piceous

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ˈpɪ.sɪ.əs/

Adjective

obsolete rare

(obsolete, rare) Of or pertaining to pitch (“a sticky, dark brown substance obtained from distilling turpentine or wood tar, or crude oil or tar”); having a quality like pitch; pitchlike, pitchy.

Japanese Meaning

ピッチ（樹脂性の暗褐色の物質）に関する、またはそれに類似した性質を持つ / ピッチのような、粘着性や暗褐色を連想させる特徴がある

What is this buttons?

A piceous coating clung to the weathered hull, sealing the wood with the bitter scent of tar and turpentine.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

ピッチのような被膜が風化した船体にへばりつき、木材をタールとテレピン油の苦い香りで封じていた。

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(obsolete, rare) Of or pertaining to pitch (“a sticky, dark brown substance obtained from distilling turpentine or wood tar, or crude oil or tar”); having a quality like pitch; pitchlike, pitchy.

I do not therefore require of you to believe, that the ancient rocks and compact bodies were diſſolved, but that many new ones were formed by the deluge, which had incloſed the ſpoils of the ſea within them. … What other rational account will you give of that ſhell of a nautilus, which was found buried in a ſtratum of a piceous ſubstance below the bed of the river Arbis, where Artaxerxes commanded a bridge to be built over it?

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