Word Meanings - VIOLANILINE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A dyestuff of the induline group, made from aniline, and used as a substitute for indigo in dyeing wool and silk a violet-blue or a gray-blue color.

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• COLORMAN
  A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds.
• INDIGOTIC
  Pertaining to, or derived from, indigo; as, indigotic acid, which is also called anilic or nitrosalicylic acid.
• INDULINE
  Any one of a large series of aniline dyes, colored blue or violet, and represented by aniline violet. A dark green amorphous dyestuff, produced by the oxidation of aniline in the presence of copper or vanadium salts; -- called also aniline black.
• 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.
• DYER
  One whose occupation is to dye cloth and the like. Dyer's broom, Dyer's rocket, Dyer's weed. See Dyer's broom, under Broom.
• DYEHOUSE
  A building in which dyeing is carried on.
• DYE
  To stain; to color; to give a new and permanent color to, as by the application of dyestuffs. Cloth to be dyed of divers colors. Trench. The soul is dyed by its thoughts. Lubbock. To dye in the grain, To dye in the wool , to dye firmly; to imbue
• SUBSTITUTED
  Containing substitutions or replacements; having been subjected to the process of substitution, or having some of its parts replaced; as, alcohol is a substituted water; methyl amine is a substituted ammonia. Substituted executor , an executor
• 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.
• DYEING
  The process or art of fixing coloring matters permanently and uniformly in the fibers of wool, cotton, etc.
• INDIGOGEN
  See INDIGO
• 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
• INDIGOFERA
  A genus of leguminous plants having many species, mostly in tropical countries, several of them yielding indigo, esp. Indigofera tinctoria, and I. Anil.
• COLORIFIC
  Capable of communicating color or tint to other bodies.
• SUBSTITUTE
  One who, or that which, is substituted or put in the place of another; one who acts for another; that which stands in lieu of something else; specifically , (more info) under, put in the place of; sub under + statuere to put, place: cf.
• 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
• INDIGO
  A blue dyestuff obtained from several plants belonging to very different genera and orders; as, the woad, Isatis tinctoria, Indigofera tinctoria, I. Anil, Nereum tinctorium, etc. It is a dark blue earthy substance, tasteless and odorless, with a
• CONCOLOR
  Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne.
• MAUVANILINE
  See MAUVE
• 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
• SUBGROUP
  A subdivision of a group, as of animals. Darwin.
• WENLOCK GROUP
  The middle subdivision of the Upper Silurian in Great Britain; -- so named from the typical locality in Shropshire.
• TRICOLOR
  1. The national French banner, of three colors, blue, white, and red, adopted at the first revolution. 2. Hence, any three-colored flag.
• AGGROUPMENT
  Arrangement in a group or in groups; grouping.
• 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.
• LUDLOW GROUP
  A subdivision of the British Upper Silurian lying below the Old Red Sandstone; -- so named from the Ludlow, in Western England. See the Chart of Geology.