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Color

COLOR, n.
1. In physics, a property inherent in light, which, by a difference in the rays and the laws of refraction, or some other cause, gives to bodies particular appearances to the eye. The principal colors are red, orange, yellow, green blue, indigo and violet. White is not properly a color; as a white body reflects the rays of light without separating them. Black bodies, on the contrary, absorb all the rays, or nearly all, and therefore black is no distinct color. But in common discourse, white and black are denominated colors; and all the colors admit of many shades of difference.
2. Appearance of a body to the eye, or a quality of sensation, caused by the rays of light; hue; dye; as the color of gold, or of indigo.
3. A red color; the freshness or appearance of blood in the face.
My cheeks no longer did their color boast.
4. Appearance to the mind; as, prejudice puts a false color upon objects.
5. Superficial cover; palliation; that which serves to give an appearance of right; as, their sin admitted no color or excuse.
6. External appearance; false show; pretense; guise.
Under the color of commending him,
I have access my own love to prefer.
7. Kind; species; character; complexion.
Boys and women are, for the most part, cattle of this color.
8. That which is used for coloring; paint; as red lead, ocher, orpiment, cinnabar, or vermilion, etc.
9. Colors, with a plural termination, in the military art, a flag, ensign or standard, borne in an army or fleet. [See Flag.]
10. In law, color in pleading is when the defendant in assize or trespass, gives to the plaintiff a color or appearance of title, by stating his title specially; thus removing the cause from the jury to the court.
Water-colors are such as are used in painting with gum-water or size, without being mixed with oil.
COLOR, v.t.
1. To change or alter the external appearance of a body or substance; to dye; to tinge; to paint; to stain; as, to color cloth. Generally, to color is to change from white to some other color.
2. To give a specious appearance; to set in a fair light; to palliate; to excuse.
He colors the falsehood of Aeneas by an express command of Jupiter to forsake the queen.
3. To make plausible; to exaggerate in representation.
To color a strangers good, is when a freeman allows a foreigner to enter goods at the custom house in his name, to avoid the aliens duty.
COLOR, v.i. To blush.
color appears in definitions for these words:
Aborea Abstract Abstraction Acacia Accidental Achromatic Acid Acontias Acquire Acrothymion Actinolite Adamantine Adipocere Adjunct Adularia Adumbration Affinity Agaric Agate Agatized Aggravate Ahuitzote Aicurus Air Ajuru-catinga Ajuru-curau Alabaster Albin Albinos Alcanna Alkanet Alkenna Allagite Allanite Allay Allochroite Allophane Alluminor Almandine Alum Alum-earth Aluminite Amaranthus Amber Amber-drink Ambligonite Amethyst Amethystine Amianthinite Amianthoid Amianthus Ammite Ammodyte Amomum Amorpha Ampelite Amphiscil Anatase Andalusite Animal-flower Anime Anneal Annotta Anole Anomorhomboid Anotta Anthophyllite Apiaster Apple Aqua Aquatinta Archil Areola Argent Argillite Arillus Armed Armenian Arms Aromatite Arsenic Arum Asbestos Ash-colored Asphyxy Ass Assortment Attar Auburn Aurate Aurelia Aurora Automalite Avocado Awatcha