Word Meanings - COLUMBINE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Of or pertaining to a dove; dovelike; dove-colored. "Columbine innocency." Bacon.
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- COLORMAN
A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds. - BACON
The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh. Bacon beetle , a beetle which, especially in the larval state, feeds upon bacon, woolens, furs, etc. See Dermestes. -- To save one's bacon, to save one's - BACONIAN
Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of philosophy. Baconian method, the inductive method. See Induction. - 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. - COLUMBINE
Of or pertaining to a dove; dovelike; dove-colored. "Columbine innocency." Bacon. - DOVELIKE
Mild as a dove; gentle; pure and lovable. Longfellow. - 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 - 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. - PERTAIN
stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant - 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. - 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. - 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 - 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 - 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.