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#421. Darkness. -- N. darkness &c. adj.; blackness &c. (dark color)
431; obscurity, gloom, murk; dusk &c. (dimness) 422.
Cimmerian darkness, Stygian darkness, Egyptian darkness; night;
midnight; dead of night, witching hour of night, witching time of night;
blind man's holiday; darkness visible, darkness that can be felt; palpable
obscure; Erebus; "the jaws of darkness " [Midsummer Night's Dream]; "sable-
vested night " [Milton].
shade, shadow, umbra, penumbra; sciagraphy.
obscuration; adumbration, obumbration; obtenebration, offuscation|,
caligation|; extinction; eclipse, total eclipse; gathering of the clouds.
shading; distribution of shade; chiaroscuro &c. (light) 420.
noctivagation.
V. be dark &c. adj.
darken, obscure, shade; dim; tone down, lower; overcast, overshadow;
eclipse; obfuscate, offuscate|; obumbrate, adumbrate; cast into the shade
becloud, bedim, bedarken; cast a shade, throw a shade, spread a shade,
cast a shadow, cast a gloom, throw a shadow, spread a shadow, cast gloom,
throw gloom, spread gloom.
extinguish; put out, blow out, snuff out; doubt.
Adj. dark, darksome, darkling; obscure, tenebrious, sombrous, pitch
dark, pitchy; caliginous; black &c. (in color) 431.
sunless, lightless &c. (see sun, light, &c. 423); somber, dusky;
unilluminated &c. (see illuminate &c. 420); nocturnal; dingy, lurid,
gloomy; murky, murksome; shady, umbrageous; overcast &c. (dim) 422; cloudy
&c. (opaque) 426; darkened; & c. v.
dark as pitch, dark as a pit, dark as Erebus.
benighted; noctivagant||, noctivagous||.
Adv. in the dark, in the shade.
Phr. " brief as the lightning in the collied night " [M. N. D.]; "
eldest Night and Chaos, ancestors of Nature " [P. L.]; " the blackness of
the noonday night " [Longfellow]; " the prayer of Ajax was for light "
[Longfellow].

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#422. Dimness. -- N. dimness &c. adj.; darkness &c. 421; paleness &c.
(light color) 429.
half light, demi-jour; partial shadow, partial eclipse; shadow of a
shade; glimmer, gliming; nebulosity; cloud &c. 353; eclipse.
aurora, dusk, twilight, shades of evening, crepuscule, cockshut time|;
break of day, daybreak, dawn.
moonlight, moonbeam, moonglade, moonshine; starlight, owl'slight,
candlelight, rushlight, firelight; farthing candle.
V. be dim, grow dim &c. adj.; flicker, twinkle, glimmer; loom, lower;
fade; pale, pale its ineffectual fire [Hamlet].
render dim &c. adj.; dim, bedim, obscure.
Adj. dim, dull, lackluster, dingy, darkish, shorn of its beams, dark
421.
faint, shadowed forth; glassy; cloudy; misty &c. (opaque) 426; blear;
muggy||, fuliginous; nebulous, nebular; obnubilated, overcast, crepuscular,
muddy, lurid, leaden, dun, dirty; looming &c. v.
pale &c. (colorless) 429; confused &c. (invisible) 447.

