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Inability to perceive or distinguish certain colors, esp. red; color blindness. It has various forms and degrees. So called from the chemist Dalton, who had this infirmity. Nichol.

To receive damage or harm; to be injured or impaired in soudness or value; as. some colors in damage in sunlight.

that a pattern in produced by the different directions of the thread, without contrast of color.

A small oval plum of a blue color, the fruit of a variety of the Prunus domestica; -- called also damask plum.

A mineral occuring in octahedral crystals, also massive, of a reddish color. It is a silicate of iron, zinc manganese, and glicinum, containing sulphur.

A colorless crystalline substance, C9H6O4, extracted from daphnin.

Marked with spots of different shades of color; spotted; variegated; as, a dapple horse. Some dapple mists still floated along the peaks. Sir W. Scott.

ving, reflecting, or radiating light; wholly or partially black, or of some deep shade of color; not light-colored; as, a dark room; a dark day; dark cloth; dark paint; a dark complexion. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverable dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day! milton. In the dark and silen…

int in a coarse or unskillful manner. If a picture is daubed with many bright and glaring colors, the vulgar admire it is an excellent piece. I. Watts. A lame, imperfect piece, rudely daubed over. Dryden.

A daubing; specious coloring; false pretenses. She works by charms, by spells, by the figure, and such daubery as this is. Shak.

Lacking spirit; dull; lusterless; cheerless; as, dead eye; dead fire; dead color, etc.

To cover; to overspread. To deck with clouds the uncolored sky. Milton.

s, under Resolution. -- Decomposition of light, the division of light into the prismatic colors.

Strongly colored; dark; intense; not light or thin; as, deep blue or crimson.

ore intense; to darken; as, the event deepened the prevailing gloom. You must deepen your colors. Peacham.

Very; with a tendency to darkness of color. The deeply red juice of buckthorn berries. Boyle.

An American grape, with compact bunches of small, amber-colored berries, sweet and of a good flavor.

Light, or softly tinted; -- said of a color; as; as, a delicate blue.

me. The delinquencies of the little commonwealth would be represented in the most glaring colors. Motley.

A poisonous alkaloid extracted from the stavesacre (Delphinium staphisagria), as a colorless amorphous powder.