The Collaborative International Dictionary
Luminous \Lu"mi*nous\, a. [L. luminosus, fr. lumen light: cf. F. lumineux. See Luminary, Illuminate.]
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Shining; emitting or reflecting light; brilliant; bright; as, the is a luminous body; a luminous color.
Fire burneth wood, making it . . . luminous.
--Bacon.The mountains lift . . . their lofty and luminous heads.
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Illuminated; full of light; bright; as, many candles made the room luminous.
Up the staircase moved a luminous space in the darkness.
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Enlightened; intelligent; also, clear; intelligible; as, a luminous mind. `` Luminous eloquence.''
--Macaulay. `` A luminous statement.''
--Brougham.Luminous paint, a paint made up with some phosphorescent substance, as sulphide of calcium, which after exposure to a strong light is luminous in the dark for a time.
Syn: Lucid; clear; shining; perspicuous. [1913 Webster] -- Lu"mi*nous*ly, adv. -- Lu"mi*nous*ness, n.
Wikipedia
Luminous paint or luminescent paint is paint that exhibits luminescence. In other words, it gives off visible light through fluorescence, phosphorescence, or radioluminescence.
Usage examples of "luminous paint".
This condition of things was brought about by powdering his arm with pulverized luminous paint.
Each ten-man ship carried an old-fashioned cannon that was equipped to hurl cannisters carrying the luminous paint.
Only now that seemed only the blank tapestry screen on which some mad g'Kek artist had embroidered an apparition in luminous paint and textured thread.
The name was crudely splashed in luminous paint along the rough tunnel wall above a row of rough-cut caves.
High above them, Saturn's rings shimmer through the skylights, like a luminous paint splash thrown across the midnight sky.
I've got the little vatch tagging them with some of that lime-green luminous paint.
It was marked with luminous paint and a very large smear of grease, and the outer seal was closed, a clear indication that there was pressure in the compartment beyond.
A creature that looked like a wolf painted with luminous paint on darkness.
The last man wore on one hand a device to blaze a trail with arrows of luminous paint.
It was the keyhole to the Black Museum, traced in luminous paint: a trick they had learned in the Blitz.
Bring it home in a bottle or sprayed with special luminous paint so it glows in the dark like a night light?
On all sides, the decaying structures of his hideaway cast stark and jagged shadows in moonlight that would have seemed wan to anyone else but that, to him, shimmered on the pavement as if it were luminous paint.