a. [ad. L. translūcid-us translucent: see prec, and -ID. Cf. F. translucide (16th c.).] = TRANSLUCENT 2, and now 2 b.

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1626.  Bacon, Sylva, § 872. Which is most easily seen in the Eyes, because they are Translucide.

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1651.  Life Father Sarpi (1676), 18. How infusion by Art makes bark of Trees and Shells and Roots translucid.

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1878.  Miss J. Young, Ceram. Art (1879), 51. Porcelain is translucid, and therein differs from pottery, which is opaque.

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  † b.  = TRANSLUCENT 1. Obs. rare–0.

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1727.  [implied in TRANSLUCIDNESS].

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  Hence Translucidness = next.

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1727.  Bailey, vol. II., Translucidness … the Quality of shining through, or permitting Light to shine through.

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1859.  N. Brit. Rev., XXX. Feb., 20. A sort of intense translucidness dwells as it were within me.

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