Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
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ochery .
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ochery .
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- adjective Alternative form of
ochery .
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Examples
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A lump of soft, ochrey red-brown ironstone, coated with a thin layer of greyish white substance.
The Land of Midian 2003
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And as for pigments, I've only got four kinds, ochrey stone,
Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Xueqin Cao
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Exposed to strong sunshine, for some time indeed, its bright yellow tint is dulled into an ochrey hue, or even to gray, but the change altogether amounts to a moderate percentage of the total light reflected, and in short exposures is such as would easily escape notice.
Photographic Reproduction Processes Peter C. Duchochois
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The water must be free from calcareous salts; these salts converting the iron into carbonates which impart an ochrey tinge to the proof.
Photographic Reproduction Processes Peter C. Duchochois
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On the other hand, almost all the Artesian wells in the colony contain a large quantity of oxide of iron held in solution by carbonic acid, and which separates as an ochrey deposit on free exposure to the air.
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The reddish-yellow tracts are doubtless continents of an ochrey soil; and not, as some think, of a ruddy vegetation.
A Trip to Venus John Munro 1889
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-- Above brownish ochrey or rufous; limbs and beneath ashy-brown; callosities and adjacent parts red; face of adult males red.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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Ochres and ochrey earths; oil cloths of every decription, of whatever material composed; oils of every description, animal, vegetable and mineral, not otherwise provided for; olives, opium; orange and lemon peel; osier or willow, prepared for basket makers 'use.
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Ochres and ochrey earths; oil-cloths of every description, of whatever material composed; oils of every description, animal, vegetable and mineral, not otherwise provided for; olives; opium; orange and lemon peel; osier or willow, prepared for basket-makers 'use.
Tariff of the Confederate States of America : approved by Congress, May 21, 1861 : to be of force from and after August 31, 1861, Confederate States of America 1861
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Good clay has a uniform color, and is not spotted with ochrey matter.
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