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Definition of Ocher

1. Adjective. Of a moderate orange-yellow color.

2. Noun. A moderate yellow-orange to orange color.

3. Noun. Any of various earths containing silica and alumina and ferric oxide; used as a pigment.

Definition of Ocher

1. 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.

Definition of Ocher

1. Noun. (alternative spelling of ochre) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Ocher

1. to color with ocher (a red or yellow iron ore used as a pigment) [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ocher

ocellary ocellate ocellated ocellated crake ocellated crakes ocellated turkey ocelli ocellus oceloid ocelot

ocelots och och aye och aye the noo oche ocher (current term) ochered ochering ocherous ochers

ochery oches ochidore ochidores ochimy ochl- ochlagogue ochlagogues ochlagogy ochlarchy

Literary usage of Ocher

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Economic Geology: With Special Reference to the United States by Heinrich Ries (1910)
"The ocher of this district ranges from a dark to a light yellow color ... According to Watson (10), the Bartow County ocher deposits have been formed by ..."

2. Economic Geology by Heinrich Ries (1916)
"The ocher of this district ranges from a dark to a light yellow color ... According to Watson (10), the Bartow County ocher deposits have been formed by ..."

3. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1915)
"In addition to yellow ocher, the barite deposits of the Cartersville ... Barite is found in nearly all the ocher deposits of the Cartersville district. ..."

4. The Mineral Industry (1902)
"THE production of all mineral paints, including ocher, umber, sienna and iron ... The leading States in the production of ocher are Pennsylvania, Georgia, ..."

5. Mineral Resources of Virginia by Thomas Leonard Watson, Ray Smith Bassler, Heinrich Ries, Roy Jay Holden (1907)
""The amount of the ocher deposits is apparently very great, though they have not been prospected over a wide area. Inasmuch as the streams and bottoms along ..."

6. Mineral Resources of Virginia by Thomas Leonard Watson, Ray Smith Bassler, Heinrich Ries, Roy Jay Holden, Virginia Jamestown Exposition Commission (1907)
"These are less unctions than the ocher, but very fine and tenacious. ... "The amount of the ocher deposits is apparently very great, though they have not ..."

7. The Non-metallic Minerals: Their Occurrence and Uses by George Perkins Merrill (1910)
"As already intimated, only a small portion of the ocher is used in its natural ... Yellows are converted into browns and reds, and the ocher rendered less ..."

8. A Preliminary Report on the Manganese Deposits of Georgia by Thomas Leonard Watson (1908)
"Large scattered masses of the quartzite highly impregnated with yellow ocher, of the usual ocher-yellow color, found over the surface of the lot on top of ..."

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