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Entry 4 senses Webster, 1913

Lurid

/lo͝or'-əd/ · Lu·rid · IPA /ˈlʊɹɪd/
01 a. Pale yellow; ghastly pale; wan; gloomy; dismal.
  1. 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. 2.
    Having a brown color tinged with red, as of flame seen through smoke.(Bot.)
  3. 3.
    Of a color tinged with purple, yellow, and gray.(Zool.)
  4. 4.
    Vivid, sensational, or shocking; graphic or melodramatic; as, the lurid details of a murder.