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{ } a. [ L. bicolor; bis twice + color color. ] Of two colors. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. rose-colored.
Syn. -- blushful, rosy. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Written also colour. ] [ OF. color, colur, colour, F. couleur, L. color; prob. akin to celare to conceal (the color taken as that which covers). See Helmet. ] 1. A property depending on the relations of light to the eye, by which individual and specific differences in the hues and tints of objects are apprehended in vision; as, gay colors; sad colors, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The sensation of color depends upon a peculiar function of the retina or optic nerve, in consequence of which rays of light produce different effects according to the length of their waves or undulations, waves of a certain length producing the sensation of red, shorter waves green, and those still shorter blue, etc. White, or ordinary, light consists of waves of various lengths so blended as to produce no effect of color, and the color of objects depends upon their power to absorb or reflect a greater or less proportion of the rays which fall upon them. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any hue distinguished from white or black. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The hue or color characteristic of good health and spirits; ruddy complexion. [ 1913 Webster ]

Give color to my pale cheek. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. That which is used to give color; a paint; a pigment; as, oil colors or water colors. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. That which covers or hides the real character of anything; semblance; excuse; disguise; appearance. [ 1913 Webster ]

They had let down the boat into the sea, under color as though they would have cast anchors out of the foreship. Acts xxvii. 30. [ 1913 Webster ]

That he should die is worthy policy;
But yet we want a color for his death. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Shade or variety of character; kind; species. [ 1913 Webster ]

Boys and women are for the most part cattle of this color. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. A distinguishing badge, as a flag or similar symbol (usually in the plural); as, the colors or color of a ship or regiment; the colors of a race horse (that is, of the cap and jacket worn by the jockey). [ 1913 Webster ]

In the United States each regiment of infantry and artillery has two colors, one national and one regimental. Farrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. (Law) An apparent right; as where the defendant in trespass gave to the plaintiff an appearance of title, by stating his title specially, thus removing the cause from the jury to the court. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Color is express when it is averred in the pleading, and implied when it is implied in the pleading. [ 1913 Webster ]

Body color. See under Body. --
Color blindness, total or partial inability to distinguish or recognize colors. See Daltonism. --
Complementary color, one of two colors so related to each other that when blended together they produce white light; -- so called because each color makes up to the other what it lacks to make it white. Artificial or pigment colors, when mixed, produce effects differing from those of the primary colors, in consequence of partial absorption. --
Of color (as persons, races, etc.), not of the white race; -- commonly meaning, esp. in the United States, of negro blood, pure or mixed. --
Primary colors, those developed from the solar beam by the prism, viz., red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet, which are reduced by some authors to three, -- red, green, and violet-blue. These three are sometimes called fundamental colors. --
Subjective color or
Accidental color, a false or spurious color seen in some instances, owing to the persistence of the luminous impression upon the retina, and a gradual change of its character, as where a wheel perfectly white, and with a circumference regularly subdivided, is made to revolve rapidly over a dark object, the teeth of the wheel appear to the eye of different shades of color varying with the rapidity of rotation. See Accidental colors, under Accidental. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Colored p. pr. & vb. n. Coloring. ] [ F. colorer. ] 1. To change or alter the hue or tint of, by dyeing, staining, painting, etc.; to dye; to tinge; to paint; to stain. [ 1913 Webster ]

The rays, to speak properly, are not colored; in them there is nothing else than a certain power and disposition to stir up a sensation of this or that color. Sir I. Newton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To change or alter, as if by dyeing or painting; to give a false appearance to; usually, to give a specious appearance to; to cause to appear attractive; to make plausible; to palliate or excuse; as, the facts were colored by his prejudices. [ 1913 Webster ]

He colors the falsehood of Æneas by an express command from Jupiter to forsake the queen. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To hide. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

That by his fellowship he color might
Both his estate and love from skill of any wight. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To acquire color; to turn red, especially in the face; to blush. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Specious; plausible; having an appearance of right or justice. “Colorable pretense for infidelity.” Bp. Stillingfleet.

