plumbeous, a.
(ˈplʌmbiːəs)
[f. L. plumbe-us leaden (f. plumb-um lead) + -ous.]
1. Made of or resembling lead, leaden; lead-coloured. Chiefly in Zool.
| 1623 Cockeram, Plumbeous, full of lead, heauie. 1658 Phillips, Plumbeous, leaden, of the colour of lead; also blunt, or dull. 1826 Kirby & Sp. Entomol. IV. 284. 1867 A. L. Adams Wand. Nat. India 115 Another and smaller species, the plumbeous or sooty redstart. 1874 Coues Birds N.W. 321 Feathers..plumbeous at base and brown at tip. |
b. Ceramics. Lead-glazed.
| 1875 Fortnum Maiolica i. 4 Glazed and enamelled wares..plumbeous or lead glazed. 1879 J. J. Young Ceram. Art 63 Silicious, or glass-glazed, and plumbeous, or lead-glazed, both of which are transparent. |
† 2. fig. Heavy, dull, ponderous, leaden. Obs.
| 1578 Sidney Wanstead Play in Arcadia, etc. (1629) 622 Attend and throw your eares to mee..till I haue endoctrinated your plumbeous cerebrosities. c 1645 Howell Lett. (1650) II. 30 The motion of Saturn,..plumbeous, long, and heavy. 1686 Goad Celest. Bodies ii. ix. 284 Whether he be such a Plumbeous Blew-nosed Planet as Antiquity marks him. |