irised

adj

1. (not-comparable)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.”

   “The butler, a dark stout Dravidian with liquid yellow-irised eyes like those of a dog, brought the brandy on a brass tray.”

   “eyes also small, yet full-irised and thus like brown pellets under eyebrows low and thick”

   “He saw the white face and large-irised blue eyes some six inches from his own.”

2. (dated, literary, not-comparable)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 sun”

   “the wreaths of fitful vapour gliding through groves of pine, and irised around the pillars of waterfalls”

   “O for but a moment Of that old endowment— Light to gaily See thy daily Irisèd embowment!”

   “[…] at rare intervals, when the sun broke forth wholly free, the glacier was seen from shore to shore with a bright array of encompassing mountains partly revealed, wearing the clouds as garments, while the prairie bloomed and sparkled with irised light from myriads of washed crystals.”

3. (not-comparable, 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.”

   “Yellow and irised quartz also occurs in mica slat in Fitchburg.”

verb

1. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of iris