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 tonged with red, as of flame seen through smoke.
3. Zool.
Of a color tinged with purple, yellow, and gray.
© Webster 1913.