bice

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She was trying to paint a fairy queen's frock with green bice, and it wouldn't rub.

From The Story of the Treasure Seekers by Nesbit, E. (Edith)

Ground smalts, blue verditer, and other pigments, have passed under the name of bice.

From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas

Grapes, blue.—Dark purple shaded with blue; the bloom, bice.

From Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets by Young, Daniel

Yellow Colour.—Indigo, white, and lake; or fine Dutch bice and lake, shaded with Indigo; or litmus smalt and bice, the latter predominant.

From Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets by Young, Daniel

Sky Colour for Drapery.—Blue bice and ceruse, or ultramarine and white, shaded with indigo.

From Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets by Young, Daniel