Colour: alternatives and connections

To deck or dress with ornaments; to embellish; to set off to advantage; to render pleasing or attractive.

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To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.

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To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.

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To make an apology or defense.

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The act of appearing or coming into sight; the act of becoming visible to the eye; as, his sudden appearance surprised me.

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To make or render beautiful; to add beauty to; to adorn; to deck; to grace; to embellish.

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To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change t…

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To deck with that which is becoming, ornamental, or honorary; to adorn; to beautify; to embellish; as, to decorate the person; to decorate an edifice…

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To make beautiful or elegant by ornaments; to decorate; to adorn; as, to embellish a book with pictures, a garden with shrubs and flowers, a narrativ…

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To free from accusation, or the imputation of fault or blame; to clear from guilt; to release from a charge; to justify by extenuating a fault; to ex…

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A suffix used to denote in the form / shape of, resembling, etc.; as, valiform; oviform.

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The exercise of love, kindness, mercy, favor; disposition to benefit or serve another; favor bestowed or privilege conferred.

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To drive close; to press firmly together: to wedge into a place.

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A flowing in or upon; influx.

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To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing; as, the subject did not interest…

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The condition or quality of being interesting.

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Characteristic of the species; belonging to one's nature; natural; native.

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Consisting of matter; not spiritual; corporeal; physical; as, material substance or bodies.

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To change somewhat the form or qualities of; to alter somewhat; as, to modify a contrivance adapted to some mechanical purpose; to modify the terms o…

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That which embellishes or adorns; that which adds grace or beauty; embellishment; decoration; adornment.

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The condition of being of such and such a sort as distinguished from others; nature or character relatively considered, as of goods; character; sort;…

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To make rational; also, to convert to rationalism.

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Chance; lot; destiny.

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Material which is to be worked up in any process of manufacture.

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A certain quantity of fur skins, as of martens, ermines, sables, etc., packed between boards; being in some cases forty skins, in others one hundred…

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See 1st Timber.

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Sound, or the character of a sound, or a sound considered as of this or that character; as, a low, high, loud, grave, acute, sweet, or harsh tone.

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To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.

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The quality or state of being various; intermixture or succession of different things; diversity; multifariousness.

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Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically…

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Sky-blue; resembling the clear blue color of the unclouded sky; cerulean; also, cloudless.

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Destitute of light, or incapable of reflecting it; of the color of soot or coal; of the darkest or a very dark color, the opposite of white; characte…

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To make or render black.

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A lotion made by mixing calomel and lime water.

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To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach; as, to blanch linen; age has blanched his hair.

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To shrink; to start back; to draw back, from lack of courage or resolution; to flinch; to quail.

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A blot or spot, as of color or of ink; especially a large or irregular spot. Also Fig.; as, a moral blotch.

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Having the color of the clear sky, or a hue resembling it, whether lighter or darker; as, the deep, blue sea; as blue as a sapphire; blue violets.

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To become suffused with red in the cheeks, as from a sense of shame, modesty, or confusion; to become red from such cause, as the cheeks or face.

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An alloy of copper and tin, to which small proportions of other metals, especially zinc, are sometimes added. It is hard and sonorous, and is used fo…

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Of a dark color, of various shades between black and red or yellow.

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To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood.

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A deep red color tinged with blue; also, red color in general.

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To stain; to color; to give a new and permanent color to, as by the application of dyestuffs.

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To give a brown color to; to imbrown.

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To tinge or dye of a purple color; to color with purple; to impurple.

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To flow and spread suddenly; to rush; as, blood flushes into the face.

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White mixed with black, as the color of pepper and salt, or of ashes, or of hair whitened by age; sometimes, a dark mixed color; as, the soft gray ey…

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Having the color of grass when fresh and growing; resembling that color of the solar spectrum which is between the yellow and the blue; verdant; emer…

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See Gray (the correct orthography).

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Color or shade of color; tint; dye.

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To tinge deeply; to dye; to cause to absorb; as, clothes thoroughly imbued with black.

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Flesh-colored; of a carnation or pale red color.

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To paint or tinge with red lead or vermilion; also, to decorate with letters, or the like, painted red, as the page of a manuscript.

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Variegated in color; consisting of different colors; dappled; party-colored; as, a motley coat.

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To mark with spots of different color, or shades of color, as if stained; to spot; to maculate.

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Wanting in color; not ruddy; dusky white; pallid; wan; as, a pale face; a pale red; a pale blue.

