Opalesce: alternatives and connections

A state of being amorphous; esp. a state of being without crystallization even in the minutest particles, as in glass, opal, etc.

A design or painting in thin transparent water colors; also, the mode of painting in such colors.

Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use.

An opaque or milk-white chalcedony, a variety of quartz; also, a similar variety of opal.

A massive mineral, greenish in color, and opal-like in appearance. It is essentially a hydrous silicate of iron.

The science of colors; that part of optics which treats of the properties of colors.

A property depending on the relations of light to the eye, by which individual and specific differences in the hues and tints of objec…

One who colors; an artist who excels in the use of colors; one to whom coloring is of prime importance.

The property of presenting different colors by transmitted light, when viewed in two different directions, the colors being unlike in…

Furnishing or giving two colors; -- said of defective vision, in which all the compound colors are resolvable into two elements instea…

To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel.

To temper or mix unduly; to make disproportionate; to change the due proportions of.

To send forth; to throw or give out; to cause to issue; to give vent to; to eject; to discharge; as, fire emits heat and smoke; boilin…

A variety of opal occuring in the cavities of volcanic tufa, in smooth and shining globular and botryoidal masses, having a pearly lus…

Full of levity; dancing, playing, or frisking about; full of pranks; frolicsome; gay; merry.

A loose hydrated form of silica, a variety of opal, deposited in concretionary cauliflowerlike masses, around some hot springs and gey…

See Heliotrope.

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