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Steel blue; of the color of tempered steel.

A gingham woven in plain colors with linen finish.

To change into various colors. [R.]

Appearing different, as in color, in different lights, or under different circumstances; as, changeable silk.

Jointed charlock, White charlock, a troublesome weed (Raphanus Raphanistrum) with straw- colored, whitish, or purplish flowers, and jointed pods: wild radish.

Having a changeable, varying luster, or color, like that of a changeable silk, or oa a cat's eye in the dark.

Changeableness of color, as in a mineral; play of colors. Cleaceland.

To mark with small squares like a checkerboard, as by crossing stripes of different colors.

A board with sixty-four squares of alternate color, used for playing checkers or draughts.

Marked with alternate squares or checks of different color or material. Dancing in the checkered shade. Milton.

Work consisting of or showing checkers varied alternately as to colors or materials.

Am alkaloidal principle obtained from the celandine, and named from the red color of its salts, It is a coloriess crystalline substance, and acts as an acrid narcotic poison. It is identical with sanguinarine.

The fruit of the cherry tree, a drupe of various colors and flavors.

An impure, massive, flintlike quartz or hornstone, of a dull color.

A game played on a chessboard, by two persons, with two differently colored sets of men, sixteen in each set. Each player has a king, a queen, two bishops, two knights, two castles or rooks, and eight pawns.

A bright brown color, like that of the nut.

A painter who cares for and studies light and shade rather than color.

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

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

hina pink (Bot.), an anual or biennial species of Dianthus (D. Chiensis) having variously colored single or double flowers; Indian pink. -- China root (Med.), the rootstock of a species of Smilax (S. China, from the East Indies; -- formerly much esteemed for the purposes that sarsaparilla is now used for. Also the gal…