opacous

And indeed, there seem to be so few bodies in the world that are _in minimis_ opacous, that I think one may make it a rational _Query_, Whether there be any body absolutely thus _opacous_?

Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669

I suspect that rather than Iran, Obama is more concerned with the nuclear threat posed by North Korea or indeed the opacous Israel.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

That the moon is a solid, compacted, opacous body.

Moon Lore Timothy Harley

Any page of his work furnishes examples of his delicate care for the original meaning of Latin words, such as _intend_ -- "intend at home ... what best may ease the present misery"; _arrive_ -- "ere he arrive the happy Isle"; _obnoxious_ -- "obnoxious more to all the miseries of life"; _punctual_ -- "this opacous Earth, this punctual spot";

Milton Walter Alexander Raleigh 1891

Embrace not the opacous and blind side of opinions, but that which looks most luciferously or influentially unto goodness.

Christian Morals 1605-1682 1863

Purple; Red, Yellow, & c. _ to succeed each other, ten or twelve times, but in the other more _opacous_ bodies the consecutions will not be half so many.

Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669

_Porphyry_, or _Serpentine_, the small particles will by reason of their flaws, appear perfectly _opacous_; and that 'tis the flaws that produce this _opacousness_, may be argued from this, that particles of the same

Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669

_Ammel_ much thicker if unflaw'd will appear somewhat transparent even to the eye; and from this also, that the most transparent and clear Crystal, if heated in the fire, and then suddenly quenched, so that it be all over flaw'd, will appear _opacous_ and white.

Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669

Nay, the Object Glasses we yet make use of are such, that they make many transparent bodies to the eye, seem _opacous_ through them, which if we widen the Aperture a little, and cast more light on the objects, and not charge the Glasses so deep, will again disclose their transparency.

Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669

Let us further suppose the top of it to be cover'd with an _opacous_ body, all but the hole ab, through which the Sun-beams are suffer'd to pass into the Water, and are thereby refracted to cdef, against which part, if a

Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669