Hypertext Webster Gateway: "suffusion"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Suffusion \Suf*fu"sion\, n. [L. suffusio: cf. F. suffusion.]
1. The act or process of suffusing, or state of being
suffused; an overspreading.
To those that have the jaundice, or like suffusion
of eyes, objects appear of that color. --Ray.
2. That with which a thing is suffused.
3. (Zo["o]l.) A blending of one color into another; the
spreading of one color over another, as on the feathers of
birds.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
suffusion
n : the process of permeating or infusing [syn: {permeation}, {pervasion},
{impregnation}, {saturation}]
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