Meaning of piceous | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Of or pertaining to pitch (“a sticky, dark brown substance obtained from distilling turpentine or wood tar, or crude oil or tar”); having a quality like pitch.
   obsolete, rare
2. Resembling pitch in colour; a very dark brown.

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Examples

“I do not therefore require⟳ of you to believe⟳, that the ancient rocks and compact bodies were diſſolved, but that many new ones were formed by the deluge, which had incloſed the ſpoils of the ſea within them. […] What other rational account will you give⟳ of that ſhell of a nautilus, which was found buried in a ſtratum of a piceous ſubstance below the bed of the river Arbis, where Artaxerxes commanded a bridge to be built over it?”

“Piciroſtris. Oblong, black: ſilvery-ſilky: ſnout half way and legs piceous.”

“The colour of the upper part is a mixture of yellowish-white and piceous disposed in dots, exactly resembling mosaic work⟳, […]”

“Abdomen with shining cinereous tomentum, and with five lines of piceous spots; […] Tibiæ piceous towards the tips; tarsi piceous.”

“Front and middle legs yellow, coxae black behind, femora piceous posteriorly; […]”

“Agabus elongatus […] Legs rufous; metafemur piceous.”

“From the year of its establishment, darkness seemed to have⟳ found a home in Beet College. Dark pink for the brick buildings, dark green for the doorjambs and the benches, dark iron⟳ for the hinges, dark stone for Nathaniel's Tomb; darkness in the piceous roots of trees that broke through the earth like⟳ bones through skin.”

“Gyrophaenia uteana Casey […] [H]ead piceous, pronotum dark rufo-testaceous to piceous; elytra reddish-brown with sutural region and posterior angles piceous, abdomen yellowish- or reddish-brown, apical portion often darker, piceous; […]”

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