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Definition of Opaline
1. Adjective. Having a play of lustrous rainbow colors. "A milky opalescent (or opaline) luster"
Similar to: Bright
Derivative terms: Iridesce, Iridescence, Opalesce, Opalesce, Opalescence
Definition of Opaline
1. a. Of, pertaining to, or like, opal in appearance; having changeable colors like those of the opal.
2. n. An opaline variety of yellow chalcedony.
Definition of Opaline
1. Adjective. resembling opal in its iridescence ¹
2. Noun. (minerology) any of several minerals resembling opal ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Opaline
1. an opaque white glass [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Opaline
Literary usage of Opaline
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mars as the Abode of Life by Percival Lowell (1908)
"The opaline As important is the present great extent of the Martian deserts.
Beautiful as the opaline tints of the planet look, down the far vista of the ..."
2. Organic Remains of a Former World: An Examination of the Mineralized Remains by James Parkinson (1804)
"ANALYSIS OF opaline WOOD ....OF PITCH-STONE....SIMILARITY INFERRED. .AS that
particular character, a waxy, or resinous lustre, is evident in those ..."
3. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1869)
"Strong sulphuric acid dissolves the chloride, at ordinary or slightly elevated
temperatures, with evolution of hydrochloric acid, forming an opaline liquid, ..."
4. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1849)
"In water it becomes transparent, and crumbles to pieces; it dissolves in acids,
and the solution yields a jelly on evaporation.— ß. opaline Allophane. ..."
5. Outlines of Mineralogy by John Kidd (1809)
"The general colour of this stone is an iron grey : it is called opaline from a
remarkable play of colours, visible, as it were in its interior, ..."
6. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1840)
"... near Frauenstein, in the Brucker Circle, which he names opaline- allophane,
and which occurs in nests between mountain-limestone and clay-slate. ..."
7. List of the Specimens of Homopterous Insects in the Collection of the by Francis Walker (1850)
"... adorned with opaline lustre ; fore border beset with very little black spines,
green as far as the brand, pitchy thence towards the tip ; veins tawny, ..."
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