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A declaration of divine favor, or an invocation imploring divine favor on some or something; a benediction; a wish of happiness pronounces. This is the blessing, where with Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel. Deut. xxxiii. 1.

h and paper hangings with colors, by pressing them upon an engraved surface coated with coloring matter. -- Block system on railways, a system by which the track is divided into sections of three or four miles, and trains are so run by the guidance of electric signals that no train enters a section or block before the…

tensive order of plants (Hæmodoraceæ), the roots of many species of which contain a red coloring matter useful in dyeing.

up as a landmark, or to arrest attention, as in surveying, or in leaving traces of an exploring party, etc. C. Kingsley. Kane.

ack porous substance obtained by heating sugar. It is soluble in water, and is used for coloring spirits, gravies, etc.

The essential coloring principle of cochineal, extracted as a purple-red amorphous mass. It is a glucoside and possesses acid properties; -- hence called also carminic acid. Carmine red (Chem.), a coloring matter obtained from carmine as a purple-red substance, and probably allied to the phthaleïns.…

A red coloring matter obtained from the safflower, or Carthamus tinctorius.

A red coloring matter. extracted from the Bignonia Chica, used by some tribes of South American Indians to stain the skin.

An instrument to test the decoloring or bleaching power of chloride of lime.

An abnormal coloring of plants.

Vegetable coloring matter other than green; chromule.

A general name for the several coloring matters, red, green, yellow, etc., present in the inner segments in the cones of the retina, held in solution by fats, and slowly decolorized by light; distinct from the photochemical pigments of the rods of the retina.

A general name for coloring matter of plants other than chlorophyll, especially that of petals.

The act or art of coloring; the state of being colored. Bacon. The females . . . resemble each other in their general type of coloration. Darwin.

One who colors; an artist who excels in the use of colors; one to whom coloring is of prime importance. Titian, Paul Veronese, Van Dyck, and the rest of the good colorists. Dryden.

e line or lines representing such an outline; the line that bounds; periphery. Titian's coloring and contours. A. Drummond.

The coloring matter of Chinese yellow pods, the fruit of Gardenia grandiflora. Watts.

s collected from combustion, as on pots and kettles, or in a chimney; soot; smut; also, coloring matter which rubs off from cloth.

A white crystalline sugar, metameric with glucose, obtained from the coloring matter of saffron. [Written also crokose.]

The coloring matter of the blood; the clotted portion of coagulated blood, containing the coloring matter; gore.