Meaning of nitid | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Bright; lustrous; shining.
2. Festively or smartly dressed; spruce; fine.
   obsolete

Examples

“Thus we restore Old pieces of Dirty Gold to a clean and nitid Yellow, by putting them into the Fire, and into Aqua-fortis, which take off the adventitious Filth that made that pure Metall look of a Dirty Colour.”

“mandibles black ; palpi testaceous ; elytra reddish-brown, slightly nitid, the central portion with a few barely preceptible ashy spots ...”

“yet amongst these doth the nitid spark spend out his time: this is the Gallant's day!”

“My sable friend, for he was an eccclesiastic, was, however, not nitid as usual. There was a looseness of trousers, and a sloppiness of shoe, that savoured no longer of St. James's-street.”

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