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Word Meanings - DISCOLORED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Altered in color; 2. Variegated; of divers colors. That ever wore discolored arms. Chapman.

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  • DIVERSIFORM
    Of a different form; of varied forms.
  • COLORMAN
    A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds.
  • DIVERS
    directions, different, p. p. of divertere. See Divert, and cf. 1. Different in kind or species; diverse. Every sect of them hath a divers posture. Bacon. Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds. Deut. xxii. 9. 2. Several; sundry; various;
  • ALTERNATING CURRENT
    A current which periodically changes or reverses its direction of flow.
  • ALTERNATION
    Permutation. 3. The response of the congregation speaking alternately with the minister. Mason. Alternation of generation. See under Generation. (more info) 1. The reciprocal succession of things in time or place; the act of following and being
  • DIVERSILOQUENT
    Speaking in different ways.
  • VARIEGATE
    To diversify in external appearance; to mark with different colors; to dapple; to streak; as, to variegate a floor with marble of different colors. The shells are filled with a white spar, which variegates and adds to the beauty of the
  • ALTERNAT
    A usage, among diplomats, of rotation in precedence among representatives of equal rank, sometimes determined by lot and at other times in regular order. The practice obtains in the signing of treaties and conventions between nations.
  • ALTERATION
    1. The act of altering or making different. Alteration, though it be from worse to better, hath in it incoveniences. Hooker. 2. The state of being altered; a change made in the form or nature of a thing; changed condition. Ere long might perceive
  • 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.
  • ALTERNATENESS
    The quality of being alternate, or of following by turns.
  • ALTERNATIVENESS
    The quality of being alternative, or of offering a choice between two.
  • ALTERABILITY
    The quality of being alterable; alterableness.
  • 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.
  • ALTERABLY
    In an alterable manner.
  • 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
  • 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
  • ALTERNANT
    Composed of alternate layers, as some rocks.
  • SUBALTERNANT
    A universal proposition. See Subaltern, 2. Whately.
  • CONCOLOR
    Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne.
  • FALTER
    To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley. Halliwell.
  • MISALTER
    To alter wrongly; esp., to alter for the worse. Bp. Hall.
  • 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
  • SUBALTERNATE
    1. Succeeding by turns; successive. 2. Subordinate; subaltern; inferior. All their subalternate and several kinds. Evelyn.
  • SESQUIALTEROUS
    Sesquialteral.
  • 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.

 

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