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Word Meanings - MOTTLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To mark with spots of different color, or shades of color, as if stained; to spot; to maculate. (more info) Etym:

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  • COLORMAN
    A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds.
  • DIFFERENTIALLY
    In the way of differentiation.
  • DIFFERENTLY
    In a different manner; variously.
  • 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.
  • DIFFERENT
    1. Distinct; separate; not the same; other. "Five different churches." Addison. 2. Of various or contrary nature, form, or quality; partially or totally unlike; dissimilar; as, different kinds of food or drink; different states of health; different
  • STAIN
    1. To discolor by the application of foreign matter; to make foul; to spot; as, to stain the hand with dye; armor stained with blood. 2. To color, as wood, glass, paper, cloth, or the like, by processess affecting, chemically or otherwise, the
  • 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.
  • STAINLESS
    Free from stain; immaculate. Shak. The veery care he took to keep his name Stainless, with some was evidence of shame. Crabbe. Syn. -- Blameless; spotless; faultless. See Blameless.
  • 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.
  • COLOR SERGEANT
    See SERGEANT
  • DIFFERENTIA
    The formal or distinguishing part of the essence of a species; the characteristic attribute of a species; specific difference.
  • 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.
  • DIFFERENTIATE
    To obtain the differential, or differential coefficient, of; as, to differentiate an algebraic expression, or an equation. (more info) 1. To distinguish or mark by a specific difference; to effect a difference in, as regards classification; to
  • 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.
  • SUSTAIN
    F. soutenir (the French prefix is properly fr. L. subtus below, fr. sub under), L. sustinere; pref. sus- + tenere to hold. See 1. To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support; as, a foundation sustains the superstructure; a beast sustains
  • CONCOLOR
    Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne.
  • SUSTAINABLE
    Capable of being sustained or maintained; as, the action is not sustainable.
  • INDIFFERENTLY
    In an indifferent manner; without distinction or preference; impartially; without concern, wish, affection, or aversion; tolerably; passably. That they may truly and indifferently minister justice, to the punishment of wickedness and vice, and to
  • 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
  • ABSTAIN
    To hold one's self aloof; to forbear or refrain voluntarily, and especially from an indulgence of the passions or appetites; -- with from. Not a few abstained from voting. Macaulay. Who abstains from meat that is not gaunt Shak. Syn. -- To refrain;
  • 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.
  • BIMACULATE
    Having, or marked with, two spots.
  • PARTY-COLORED; PARTI-COLORED
    Colored with different tints; variegated; as, a party-colored flower. "Parti-colored lambs." Shak.

 

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