#423. [Source of light, self-luminous body.] Luminary. -- N. luminary;
light &c. 420; flame &c. (fire) 382.
spark, scintilla; phosphorescence.
sun, orb of day, Phoebus, Apollo, Aurora; star, orb; meteor, falling
star, shooting star; blazing star, dog star, Sirius; canicula, Aldebaran;
constellation, galaxy; northern light, aurora borealis, ; southern lights,
auroroa australis; zodiacal light; anthelion; day star, morning star;
Lucifer; mock sun, parhelion; hosphor, phosphorus; sundog; Venus; polar
lights.
lightning; chain lightning, fork lightning, sheet lightning, summer
lightning; phosphorus; ignis fatuus; Jack o'lantern, Friar's lantern; will-
o'-the-wisp, firedrake, Fata Morgana.
glowworm, firefly.
[Artificial light] gas; gas light, lime light, electric light;lamp;
lantern, lanthorn; dark lantern, bull's-eye; candle, bougie, taper,
rushlight; oil &c. (grease) 356; wick, burner; Argand, moderator, duplex;
torch, flambeau, link, brand; gaselier, chandelier, electrolier,
candelabrum, girandole, sconce, luster, candlestick.
firework, fizgig; pyrotechnics; rocket, lighthouse &c. (signal) 550.
V. illuminate &c. (light) 420.
Adj. self-luminous; phosphoric, phosphorescent; radiant &c. (light)
420.
Phr. " blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels "
[Longfellow]; " the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky " [Campbell];
" the planets in their station list'ning stood " [Paradise Lost]; " the
Scriptures of the skies " [Bailey]; " that orbed continent, the fire that
severs day from night " [Twelfth Night].


#424. Shade. -- N. shade; awning &c. (cover) 223; parasol, sunshade,
umbrella; chick; portibre; screen, curtain, shutter, blind, gauze, veil,
mantle, mask; cloud, mist, gathering. of clouds.
umbrage, glade; shadow &c. 421.
V. draw a curtain; put up a shutter, close a shutter; veil &c. v.;
cast a shadow &c. (darken) 421.
Adj. shady, umbrageous.
Phr. " welcome ye shades! ye bowery thickets hail " [Thomson]


#425. Transparency. -- N. transparence, transparency; clarity;
translucence, translucency; diaphaneity; lucidity, pellucidity, limpidity;
fluorescence; transillumination, translumination. transparent medium,
glass, crystal, lymph, vitrite, water.
V. be transparent &c. adj.; transmit light.
Adj. transparent, pellucid, lucid, diaphanous, translucent,
tralucent|, relucent; limpid, clear, serene, crystalline, clear as crystal,
vitreous, transpicuous, glassy, hyaline; hyaloid, vitreform.

#426. Opacity.-- N. opacity; opaqueness &c. adj.
film; cloud &c. 353.
V. be opaque &c. adj.; obstruct the passage of light; obfuscate,
offuscate|.
Adj. opaque, impervious to light; adiaphanous; dim &c. 422; turbid,
thick, muddy, opacous|, obfuscated, fuliginous, cloud, hazy, misty, foggy,
vaporous, nubiferous, muggy|2 .
smoky, fumid, murky, dirty.

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#427. Semitransparency. -- N. semitransparency, opalescence,
milkiness, pearliness; gauze, muslin; film; mica, mother-of-pearl, nacre;
mist &c. (cloud) 353.
Adj. semitransparent, semipellucid, semidiaphanous, semiopacous|,
semiopaque; opalescent, opaline; pearly, milky; frosted, nacreous.
V. opalesce.


(ii) SPECIFIC LIGHT


#428. Color. -- N. color, hue, tint, tinge, dye, complexion, shade,
tincture, cast, livery, coloration, glow, flush; tone, key.
pure color, positive color, primary color, primitive complementary
color; three primaries; spectrum, chromatic dispersion; broken color,
secondary color, tertiary color. local color, coloring, keeping, tone,
value, aerial perspective.
[Science of color] chromatics, spectrum analysis, spectroscopy;
chromatism, chromatography||, chromatology; prism, spectroscope.
pigment, coloring matter, paint, dye, wash, distemper, stain; medium;
mordant; oil paint &c. painting 556.
V. color, dye, tinge, stain, tint, tinct, paint, wash, ingrain, grain,
illuminate, emblazon, bedizen, imbue; paint &c. (fine art) 556.
Adj. colored &c. v.; colorific, tingent, tinctorial; chromatic,
prismatic; full-colored, high-colored, deep-colored; doubly-dyed;
polychromatic; chromatogenous; tingible.
bright, vivid, intense, deep; fresh, unfaded; rich, gorgeous; gay.
gaudy, florid; gay, garish; rainbow-colored, multihued; showy,
flaunting, flashy; raw, crude; glaring, flaring; discordant, inharmonious.
mellow, pastel, harmonious, pearly, sweet, delicate, tender, refined.


