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See Semifloscule.

Being of a straw color. See Straw color, under Straw, n.

A female tailor.

Having three colors.

White, with spots of black, bay, or sorrel; as, a trout-colored horse.

Having various colors; changeable in color. "Versicolor, sweet- smelling flowers." Burton.

One of the small green granulelike bodies found in the interior of certain stentors, hydras, and other invertebrates.

marginal rays; and chromatic aberration, when due to different refrangibilities of the colored rays of the spectrum, those of each color having a distinct focus.

ly subjective sensations of color which often result from the contemplation of actually colored bodies. -- Accidental point (Persp.), the point in which a right line, drawn from the eye, parallel to a given right line, cuts the perspective plane; so called to distinguish it from the principal point, or point of view,…

Uncolored; not absorbing color from a fluid; -- said of tissue. Achromatic lens (Opt.), a lens composed usually of two separate lenses, a convex and concave, of substances having different refractive and dispersive powers, as crown and flint glass, with the curvatures so adjusted that the chromatic aberration produced…

he apex, or from the circumference towards the center; centripetal; -- said of certain inflorescence.

Colored like bronze.

eed. Loaded and blest with all the affluent store, Which human vows at smoking shrines implore. Prior.

One born in Africa, the offspring of a white father and a "colored" mother. Also, and now commonly in Southern Africa, a native born of European settlers.

ver age for all that. Holland. I am aging; that is, I have a whitish, or rather a light-colored, hair here and there. Landor.

(Bot.) Composed of several florets within a common involucre, as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed from one flower, as in the raspberry.

arid and semiarid regions, containing an unusual amount of soluble mineral salts which effloresce in the form of a powder or crust (usually white) in dry weather following rains or irrigation. The basis of these salts is mainly soda with a smaller amount of potash, and usually a little lime and magnesia. Two main clas…

g iron pyrites, the decomposition of which leads to the formation of alum, which often effloresces on the rock.

ty of about 2.6. Atomic weight 27.08. Symbol Al. Aluminium bronze or gold, a pale gold- colored alloy of aluminium and copper, used for journal bearings, etc.

Amber color, or anything amber-colored; a clear light yellow; as, the amber of the sky.