Axstone Azure Azured Azurn Backgammon Baikalite Ballet Balloon Ballot Balm Balsam Banana Bar Barb Barbadoes-cherry Barolite Barracada Barracuda Barystrontianite Baryto-calcite Basalt Basaltine Basanite Basking-shark Bass Bastard Batrachite Bay Bean Bean-fly Bear Bearing-cloth Beauty Bendy Bepurple Bergmanite Bernardins Beryl Beryl-crystal Bezoar Bezola Bicauda Bice Bilberry Bildstein Bird Bismuth Bituminous Black Black-chalk Black-lead Blackness Blanch Blank Bleach Blend Blood-root Blood-vessel Bloody-red Bloom Blossom Blowzy Blue Blue-haired Bluely Blueness Bluishness Blush Blushing Blushy Boatswain Body Bog-ore Boitiapo Bole Bombycinous Bone Booby Bordure Bototoe Botryolite Bow-dye Bracte Brass Brassy Brazil Breccia Brimstone Brinded Brindled Brocatel Brome Bronz Bronzite Brooch Broom Brown Brownness Brush Bubulca Bucholzite Buff Bugee Bull-fight Bunting Burn Butterfly Byssolite Cabure Cadaverous Cadmium Calambour Calciferous Calico Calking Calx Camaieu Camayeu Camel-backed Camelopard Cameo Camleted Camphor-tree Candle Candle-coal Cannel-coal Cantharis Capable Carboncle Cardinal Cargoose Carmelin Carmine Carnation Carnationed Carnelian Carroty Cartilage Cartoon Cassiobury Cassiteria Cast Caterpillar Cats-eye Cawk Cedry Celestin Cerite Cerium Ceylanite Chabasie Chalcite Chalk Chameleon Chameleonize Change Charge Chatoyant Chatoyment Checker Checker-work Cherry Chert Chess Chestnut China-root Chints Chlorin Chlorite Chloropal Chondrodite Christianite Chroastaces Chromatic Chromatics Chrome Chrysalis Chrysoberyl Chrysolite Chrysoprase Cimolite Cinereous Cineritious Cinnabar Cinnamon Citisin Citrination Citrine Citrul Civet Civet-cat Civilly Clare-obscure Claret Clay-stone Cleavelandite Cleche Clinkstone Cloud Clouded Cloudiness Coal-fish Coat Cobalt Coccolite Cochineal Cocoa Collyrite Cologne-earth Colophonite Color Colorate Coloration Colored Colorific Coloring Colorist Colorless Come Compartment Complexion Compone Concolor Condoma Conformation Conite Consecution Contention Cony Copaiba Copper Copper-plate Copperas Coquelico Coquelicot Cornet Corol Corolla Cotton-shrub Couch Counterchanged Counterfeiter Counterpaled Crayon Crichtonite Crimson Crocalite Crock Crocus Cross-stone Crucian Crystal Cube-ore Curlew Currier Curry Custard-apple Cyanite Cymophane Dab Daffodil Damask Daourite Daphnin Dapple Dappled Dark Datolite Daub Dead Decoloration Deep Deepen Deeply Delicacy Delicate Depaint Depainted Depainting Depict Depicted Depicting Depicture Description Desert Dew-worm Diamond Diaspore Die Dilute Dimness Dingy Discolor Discoloration Discolored Discoloring Discomplexion Dispersion Distain Distemper Distinguish Divers-colored Diversify Dodo Domite Double-gild Doublet Dove Drab Dragon-fly Dragon-shell Dragonet Draw Dullness Dun Dunning Dunnish Dusk Dusky Dusty Dwale Dye Dyed Dyeing Dysodile Eagle-stone Ebonize Ebony Edelite Egeran Elaolite Elaterium Electrum Elegant Elemi Elephant Elephant-beetle Emblazon Embroidery Emerald Emergence Emery Emphatic Empurple Empurpled Empurpling Emulsion Enamel Enameler Enarmed Encaustic Encrimson Encrimsoned Ensign Entertissued Epidote Ergot Ermin Ethics Euclase Eudialyte Eukairite Eurite Evanid Evidence Evident Exacting Exaggerate Eye Fade Faded Fading Fady Faint Fainting Faintness Fall Fallow False Fear Feeble Feebleness Felsite Ferret Ferruginated Ferruginous