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Webster 1913 Edition
Lurid
Lu′rid
,Adj.
[L.
luridus
.] 1.
Pale yellow; ghastly pale; wan; gloomy; dismal.
Fierce o’er their beauty blazed the
lurid
flame. Thomson.
Wrapped in drifts of
On the misty river tide.
lurid
smokeOn the misty river tide.
Tennyson.
2.
(Bot.)
Having a brown color tinged with red, as of flame seen through smoke.
3.
(Zool.)
Of a color tinged with purple, yellow, and gray.
Webster 1828 Edition
Lurid
LU'RID
,Adj.