picescentadj.
/pʌɪˈsɛsnt/, /pɪˈsɛsnt/, U.S. /paɪˈsɛs(ə)nt/, /pᵻˈsɛs(ə)nt/ Entomology. Now rare.
Somewhat resembling pitch in colour; tending to brownish-black.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > black or blackness > [adjective] > typically black > as pitch
black as pitch?a1300
pitchya1522
pitch black1598
pitch-coloured1601
pitchy black1615
piceous1726
picescent1847
1847 J. Hardy in Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 2 245 Anterior coxæ picescent.
1898 Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc. 25 155 Antennæ entirely black, or at most merely picescent at base.
1932 Ann. Entomol. Soc. Amer. 25 177 Testaceous, upper surface, except flanks of pronotum, narrowly picescent.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1847- to make keep a vow
- to make kef
- to make kythe force
- to make labour
- to make labour to
- to make labour to a person
- to make languor
- to make larder of
- to make latin
- to make latins
- to make lavish
- to make leap year of
- to make leg bail
- to make leg-payments
- to make legpayments
- to make let force
- to make life a misery
- to make light of
- to make light work of
- to make like
- to make like a paper doll, and cut out
- to make like a welshman's hose
- to make litter of
- to make little of
- to make little on