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Webster 1913 Edition
Ultramarine
Ulˊtra-ma-rine′
(ŭlˊtrȧ-mȧ-rēn′)
, Adj.
[Pref.
ultra-
+ marine
.] Situated or being beyond the sea.
Burke.
Ulˊtra-ma-rine′
,Noun.
[Cf. Sp.
ultramarino
. So called because the lapis lazuli was originally brought from beyond the sea, – from Asia.] (Chem.)
A blue pigment formerly obtained by powdering lapis lazuli, but now produced in large quantities by fusing together silica, alumina, soda, and sulphur, thus forming a glass, colored blue by the sodium polysulphides made in the fusion. Also used adjectively.
Green ultramarine
, a green pigment obtained as a first product in the manufacture of ultramarine, into which it is changed by subsequent treatment.
– Ultramarine ash
or
Ultramarine ashes
(Paint.)
, a pigment which is the residuum of lapis lazuli after the ultramarine has been extracted. It was used by the old masters as a middle or neutral tint for flesh, skies, and draperies, being of a purer and tenderer gray than that produced by the mixture of more positive colors.
Fairholt.
Webster 1828 Edition
Ultramarine
ULTRAMARINE
,Adj.
Situated or being beyond the sea.
ULTRAMARINE
,Noun.
1.
a beautiful and durable sky-blue; a color formed of the mineral called lapis lazuli, and consisting of little else than oxyd of iron.2.
Azure-stone.Ultramarine ashes, a pigment which is the residuum of lapis lazuli, after the ultramarine has been extracted. Their appearance is that of the ultramarine, a little tinged with red, and diluted with white.