Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A name given to two colors used in painting, one blue, the other green, both native carbonates of copper. Inferior kinds of them are also prepared artificially. The former is often called mountain-blue, the latter mountain-green, malachite-green, etc. Also called
biadetto .
Wiktionary
- n. A pale blue pigment, prepared from the native blue carbonate of copper, or from smalt.
- n. A cobalt blue pigment.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Paint.) A pale blue pigment, prepared from the native blue carbonate of copper, or from smalt; -- called also
blue bice .
Etymologies
- French bis, akin to Italian bigio light gray, tawny. (Wiktionary)
Examples
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“Ground smalts, blue verditer, and other pigments, have passed under the name of bice.”
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
“-- Indigo, white, and lake; or fine Dutch bice and lake, shaded with Indigo; or litmus smalt and bice, the latter predominant.”
“-- Indigo, Spanish brown, and white; or blue bice, red and white lead; or blue bice and lake.”
“-- Light masticot and white, for the lowest and lightest parts; second, red ink and white; third, blue bice and white; fourth, blue bice alone.”
“-- Light pink and Dutch bice, shaded with green pink.”
“-- Blue bice and ceruse, or ultramarine and white, shaded with indigo.”
“Sometimes Paul would paint rapidly with great sweeps of the brush; sometimes he would spend an hour trying to get on his palette the exact shade of green bice for the famous”
“Past the creamy reef the purple ocean glittered in the nooning sun, while the motionless waters of the lagoon were turquoise and bice near by and virescent in the distance.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bice’.
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WWF WTF?
Ever play "Words With Friends" with someone and they throw down some strange, unlikely group of letters that makes even the most mild and squeaky clean tongued person say "whiskey tango foxtrot"? ...
oorie, sangar, merl, cwm, doum, weir, jura, invar, lawine, tapa, waw, shog and 376 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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blue
bluejeans, blue sky, blue angel, blue heaven, blue jay, blue cheese, blue ridge, blue ribbon, blue print, blue rinse, bluestocking, blue shift and 50 more...
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Unusual words for Words With Friends
A list of words that WWF recognizes as valid - most are unusual words; some are simply high-scoring.
botel, slipe, jeu, chub, chubs, cote, mure, tittle, dev, loo, hoke, helo and 357 more...
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Chromonyms
These chromonyms are defined as colors in at least one dictionary (mostly MW3). (Actually there's one fake, for reasons I'll explain someday.) They are all one-word nouns such as "kelly", which can...
absinthe, acacia, acorn, alabaster, alesan, almond, aloma, amaranth, amber, amethyst, anemone, anil and 821 more...
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a box of paints.
words with color.
cyan, cerulean, azure, emerald, sapphire, beryl, lapis lazuli, aquamarine, topaz, garnet, ruby, amber and 22 more...
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