ochlocratic (oklokratik)

[As ochlocracy (-crat-) +-ic.] Relating to ochlocracy, or government by the mob; having the character or form of an ochlocracy. ochlocratical (ok-lō-krat'i-kal), a. [ cratic + -al.] Same as ochlocratic. ochlocraty (ok-lok'rā-ti), n. Same as ochloc racy. If it begin to degenerate into an ochlocraty , then it turns into a most headstrong intolerable tyranny. Downing , The State Ecclesia stick (1633), p. 15. 2. Money, especially gold coin: so called in typhus fever. allusion to its color. [Slang.] If you want to cheek us, pay your ochre at the doors. Dickens, Hard Times, i. 6. Bismuth ocher. See bismuth . - Black ocher, a variety of mineral black combined with iron and alluvial clay. See mineral black , under mineral . - Blue ocher, a hy- drated iron phosphate, the mineral vivianite, found na- tive in Cornwall, England, and elsewhere. It has been used as a pigment. It is durable, but rather dull in tone. Also called native Pru ian blue. - Brown ocher, spruce ocher, or ocher de rue, a dark brownish-yellow ocher. Chrome ocher. See chrome -ocher. - Dutch ocher, a mix- ture of chrome-yellow and whiting. - French ocher, a light-colored sandy weak ocher, which comes from France. -Golden ocher. Sometimes this is a native pigment, but more often it is a mixture of light-yellow ocher, chrome- yellow, and whiting. Indian ocher. Same as Indian red (which see, under red ). - Molybdic ocher. See molyb- dic.-Orange ocher. Same as burnt Roman ocher. ford ocher, a native ocher found near Oxford, England. It is the purest and best type of yellow ocher. - Purple ocher. Same as mineral purple (which see, under purple ). -Red ocher, a name common to a variety of pigments, rather than designating an individual color, and compre hending Indian red, light red, Venetian red, scarlet ocher, Indian ocher, reddle, bole, and other oxids of iron. As a mineral it designates a soft earthy variety of hematite. Roman ocher, a pigment of a rich, deep, and powerful orange-yellow color. It is used, both raw and burnt, in oil and water-color painting, and is transparent and durable. - Scarlet ocher. See red ocher. - Stone ocher. Same as Oxford ocher. Transparent gold ocher, an ocher tend ing toward raw sienna but more yellow in tone. - Tungstic ocher. See tungstite. ocherous, ochreous (ō'ker-us, ō'krē-us), a. [= F. ocreux; as ocher, ochre, + -ous.] 1. Pertaining to ocher; consisting of or contain: ing ocher: as, ocherous matter. Also ochrous. M. Daubree, who has so thoroughly studied the metallic portion of this meteorite, mentions an ochreous crust. Amer. Jour. Sci., 3d ser., XXIX. 33. To prevent an ochrous deposit from the action of the air, the solution should be boiled in a long-necked flask. Campin, Mech. Engineering, p. 388. 2. Resembling ocher in color; specifically, in zoöl. and bot., of a brownish-yellow color; light yellow with a tinge of brown. The wake looks more and more ochreous , the foam ropier and yellower. Harper's Mag., LXXVII. 616. ochery, ochry (ō'kėr-i, -kri), a. [Also ochrey;