irised

Adjective

irised (not comparable)

1. Having irises of a specified colour or kind.
   • Her eyes were gray-irised, and of that mould that seems to have belonged to the orbs of all the famous queens of hearts.1904 November, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], Cabbages and Kings, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., page 78
   • The butler, a dark stout Dravidian with liquid yellow-irised eyes like those of a dog, brought the brandy on a brass tray.1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 2, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC
2. (dated, literary) Shining with colours like those of the rainbow.
   • two parhelia, irised and very bright; but their centres were nearly of the same color, as the true sun1818, Parker Cleaveland, “Description of several Halos and Parhelia, observed at Brunswick, Maine”, in Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Volume 4, Part 1, p. 121
   • the wreaths of fitful vapour gliding through groves of pine, and irised around the pillars of waterfalls1856, John Ruskin, chapter 5, in Modern Painters […], volume IV, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, part V (Of Mountain Beauty), page 81

   Synonyms:

   iridescent

3. (obsolete) Exhibiting the prismatic colours.
   • Heat decomposes this ammoniacal sulphure: in a certain space of time, a great many small irised needles, a line or two in length, are formed in it: they appear to be concrete ammoniacal sulphure in crystals.1790, Antoine-François de Fourcroy, translated by William Nicholson, Elements of Natural History and Chemistry, London: C. Elliot and T. Kay, Part 2, Chapter 4, p. 143
   • Yellow and irised quartz also occurs in mica slat in Fitchburg.1833, Edward Hitchcock, Report on the Geology, Mineralogy, Botany, and Zoology of Massachusetts, Amherst: J.S. and C. Adams, page 344

   Synonyms:

   irisated