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An apple-green variety of chalcedony, colored by nickel. It has a dull flinty luster, and is sometimes used in jewelry.

Like ashes; ash-colored; cinerous.

Like ashes; ash-colored; grayish.

raspberry (Rubus Chamæmerous) growing in the northern regions, and bearing edible, amber-colored fruit.

camphor. (Chem.) See Eugenin. -- Clove gillyflower, Clove pink (Bot.), any fragrant self-colored carnation.

A plant of several species of the Mint family, cultivated for its bright-colored or variegated leaves.

A colored ring round the neck of a bird or mammal.

nd to colonization, esp. (U. S. Hist) to the colonization of Africa by emigrants from the colored population of the United States.

painting, etc.; to dye; to tinge; to aint; to stain. The rays, to speak properly, are not colored; in them there is nothing else than a certain power and disposition to stir up a sensation of this or that color. Sir I. Newton.

Colored. [Obs.] Ray.

The act or art of coloring; the state of being colored. Bacon. The females . . . resemble each other in their general type of coloration. Darwin.

Vocal music colored, as it were, by florid ornaments, runs, or rapid passages.

Of or pertaining to a dove; dovelike; dove-colored. "Columbine innocency." Bacon.

ddy-complexioned person. A flower is the best-complexioned grass, as a pearl is the best- colored clay. Fuller.

Any bright-colored fish of the genera Chætodon, Pomacentrus, Apogon, and related genera, which live among reef corals.

panish leather (goatskin tanned and dressed), and hence, any leather handsomely finished, colored, gilded, or the like. Buskins he wore of costliest cordwain. Spenser.

A circle, usually colored, seen in peculiar states of the atmosphere around and close to a luminous body, as the sun or moon.

A bird of the family Cotingidæ, including numerous bright- colored South American species; -- called also chatterers.

d in a few French phrases, as couler de rose, color of rose; and hence, adjectively, rose-colored; roseate.

il; an oily antiseptic liquid, of a burning smoky taste, colorless when pure, but usually colored yellow or brown by impurity or exposure. It is a complex mixture of various phenols and their ethers, and is obtained by the distillation of wood tar, especially that of beechwood.