a. Now rare. [ad. med.L. fulvid-us, f. L. fulvus reddish-yellow.] = FULVOUS.

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1599.  A. M., trans. Gabelhouer’s Bk. Physicke, 40/1. Take a fulvide, or blewe woollen cloth madefye it in water of Melisse.

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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.

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1860.  Sir Rohan’s Ghost, vi. 133. Something in the softened light, through the fulvid noon, was moving here.

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  Hence Fulvidness.

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1685.  H. More, Illustration, 304–5. 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.

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