English History., London: Longmans, Green, and Co., pages 145–146:

Perhaps people felt by some form of symbolism or imitative magic that if the very first foot over the threshold was that of a dark-haired man, so might that hearth be safe for a whole year from the marauding Northmen. We listened to the chimes of Big Ben on the radio, and then as the last notes of the Old Year died away, Humphrey, who was the darkest-haired man present, ran to the door so as to come in and first foot us.

1968, Cherry Evans [pseudonym; Cherry Drummond, 16th Baroness Strange], Creatures Great and Small, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN, page 88:

Maura was sixteen, with the Salter good looks. Darker-haired than her big sister Bridie, but she had the same soft grace.

2017, James Patterson with Alison Joseph, The Exile, New York, N.Y.: BookShots / Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 48:

Having hair of a dark color, usually dark brown.


silvery-haired

Alternative form of silver-haired (“having greyish-white hair”).


ginger-haired

having ginger-coloured hair, reddish-yellow or orangey-brown.


ametropic

ametropic (comparative more ametropic, superlative most ametropic)

more ametropic (comparative)
most ametropic (superlative)

(ophthalmology) Relating to or suffering from ametropia


argamannu

Learned borrowing from Akkadian 𒅈𒂵𒈠𒉡 (argamannu).

lbor

The least frequently used dye was argamannu, which was also red and probably produced a shade of blue-purple, although different from that of takiltu.

2006, Stefan Zawadzki, Garments of the Gods: Studies on the Textile Industry and the Pantheon of Sippar According to the Texts from the Ebabbar Archive, Volume 1:


Zöllner illusion

en-noun

Zöllner illusion (plural Zöllner illusions)

Discovered by German astrophysicist Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner.

An optical illusion in which parallel lines are made to appear convergent or divergent by means of oblique intersections.


nasolacrimal sac

nasolacrimal sac (plural nasolacrimal sacs)

(anatomy, ophthalmology) Synonym of lacrimal sac.


stink to high heaven

en-verb

stink to high heaven (third-person singular simple present stinks to high heaven, present participle stinking to high heaven, simple past stank to high heaven or stunk to high heaven, past participle stunk to high heaven)

stinks to high heaven (present singular third-person)
stinking to high heaven (participle present)
stank to high heaven (past)
stunk to high heaven (past)
stunk to high heaven (participle past)

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A hyperbole suggesting that a smell is so strong it can even be detected from heaven.

He could stand snakes, but alligators he disliked. It was the way they dragged their victims underneath the water and buried them, waiting until the corpse became rotten. That was the way they liked their meat—stinking to high heaven. The thought of such a death filled him with dread.

1975, Donald Goines, chapter I, in Swamp Man, Los Angeles, Calif.: Holloway House Publishing Company, published 2005, →ISBN, page 12:

Pill-popping rocker Elvis Presley was so hooked on drugs he refused to bathe for months on end, he often wet his pants – and he stunk to high heaven!

1989 December 19, “Elvis stunk to high heaven & even wet his pants!: New shocker in blockbuster book”, in Eddie Clontz, editor, Weekly World News, volume 11, number 11, Lantana, Fla.: Weekly World News, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 12:

The next time Tulip [a dog] comes home smiling and stinking to high heaven of fox feces, I think I'm going to soak her in a bucket of Chanel No. 5. That'll teach her.

2002 June, Patricia McConnell, “Planet Smell”, in The Other End of the Leash: Why We Do What We Do around Dogs, 1st trade paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, Random House, published May 2003, →ISBN, page 83:

Despite the high powered air conditioners and fans he'd installed, the room was still hot, and it stank to high heaven. He'd have to throw his clothes in the wash and shower thoroughly after he got done with this job.

2004, Mary Charles [pseudonym; Mary Hadley and Charles Martin], chapter 18, in The Reluctant Corpse, [Great Britain]: Twenty First Century Publishers, →ISBN, page 83:

It was you. I hid amongst the weeds and thistles and got scratched to pieces. I was wet and I stank to high heaven but I watched you.

2012, August Strindberg, David Eldridge, translated by Charlotte Barslund, Miss Julie: […], London, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 20:

Anal glands are actually small sacs, a pair, one on either side of the rectum. [...] The contents can range from a consistency of toothpaste to yucky liquid. It always stinks to high heaven; the odor is very difficult to wash off.

2014 June 26, John Bloxham, “Anal Glands”, in Dr Jack’s Dog Facts: A Guide to Common Canine Ailments, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 32:

To have a very strong and unpleasant smell.

臭氣熏天

to have a very strong and unpleasant smell


œil-de-perdrix

Borrowed from French œil-de-perdrix (literally “eye of a partridge”).

bor

an œil-de-perdrix pattern

(art) Characterized by, or decorated with, small round spots or rings.