Fettstein Feuillemort Fibrolite Fig Figure Filemot Finery Fire Flaccidness Flake Flamecolor Flamecolored Flamy Flaxen Flaxy Fleece Fleshcolor Fleshcolored Fling Flint Floatstone Florid Floridity Floridness Fluor Flush Flushed Flying Foil Foliomort Form Forsake Frankincense Freckle Freisleben French Fresco Fresh Freshness Friendship Frosted Fullers-earth Fuscite Fuscous Fustet Gabronite Gadolinite Gairish Galactite Galban Galeeto Galena Gall Garnet Gas Gauded Gazel Gentian Gibbsite Gieseckite Gill Gilthead Ginseng Girasol Glauberite Glaucoma Glaucous Gliadine Glow Glowing Gluten Goggles Gold Golden Goldenfish Goldfinch Gonfanon Good Gorgeous Goshawk Graduate Grampus Granit Grass-green Gray Grayling Graywacke Green Green-sickness Greenly Greenstone Gridelin Grizzle Grizzled Grossular Ground Guinea-hen Guinea-pig Habitual Haddock Halo Hamster Hang Hatchetine Hauyne Haydenite Hazel Hazelly Heart-pea Helioscope Heliotrope Helvin Hemachate Hematin Hepar Hepatic Hermodactyl High High-colored High-red Hollyhock Honey Hornblend Hornet Hue Humboldite Humite Hyacinth Hyperstene Ibex Icteritious Imbrown Imitate Imitation Impaint Impastation Impaste Impurple Impurpling Inadhesion Incarnadine Incarnate Incidentally Incorporate Indian Indianite Indicolite Inelegance Influence Inhere Injection Ink Inkstand Insensible Intermediate Intinctivity Iodin Iolite Iridescence Iridescent Iridium Iris Irisated Irised Iron Iron-clay Iserin Isinglass Ivory Jack Jade Jararaca Jargon Jasper Jaundice Jaundiced Jazel Jeat Jeffersonite Jews-stone Jonquil Jovial Juniper Kabbos Kaolin Karpholite Kelp Kermes-mineral Killow Knack Knebelite Kollyrite Kyanite Lac Laconism Lactescence Lactescent Lactiferous Ladanum Lake Lapis Last Lastery Lasting Lateritious Latrobite Lay Lazuli Lazulite Lead Leady Leming Leopard Lepidolite Leuthrite Lientery Light Lignum-vitae Ligurite Lily Limbilite Limn Limner Limning Lion Live Liver Livercolor Liverstone Livid Lividity Lixivious Loam Lode-stone Logwood Lomentaceous Lumachel Luminous Lumpen Lumpfish Lush Lutarious Lymph Lynx Lythrode Mace Macigno Maclurite Madrepore Magic Magnesite Mahogany Maja Malachite Malacolite Manatus Manganese Mangrove Manna Manner Mantle Many-colored Marble Marbled Marbling Margarite Martial Mass Masticot Match Matrix Mazarine Meionite Mellite Menachanite Menilite Mesomelas Micarel Miemite Miniature Minious Minium Mocha-stone Mode Monochromatic Monographic Monography Montmartrite Moonstone Moor Moose Mordant Morgray Morrice Mosaic Motley Mountain-soap Moxa Muddy Muller Mullet Mummy Murrey Muscle Musk Mussite Mustee Myrrh Nacrite Naphtha Native Natural Needle-zeolite Negro Nephrite Nephritic Nephritical Nice Nickel Nicotin Night-piece Nigrescent Notion Nutmeg Nylgau Obfuscated Obsidian Ocher Ocherous Oculist Of Ogre Oil Oleander Oliban Olivaceous Olivaster Omphacite Once Onyx Opacity Opal Opalescence Opalescent Ophidion Ophite Opium Opobalsam Opopanax Orange Orange-tawny Orichalch Oriel Orthite Osmium Ostensible Outblush Overpaint Overred Paean Paint Painted Painter Painting Pale Paleness Palladium Pallet Pallid Paly Panther Paradox Parhelion Parrot Party-colored Pass Pastel Pastil Pavilion Peach-color Peach-colored Peacock Peacock-fish Pearl Pearl-sinter Peat Pebblestone Pec-cary Pechblend Peliom Pencil Pennached Perceive Perceptibility Peridot Perigord-stone Perspective