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Brightness or strength of color. [R.] E. Waterhouse.

Bright; lustrous; superior; pure; perfect; pellucid; -- used of gems and also figuratively, because the most perfect jewels are found in the East. "Pearls round and orient." Jer. Taylor. "Orient gems." Wordsworth. "Orient liquor in a crystal glass." Milton.

The quality or state of being orient or bright; splendor. [Obs.] Fuller.

a country; the original inventor of a process. His form had yet not lost All her original brightness. Milton.

A large and bright constellation on the equator, between the stars Aldebaran and Sirius. It contains a remarkable nebula visible to the naked eye. The flaming glories of Orion's belt. E. Everett.

An American aromatic herb (Monarda didyma), with showy, bright red, labiate flowers.

To excel in brightness or luster. Shak.

To shine forth. "Bright, outshining beams." Shak.

Marked with bright colors; as, the painted turtle; painted bunting. Painted beauty (Zoöl.), a handsome American butterfly (Vanessa Huntera), having a variety of bright colors, -- Painted cup (Bot.), any plant of an American genus of herbs (Castilleia) in which the bracts are usually bright-colored and more showy than t…

Not bright or brilliant; of a faint luster or hue; dim; as, the pale light of the moon. The night, methinks, is but the daylight sick; It looks a little paler. Shak.

One of the openings in a slashed garment, showing the bright colored silk, or the like, within; hence, the piece of colored or other stuff so shown.

A mock sun appearing in the form of a bright light, sometimes near the sun, and tinged with colors like the rainbow, and sometimes opposite to the sun. The latter is usually called an anthelion. Often several mock suns appear at the same time. Cf. Paraselene.

A plate. See Paten. "Inlaid with patines of bright gold." Shak.

sh or cover with, or shelter in, a tent or tents. The field pavilioned with his guardians bright. Milton.

A northen constellation near the vernal equinoctial point. Its three brightest stars, with the brightest star of Andromeda, form the square of Pegasus.

Of certain achromatic lenses, having the same focus for the actinic and for the brightest of the visual rays.

out. (a) To mark out; to variegate; as, to pick out any dark stuff with lines or spots of bright colors. (b) To select from a number or quantity. -- To pick to pieces, to pull apart piece by piece; hence [Colloq.], to analyze; esp., to criticize in detail. -- To pick a quarrel, to give occasion of quarrel intentional…

t sand, scale rust, etc., from the surface of castings, or other articles of metal, or to brighten them or improve their color.

oodpecker (Zoöl.), a large American woodpecker (Ceophloeus pileatus). It is black, with a bright red pointed crest. Called also logcock, and woodcock.

ll incandescent telltale lamp on a dynamo or battery circuit to show approximately by its brightness the voltage of the current.