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hyacinthine, a.|haɪəˈsɪnθɪn, -aɪn|
Also 7–8 -in.
[ad. L. hyacinthin-us, a. Gr. ὑακίνθιν-ος, f. ὑάκινθος hyacinth: see -ine.]
1. Of the colour of a hyacinth (either the gem (1 a) or the flower). (Chiefly as a poetic or rhetorical epithet of hair, after Hom. Od. vi. 231, κόµας ὑακινθίνῳ ἄνθει ὁµοίας, ‘locks like the hyacinthine flower’, which in the next line seem to be compared to gold.)
1656Blount Glossogr., Hyacinthine, of Violet or Purple colour. 1667Milton P.L. iv. 301 Hyacinthin locks Round from his parted forelock manly hung Clustring. 1725Pope Odyss. vi. 274 His hyacinthine locks descend in wavy curls. 1791Pearson in Phil. Trans. LXXXI. 363 Argentine flowers of anitmony, hyacinthine glass of antimony. 1863Bates Nat. Amazon iv. (1864) 80 The splendid Hyacinthine Macaw (Macrocercus Hyacinthinus)..is entirely of a soft hyacinthine blue colour, except round the eyes. 1874Lowell Agassiz Poet. Wks. 1890 IV. 112 Shaking with burly mirth his hyacinthine hair. 1874H. D. Westropp Man. Precious Stones 74 Many fine engravings, and also camei, occur in the essonite, and the hyacinthine garnet. Ibid. 93 The hyacinthine sard is..a rich..variety of this stone which possesses the orange-red tint.
2. Of, made of, or adorned with hyacinths.
1675Hobbes Odyssey (1677) 73 From his hair the colour gray she [Pallas] took, And made it like the hyacinthine flower. 1760Fawkes tr. Anacreon xlii. (R.), With hyacinthine chaplet crown'd. 1791Cowper Odyssey vi. 286 His curling locks like hyacinthine flowers. 1822‘B. Cornwall’ Sonn. to Skylark, Hyacinthine bowers.
3. Like the boy Hyacinthus of Greek mythology.
1847Emerson Poems, Threnody, The hyacinthine boy, for whom Morn well might break and April bloom. |