Word Meanings - PIGMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Any one of the colored substances found in animal and vegetable tissues and fluids, as bilirubin, urobilin, chlorophyll, etc. 3. Wine flavored with species and honey. Sir W. Scott. Pigment cell , a small cell containing coloring matter,
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Any one of the colored substances found in animal and vegetable tissues and fluids, as bilirubin, urobilin, chlorophyll, etc. 3. Wine flavored with species and honey. Sir W. Scott. Pigment cell , a small cell containing coloring matter, as the pigmented epithelial cells of the choroid and iris, or the pigmented connective tissue cells in the skin of fishes, reptiles, etc. (more info) 1. Any material from which a dye, a paint, or the like, may be prepared; particularly, the refined and purified coloring matter ready for mixing with an appropriate vehicle.
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- COLORMAN
A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds. - BILIRUBIN
A reddish yellow pigment present in human bile, and in that from carnivorous and herbivorous animals; the normal biliary pigment. - HONEYED
1. Covered with honey. 2. Sweet, as, honeyed words. Milton. - ANIMALIZATION
1. The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties. 2. Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation. Owen. - ANIMALCULISM
The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological by means of animalcules. - FOUNDATION
The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course , under Base, n.) and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry. 4. A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution, - HONEYWORT
A European plant of the genus Cerinthe, whose flowers are very attractive to bees. Loudon. - FOUNDER
One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows. - ANIMALITY
Animal existence or nature. Locke. - HONEYSUCKLE
One of several species of flowering plants, much admired for their beauty, and some for their fragrance. Note: The honeysuckles are properly species of the genus Lonicera; as, L. Caprifolium, and L. Japonica, the commonly cultivated fragrant kinds; - HONEY-TONGUED
Sweet speaking; persuasive; seductive. Shak. - ANIMALLY
Physically. G. Eliot. - ANIMALNESS
Animality. - PIGMENTATION
A deposition, esp. an excessive deposition, of coloring matter; as, pigmentation of the liver. - CONTAINMENT
That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller. - SMALLISH
Somewhat small. G. W. Cable. - PIGMENTAL; PIGMENTARY
Of or pertaining to pigments; furnished with pigments. Dunglison. Pigmentary degeneration , a morbid condition in which an undue amount of pigment is deposited in the tissues. - 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. - FOUND
imp. & p. p. of Find. - CONFOUNDED
1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott. - CONCOLOR
Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne. - DISMALLY
In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably. - 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