Word Meanings - RETINALITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A translucent variety of serpentine, of a honey yellow or greenish yellow color, having a waxy resinlike luster.
Related words: (words related to RETINALITE)
- COLORMAN
A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds. - HAVENED
Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats. - YELLOW-GOLDS
A certain plant, probably the yellow oxeye. B. Jonson. - YELLOWTOP
A kind of grass, perhaps a species of Agrostis. - YELLOWFISH
A rock trout found on the coast of Alaska; -- called also striped fish, and Atka mackerel. - HONEYED
1. Covered with honey. 2. Sweet, as, honeyed words. Milton. - HAVENER
A harbor master. - HONEYWORT
A European plant of the genus Cerinthe, whose flowers are very attractive to bees. Loudon. - SERPENTINELY
In a serpentine manner. - HONEYSUCKLE
One of several species of flowering plants, much admired for their beauty, and some for their fragrance. Note: The honeysuckles are properly species of the genus Lonicera; as, L. Caprifolium, and L. Japonica, the commonly cultivated fragrant kinds; - HONEY-TONGUED
Sweet speaking; persuasive; seductive. Shak. - HAVELOCK
A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke. - VARIETY SHOW
A stage entertainment of successive separate performances, usually songs, dances, acrobatic feats, dramatic sketches, exhibitions of trained animals, or any specialties. Often loosely called vaudeville show. - COLORATE
Colored. Ray. - COLORIMETRY
The quantitative determination of the depth of color of a substance. 2. A method of quantitative chemical analysis based upon the comparison of the depth of color of a solution with that of a standard liquid. - GREENISH
Somewhat green; having a tinge of green; as, a greenish yellow. -- Green"ish*ness, n. - YELLOW
1. A bright golden color, reflecting more light than any other except white; the color of that part of the spectrum which is between the orange and green. "A long motley coat guarded with yellow." Shak. 2. A yellow pigment. Cadmium yellow, Chrome - COLOR
1. To change or alter the bue or tint of, by dyeing, staining, painting, etc.; to dye; to tinge; to aint; to stain. The rays, to speak properly, are not colored; in them there is nothing else than a certain power and disposition to stir - HAVE
haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2. - HONEYWARE
See BADDERLOCKS - CONCOLOR
Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne. - ISABELLA; ISABELLA COLOR
A brownish yellow color. (more info) Spanish princess Isabella, daughter of king Philip II., in allusion to the color assumed by her shift, which she wore without change from - MISBEHAVE
To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun. - INSHAVE
A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.