irised

iris +‎ -ed; as a synonym of iridescent and irisated, perhaps a calque of French irisé.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɪ.ɹɪst/
• Rhymes: -aɪɹɪst

irised (not comparable)

1. (of eyes) Having irises of a specified colour or kind.
   • 1904 November, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], Cabbages and Kings, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., page 78:

     Her eyes were gray-irised, and of that mould that seems to have belonged to the orbs of all the famous queens of hearts.

   • 1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 2, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, OCLC 1810828:

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

   • 1947, William Sansom, “Various Temptations” in Charles H. Bohner (ed.), Short Fiction, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 3rd edition, 1994, p. 893,

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

   • 1973, Barry Unsworth, Mooncranker’s Gift, New York: Norton, 1996, Part 3, Chapter 3, p. 174,

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

2. (dated, literary) Shining with colours like those of the rainbow.

   Synonym: iridescent

   • 1818, 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,

     two parhelia, irised and very bright; but their centres were nearly of the same color, as the true sun

   • 1856, John Ruskin, chapter 5, in Modern Painters, volume IV (part V), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], page 81:

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

   • 1898, Thomas Hardy, “To Outer Nature” in Wessex Poems and Other Verses, Toronto: George N. Morang, 1899, p. 150,

     O for but a moment

     Of that old endowment—

     Light to gaily

     See thy daily

     Irisèd embowment!

   • 1909, John Muir, Stickeen, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, p. 34,

     […] 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. (mineralogy, chemistry, obsolete) Exhibiting the prismatic colours.[1][2]

   Synonym: irisated

   • 1790, William Nicholson (translator), Elements of Natural History and Chemistry by Antoine-François de Fourcroy, London: C. Elliot and T. Kay, Part 2, Chapter 4, p. 143,

     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.

   • 1833, Edward Hitchcock, Report on the Geology, Mineralogy, Botany, and Zoology of Massachusetts, Amherst: J.S. and C. Adams, p. 344,

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

irised

1. simple past tense and past participle of iris

• irides