a. [UN-1 7 and 5 b.] Not transparent; opaque.

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1591.  Sylvester, Du Bartas, I. i. 290. Suppose an Earth … without Hill or Plaine, A Heav’n un-hanged, un-turning, un-transparent.

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1675.  Evelyn, Terra (1676), 33. An impalpable whitish Sand, untransparent.

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1754.  Phil. Trans., XLVIII. 659. The matter appeared of a dark blackish colour, untransparent.

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1862.  Tyndall, Mountaineer., v. 38. The water [resolves itself] to transparent vapour, and the vapour to untransparent cloud.

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1888.  O. Crawfurd, Sylvia Arden, 361. So dark and untransparent was the flood water.

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