#429. [Absence of color.] Achromatism. -- N. achromatism;
decoloration, discoloration; pallor, pallidity; paleness &c. adj.;
etiolation; neutral tint, monochrome, black and white.
V. lose color &c. 428; fade, fly, go; become colorless &c. adj.; turn
pale, pale.
deprive of color, decolorize, bleach, tarnish, achromatize, blanch,
etiolate, wash out, tone down.
Adj. uncolored &c. (see color &c. 428); colorless, achromatic,
aplanatic; etiolate, etiolated; hueless, pale, pallid; palefaced, tallow-
faced; faint, dull, cold, muddy, leaden, dun, wan, sallow, dead, dingy,
ashy, ashen, ghastly, cadaverous, glassy, lackluster; discolored &c. v.
light-colored, fair, blond; white &c. 430.
pale as death, pale as ashes, pale as a witch, pale as a ghost, pale
as a corpse.


#430. Whiteness. -- N. whiteness &c. adj.; argent.
albification, etiolation; lactescence.
snow, paper, chalk, milk, lily, ivory, alabaster; albata, eburin,
German silver, white metal, barium sulphate, titanium oxide, blanc fixe,
ceruse, pearl white; white lead, carbonate of lead.
V. be white &c. adj.
render white &c. adj.; whiten, bleach, blanch, etiolate, whitewash,
silver.
Adj. white; milk-white, snow-white; snowy; niveous, candid, chalky;
hoar, hoary; silvery; argent, argentine; canescent, cretaceous, lactescent.
whitish, creamy, pearly, fair, blond; blanched &c. v.; high in tone,
light.
white as a sheet, white as driven snow, white as a lily, white as
silver; like ivory &c. n.

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#431. Blackness. -- N. blackness &c. adj.; darkness &c. (want of
light). 421; swartliness, lividity, dark color, tone, color; chiaroscuro
&c. 420.
nigrification, infuscation.
jet, ink, ebony, coal pitch, soot, charcoal, sloe, smut, raven, crow.
negro, blackamoor, man of color, nigger, darkie, Ethiop, black; buck,
-nigger [U. S.]; coon [U. S.], sambo.
[Pigments] lampblak, ivory black, blueblack; writing ink, printing
ink, printer's ink, Indian ink.
V. be black &c. adj.; render -black &c. adj.
blacken, infuscate, denigrate; blot, blotch; smutch;
smirch; darken &c. 421.
Adj. black, sable, swarthy, somber, dark, inky, ebon, atramentous,
jetty; coal-black, jet-black; fuliginous, pitchy, sooty, swart, dusky,
dingy, murky, Ethiopic; low-toned, low in tone; of the deepest dye.
black as jet &c. n., black as my hat, black as a shoe, black as a
tinker's pot, black as November, black as thunder, black as midnight;
nocturnal &c. (dark) 421; nigrescent; gray &c. 432; obscure &c. 421.
Adv. in mourning.

#432. Gray. -- N. gray &c. adj.; neutral tint, silver, pepper and
salt, chiaroscuro, grisaille.
[Pigments] Payne's gray; black &c. 431.
Adj. gray, grey; iron-gray, dun, drab, dingy, leaden, livid, somber,
sad, pearly, russet, roan; calcareous, limy, favillous; silver, silvery,
silvered; ashen, ashy; cinereous, cineritious; grizzly, grizzled; slate-
colored, stone-colored, mouse-colored, ash-colored; cool.

#433. Brown. -- N. brown &c. adj. [Pigments] bister, ocher, sepia,
Vandyke brown.
V. render brown &c. adj.; tan, embrown, bronze.
Adj. brown, bay, dapple, auburn, castaneous, chestnut, nut-brown,
cinnamon, russet, tawny, fuscous, chocolate, maroon, foxy, tan, brunette,
whitey brown; fawn-colored, snuff-colored, liver-colored; brown as a
berry, brown as mahogany, brown as the oak leaves; khaki.
sun-burnt; tanned &c. v.

