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Mottle :: Mottle (v. t.) To mark with spots of different color, or shades of color, as if stained; to spot; to maculate..

Inshaded :: Inshaded (a.) Marked with different shades.

Shady :: Shady (superl.) Abounding in shade or shades; overspread with shade; causing shade.

Sheol :: Sheol (n.) The place of departed spirits; Hades; also, the grave..

Zeus :: Zeus (n.) The chief deity of the Greeks, and ruler of the upper world (cf. Hades). He was identified with Jupiter..

Benight :: Benight (v. t.) To involve in darkness; to shroud with the shades of night; to obscure.

Drawing :: Drawing (n.) The act or the art of representing any object by means of lines and shades; especially, such a representation when in one color, or in tints used not to represent the colors of natural objects, but for effect only, and produced with hard material such as pencil, chalk, etc.; delineation; also, the figure or representation drawn..

Topaz :: Topaz (n.) A mineral occurring in rhombic prisms, generally yellowish and pellucid, also colorless, and of greenesh, bluish, or brownish shades. It sometimes occurs massive and opaque. It is a fluosilicate of alumina, and is used as a gem..

Positive :: Positive (a.) Corresponding with the original in respect to the position of lights and shades, instead of having the lights and shades reversed; as, a positive picture..

Tartarus :: Tartarus (n.) The infernal regions, described in the Iliad as situated as far below Hades as heaven is above the earth, and by later writers as the place of punishment for the spirits of the wicked. By the later poets, also, the name is often used synonymously with Hades, or the Lower World in general..

Negative :: Negative (a.) Of or pertaining to a picture upon glass or other material, in which the lights and shades of the original, and the relations of right and left, are reversed..

Vallancy :: Vallancy (n.) A large wig that shades the face.

Positive :: Positive (n.) A picture in which the lights and shades correspond in position with those of the original, instead of being reversed, as in a negative..

Delineation :: Delineation (n.) The act of representing, portraying, or describing, as by lines, diagrams, sketches, etc.; drawing an outline; as, the delineation of a scene or face; in drawing and engraving, representation by means of lines, as distinguished from representation by means of tints and shades; accurate and minute representation, as distinguished from art that is careless of details, or subordinates them excessively..

Tarsiatura :: Tarsiatura (n.) A kind of mosaic in woodwork, much employed in Italy in the fifteenth century and later, in which scrolls and arabesques, and sometimes architectural scenes, landscapes, fruits, flowers, and the like, were produced by inlaying pieces of wood of different colors and shades into panels usually of walnut wood..

Nightly :: Nightly (a.) Of or pertaining to the night, or to every night; happening or done by night, or every night; as, nightly shades; he kept nightly vigils..

Violet-tip :: Violet-tip (n.) A very handsome American butterfly (Polygonia interrogationis). Its wings are mottled with various shades of red and brown and have violet tips.

Lethe :: Lethe (n.) A river of Hades whose waters when drunk caused forgetfulness of the past.

Alabaster :: Alabaster (n.) A hard, compact variety of carbonate of lime, somewhat translucent, or of banded shades of color; stalagmite. The name is used in this sense by Pliny. It is sometimes distinguished as oriental alabaster..

Tint :: Tint (n.) A color considered with reference to other very similar colors; as, red and blue are different colors, but two shades of scarlet are different tints..

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