Thesaurus: lake
A pigment formed by combining some coloring matter, usually by precipitation, with a metallic oxide or earth, esp. with aluminium hydrate; as, madder lake; Florentine lake; yellow lake, etc.
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Definitions
- n. A pigment formed by combining some coloring matter, usually by precipitation, with a metallic oxide or earth, esp. with aluminium hydrate; as, madder lake; Florentine lake; yellow lake, etc.
- n. A kind of fine white linen, formerly in use.
- v. i. To play; to sport.
- n. A large body of water contained in a depression of the earth's surface, and supplied from the drainage of a more or less extended area.
- n. a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land
- n. a purplish red pigment prepared from lac or cochineal
- n. any of numerous bright translucent organic pigments
- A pigment formed by combining some coloring matter, usually byprecipitation, with a metallic oxide or earth, esp. with aluminiumhydrate; as, madder lake; Florentine lake; yellow lake, etc.
- n:100 n. a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land n. a purplish red pigment prepared from lac or cochineal n. any of numerous bright translucent organic pigments