Word Meanings - BEPURPLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To tinge or dye with a purple color.
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- COLORMAN
A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds. - COLORATE
Colored. Ray. - COLORIMETRY
The quantitative determination of the depth of color of a substance. 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. - COLORADO BEETLE
A yellowish beetle , 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. - COLORADOITE
Mercury telluride, an iron-black metallic mineral, found in Colorado. - COLOR
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. Note: Color is express when it is asverred in the - PURPLEHEART
A strong, durable, and elastic wood of a purplish color, obtained from several tropical American leguminous trees of the genus Copaifera . Used for decorative veneering. See Copaiba. - COLORIFIC
Capable of communicating color or tint to other bodies. - COLORIMETER
An instrument for measuring the depth of the color of anything, especially of a liquid, by comparison with a standard liquid. - COLOR SERGEANT
See SERGEANT - COLORATION
The act or art of coloring; the state of being colored. Bacon. The females . . . resemble each other in their general type of coloration. Darwin. - PURPLE
Any species of large butterflies, usually marked with purple or blue, of the genus Basilarchia as, the banded purple . See Illust. under Ursula. (more info) porpre, pourpre, F. pourpre, L. purpura purple fish, purple dye, fr. 1. A color formed - COLORATURE
Vocal music colored, as it were, by florid ornaments, runs, or rapid passages. - COLORIST
One who colors; an artist who excels in the use of colors; one to whom coloring is of prime importance. Titian, Paul Veronese, Van Dyck, and the rest of the good colorists. Dryden. - TINGENT
Having the power to tinge. As for the white part, it appears much less enriched with the tingent property. Boyle. - COLOR-BLIND
Affected with color blindness. See Color blindness, under Color, n. - COLORADO GROUP
A subdivision of the cretaceous formation of western North America, especially developed in Colorado and the upper Missouri region. - COLORING
1. The act of applying color to; also, that which produces color. 2. Change of appearance as by addition of color; appearance; show; disguise; misrepresentation. Tell the whole story without coloring or gloss. Compton Reade. Dead coloring. See - COLORLESS
1. Without color; not distinguished by any hue; transparent; as, colorless water. 2. Free from any manifestation of partial or peculiar sentiment or feeling; not disclosing likes, dislikes, prejudice, etc.; as, colorless music; a colorless style; - COLORABLE
Specious; plausible; having an appearance of right or justice. "Colorable pretense for infidility." Bp. Stillingfleet. -- Col"or*a*ble*ness, n. -- Col"or*a*bly, adv. Colorable and subtle crimes, that seldom are taken within the walk of - CONTINGENT
Dependent for effect on something that may or may not occur; as, a contingent estate. If a contingent legacy be left to any one when he attains, or if he attains, the age of twenty-one. Blackstone. (more info) touch on all sides, to happen; con- - CONCOLOR
Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne. - EMPURPLE
To tinge or dye of a purple color; to color with purple; to impurple. "The deep empurpled ran." Philips. - ISABELLA; ISABELLA COLOR
A brownish yellow color. (more info) Spanish princess Isabella, daughter of king Philip II., in allusion to the color assumed by her shift, which she wore without change from - TRICOLOR
1. The national French banner, of three colors, blue, white, and red, adopted at the first revolution. 2. Hence, any three-colored flag. - WATER-COLORIST
One who paints in water colors. - DECOLOR
To deprive of color; to bleach. - PARTY-COLORED; PARTI-COLORED
Colored with different tints; variegated; as, a party-colored flower. "Parti-colored lambs." Shak. - STINGER
One who, or that which, stings. Professor E. Forbes states that only a small minority of the medusæ of our seas are stingers. Owen. - FAWN-COLORED
Of the color of a fawn; light yellowish brown. - DECOLORATION
The removal or absence of color. Ferrand. - TROUT-COLORED
White, with spots of black, bay, or sorrel; as, a trout-colored horse. - TRICOLORED
Having three colors. - ENCOLOR
To color. - DISCOLOR
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. 2. To alter the true complexion or appearance of; to put a false hue upon. To