irised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɪ.ɹɪst/
rhymes: -aɪɹɪst
Etymology: From iris + -ed; as a synonym of iridescent and irisated, perhaps a calque of French irisé.
Senses: examples: text: Her eyes were gray-irised, and of that mould that seems to have belonged to the orbs of all the famous queens of hearts.
ref: 1904 November, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], Cabbages and Kings, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., page 78:
text: The butler, a dark stout Dravidian with liquid yellow-irised eyes like those of a dog, brought the brandy on a brass tray.
ref: 1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 2, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC:
text: eyes also small, yet full-irised and thus like brown pellets under eyebrows low and thick
ref: 1947, William Sansom, “Various Temptations”, in Charles H. Bohner, editor, Short Fiction, 3rd edition, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, published 1994, page 893:
text: He saw the white face and large-irised blue eyes some six inches from his own.
ref: 1973, Barry Unsworth, Mooncranker’s Gift, New York: Norton, published 1996, Part 3, Chapter 3, p. 174:
glosses: Having irises of a specified colour or kind.
raw_tags: of eyes
examples: text: two parhelia, irised and very bright; but their centres were nearly of the same color, as the true sun
ref: 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:
text: the wreaths of fitful vapour gliding through groves of pine, and irised around the pillars of waterfalls
ref: 1856, John Ruskin, chapter 5, in Modern Painters […], volume IV, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, part V (Of Mountain Beauty), page 81:
text: O for but a moment
Of that old endowment—
Light to gaily
See thy daily
Irisèd embowment!
ref: 1898, Thomas Hardy, “To Outer Nature”, in Wessex Poems and Other Verses, Toronto: George N. Morang, published 1899, page 150:
text: […] 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.
ref: 1909, John Muir, Stickeen,, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 34:
synonyms: iridescent
glosses: Shining with colours like those of the rainbow.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 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:
text: Yellow and irised quartz also occurs in mica slat in Fitchburg.
ref: 1833, Edward Hitchcock, Report on the Geology, Mineralogy, Botany, and Zoology of Massachusetts, Amherst: J.S. and C. Adams, page 344:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: irisated
glosses: Exhibiting the prismatic colours.