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 tonged with red, as of flame seen through smoke.

3. (Zo["o]l.) Of a color tinged with purple, yellow, and gray.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)