Suffusion

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act or operation of suffusing or overspreading, as with a fluid or a color; also, the state of being suffused or overspread.
  • noun. That which is suffused or spread over, as an extravasation of blood.
  • noun. In entomology, a peculiar variegation, observed especially in Lepidoptera, in which the colors appear to be blended or run together.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act or process of suffusing, or state of being suffused; an overspreading.
  • noun. That with which a thing is suffused.
  • noun. A blending of one color into another; the spreading of one color over another, as on the feathers of birds.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The act of pouring a liquid over something.
  • noun. The state of being wet.
  • noun. The state of becoming red on the surface.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the process of permeating or infusing something with a substance
  • Word Usage
    "The tenderness of their green appeared under the glaucous mantle; while that grey suffusion, which is the blush of green life, spread its damask chastity."
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