单词 | ochry |
释义 | ochryadj. 1. = ochreous adj. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > [adjective] > brownish yellow ochry1567 olive-coloured1612 sand-coloured1627 shammy1661 buff-coloured1686 pea soup1703 ochreish1747 ochreous1761 buff1765 ochraceous1776 buff-colour1796 buffish1802 mustard-coloured1825 nankeen1838 buffy1842 ochre-coloured1845 mustardy1850 ochrous1877 buff-yellow1882 buff-washed1883 mustard1919 Sahara1923 wheaten1975 1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 27v Some Ocrie or yellow as the Mariegold. 1756 Philos. Trans. 1755 (Royal Soc.) 49 297 Stone of a pale ochrey colour. 1767 Philos. Trans. 1766 (Royal Soc.) 56 13 Of a rusty ochry color. 1837 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 42 333 Foreign arid and ochery hills. 1862 G. W. Thornbury Life J. M. W. Turner I. 393 Wafts of mist, ochry sails. 1891 H. Nisbet Colonial Tramp I. 13 Rocks rose-purple, ruddy and ochrey. 1919 A. V. Kidder & S. L. Guernsey Archeol. Explor. Northeast. Arizona 146 It [sc. a leather sunflower]is of an ochry shade of yellow, somewhat darker than the other. 1998 Artist Mar. 27/1 This colour is best used in glazes, otherwise it looks a little ochry. 2. = ochreous adj. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > oxides and hydroxides > native earths > [adjective] > ochre ochre1574 ochreous1728 ochry1728 ochrous1758 ochraceous1768 ochreish1854 1728 J. Woodward Catal. Addit. Eng. Native Fossils 5 This probably is conveyed about,..by the Water; being loose, light, and easily movable, as we find in earthy, ochrey, and other loose Matter in all Mines. 1763 W. Lewis Commercium Philosophico-technicum 349 Precipitating the iron nearly in the same ochery state. 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 753 Umber, Cologne earth, and different ochry argillaceous earths. 1880 Science 25 Sept. 163/2 A geode—a hard red brown shell of iron enclosing the clay in an ochery form in its interior. 1920 A. W. Grabau Textbk. Geol. xi. 250 Sometimes by exposure the iron of the green-sand is changed to an oxide, and ochery or red beds will be produced. 1976 Isis 67 541 Moreover, the water in the flask deposited a yellow, ochry sediment, an indication of the presence of a dissolved iron salt. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1567 |
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