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 tinged with red, as of flame seen through smoke.
3. (Zoöl.) Of a color tinged with purple, yellow, and gray.