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- English Word Color Definition The hue or color characteristic of good health and spirits; ruddy complexion.
- English Word Color Definition That which is used to give color; a paint; a pigment; as, oil colors or water colors.
- English Word Color Definition That which covers or hides the real character of anything; semblance; excuse; disguise; appearance.
- English Word Color Definition Shade or variety of character; kind; species.
- English Word Color Definition A distinguishing badge, as a flag or similar symbol (usually in the plural); as, the colors or color of a ship or regiment; the colors of a race horse (that is, of the cap and jacket worn by the jockey).
- English Word Color Definition 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.
- English Word Color Definition To change or alter the hue or tint of, by dyeing, staining, painting, etc.; to dye; to tinge; to paint; to stain.
- English Word Color Definition To change or alter, as if by dyeing or painting; to give a false appearance to; usually, to give a specious appearance to; to cause to appear attractive; to make plausible; to palliate or excuse; as, the facts were colored by his prejudices.
- English Word Color Definition To hide.
- English Word Color Definition To acquire color; to turn red, especially in the face; to blush.
- English Word Color sergeant Definition See under Sergeant.
- English Word Color-blind Definition Affected with color blindness. See Color blindness, under Color, n.
- English Word Colorable Definition Specious; plausible; having an appearance of right or justice.
- English Word Colorado beetle Definition A yellowish beetle (Doryphora decemlineata), 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.
- English Word Colorado group Definition A subdivision of the cretaceous formation of western North America, especially developed in Colorado and the upper Missouri region.
- English Word Coloradoite Definition Mercury telluride, an iron-black metallic mineral, found in Colorado.
- English Word Colorate Definition Colored.
- English Word Coloration Definition The act or art of coloring; the state of being colored.
- English Word Colorature Definition Vocal music colored, as it were, by florid ornaments, runs, or rapid passages.
- English Word Colored Definition of Color