-- Col"or*a*ble*ness, n. -- Col"or*a*bly, adv. [ 1913 Webster ]

Colorable and subtle crimes, that seldom are taken within the walk of human justice. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a resident of the state of Colorado. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a handsome shrub (Hamelia patens) with showy orange to scarlet or crimson flowers; it grows from Florida and West Indies to Mexico and Brazil.
Syn. -- scarlet bush, scarlet hamelia, Hamelia patens, Hamelia erecta. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Sp., red. ] 1. Reddish; -- often used in proper names of rivers or creeks. [ Southwestern U. S. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. Medium in color and strength; -- said of cigars. [ Cant ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

(Zool.) A yellowish beetle (Doryphora decemlineata), with ten longitudinal, black, dorsal stripes. It has migrated eastwards from its original habitat in Colorado, and is very destructive to the potato plant; -- called also potato beetle and potato bug. See Potato beetle. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Geol.) A subdivision of the cretaceous formation of western North America, especially developed in Colorado and the upper Missouri region. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Min.) Mercury telluride, an iron-black metallic mineral, found in Colorado. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. coloratus, p. p. of colorare to color. ] Colored. [ Obs. ] Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or art of coloring; the state of being colored. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

The females . . . resemble each other in their general type of coloration. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. G. coloratur, fr. LL. coloratura. ] (Mus.) Vocal music colored, as it were, by florid ornaments, runs, or rapid passages. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Affected with color blindness. See Color blindness, under Color, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Having color; tinged; dyed; painted; stained. [ 1913 Webster ]

The lime rod, colored as the glede. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

The colored rainbow arched wide. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Specious; plausible; adorned so as to appear well; as, a highly colored description. Sir G. C. Lewis. [ 1913 Webster ]

His colored crime with craft to cloke. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Of some other color than black or white. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Ethnol.) Of some other color than white; having a skin color darker than that of caucasian people; mostly applied to negroes or persons having negro blood; as, a colored man; the colored people. Opposite of white and caucasian.
Syn. -- coloured, dark-skinned. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Bot.) Of some other color than green. [ 1913 Webster ]

Colored, meaning, as applied to foliage, of some other color than green. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In botany, green is not regarded as a color, but white is. Wood. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. having striking color. Opposite of colorless. [ Narrower terms: changeable, chatoyant, iridescent, shot; deep, rich; flaming; fluorescent, glowing; prismatic; psychedelic; red, ruddy, flushed, empurpled ]
Syn. -- colourful. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. striking in variety and interest. Opposite of colorless or dull. [ Narrower terms: brave, fine, gay, glorious; flamboyant, resplendent, unrestrained; flashy, gaudy, jazzy, showy, snazzy, sporty; picturesque ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. having color or a certain color; not black, white or grey; as, colored crepe paper. Opposite of colorless and monochrome. [ Narrower terms: tinted; touched, tinged; amber, brownish-yellow, yellow-brown; amethyst; auburn, reddish-brown; aureate, gilded, gilt, gold, golden; azure, cerulean, sky-blue, bright blue; bicolor, bicolour, bicolored, bicoloured, bichrome; blue, bluish, light-blue, dark-blue; blushful, blush-colored, rosy; bottle-green; bronze, bronzy; brown, brownish, dark-brown; buff; canary, canary-yellow; caramel, caramel brown; carnation; chartreuse; chestnut; dun; earth-colored, earthlike; fuscous; green, greenish, light-green, dark-green; jade, jade-green; khaki; lavender, lilac; mauve; moss green, mosstone; motley, multicolor, culticolour, multicolored, multicoloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured; mousy, mouse-colored; ocher, ochre; olive-brown; olive-drab; olive; orange, orangish; peacock-blue; pink, pinkish; purple, violet, purplish; red, blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet; red, reddish; rose, roseate; rose-red; rust, rusty, rust-colored; snuff, snuff-brown, snuff-color, snuff-colour, snuff-colored, snuff-coloured, mummy-brown, chukker-brown; sorrel, brownish-orange; stone, stone-gray; straw-color, straw-colored, straw-coloured; tan; tangerine; tawny; ultramarine; umber; vermilion, vermillion, cinibar, Chinese-red; yellow, yellowish; yellow-green; avocado; bay; beige; blae bluish-black or gray-blue); coral; creamy; cress green, cresson, watercress; hazel; honey, honey-colored; hued(postnominal); magenta; maroon; pea-green; russet; sage, sage-green; sea-green ] [ Also See: chromatic, colored, dark, light. ]
Syn. -- colored, coloured, in color(predicate). [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ L. color color + facere to make: cf. F. colorifique. ] Capable of communicating color or tint to other bodies. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Color + -meter: cf. F. colorimètre. ] An instrument for measuring the depth of the color of anything, especially of a liquid, by comparison with a standard liquid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Colorimeter. ] 1. The quantitative determination of the depth of color of a substance. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. A method of quantitative chemical analysis based upon the comparison of the depth of color of a solution with that of a standard liquid. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. 1. The act of applying color to; also, that which produces color. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Change of appearance as by addition of color; appearance; show; disguise; misrepresentation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Tell the whole story without coloring or gloss. Compton Reade. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dead coloring. See under Dead. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. coloriste. ] One who colors; an artist who excels in the use of colors; one to whom coloring is of prime importance. [ 1913 Webster ]