Primitive Colors


#434. Redness. -- N. red, scarlet, vermilion, carmine, crimson, pink,
lake, maroon, carnation, couleur de rose, rose du Barry; magenta, damask,
purple; flesh color, flesh tint; color; fresh color, high color; warmth;
gules.
ruby, carbuncle; rose; rust, iron mold.
[Dyes and pigments] cinnabar, cochineal; fuchsine; ruddle, madder;
Indian red, light red, Venetian red; red ink, annotto; annatto, realgar,
minium, red lead.
redness &c. adj.; rubescence, rubicundity, rubification; erubescence,
blush.
V. be red, become red &c.adj.; blush, flush, color up, mantle, redden.
render red &c. adj.; redden, rouge; rubify, rubricate; incarnadine.;
ruddle.
Adj. red &c. n., reddish; rufous, ruddy, florid, incarnadine,
sanguine; rosy, roseate; blowzy, blowed; burnt; rubicund, rubiform; lurid,
stammell blood red; russet buff, murrey, carroty, sorrel, lateritious;
rubineous, rubcate, rubricose, rufulous.
rose-colored, ruby-colored, cherry-colored, claret-colored, flame-
colored, flesh-colored, peach-colored, salmon-colored, brick-colored,
brick-colored, dust-colored.
blushing &c. v.; erubescent; reddened &c. v.
red as fire, red as blood, red as scarlet, red as a turkey cock, red
as a lobster; warm, hot; foxy.

Complementary Colors

#435. Greenness. -- N. green &c. adj.; blue and yellow; vert.
emerald, verd antique, verdigris, malachite, beryl, aquamarine;
absinthe, crme de menthe.
[Pigments] terre verte, verditer, verdine.
greenness, verdure; viridity, viridescence; verditure.
Adj. green, verdant; glaucous, olive; green as grass; verdurous.
emerald green, pea green, grass green, apple green, sea green, olive
green, bottle green.
greenish; virent, virescent.

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#436. Yellowness. -- N. yellow &c. adj.; or.
[Piments] gamboge; cadmium-yellow, chrome-yellow, Indian-yellow
king's-yellow, lemonyellow; orpiment, yellow ocher, Claude tint, aureolin;
xanthein, xanthin; zaofulvin. crocus, saffron, topaz; xanthite; yolk.
jaundice; London fog; yellowness &c. adj.; icterus; xantho-cyanopia,
xanthopsia.
Adj. yellow, aureate, golden, flavous|, citrine, fallow; fulvous,
fulvid; sallow, luteous, tawny, creamy, sandy; xanthic, xanthous;
jaundiced- auricomous.
gold-colored, citron-colored, saffron-colored, lemon-colored, sulphur-
colored, amber-colored, straw-colored, primrose-colored, creamcolored;
xanthocarpous, xanthochroid, xanthopous.
yellow as a quince, yellow as a guinea, yellow as a crow's foot.
warm, advancing.


#437. Purple. -- N. purple &c. adj.; blue and red, bishop's purple;
aniline dyes, gridelin, amethyst; purpure; heliotrope.
lividness, lividity.
V. empurple.
Adj. purple, violet, plum-colored, lavender, lilac, puce, mauve;
livid.



#438. Blueness. -- N. blue &c. adj.; garter-blue; watchett|.
[Pigments] ultramarine, smalt, cobalt, cyanogen; Prussian blue,
syenite blue; bice, indigo; zaffer.
lapis lazuli, sapphire, turquoise; indicolite.
blueness, bluishness; bloom.
Adj. blue, azure, cerulean; sky-blue, sky-colored sky-dyed;
cerulescent; bluish; atmospheric, retiring; cold.