Having a brownish-red colour; used especially of light-coloured red wine.


domino mask

A small, often rounded mask covering only the eyes and the space between them.


nut-brown

en-adj

nut-brown (comparative more nut-brown, superlative most nut-brown)

more nut-brown (comparative)
most nut-brown (superlative)

From Middle English nute-brun, equivalent to nut + brown.

nut-brown:

I remember him as if it were yesterday, as he came plodding to the inn door, his sea-chest following behind him in a hand-barrow; a tall, strong, heavy, nut-brown man; his tarry pigtail falling over the shoulders of his soiled blue coat; his hands ragged and scarred, with black, broken nails; and the sabre cut across one cheek, a dirty, livid white.

Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, (1883), Chapter 1


hipster glasses

“I think we totally need to talk about the StarMart thing,” a girl with chunky hipster glasses and a blunt, black bob says, and rapidly the rest of the council agrees.

2012, Madeleine George, The Difference Between You and Me, Viking, →ISBN:

He had these watery blue eyes behind a pair of black hipster glasses and was holding a fancy camera.

2012, Emily Ecton, Project Jackalope, Chronicle Books, →ISBN, page 79:

He was wearing hipster glasses, jeans, a red-and-white striped shirt, and red sneakers.

2014, Heather Vogel Frederick, Absolutely Truly, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, →ISBN, page 137:

Plastic eyeglasses with thick, horn-rimmed (typically black) frames, characteristically worn by members of the hipster and nerd subcultures.


cat-eye

Due to the shape that is reminiscent of the eyes of a domestic cat.

Alternative form of cat's eye (“glass marble with colourful inclusions”)


fustin

Cotinus coggygria
Cotinus coggygria#Translingual

A yellow dye obtained from fustic, Venetian sumach (Cotinus coggygria).


rhexis

en-noun

rhexis (countable and uncountable, plural rhexes)

Many times if the rhexis is incomplete, one might have to convert to an extracapsular cataract extraction to prevent a posterior capsular rupture or nucleus drop.

2006, Mastering the Techniques of Presbyopia Surgery:

(medicine, especially ophthalmology) The rupture of an organ.


ophthalmotrope

An instrument for demonstrating the movements of the eye muscles


osmatic

Having a keen sense of smell, or highly developed rhinencephalon.


osmology

Let us now consider an African osmology—specifically, the system of olfactory classification of the Serer Ndut of Senegal.

2002, Constance Classen, Aroma: The Cultural History of Smell:


odorously

en-adv

odorously (comparative more odorously, superlative most odorously)

more odorously (comparative)
most odorously (superlative)


reading glasses

Any type of spectacles intended chiefly to deal with the effects of presbyopia by magnifying details such as fine text.

نظارة طبية

spectacles to deal with the effects of presbyopia


nerd glasses

The conference room is full of teenagers who are being addressed by a middle-aged man with a beard and a Hawaiian-style black-and-yellow shirt with Asian letters in lieu of tropical flowers. He has translucent brown nerd glasses, and he wears a pair of furry bear ears on top of his head.

2008, Benjamin Nugent, American Nerd: The Story of My People, Simon & Schuster, published 2009, →ISBN, part 2, 133:

This is where grassroots trends like fedoras, graffiti prints, plaid shirts, nerd glasses, messenger bags, and granny boots originated.

2012, Lois Joy Johnson, The Wardrobe Wakeup: Your Guide to Looking Fabulous at Any Age, Running Press, →ISBN, page 254:

Steven also acknowledged that his presentation of self—wild locs, nerd glasses, and holey hipster jeans for our first interview—encourages whites to speak to him.

2014, Zandria F. Robinson, chapter 3, in This Ain't Chicago: Race, Class, and Regional Identity in the Post-Soul South, University of North Carolina Press, →ISBN, page 111:

Plastic eyeglasses with thick, horn-rimmed (typically black) frames, characteristically worn by nerds and members of the hipster subculture.


smize

en-verb

smize (third-person singular simple present smizes, present participle smizing, simple past and past participle smized)

smizes (present singular third-person)
smizing (participle present)
smized (participle past)
smized (past)

Blend of smile + eyes. Coined by Tyra Banks.

Through a ceiling to floor mirror that covers an entire wall, I “smize” at my stunning reflection, having easily mastered the come-fuck-me look that's going to sell me millions of CDs.

2010, Timothy McGivney, Zombielicious, MLR Press, →ISBN, page 5:

I remember once turning up and it was for a catalogue. Often catalogues were fine – you'd put on some lingerie and a couple of baby-dolls and that would be that. But sometimes they'd have a sex-toy section and the last thing I wanted was to be smizing sexily while holding a pair of fur-lined handcuffs.

2014, Kelly Brook, Close Up: The Autobiography, Sidgwick & Jackson, →ISBN:

Whenever I tried to “smize,” model-style, people asked if I'd been possessed by an ancient and evil spirit.

2015, Alexandra Petri, A Field Guide to Awkward Silences, New American Library, →ISBN:


TARDIS blue

From the color of the TARDIS, a time machine and spacecraft shaped like a police box, from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

He wore a black button-down shirt and gray slacks. […] On his feet, he wore his lucky shoes. The TARDIS blue was the only real color on him.

2014, Michele Zurlo, Kiss Me by Moonlight, Omnific Publishing, →ISBN:

The dark blue color of a traditional police box.


TARDIS blue

She wears a tacky T.A.R.D.I.S blue cardigan, buttoned to the max, over khaki slacks.

