ocher

Any of several earthy mineral oxides of iron occurring in yellow, brown, or red and used as pigments.

A moderate orange yellow, from moderate or deep orange to moderate or strong yellow.

A metallic oxid which occurs in the form of an earthy powder or easily crumbled mass: as antimony ocher; bismuth ocher; tungstic ocher.

The common name of an important class or natural earths consisting of mixtures of the hydrated sesquioxids of iron with various earthy materials, principally silica and alumina.

Money, especially gold coin: so called in allusion to its color.

To mark or stain with ocher.

A impure earthy ore of iron or a ferruginous clay, usually red (hematite) or yellow (limonite), — used as a pigment in making paints, etc. The name is also applied to clays of other colors.

A metallic oxide occurring in earthy form.

The color of ocher{1}, varying around orange, from more yellowish to more reddish in tint.