orpiment
orpiment is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 39 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Arsenic sesquisulphide, produced artificially as an amorphous lemonyellow powder, and occurring naturally as a yellow crystalline mineral; -- formerly called auripigment. It is used in king's yellow, in white Indian fire, and in certain technical processes, as indigo printing. Our orpiment and sublimed mercurie. Chaucer. Red orpiment, realgar; the red sulphide of arsenic. -- Yellow orpiment, king's yellow.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- aureate
- citrine
- colored
- creamy
- crocus
- fallow
- flavous
- fog
- foot
- fulvid
- fulvous
- gamboge
- golden
- guinea
- icterus
- jaundice
- jaundiced
- lemon
- luteous
- ocher
- primrose
- quince
- saffron
- sallow
- sandy
- straw-colored
- tawny
- tint
- topaz
- warm
- xanthic
- xanthin
- xanthocarpous
- xanthochroid
- xanthopous
- xanthous
- yellow
- yellowness
- yolk
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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