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t of light and dark parts in a work of art, such as a drawing or painting, whether in monochrome or in color.

d in the free state, but forming well known salts, many of which are colored pigments, as chrome yellow, chrome red, etc. -- Chromic anhydride, a brilliant red crystalline substance, CrO3, regarded as the anhydride of chromic acid. It is one of the most powerful oxidizers known.

etc., which are brilliantly colored and are used dyeing and calico printing. Called also chrome.

colors, the preparation for what is to follow. In modern painting this is usually in monochrome. -- Dead door (Shipbuilding), a storm shutter fitted to the outside of the quarter-gallery door. -- Dead flat (Naut.), the widest or midship frame. -- Dead freight (Mar. Law), a sum of money paid by a person who charters…

esembling emerald green in composition. -- Brunswick green an oxychloride of copper. -- Chrome green. See under Chrome. -- Emerald green. (Chem.) (a) A complex basic derivative of aniline produced as a metallic, green crystalline substance, and used for dyeing silk, wool, and mordanted vegetable fiber a brilliant gr…

Decorative painting in gray monochrome; -- used in English especially for painted glass.

The art of painting or drawing in monochrome.

A combining form of Gr. muscle; as, myograph, myochrome.

Chrome garnet.

forms Roman sepia. Cf. India ink, under India. Sepia drawing or picture, a drawing in monochrome, made in sepia alone, or in sepia with other brown pigments.

vis of the kidney. -- Urinary pigments, (Physiol. Chem.), certain colored substances, urochrome, or urobilin, uroerythrin, etc., present in the urine together with indican, a colorless substance which by oxidation is convertible into colored bodies.

, abundant in the highly colored urine of fever, and also present in normal urine. See Urochrome.

d either directly or indirectly (through bilirubin) from the hæmatin of the blood. See Urochrome, and Urobilin.

That one of the two similar thermometers of a psychrometer the bulb of which is moistened; also, the entire instrument.

A yellow pigment. Cadmium yellow, Chrome yellow, Indigo yellow, King's yellow, etc. See under Cadmium, Chrome, etc. -- Naples yellow, a yellow amorphous pigment, used in oil, porcelain, and enamel painting, consisting of a basic lead metantimonate, obtained by fusing together tartar emetic lead nitrate, and common sal…