Color \Col"or\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Colored; p. pr. & vb. n.
Coloring.] [F. colorer.]
1. To change or alter the hue or tint of, by dyeing,
staining, painting, etc.; to dye; to tinge; to paint; to
stain.
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The rays, to speak properly, are not colored; in
them there is nothing else than a certain power and
disposition to stir up a sensation of this or that
color. --Sir I.
Newton.
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2. 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.
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He colors the falsehood of [AE]neas by an express
command from Jupiter to forsake the queen. --Dryden.
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3. To hide. [Obs.]
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That by his fellowship he color might
Both his estate and love from skill of any wight.
--Spenser.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Colored \Col"ored\, a.
1. Having color; tinged; dyed; painted; stained.
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The lime rod, colored as the glede. --Chaucer.
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The colored rainbow arched wide. --Spenser.
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2. Specious; plausible; adorned so as to appear well; as, a
highly colored description. --Sir G. C. Lewis.
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His colored crime with craft to cloke. --Spenser.
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3. Of some other color than black or white.
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4. (Ethnol.) Of some other color than white; having a skin
color darker than that of caucasian people; mostly applied
to negroes or persons having negro blood; as, a colored
man; the colored people. Opposite of white and
caucasian.
Syn: coloured, dark-skinned.
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5. (Bot.) Of some other color than green.
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Colored, meaning, as applied to foliage, of some
other color than green. --Gray.
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Note: In botany, green is not regarded as a color, but white
is. --Wood.
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colored
adj 1: having color or a certain color; sometimes used in
combination; "colored crepe paper"; "the film was in
color"; "amber-colored heads of grain" [syn: coloured,
colorful] [ant: uncolored]
2: having skin rich in melanin pigments; "National Association
for the Advancement of Colored People"; "the dark races";
"dark-skinned peoples" [syn: coloured, dark, dark-skinned]
3: favoring one person or side over another; "a biased account
of the trial"; "a decision that was partial to the
defendant" [syn: biased, coloured, one-sided, slanted]
4: (used of color) artificially produced; not natural; "a
bleached blonde" [syn: bleached, coloured, dyed]
n : a United States term for Blacks that is now considered
offensive [syn: colored person]
WordNet (r) 2.0
130 Moby Thesaurus words for "colored":
adorned, affected, antiblack, apocryphal, apparent, artificial,
assumed, bastard, befrilled, biased, black, black-skinned, bogus,
brummagem, chauvinistic, colorable, counterfeit, counterfeited,
dark-complexioned, dark-skinned, decorated, deep, deep-colored,
distorted, doctrinaire, dogmatic, dressed up, dummy, dyed,
embellished, embroidered, ersatz, factitious, fake, faked,
falsified, fancy, feigned, festooned, fictitious, fictive,
figurative, figured, florid, flowery, full, full-colored, garbled,
gilded, hued, illegitimate, imbued, imitation, in Technicolor,
in color, influenced, interested, jaundiced, junky, know-nothing,
lush, luxuriant, make-believe, man-made, melanian, melanic,
melanistic, melano, melanotic, melanous, meretricious, mock,
nonobjective, one-sided, opinionated, ornate, ostensible,
overcharged, overloaded, partial, partisan, perverted, phony,
pinchbeck, plausible, prejudiced, prepossessed, pretended, pseudo,
purple, put-on, quasi, queer, racist, seeming, self-styled, sexist,
sham, shoddy, simulated, so-called, soi-disant, specious, spurious,
stained, superpatriotic, supposititious, swayed, synthetic,
tendentious, tin, tinct, tinctured, tinged, tinsel, tinted,
titivated, toned, twisted, ultranationalist, unauthentic,
undetached, undispassionate, ungenuine, unnatural, unneutral,
unreal, warped, wash-colored, xenophobic
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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