Petalite Petong Phassachate Phenomenon Philomot Phosphorus Physalite Physically Picrolite Picture Pictured Pie Piebald Piece Pied Piedness Pigment Pimelite Pinite Pink Piperin Pisolite Pist Pit-fish Pitchpipe Plasma Platinum Plunket Polychroite Polyhalite Pomegranate Porcellanite Porphyry Porraceous Portray Potstone Prase Predominance Predominant Prehnite Pretext Pretty Prime Primed Priming Prismatic Property Prowl Prussian Prussiate Ptarmigan Puce Puke Pumice Purple Pyrallolite Pyrenite Pyrope Pyrosmalite Quachilto Quality Quartz Ragg Ragstone Rainbow Range Ranunculus Rathoffite Raven Ray Recreate Recruit Red Redbreast Reddle Redeye Redgum Redness Reduce Reflect Reflection Refund Remote Repose Reprehend Retain Retection Reticular Retinasphalt Rhetizite Rhodonite Rich Richness Roan Rock-crystal Romanzovite Roseal Roseate Roset Rosiness Rosy Rubellite Rubescent Rubican Rubicel Ruby Rudd Ruddiness Ruddle Ruddy Rufous Run Russet Russeting Rust Rutile Sad Sadden Sadly Saffron Sagapen Sahlite Salamander Sallow Sallowness Salmon-trout Salute Sanded Sanders Sandever Sandy Sanguin Sanguineness Sapphire Sarcocol Sarcolite Sardachate Sardonyx Saturn Saturnite Saussurite Scale-stone Scammony Scarlatinous Scarlet Scarlet-fever Schelium Scorch Sea-green Sea-lemon Sea-needle Sealing-wax Sear Secondary Selenium Seleniuret Separate Serpent-fish Serpentine Serprntine Settle Shade Shadow Shadowing Shale Shoad-stone Shorl Shorlite Sidero-clepte Sienite Silcia Silex Silicicalce Silk Sillimanite Silver Silver-fish Sinoper Sinople Skolezite Skoradite Sky Sky-colored Slaty Sloe-worm Slow-worm Smaris So Sodalite Soft Soften Sorrel Sort Spadeful Span Sparkle Spathic Speck Speckle Speckled Sperm Sphene Spinel Spinelle Spinthere Spot Spotted Stain Stamineous Stammel Stand Standard Standing Staurolite Staurotide Stencil Stilbite Stilpnosiderite Stoat Storax Straw-color Straw-colored Streak Streaked Streaky Stream Strength Stretch Strike Stripe Striped Stroke Strong Succinite Suffused Suffusion Sulphore Sulphurate Sunflower Sunny Superficial Superficially Surmullet Susceptibiility Susceptible Suslik Swamp-ore Swan Swartiness Sweet Symbolize Tabby Tabular Tacamahac Taffeta Tag-tail Talc Tant Tantalite Tar Tarnish Tawdry Tawny Teint Tell Tellurium Tennantite Tent Test Thulite Thumb Thyite Tick Tierce Tiffany Tinct Tincture Tinge Tinkal Tinkle Tint Tissue Titanite Titanium Title Toad-stone Topaz Topazolite Tragacanth Transition Transmutation Trass Tremolite Trochite Trophy-money Tulip Tumbler Tungsten Turkois Turmeric Turn Turnerite Ulmin Ultramarine Umber Umboldilite Uncolored Unfaded Unfading Unflattering Union Unostentatious Unshaded Unsusceptible Unvarnished Uranite Vairy Variable Variation Variegate Variegated Variegating Variegation Variety Variously Varnish Varvels Vein Venous Verditer Verdurous Vermil Versicolor Vert Viridity Vitriol Vivid Vividly Vividness Vomit Vulpinite Wacky Wall-eye Wanness Warmth Wash Water Water-color Water-melon Wax Waxing Weld Wench Wernerite What Whet-slate Whetstone-slate Whin-stone White White-crop White-pyrite White-pyrites White-swelling White-wine Whiteness Whitewood Whity-brown Whose Willowish Winged Woad Wodanium Wolfram Wood-land Wood-puceron Worm Xanthogene Yellow Yellow-fever Yellowish Yellows Yenite Zeine Zerda Zink Zoisite

 

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