A semitranslucent variety of opal that becomes translucent or transparent on immersion in water.
A yellowish white, translucent mineral, consisting of the carbonates of lime and soda, with water.
When younger, as a tiny grub a few millimeters long, it is streaked with two different kinds of stains, some white, opaque and of a creamy tint, others translucent and of the palest amber.
He had some jade of superior quality--the translucent deep apple-green.
She wanted the deep apple-green jade, the royal, translucent stone.
She found herself wandering through a glorioustranslucent green cavern--a huge emerald.
He loved these semi-precious stones because of their unmatchable, translucent green--like the pulp of a grape.
Amidst the crags sleeps the translucentbuckler of the lake.
Beneath the shadows of this brow lay brown, translucent eyes, into whose thoughtful depths one might look as pilgrims gaze into the waters of some saintly well, cool and pure down to the unblemished sand at the bottom.
The syce counted out the desired amount, and handed back what was left through the bamboo chicks, or curtains, that reduced the blinding glare of the sky to a soft, translucent gray.
As the sun was reducing the gloom of the sylvan tunnel to a translucent twilight, we floated down the swift current toward the ocean.
In the translucent green twilight of the flower-houses a hundred varieties of the costly orchids thrive--not costly here.
The matter could at least be examined at closer range if he could but find the cavern with the translucent roof.
He caught the scurrying flash of several translucent animal bodies dodging out of sight from the unexpected light of his flash.
Eastwards, among the still, mysterious hills and silver plains, a translucent dawn was coming.
It was a glorious thing of deep blue glass andtranslucent enamel and silver, with the Berovieri signature cut on it.
Dimly, as through a translucent pane, I could make out vague images ahead of me.
It was a sphere of what seemed to be translucent plastic, glowing with shifting rainbow colors.
In the afternoon October's lover takes the hill path, mica-gemmed, that leads between birches of the translucent yellow leaf and maples still green but wearing scarlet woodbine like a gypsy's sash.
The grass blade is borne down by the exquisite burden of one translucent pearl.
The felspar crystals are lighter and more translucent than the matrix, but are of much the same character, having a granulated or flocculent appearance, somewhat like that of the decomposed felspars in diabase.
It is a translucent unctuous substance which has the property of taking up large quantities of water and forming emulsions which are very slow to separate into their constituents.
Not a stain, In the sun-brimmed sapphire cup that is the sky-- Not a ripple on the black translucent lane Of the palace-walled lagoon.
Presently a mellow light spread over their delicately translucent surface--a creamy, undulating radiance which gave the effect of moving about among the myriad folds of the silk.
A dim light from within shone through the more translucent portions of the glass below, throwing out faint little bars of party-colored radiance upon the blackness of the deep passage-way.
His look was concentrated upon a point above him where, look as one might, one could have seen nothing to break the translucent veil of dark.
Dark-brown, still andtranslucent like an onyx it lay before her.
The eggs are a 'pale fawn-colour' before they are blown, the shells being so translucent that the yolk shows through partially.
Thirdly, forms and shadows of other leaves, seen as darkness through the translucent parts of the leaf; a most important element of foliage effect, but wholly neglected by landscape artists in general.
