a. Now rare. [ad. med.L. fulvid-us, f. L. fulvus reddish-yellow.] = FULVOUS.
1599. A. M., trans. Gabelhouers Bk. Physicke, 40/1. Take a fulvide, or blewe woollen cloth madefye it in water of Melisse.
1642. H. More, Song of Soul, I. I. iii. The fulvid Eagle with her sun-bright eye. Ibid. (1681), Exp. Dan. 27. A Beast of a fulvid or Golden colour.
1860. Sir Rohans Ghost, vi. 133. Something in the softened light, through the fulvid noon, was moving here.
Hence Fulvidness.
1685. H. More, Illustration, 3045. The Angel in a Pillar of fire going before the Israelites shined also, and the fulvidness of the Sand of the Sea made the mixture more like fire.