Lu"rid (?), a. [L. luridus.]
1. Pale yellow; ghastly pale; wan; gloomy;
dismal.
Fierce o'er their beauty blazed the lurid
flame.
Thomson.
Wrapped in drifts of lurid smoke
On the misty river tide.
Tennyson.
2. (Bot.) Having a brown color tinged
with red, as of flame seen through smoke.
3. (Zoöl.) Of a color tinged with
purple, yellow, and gray.