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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Lucid \Lu"cid\, adjective [L. lucidus, fr. lux, lucis, light. See {Light}, noun]
1. Shining; bright; resplendent; as, the lucid orbs of heaven.
Lucid, like a glowworm. --Sir I. Newton.
A court compact of lucid marbles. --Tennyson.
2. Clear; transparent. '' Lucid streams.'' --Milton.
3. Presenting a clear view; easily understood; clear.
A lucid and interesting abstract of the debate. --Macaulay.
4. Bright with the radiance of intellect; not darkened or confused by delirium or madness; marked by the regular operations of reason; as, a lucid interval.
Syn: Luminous; bright; clear; transparent; sane; reasonable. See {Luminous}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
lucid
adjective
1: (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable; "writes in a limpid style"; "lucid directions"; "a luculent oration"- Robert Burton; "pellucid prose"; "a crystal clear explanation"; "a perspicuous argument" [syn: {limpid}, {luculent}, {pellucid}, {crystal clear}, {perspicuous}]
2: having a clear mind; "a lucid moment in his madness"
3: capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner; "a lucid thinker"; "she was more coherent than she had been just after the accident" [syn: {coherent}, {logical}]
4: transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity; "the cold crystalline water of melted snow"; "crystal clear skies"; "could see the sand on the bottom of the limpid pool"; "lucid air"; "a pellucid brook"; "transparent cristal" [syn: {crystalline}, {crystal clear}, {limpid}, {pellucid}, {transparent}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
116 Moby Thesaurus words for "lucid": Attic, Ciceronian, all there, apprehensible, balanced, beaming, bright, brilliant, chaste, classic, clean-cut, clear, clear as crystal, clear as day, clear-cut, clearheaded, clearminded, cloudless, coherent, compos mentis, comprehensible, connected, consistent, crisp, crystal, crystal-clear, crystalline, defined, definite, diaphane, diaphanous, direct, distinct, easy, effulgent, elegant, explicit, express, fathomable, filmy, finished, gauzy, gossamer, gossamery, graceful, gracile, graspable, healthy-minded, incandescent, intelligible, knowable, lambent, light, light-pervious, lightish, lightsome, limpid, loud and clear, lucent, luculent, luminous, lustrous, mentally sound, natural, neat, nonopaque, normal, of sound mind, peekaboo, pellucid, perspicuous, plain, polished, pure, radiant, rational, reasonable, refined, refulgent, relucent, restrained, revealing, right, round, sane, sane-minded, see-through, semipellucid, semitranslucent, sensible, serene, sheer, simple, sound, sound-minded, straightforward, tasteful, terse, thin, together, translucent, translucid, transparent, transpicuous, trim, unaffected, unambiguous, unclouded, unconfused, unequivocal, univocal, unlabored, unmistakable, unobscured, well-defined, wholesome
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
LUCID
1. Early query language, ca. 1965, System Development Corp, Santa Monica, CA. [Sammet 1969, p.701]. 2. A family of dataflow languages descended from {ISWIM}, {lazy} but {first-order}. Ashcroft & Wadge , 1981. They use a dynamic {demand driven} model. Statements are regarded as equations defining a network of processors and communication lines, through which the data flows. Every data object is thought of as an infinite {stream} of simple values, every function as a {filter}. Lucid has no {data constructor}s such as {array}s or {record}s. {Iteration} is simulated with 'is current' and 'fby' (concatenation of sequences). Higher-order functions are implemented using pure dataflow and no closures or heaps. ["Lucid: The Dataflow Language" by Bill Wadge and Ed Ashcroft, c. 1985]. ["Lucid, the Dataflow Programming Language", W. Wadge, Academic Press 1985]. (1995-02-16)
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