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A diversity of colors in yarn, recurring at regular intervals. Knight.

camphor. (Chem.) See Eugenin. -- Clove gillyflower, Clove pink (Bot.), any fragrant self-colored carnation.

The cormorant; -- so called from its black color.

A mineral of a nearly silver-white color, composed of arsenic, sulphur, and cobalt.

has its lower valence. Cobaltous chloride, a crystalline compound, CoCl2, of a pale rose color when hydrous, blue when dehydrated. Its solution is used for a sympathetic ink, the writing being nearly colorless when dried in the air, owing to absorbed moisture, and becoming bright blue when warmed.

A granular variety of pyroxene, green or white in color.

legs short or of medium length, and the coat fine and silky, wavy but not curly. Various colors are bred, as black, liver, red, black and white, black and tan, etc.

A hydrous borate of lime occurring in transparent colorless or white crystals, also massive, in Southern California.

A small European titmouse (Parus ater), so named from its black color; -- called also coalmouse and colemouse.

A plant of several species of the Mint family, cultivated for its bright-colored or variegated leaves.

A colored ring round the neck of a bird or mammal.

An earth of a deep brown color, containing more vegetable than mineral matter; an earthy variety of lignite, or brown coal.

nd to colonization, esp. (U. S. Hist) to the colonization of Africa by emigrants from the colored population of the United States.

A colorless, oily liquid, formerly obtained by distillation of colophony. It is regarded as a polymeric form of terebenthene. Called also diterebene.

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Of or pertaining to a dove; dovelike; dove-colored. "Columbine innocency." Bacon.

A mineral of a black color, submetallic luster, and high specific specific gravity. It is a niobate (or columbate) of iron and manganese, containing tantalate of iron; -- first found in New England.

To mix or mingle together; to blend. The commixed impressions of all the colors do stir up and beget a sensation of white. Sir I. Newton. To commix With winds that sailors rail at. Shak.

Serving to fill out or to complete; as, complementary numbers. Complementary colors. See under Color. -- Complementary angles (Math.), two angles whose sum is 90°.

The color or hue of the skin, esp. of the face. Tall was her stature, her complexion dark. Wordswoorth. Between the pale complexion of true love, And the red glow of scron and proud disdain. Shak.