2014, Emma Gray, Groupies, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 39:

She took a long drag and put the cigarette out in the blue ashtray on the living room table. Alex had given it to her two months after they first met. It was an odd, almost circular shape, but it was TARDIS blue and he thought Die might like it.

2015, Lucia Moroşanu, When Impossible Events Occur, →ISBN:


meganekko

Borrowed from Japanese 眼鏡っ娘 (meganekko), from 眼鏡 (megane, “glasses”) + 娘 (ko, “girl”).

Oh... Then I've have to find somebody who's be willing to get me a less-than-full-body shot of her, like the ones I have of five other meganekko who wear pince-nez: […]

2004 November 29, Rob Kelk, “Re: Anime genres? (was Re: Anime that every fan should watch?)”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):

Anyway, so far, really, my favourite character is Yuki. Bonus points when we find out in the second episode she's a meganekko.

2006 May 2, The Eternal Lost Lurker [username], “Just started Haruhi...”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):

Airheaded and delectably gauche, Miyuki stands out as a classic incarnation of the meganekko— namely, as noted, the moe type whose charm derives largely from the wearing of glasses—while also appearing to have a soothing effect on those around her by virtue of her sheer presence.

2012, Dani Cavallaro, Kyoto Animation: A Critical Study and Filmography, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 126:

(anime, manga) A female fictional character whose charm or attractiveness derives largely from wearing glasses.


alder buckthorn

en-noun

alder buckthorn (plural alder buckthorns)

Frangula alnus
Frangula alnus#Translingual

A deciduous shrub, Frangula alnus, native to Europe and neighboring areas of Asia and Africa, bearing glossy leaves, flowers in sessile umbels, and inedible red berries that turn black when ripe, and historically used as a laxative and to produce dyes.


bromosulfophthalein

In case of the ex-vivo perfusion, we further assessed liver function (bile production, bromosulfophthalein clearance) and Western blot analysis of phosphorylated adenosine monophosphate activated protein kinase (AMPK), mitogen activated protein kinases family (MAPKs) and endoplasmic reticulum stress (ERS) parameters (GRP78, PERK, IRE, eIF2α and ATF6).

2015 July 31, “Carbonic Anhydrase Protects Fatty Liver Grafts against Ischemic Reperfusion Damage”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

A dye used in various medical tests of liver function. Abbreviated to BSP.


odorivector

It is generally accepted that odorivector molecules must reach chemosensors physically; liaison by radiation through distance has never been proved and seems highly unlikely.

1964 July 30, Andrew Dravnieks, “Physicochemical basis of olfaction”, in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, volume 116, number 2:

So, on the one hand, the odorivector gives the observer cues about polysensory space, that is if all the mechanical envelopes, viz., acoustic and haptic, coincide and so constitute, with the osmotic, a hermetic space; and he interprets the cues by 'associative concatenation'.

1981, Guy Ankerl, Experimental Sociology of Architecture:


hiam

en-adj

hiam (comparative more hiam, superlative most hiam)

more hiam (comparative)
most hiam (superlative)

Borrowed from Hokkien 薟／莶 (hiam, “spicy”).

At best, it was just so-so – nothing like what we would cook for ourselves at home. It was not “hiam” enough probably from the lack of ginger or ginger juice and there was insufficient wine.

2011 Aug, “STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS!”, in suituapui.wordpress.com, retrieved 2016-08-12:

(Singapore, colloquial, of food) hot and spicy.


rubeosis iridis

A medical condition in which new, abnormal blood vessels are found on the surface of the iris in the eye.


oculotropic

Contrarily to epithelial-genital strains, LGV and oculotropic strains do not encode a functional cytotoxin [81, 85 ].

2015 July 25, “Chlamydia trachomatis In Vivo to In Vitro Transition Reveals Mechanisms of Phase Variation and Down-Regulation of Virulence Factors”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

Having an affinity for, or moving towards the eye


cheesylicious

cheesylicious (comparative more cheesylicious, superlative most cheesylicious)

more cheesylicious (comparative)
most cheesylicious (superlative)

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Sounds cheesylicious. I'll bring my lactase.

2001 September 4, Kenji, “Re: Gladys' on Tuesday 9/4/01”, in chi.general (Usenet):

YouthQuake had the opportunity to taste these new cheesylicious offerings at the launch and the result was a full tummy and glowing smile.

2003 August 8, Siva Darshan, “Say cheese or rather cheeses!”, in New Straits Times:

Plus, I use basic equipment and easy techniques that are geared toward the everyday home cook, whether a beginner or pro, so you can whip up a cheesylicious feast anytime you want.

2013, John Schlimm, The Cheesy Vegan: More Than 125 Plant-Based Recipes for Indulging in the World's Ultimate Comfort Food, Da Capo Press, →ISBN:

(informal) Delicious in a way that involves cheese.


International Klein Blue

Named after French artist Yves Klein, who first mixed it.

(art) An intense deep blue hue achieved by means of ultramarine pigment and a binder.

Internasionale Klein-blou

deep blue hue achieved through ultramarine pigment and a binder