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A Dutch pressed cheese of yellow color and fine flavor, made in balls weighing three or four pounds, and usually colored crimson outside; -- so called from the village of Edam, near Amsterdam. Also, cheese of the same type, wherever made.

A species of rose (Rosa Eglanteria), with fragrant foliage and flowers of various colors.

A mineral of a green color and pearly luster; a hydrous phosphate of copper.

A variety of hephelite, usually massive, of greasy luster, and gray to reddish color. Elæolite syenite, a kind of syenite characterized by the presence of elæolite.

A mineral resin, of a blackish brown color, occurring in soft, flexible masses; -- called also mineral caoutchouc, and elastic bitumen.

Chosen; taken by preference from among two or more. "Colors quaint elect." Spenser.

An alloy of gold and silver, of an amber color, used by the ancients.

A transparent, colorless oil obtained from elemi resin by distillation with water; also, a crystallizable extract from the resin.

An art or process of flooding transparent colored glaze over designs stamped or molded on earthenware or porcelain. Ure.

To deck in glaring colors; to set off conspicuously; to display pompously; to decorate. The walls were . . . emblazoned with legends in commemoration of the illustrious pair. Prescott.

lofty gate his art embossed Androgeo's death. Dryden. Exhibiting flowers in their natural color embossed upon a purple ground. Sir W. Scott.

Diversified ornaments, especially by contrasted figures and colors; variegated decoration. Fields in spring's embroidery are dressed. Addison. A mere rhetorical embroidery of phrases. J. A. Symonds.

To color in imitation of bronze. See Bronze, v. t.

To give a brown color to; to imbrown. Summer suns embrown the laboring swain. Fenton.

A precious stone of a rich green color, a variety of beryl. See Beryl.

velopment or concealment, or of rising into view; sudden uprisal or appearance. The white color of all refracted light, at its very first emergence . . . is compounded of various colors. Sir I. Newton. When from the deep thy bright emergence sprung. H. Brooke.

rnal objects stand before us . . . in all the life and emphasis of extension, figure, and color. Sir W. Hamilton.

Striking the sense; attracting special attention; impressive; forcible. "Emphatical colors." Boyle. "Emphatical evils." Bp. Reynolds.

To tinge or dye of a purple color; to color with purple; to impurple. "The deep empurpled ran." Philips.

Any liquid preparation of a color and consistency resembling milk; as: (a) In pharmacy, an extract of seeds, or a mixture of oil and water united by a mucilaginous substance. (b) In photography, a liquid preparation of collodion holding salt of silver, used in the photographic process.