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A kind of thin translucent paper with a glossy finish.

A plant of the genus Iris (I. Florentina); a kind of flower-de- luce. Its rootstock has an odor resembling that of violets. Orris pea (Med.), an issue pea made from orris root. -- Orris root, the fragrant rootstock of the orris.

A thin leaf of metal, as for use in gilding or enameling, or to show through a translucent medium.

tic world And bear the palm alone. Shak. Molucca palm (Bot.), a labiate herb from Asia (Molucella lævis), having a curious cup-shaped calyx. -- Palm cabbage, the terminal bud of a cabbage palm, used as food. -- Palm cat (Zoöl.), the common paradoxure. -- Palm crab (Zoöl.), the purse crab. -- Palm oil, a vegetable o…

pe fleshy fruits, as apples, cranberries, etc. It is extracted as variously colored, translucent substances, which are soluble in hot water but become viscous on cooling.

Transparent; clear; limpid; translucent; not opaque. "Pellucid crystal." Dr. H. More. "Pellucid streams." Wordsworth.

The quality or state of being pellucid; transparency; translucency; clearness; as, the pellucidity of the air. Locke.

The quality or state of being transparent or translucent. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Capable of being through; transparent; translucent; not opaque. [Obs.] Peacham.

sonous nonmetallic element of the nitrogen group, obtained as a white, or yellowish, translucent waxy substance, having a characteristic disagreeable smell. It is very active chemically, must be preserved under water, and unites with oxygen even at ordinary temperatures, giving a faint glow, -- whence its name. It alwa…

vice for giving shifting effects of color to a photograph. The unmounted print, made translucent, is illuminated from behind with colored light.

found in Europe and America, highly valued as a food fish; -- called also pickerel, gedd, luce, and jack.

A fine translucent or semitransculent kind of earthenware, made first in China and Japan, but now also in Europe and America; -- called also China, or China ware. Porcelain, by being pure, is apt to break. Dryden. Ivory porcelain, porcelain with a surface like ivory, produced by depolishing. See Depolishing. -- Porcel…

A translucent variety of serpentine, of a honey yellow or greenish yellow color, having a waxy resinlike luster.

A translucent mineral of a green color and micaceous structure, belonging to the chlorite group; a hydrous silicate of alumina, magnesia, and iron; -- called also clinochlore.

by amyloid degeneration of the organ, in which a cross section shows scattered gray translucent bodies looking like grains of sago.

A cancerous tumor which is hard, translucent, of a gray or bluish color, and emits a creaking sound when incised. [Sometimes incorrectly written schirrus; written also skirrhus.]

The merluce.

Half or imperfect transparency; translucency. [R.] Boyle.

Half or imperfectly transparent; translucent. Woodward.