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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…

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Esculin; -- so called in allusion to its fluorescent solutions.

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A color formed by, or resembling that formed by, a combination of the primary colors red and blue.

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Of or pertaining to purpura.

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To make red or somewhat red; to give a red color to.

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To touch again, or rework, in order to improve; to revise; as, to retouch a picture or an essay.

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A soft white metallic element, sonorous, ductile, very malleable, and capable of a high degree of polish. It is found native, and also combined with…

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To stretch; to extend; hence, to lay out, as a dead body.

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To burn or discolor by the sun; to tan.

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See Picul.

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Tined; tinged.

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To imbue or impregnate with something different or foreign; as, to tinge a decoction with a bitter taste; to affect in some degree with the qualities…

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A slight coloring.

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Sound, or the character of a sound, or a sound considered as of this or that character; as, a low, high, loud, grave, acute, sweet, or harsh tone.

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To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.

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To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wh…

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A green poisonous substance used as a pigment and drug, obtained by the action of acetic acid on copper, and consisting essentially of a complex mixt…

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Reflecting to the eye all the rays of the spectrum combined; not tinted with any of the proper colors or their mixtures; having the color of pure sno…

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To grow white; to turn or become white or whiter; as, the hair whitens with age; the sea whitens with foam; the trees in spring whiten with blossoms.

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Being of a bright saffronlike color; of the color of gold or brass; having the hue of that part of the rainbow, or of the solar spectrum, which is be…

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The act or art of coloring; the state of being colored.

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The state of being complex; complexity.

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To change the guise or appearance of; especially, to conceal by an unusual dress, or one intended to mislead or deceive.

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To stain; to color; to give a new and permanent color to, as by the application of dyestuffs.

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A material used for dyeing.

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Customary way of speaking or acting; custom; fashion; manner; behavior; mien; mode; practice; -- often used formerly in such phrases as: at his own g…

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Heath.

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One who, or that which, shows or points out; as, a fare indicator in a street car.

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Biting; caustic; sarcastic; keen; severe.

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To mark with spots of different color, or shades of color, as if stained; to spot; to maculate.

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The quality or state of being ostensible.

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To cover with coloring matter; to apply paint to; as, to paint a house, a signboard, etc.

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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…

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Alt. of Pretenceless

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Alt. of Pretence

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Ostensible reason or motive assigned or assumed as a color or cover for the real reason or motive; pretense; disguise.

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Comparative obscurity owing to interception or interruption of the rays of light; partial darkness caused by the intervention of something between th…

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A likeness; a semblance; a mock appearance; a sham; -- now usually in a derogatory sense.

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To discolor by the application of foreign matter; to make foul; to spot; as, to stain the hand with dye; armor stained with blood.

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A tinge or shade of color; a tint; as, a tincture of red.

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A slight coloring.

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Sound, or the character of a sound, or a sound considered as of this or that character; as, a low, high, loud, grave, acute, sweet, or harsh tone.

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The quality or state of being verisimilar; the appearance of truth; probability; likelihood.

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A property depending on the relations of light to the eye, by which individual and specific differences in the hues and tints of objects are apprehen…

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A property depending on the relations of light to the eye, by which individual and specific differences in the hues and tints of objects are apprehen…

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The act of discoloring, or the state of being discolored; alteration of hue or appearance.

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The act of discoloring, or the state of being discolored; alteration of hue or appearance.

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To discolor by the application of foreign matter; to make foul; to spot; as, to stain the hand with dye; armor stained with blood.

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To discolor by the application of foreign matter; to make foul; to spot; as, to stain the hand with dye; armor stained with blood.

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of Color

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Without color; not distinguished by any hue; transparent; as, colorless water.

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Without color; not distinguished by any hue; transparent; as, colorless water.

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A property depending on the relations of light to the eye, by which individual and specific differences in the hues and tints of objects are apprehen…

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The act or art of coloring; the state of being colored.

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of Color

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a digestible substance used to give color to food; "food color made from vegetable dyes"

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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 discolore…

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Distorted; misshapen.

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To depict or represent; -- said of heraldic bearings. See Blazon.

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Brightness or luster of a body proceeding from a smooth surface; polish; as, the gloss of silk; cloth is calendered to give it a gloss.

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Seeming; appearance; show; figure; form.

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To imbue or impregnate with something different or foreign; as, to tinge a decoction with a bitter taste; to affect in some degree with the qualities…

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