#439. Orange. -- N. orange, red and yellow; gold; or; flame &c. color,
adj.
[Pigments] ocher, Mars'orange, cadmium.
cardinal bird, cardinal flower, cardinal grosbeak, cardinal lobelia.
V. gild, warm.
Adj. orange; ochreous; orange-colored, gold-colored,
flame-colored, copper-colored, brass-colored, apricot-colored; warm, hot,
glowing.

#440. Variegation. -- N. variegation; colors, dichroism, trichroism;
iridescence, play of colors, polychrome, maculation, spottiness, striae.
spectrum, rainbow, iris, tulip, peacock, chameleon, butterfly,
tortoise shell; mackerel, mackerel sky; zebra, leopard, cheetah, nacre,
ocelot, ophite, mother-of-pearl, opal, marble.
check, plaid, tartan, patchwork; marquetry-, parquetry; mosaic,
tesserae, strigae; chessboard, checkers, chequers; harlequin; Joseph's
coat; tricolor.
V. be variegated &c. adj.; variegate, stripe, streak, cheeker,
chequer; bespeckle, speckle; besprinkle, sprinkle; stipple, maculate, dot,
bespot; tattoo, inlay, damascene; embroider, braid, quilt.
Adj. variegated &c. v.; many-colored, many-hued; divers-colored,
party-colored; dichromatic, polychromatic; bicolor, tricolor, versicolor;
of all the colors of the rainbow, of all manner of colors; kaleidoscopic.
iridescent; opaline, opalescent; prismatic, nacreous, pearly, shot,
gorge de pigeon, chatoyant; irisated, pavonine.
pied, piebald; motley; mottled, marbled; pepper and salt, paned,
dappled, clouded, cymophanous.
mosaic, tesselated, plaid; tortoise shell &c. n.
spotted, spotty; punctated, powdered; speckled &c. v.; freckled, flea-
bitten, studded; flecked, fleckered; striated, barred, veined; brinded,
brindled; tabby; watered; grizzled; listed; embroidered &c. v.; daedal;
naevose, stipiform; strigose, striolate.

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(iii) PERCEPTIONS OF LIGHT

#441. Vision. - N. vision, sight, optics, eyesight.
view, look, espial, glance, ken, coup d'oeil; glimpse, glint, peep;
gaze, stare, leer; perlustration, contemplation; conspection|,
conspectuity|; regard, survey;introspection; reconnaissance, speculation,
watch, espionage, espionnage, autopsy; ocular inspection, ocular
demonstration; sight-seeing.
point of view; gazebo, loophole, belvedere, watchtower.
field of view; theater, amphitheater, arena, vista, horizon;
commanding view, bird's eye view; periscope.
visual organ, organ of vision; eye; naked eye, unassisted eye; retina,
pupil, iris, cornea, white; optics, orbs; saucer eyes, goggle eyes,
gooseberry eyes.
short sight &c. 443; clear sight, sharp sight, quick sight, eagle
sight, piercing sight, penetrating sight, clear glance, sharp glance,
quick glance, eagle glance, piercing glance, penetrating glance, clear eye,
sharp eye, quick eye, eagle eye, piercing eye, penetrating eye;
perspicacity, discernment; catopsis.
eagle, hawk; cat, lynx; Argus.
evil eye; basilisk, cockatrice [Mythical].
V. see, behold, discern, perceive, have in sight, descry, sight, make
out, discover, distinguish, recognize, spy, espy, ken; get a sight of, have
a sight of, catch a sight of, get a glimpse of, have a glimpse of, catch a
glimpse of; command a view of; witness, contemplate, speculate; cast the
eyes on, set the eyes on; be a spectator &c. 444 of; look on &c. (be
present) 186; see sights &c. (curiosity) 455; see at a glance &c.
(intelligence) 498.
look, view, eye; lift up the eyes, open one's eye; look at, look on,
look upon, look over, look about one, look round; survey, scan, inspect;
run the eye over, run the eye through; reconnoiter, glance round, glance
on, glance over turn one's looks upon, bend one's looks upon; direct the
eyes to, turn the eyes on, cast a glance.
observe &c. (attend to) 457; watch &c. (care) 459; see with one's own
eyes; watch for &c. (expect) 507; peep, peer, pry, take a peep; play at
bopeep.
look full in the face, look hard at, look intently; strain one's
eyes; fix the eyes upon, rivet the eyes upon; stare, gaze; pore over, gloat
on; leer, ogle, glare; goggle; cock the eye, squint, gloat, look askance.
Adj. seeing &c. v.; visual, ocular; optic, optical; ophthalmic.
clear-eyedsighted &c. n.; eagle-eyed, hawk-eyed, lynx-eyed, keen-eyed,
Argus-eyed.
visible &c. 446.
Adv. visibly &c. 446; in sight of, with one's eyes open at sight,
at first sight, at a glance, at the first blush; prima facie.
Int. look! &c. (attention) 457.
Phr. the scales falling from one's eyes; " an eye like Mars to
threaten or command " [Hamlet]; " her eyes are homes of silent prayer "
[Tennyson]; " looking before and after " [Hamlet]; "thy rapt soul sitting
in thine eyes " [Milton].

