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Webster 1828 Edition

Noun.

[L. ochra; Gr. from pale.]

A variety of clay deeply colored by the oxyd of iron. Its most common colors are red, yellow and brown. It is used as a pigment.

ocher ‎(plural ochers)

Alternative spelling of ochre
- 1973 July, Melville Bell Grosvenor, Homeward with Ulysses, published in National Geographic, volume 144, number 1:
  […] facing the sea with buff and ocher houses that rise five or six stories above a curving boulevard […]

ocher ‎(third-person singular simple present ochers, present participle ochering, simple past and past participle ochered)