Ocher

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Any of several earthy mineral oxides of iron occurring in yellow, brown, or red and used as pigments.
  • n. A moderate orange yellow, from moderate or deep orange to moderate or strong yellow.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Alternative spelling of ochre.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n.
  • n. A impure earthy ore of iron or a ferruginous clay, usually red (hematite) or yellow (limonite), -- used as a pigment in making paints, etc. The name is also applied to clays of other colors.
  • n. A metallic oxide occurring in earthy form.
  • n. The color of ocher{1}, varying around orange, from more yellowish to more reddish in tint.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The common name of an important class or natural earths consisting of mixtures of the hydrated sesquioxids of iron with various earthy materials, principally silica and alumina.
  • n. Money, especially gold coin: so called in allusion to its color.
  • n. A metallic oxid which occurs in the form of an earthy powder or easily crumbled mass: as antimony ocher; bismuth ocher; tungstic ocher.
  • To mark or stain with ocher.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. any of various earths containing silica and alumina and ferric oxide; used as a pigment
  • n. a moderate yellow-orange to orange color
  • adj. of a moderate orange-yellow color
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    chromatic    ochre   
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