suffusion

suffusion is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.

Definitions

  1. 1.That with which a thing is suffused.
  2. 2.(Zoöl.) A blending of one color into another; the spreading of one color over another, as on the feathers of birds.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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