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testaceous, a.|tɛˈsteɪʃəs|
[f. L. testāce-us consisting of tiles, shells, etc.; brick-coloured; covered with a shell: see test n.2 and -aceous.]
†1. Made of baked clay; pertaining to or of the nature of earthenware or a potsherd. Obs. rare.
1658Sir T. Browne Hydriot. iii. 22 In many Bricks, Tiles, Pots, and testaceous works. 1674J. B[rian] Harvest Home ii. 6 Testaceous Vessels; obnoxious To casualties, that are most various. 1675Evelyn Terra (1729) 15 Exotic Plants..confined..to their Wooden Cases and Testaceous prisons.
2. Having a shell, esp. a hard, calcareous, unarticulated shell. † testaceous fish = shell-fish.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 203 All [fishes] that are testaceous, as Oysters, Cocles, Wilks, Schollops, Muscles, are excluded. 1759Stillingfl. tr. Biberg's Econ. Nat. Misc. Tracts (1762) 57 Testaceous worms..eat away the hardest rocks. 1809W. Irving Knickerb. iv. iii, The testaceous marine animal, known commonly by the vulgar name of Oyster. 1875C. C. Blake Zool. 232 When the shell is so much enlarged that the contracted animal finds shelter beneath or within it, the animal is said to be testaceous.
3. Of the nature or substance of shells; shelly; consisting of a shell or shelly material.
1668Wilkins Real Char. 122 Exanguious Animals..whose bones are on their outside..testaceous; of a more hard and brittle substance. 1676Grew Exper. Luctation i. §21 Millipedes, Egg-shells, or any other testaceous Bodies of the same strength. 1794Sullivan View Nat. I. 89 The testaceous matter of marine shells. 1881Watson in Jrnl. Linn. Soc. XV. 265 Operculum testaceous.
†b. Pharmacy. Of a medicinal powder: Prepared from the shells of animals. Obs.
1710T. Fuller Pharm. Extemp. 392, I think testaceous Powders exert their Virtues much easier and sooner when fine. 1789W. Buchan Dom. Med. (1790) 549 To give the pearl-julep, chalk, crabs eyes, and other testaceous powders. 1853Dunglison Med. Lex., Testaceous,..a powder, consisting of burnt shells.
4. Of the colour of a tile, a flower-pot, unglazed pottery, etc.; dull red; in Zool. and Bot. applied to shades of brownish red, brownish yellow, and reddish brown.
1688R. Holme Armoury ii. 275/2 The upper part of the Body is testaceous, or potsheard colour. 1783Latham Gen. Synopsis IV. 393 Testaceous Lark. Bill black: upper parts of the body testaceous. 1887W. Phillips Brit. Discomycetes 136 Cup..testaceous yellow. Ibid. 420 Testaceous, brick-coloured,..not so bright as lateritious.
Hence teˈstaceousness (rare—0).
1727Bailey vol. II, Testaceousness, shelly Nature or Quality. |