# irised
## English
### Etymology

From iris +‎ -ed; as a synonym of iridescent and irisated, perhaps a calque of French irisé.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈaɪ.ɹɪst/
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* Rhymes: -aɪɹɪst

### Adjective

irised (not comparable)
* (of eyes) Having irises of a specified colour or kind.
** 1904 November, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], Cabbages and Kings, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., page 78:Her eyes were gray-irised, and of that mould that seems to have belonged to the orbs of all the famous queens of hearts.
** 1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 2, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC:The butler, a dark stout Dravidian with liquid yellow-irised eyes like those of a dog, brought the brandy on a brass tray.
** 1947, William Sansom, “Various Temptations”, in Charles H. Bohner, editor, Short Fiction‎, 3rd edition, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, published 1994, page 893:eyes also small, yet full-irised and thus like brown pellets under eyebrows low and thick
** 1973, Barry Unsworth, Mooncranker’s Gift‎, New York: Norton, published 1996, Part 3, Chapter 3, p. 174:He saw the white face and large-irised blue eyes some six inches from his own.
* (dated, literary) Shining with colours like those of the rainbow.
    Synonym: iridescent
** 1818, Parker Cleaveland, “Description of several Halos and Parhelia, observed at Brunswick, Maine”, in Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences‎, Volume 4, Part 1, p. 121:two parhelia, irised and very bright; but their centres were nearly of the same color, as the true sun
** 1856, John Ruskin, chapter 5, in Modern Painters […], volume IV, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, part V (Of Mountain Beauty), page 81:the wreaths of fitful vapour gliding through groves of pine, and irised around the pillars of waterfalls
** 1898, Thomas Hardy, “To Outer Nature”, in Wessex Poems and Other Verses‎, Toronto: George N. Morang, published 1899, page 150:O for but a moment Of that old endowment— Light to gaily See thy daily Irisèd embowment!
** 1909, John Muir, Stickeen,‎, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 34:[…] at rare intervals, when the sun broke forth wholly free, the glacier was seen from shore to shore with a bright array of encompassing mountains partly revealed, wearing the clouds as garments, while the prairie bloomed and sparkled with irised light from myriads of washed crystals.
* (mineralogy, chemistry, obsolete) Exhibiting the prismatic colours.
    Synonym: irisated
** 1790, Antoine-François de Fourcroy, translated by William Nicholson, Elements of Natural History and Chemistry‎, London: C. Elliot and T. Kay, Part 2, Chapter 4, p. 143:Heat decomposes this ammoniacal sulphure: in a certain space of time, a great many small irised needles, a line or two in length, are formed in it: they appear to be concrete ammoniacal sulphure in crystals.
** 1833, Edward Hitchcock, Report on the Geology, Mineralogy, Botany, and Zoology of Massachusetts‎, Amherst: J.S. and C. Adams, page 344:Yellow and irised quartz also occurs in mica slat in Fitchburg.

### Verb

irised
* simple past and past participle of iris

### References

* ↑ James Freeman Dana and Samuel L. Dana, Outlines of the Mineralogy and Geology of Boston and Its Vicinity, Boston: Cummings and Hilliard, 1818, p. 107: “Irised, when most of the colours of the rainbow appear on the mineral; the colours are not changeable”
* ↑ J. L. Comstock, Elements of Mineralogy, Boston: S. G. Goodrich, 1827, p. lvii: “A mineral is described as irised which exhibits the prismatic colors either externally, or internally”

### Anagrams

* irides