nitid

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nitid

adjective more nitid · most nitid

Bright; lustrous; shining. Thus we restore Old pieces of Dirty Gold to a clean and nitid Yellow, by putting them into the Fire, and into Aqua-fortis, which take off the adventitious Filth that made that pure Metall look of a Dirty Colour.
Similar: nitty
obsolete, of a person Festively or smartly dressed; spruce; fine. yet amongst these doth the nitid spark spend out his time: this is the Gallant's day!

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@misc{nitid_2026,
  title = {nitid},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/nitid},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}