Word Meanings - CHATOYMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Changeableness of color, as in a mineral; play of colors. Cleaceland.
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- COLORMAN
A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds. - MINERALIZATION
The conversion of a cell wall into a material of a stony nature. (more info) 1. The process of mineralizing, or forming a mineral by combination of a metal with another element; also, the process of converting into a mineral, as a bone or a plant. - 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 - MINERALOGICALLY
According to the principles of, or with reference to, mineralogy. - 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. - COLORATURE
Vocal music colored, as it were, by florid ornaments, runs, or rapid passages. - MINERALOGY
1. The science which treats of minerals, and teaches how to describe, distinguish, and classify them. 2. A treatise or book on this science. - 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. - MINERALIST
One versed in minerals; mineralogist. - 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. - MINERALOGIZE
To study mineralogy by collecting and examining minerals. Miss Edgeworth. - 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 - CONCOLOR
Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne. - 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 - AETHIOPS MINERAL
See MINERAL - 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. - 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