Titian, Paul Veronese, Van Dyck, and the rest of the good colorists. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Without color; not distinguished by any hue; transparent; as, colorless water; a colorless gas. [ Narrower terms: ashen, bloodless, livid, lurid, pale, pallid, pasty, wan, waxen; neutral; white ] [ Also See: achromatic, colorless. ] [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

2. Free from any manifestation of partial or peculiar sentiment or feeling; not disclosing likes, dislikes, prejudice, etc.; as, colorless music; a colorless style; definitions should be colorless. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. having lost its normal color. [ Narrower terms: blanched, etiolate, etiolated, whitened; bleached, faded, washed-out, washy; dimmed, dulled, grayed; dirty; dull, sober, somber, subfusc ] colored
Syn. -- colorless, uncolored, uncoloured. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n.; pl. Colormen A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a flag flown by a ship to show its nationality.
Syn. -- ensign, colours. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a distinguishing emblem; as, his tie proclaimed his school colors.
Syn. -- colours. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

. See under Sergeant. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. concolor; con- + color color. ] Of the same color; of uniform color. [ R. ] “Concolor animals.” Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Of the same color throughout. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of the color of cream; light yellow. “Cream-colored horses.” Hazlitt. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. F. décolorer, L. decolorare. Cf. Discolor. ] To deprive of color; to bleach. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. décolorant, p. pr. ] A substance which removes color, or bleaches. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. decoloratus, p. p. of decolorare. ] Deprived of color. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To decolor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. decoloratio: cf. F. décoloration. ] The removal or absence of color. Ferrand. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To deprive of color; to whiten. Turner. -- De*col`or*i*za"tion n. [1913 Webster]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Discolored p. pr. & vb. n. Discoloring. ] [ OE. descolouren, OF. descolorer, F. décolorer, fr. L. dis- + cololare, coloratum, to color, color color. See Color. ] [ Written also discolour. ] 1. To alter the natural hue or color of; to change to a different color; to stain; to tinge; as, a drop of wine will discolor water; silver is discolored by sea water. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To alter the true complexion or appearance of; to put a false hue upon. [ 1913 Webster ]

To discolor all your ideas. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To discolor. [ R. ] Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. decoloration. ] 1. The act of discoloring, or the state of being discolored; alteration of hue or appearance. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A discolored spot; a stain. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Altered in color; stained; spotted or streaked with foreign matter.
Syn. -- discoloured. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Variegated; of divers colors. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

That ever wore discolored arms. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. having the color of soil or earth; reddish or reddish-brown.
Syn. -- earthlike. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. pl. colors like those of soil or earth; brownish-reds and browns.
Syn. -- earth tones. [ PJC ]

v. t. To color. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of the color of a fawn; light yellowish brown. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of the color of flame; of a bright orange yellow color. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. to add color to (a black-and-white image) using an instrument held in the hand; as, Some old photographs are handcolored.
Syn. -- color by hand. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

a. 1. Having a strong, deep, or glaring color; flushed. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Vivid; strong or forcible in representation; hence, exaggerated; as, high-colored description. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ n., } [ F. isabelle. ] See Isabella.