| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
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| Class III. Words Relating to Matter | | Section III. Organic Matter | | 2. Sensation |
| (6) Light |
| (i) Light in General |
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| 427. Semitransparency. |
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| NOUN: | SEMI-TRANSPARENCY, opalescence, milkiness, pearliness.
[COMPARISONS] gauze, muslin, cypress or cyprus [hist.], bombyx, thin silk; film; mica, mother-of-pearl, nacre, opal glass, opaline, frosted glass; mist (cloud) [See Bubble, Cloud].
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| ADJECTIVE: | SEMITRANSPARENT, semipellucid, semidiaphanous, semiopacous [obs.], semiopaque; opalescent, opaline; pearly, milky; frosted, nacreous; hazy, misty.
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| VERB: | CLOUD, frost, cloud over, frost over; become -pearly, - milky, - misty.
be opalescent &c. adj.; opalesce.
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