a. Also 7 limpidde. [ad. F. limpide, or L. limpidus, prob. related to early lumpa, class. L. lympha clear liquid: see LYMPH.] Chiefly of fluids: Free from turbidity or suspended matter; pellucid, clear.
1613. R. Cawdrey, Table Alph. (ed. 3), Limpidde, cleere, pure.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., II. i. 54. Chrystall … is a minerall body … made of a lentous colament of earth, drawne from the most pure and limpid juyce thereof.
1682. Dryden, Religio Laici, 341. And still the nearer to the spring we go, More limpid, more unsoiled, the waters flow.
1784. Cowper, Task, I. 374. Winds from all quarters agitate the air, And fit the limpid element for use.
1834. Mrs. Somerville, Connex. Phys. Sci., xiv. (1849), 127. The pure and limpid crystal of Iceland spar.
1860. W. Collins, Wom. White, I. viii. 34. The eyes are of that soft, limpid, turquoise blue, so often sung by the poets.
b. of immaterial things and fig.
1649. Needham, Case Commw., 16. It were vaine to raise more dust out of the Cobwebs of Antiquity in so limpid a case.
a. 1734. North, Lives (1826), III. 389. Death the only means to free a limpid soul … from that dungeon of flesh.
1847. Illustr. Lond. News, 10 July, 27/1. She possesses a pure and limpid soprano of considerable compass.
1848. Dickens, Dombey, xv. Devoutly hoping that his limpid intellect might not be brought to bear on his difficulties until they were quite settled.
1878. Gladstone, Prim. Homer, 6. There is a singular transparency in the mind, as there is also in the limpid language, of Homer.
