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77 words match “VARIEGATE”

OLIVE n.
s, and its branches are the emblems of peace. The wood is yellowish brown and beautifully variegated.
PANACHE n.
nch worn on the helmet; any military plume, or ornamental group of feathers. A panache of variegated plumes. Prescott.
PARTRIDGE n.
-- Partridge shell (Zoöl.), a large marine univalve shell (Dolium perdix), having colors variegated like those of the partridge. -- Partridge wood (a) A variegated wood, much esteemed for cabinetwork. It is obtained from tropical America, and one source of it is said to be the leguminous tree Andira inermis. Called a…
PARTY-COLORED; PARTI-COLORED a.
Colored with different tints; variegated; as, a party-colored flower. "Parti-colored lambs." Shak.
PENNACHED a.
Variegated; striped. [Obs.] Evelyn.
PERILLA n.
one species (Perilla ocimoides, or P. Nankinensis) is often cultivated for its purple or variegated foliage.
PETUNIA n.
flowers, and P. nyctaginiflora, with white flowers. There are also many hybrid forms with variegated corollas.
PICK v.
n, one by one; as, sharpshooters pick off the enemy. -- To pick out. (a) To mark out; to variegate; as, to pick out any dark stuff with lines or spots of bright colors. (b) To select from a number or quantity. -- To pick to pieces, to pull apart piece by piece; hence [Colloq.], to analyze; esp., to criticize in detai…
PIED a.
Variegated with spots of different colors; party-colored; spotted; piebald. "Pied coats." Burton. "Meadows trim with daisies pied." Milton. Pied antelope (Zoöl.), the bontebok. -- Pied-billed grebe (Zoöl.), the dabchick. -- Pied blackbird (Zoöl.), any Asiatic thrush of the genus Turdulus. -- Pied finch (Zoöl.) (a) T…
PLAIN a.
Not variegated, dyed, or figured; as, plain muslin.
POECILITIC a.
Mottled with various colors; variegated; spotted; -- said of certain rocks.
ROSEWOOD n.
A valuable cabinet wood of a dark red color, streaked and variegated with black, obtained from several tropical leguminous trees of the genera Dalbergia and Machærium. The finest kind is from Brazil, and is said to be from the Dalbergia nigra. African rosewood, the wood of the leguminous tree Pterocarpus erinaceus. --…
SANDED a.
Marked with small spots; variegated with spots; speckled; of a sandy color, as a hound. Shak.
SCAGLIOLA n.
substratum of finely ground gypsum mixed with glue, the surface of which, while soft, is variegated with splinters of marble, spar, granite, etc., and subsequently colored and polished.
SELF-COLOR n.
A color not mixed or variegated.
SET v.
To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there. High on their heads, with jewels richly set, Each lady wore a radiant coronet. Dryden. Pastoral dales thin set with modern farms. Wordsworth.
SHELD a.
Variegated; spotted; speckled; piebald. [Prov. Eng.]
SHOOT v.
To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches. The tangled water courses slept, Shot over with purple, and green, and yellow. Tennyson. To be shot of, to be discharged, cleared, or rid of. [Colloq.] "Are you not glad to be shot of him" Sir W. Scott.
SHOVELER n.
Europe and America. It has a large bill, broadest towards the tip. The male is handsomely variegated with green, blue, brown, black, and white on the body; the head and neck are dark green. Called also broadbill, spoonbill, shovelbill, and maiden duck. The Australian shoveler, or shovel-nosed duck (S. rhynchotis), is a…
SOLID a.
] Solid angle. (Geom.) See under Angle. -- Solid color, an even color; one not shaded or variegated. -- Solid green. See Emerald green (a), under Green. -- Solid measure (Arith.), a measure for volumes, in which the units are each a cube of fixed linear magnitude, as a cubic foot, yard, or the like; thus, a foot, in…
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