#442. Blindness. - N. blindness, cecity, excecation|, amaurosis,
cataract, ablepsy|, prestriction|; dim-sightedness &c. 443; ablepsia;
Braille, Braille-type; guttaserena (" drop serene "), noctograph,
teichopsia.
V. be blind &c. adj.; not see; lose sight of; have the eyes bandaged;
grope in the dark.
not look; close the eyes, shut the eyes-, turn away the eyes, avert
the eyes; look another way; wink &c. (limited vision) 443; shut the eyes
to, be blind to, wink at, blink at.
render blind &c. adj.; blind, blindfold; hoodwink, dazzle, put one's
eyes out; throw dust into one's eyes; jeter de la poudre aux yeux; screen
from sight &c. (hide) 528.
Adj. blind; eyeless, sightless, visionless; dark; stone-blind, sand-
blind, stark-blind; undiscerning; dimsighted &c. 443.
blind as a bat, blind as a buzzard, blind as a beetle, blind as a
mole, blind as an owl; wall-eyed.
blinded &c. v.
Adv. blindly, blindfold; darkly.
Phr. " O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon" [Milton].

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#443. [Imperfect vision.] Dimsightedness. [Fallacies of vision.] -- N.
dim sight, dull sight half sight, short sight, near sight, long sight,
double sight, astigmatic sight, failing sight; dimsightedness &c.;
purblindness, lippitude; myopia, presbyopia; confusion of vision;
astigmatism; color blindness, chromato-pseudo-blepsis, Daltonism;
nyctalopia; strabismus, strabism, squint; blearedness, day blindness,
hemeralopia, nystagmus; xanthocyanopia, xanthopsia; cast in the eye, swivel
eye, goggleeyes; obliquity of vision.
winking &c. v.; nictitation; blinkard, albino.
dizziness, swimming, scotomy; cataract; ophthalmia.
[Limitation of vision] blinker; screen &c. (hider) 530.
[Fallacies of vision] deceptio visus; refraction, distortion,
illusion, false light, anamorphosis, virtual image, spectrum, mirage,
looming, phasma|; phantasm, phantasma, phantom; vision; specter,
apparition, ghost; ignis fatuus &c. (luminary) 423 specter of the Brocken
magic mirror; magic lantern &c. (show) 448; mirror lens &c. (instrument)
445.
V. be dimsighted &c. n.; see double; have a mote in the eye, have a
mist before the eyes, have a film over the eyes; see through a prism, see
through a glass darkly; wink, blink, nictitate; squint; look askant, askant
askance; screw up the eyes, glare, glower; nictate.
dazzle, loom.
Adj. dim-sighted &c. n.; myopic, presbyopic; astigmatic moon-eyed,
mope-eyed, blear-eyed, goggle-eyed, gooseberry-eyed, one-eyed; blind of one
eye, monoculous; half-blind, purblind; cock-eyed, dim-eyed, mole-eyed;
dichroic.
blind as a bat &c. (blind) 442; winking &c. v.


