nitid

adj

1. 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.”

   “mandibles black ; palpi testaceous ; elytra reddish-brown, slightly nitid, the central portion with a few barely preceptible ashy spots ...”

2. (obsolete)Festively or smartly dressed; spruce; fine.

   “yet amongst these doth the nitid spark spend out his time: this is the Gallant's day!”

   “My sable friend, for he was an eccclesiastic, was, however, not nitid as usual. There was a looseness of trousers, and a sloppiness of shoe, that savoured no longer of St. James's-street.”