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rnament, to cover a surface, as of metal or pottery, and admitting of after decoration in color, or used itself for inlaying or application in varied colors.

heat; burned in. Encaustic painting (Fine Arts), painting by means of wax with which the colors are combined, and which is afterwards fused with hot irons, thus fixing the colors. -- Encaustic tile (Fine Arts), an earthenware tile which has a decorative pattern and is not wholly of one color.

To give a crimson or red color to; to crimson. Shak.

The coloring matter within the cells of plants, whether green, red, yellow, or any other color.

To dye in grain, or of a fast color. See Ingrain. Leaves engrained in lusty green. Spenser.

To adorn by illuminating or ornamenting with colored and decorated letters and figures, as a book or manuscript. [R.] Palsgrave.

To stain or cover with blood; to make bloody, or of a blood-red color; as, an ensanguined hue. "The ensanguined field." Milton.

ineral of the pyroxene group, orthorhombic in crystallization; often fibrous and massive; color grayish white or greenish. It is a silicate of magnesia with some iron. Bronzite is a ferriferous variety.

A hawk gradually changing the color of its feathers, commonly in the second year.

To color with, or as with, vermilion; to dye red. [Obs.] Milton.

A hydrous phosphate of alumina and manganese. It is generally of a rose-pink color, -- whence the name.

od for the priests was of plain linen; that for the high priest was richly embroidered in colors. The breastplate of the high priest was worn upon the ephod in front. Exodus xxviii. 6-12.

A mineral, commonly of a yellowish green (pistachio) color, occurring granular, massive, columnar, and in monoclinic crystals. It is a silicate of alumina, lime, and oxide of iron, or manganese.

A genus of highly ornate and brilliantly colored birds of Australia, allied to the birds of Paradise.

ral gadolinite from Ytterby in Sweden. Symbol Er. Atomic weight 165.9. Its salts are rose-colored and give characteristic spectra. Its sesquioxide is called erbia.

A colorless oil (quickly becoming brown), with a pleasant odor, obtained by the decomposition of ericolin.

A hydrous arseniate of copper, of an emerald-green color; -- so called from Erin, or Ireland, where it occurs.

nstrument for measuring the diameters of minute particles or fibers, from the size of the colored rings produced by the diffraction of the light in which the objects are viewed.

A disease of the skin, in which a diffused inflammation forms rose-colored patches of variable size.

Red in color. "The erythrean main." Milton.