Lurid

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.