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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. 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. 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. He colors the falsehood of [AE]neas by an express command from Jupiter to forsake the queen. --Dryden. 3. To hide. [Obs.] That by his fellowship he color might Both his estate and love from skill of any wight. --Spenser. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Colored \Col"ored\, a. 1. Having color; tinged; dyed; painted; stained. The lime rod, colored as the glede. --Chaucer. The colored rainbow arched wide. --Spenser. 2. Specious; plausible; adorned so as to appear well as a highly colored description. --Sir G. C. Lewis. His colored crime with craft to cloke. --Spenser. 3. Of some other color than black or white. 4. (Ethnol.) Of some other color than white; specifically applied to negroes or persons having negro blood; as a colored man; the colored people. 5. (Bot.) Of some other color than green. Colored, meaning, as applied to foliage, of some other color than green. --Gray. Note: In botany, green is not regarded as a color, but white is --Wood. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: 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}, {in color(p)}, {colorful}] [ant: {colorless}] 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: being or having or characterized by hue [syn: {chromatic}] [ant: {achromatic}] 4: favoring one person or side over another; "a biased account of the trial"; "a decision that was partial to the defendant" [syn: {biased}, {one-sided}, {slanted}] 5: (used of color) artificially produced; not natural; "a bleached blonde" [syn: {bleached}, {dyed}] n : a US term for Blacks that is now considered offensive [syn: {colored person}]
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