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ne, or black jasper, a variety of siliceous or flinty slate, of a grayish or bluish black color. It is employed to test the purity of gold, the amount of alloy being indicated by the color left on the stone when rubbed by the metal.

Reddish brown; of the color of a chestnut; -- applied to the color of horses. Bay cat (Zoöl.), a wild cat of Africa and the East Indies (Felis aurata). -- Bay lynx (Zoöl.), the common American lynx (Felis, or Lynx, rufa).

A gum resin of reddish brown color, brought from India, Persia, and Africa.

of warm climates, generally with fleshy leaves and flowers of a yellow or whitish yellow color, of the genus Zygophyllum.

ct, the æsthetic faculty, or the moral sense. Beauty consists of a certain composition of color and figure, causing delight in the beholder. Locke. The production of beauty by a multiplicity of symmetrical parts uniting in a consistent whole. Wordsworth. The old definition of beauty, in the Roman school, was, "multitud…

A qualitative test for cottonseed oil, based on the fact this oil imparts a maroon color to an alcoholic solution of silver nitrate.

s, that feeds on bees. The European species (M. apiaster) is remarkable for its brilliant colors.

wn as ornamental plants. The leaves are curiously one- sided, and often exhibit brilliant colors.

A band or stripe, as of color, round any organ; or any circular ridge or series of ridges. Belt lacing, thongs used for lacing together the ends of machine belting.

, a firework containing niter, sulphur, and antimony, and producing a sustained and vivid colored light, used in making signals and in pyrotechnics; -- called also blue light. -- Bengal stripes, a kind of cotton cloth woven with colored stripes. See Bengal, 3. -- Bengal tiger. (Zoöl.). See Tiger.

rmediate in composition between benzoic or benzyl alcohol, and benzoic acid. It is a thin colorless liquid.

e, used as an intestinal antiseptic and as a substitute for creosote in phthisis. It is a colorless crystalline pewder.

To paint; to cover or color with, or as with, paint. Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek. Shak.

To tinge or dye with a purple color.

A double sulphide of antimony and iron, of a dark steel-gray color.

sical description based upon anthropometric measurements, notes of markings, deformities, color, impression of thumb lines, etc.

arent, of much beauty. It occurs in hexagonal prisms, commonly of a green or bluish green color, but also yellow, pink, and white. It is a silicate of aluminium and glucinum (beryllium). The aquamarine is a transparent, sea-green variety used as a gem. The emerald is another variety highly prized in jewelry, and distin…

Like a beryl; of a light or bluish green color.

To smirch or soil; to discolor; to obscure. Hence: To dishonor; to sully. Shak.

a reflexive pronoun. [Obs.] How might we see Falstaff bestow himself to-night in his true colors, and not ourselves be seen Shak.