#444. Spectator. -- N. spectator, beholder, observer, looker-on,
onlooker, witness, eyewitness, bystander, passer by; sightseer; rubberneck
, rubbernecker * [U. S.].
spy; sentinel &c. (warning) 668.
V. witness, behold &c. (see) 441; look on &c. (be present) 186;
rubber *, rubberneck *[U.S.]


#445. Optical Instruments. -- N. optical instruments; lens, meniscus,
magnifier; microscope, megascope, tienoscope.
spectacles, specs[coll.] ,glasses, barnacles, goggles, eyeglass,
pince-nez.
periscopic lens; telescope, glass, lorgnette; spyglass, opera glass,
binocular, binoculars, field glass; burning glass, convex lens.
mirror, reflector, speculum; looking-glass, pier-glass, cheval-glass.
prism; camera lucida, camera obscura; magic lantern &c. (show) 448;
stereopticon; chromatrope, thaumatrope; stereoscope, pseudoscope,
polyscope, kaleidoscope.
photometer, eriometer, actinometer, lucimeter, radiometer;
abdominoscope, gastroscope, helioscope, polariscope, polemoscope,
spectroscope.
abdominoscopy; gastroscopy; microscopy, microscopist.

#446. Visibility. -- N. visibility, perceptibility; conspicuousness,
distinctness &c. adj.; conspicuity, conspicuousness; appearance &c. 448;
bassetting; exposure; manifestation &c. 525; ocular proof, ocular evidence,
ocular demonstration; field of view &c. (vision) 441; periscopism.
V. be become visible &c. adj.; appear, open to the view; meet the eye,
catch the eye; basset; present itself, show manifest itself, produce
itself, discover itself, reveal itself , expose itself, betray itself;
stand forth, stand out; materialize; show; arise; peep out, peer out, crop
out; start up, spring up, show up, turn up, crop up; glimmer, loom; glare;
burst forth; burst upon the view, burst upon the sight; heave in sight;
come in sight, come into view, come out, come forth, come forward; see the
light of day; break through the clouds; make its appearance, show its face,
appear to one's eyes, come upon the stage, float before the eyes, speak for
itself &c. (manifest) 525; attract the attention &c. 457; reappear; live in
a glass house.
expose to view &c. 525.
Adj. visible, perceptible, perceivable, discernible, apparent; in
view, in full view, in sight; exposed to view, en vidence; unclouded.
obvious &c. (manifest) 525; plain, clear, distinct, definite; well
defined, well marked; in focus; recognizable, palpable, autoptical;
glaring, staring, conspicuous; stereoscopic; in bold, in strong relief.
periscopic, panoramic.
before one's eyes, under one's eyes; before one,  vue d'oeil, in
one's eye, oculis subjecta fidelibus.
Adv. visibly &c. adj.; in sight of; before one's eyes &c. adj.; veluti
in speculum.

#447. Invisibility. -- N. invisibility, invisibleness, nonappearance,
imperceptibility; indistinctness &c. adj.; mystery, delitescence.
concealment &c. 528; latency &c. 526.
V. be invisible &c. adj.; be hidden &c. (hide) 528; lurk &c. (lie
hidden) 526; escape notice.
render invisible &c. adj.; conceal &c. 528; put out of sight.
not see &c. (be blind) 442; lose sight of.
Adj. invisible, imperceptible; undiscernible, indiscernible;
unapparent, non-apparent; out of sight, not in sight;  perte de vue;
behind the scenes, behind the curtain; viewless, sightless; inconspicuous,
unconspicuous; unseen &c. (see see &c. 441); covert &c. (latent) 526;
eclipsed, under an eclipse.
dim &c. (faint) 422; mysterious, dark, obscure, confused; indistinct,
inguishable; shadowy, indefinite, undefined; ill-defined, ill-marked;
blurred, fuzzy, out of focus; misty &c. (opaque) 426; veiled &c.
(concealed) 528; delitescent.
Phr. " full many a flower is born to blush unseen " [Gray).

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