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Mercury telluride, an iron-black metallic mineral, found in Colorado.

Colored. [Obs.] Ray.

f 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.

Worthy to be commemorated.

t of affection, intended to preserve the remembrance of the person or event; as, to commemorate the sufferings and dying love of our Savior by the sacrament of the Lord's Supper; to commemorate the Declaration of Independence by the observance of the Fourth of July. We are called upon to commemorate a revolution. Atter…

The act of commemorating; an observance or celebration designed to honor the memory of some person or event. This sacrament was designed to be a standing commemoration of the death and passion of our Lord. Abp. Tillotson. The commonwealth which . . . chooses the most flagrant act of murderous regicide treason for a fea…

Tending or intended to commemorate. "A sacrifice commemorative of Christ's offering up his body for us." Hammond. An inscription commemorative of his victory. Sir G. C. Lewis.

One who commemorates.

Serving to commemorate; commomerative. Bp. Hooper.

See Commorancy.

A dwelling or ordinary residence in a place; habitation. Commorancy consists in usually lying there. Blackstone.

arily residing; inhabiting. All freeholders within the precinct . . . and all persons commorant therein. Blackstone.

The act of staying or residing in a place. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

To unite in one mass or body; to incorporate. [Archaic.] Jer. Taylor.

Union of things in one mass or body. [R.] Dr. H. More.

The state of being contemporaneous. The lines of contemporaneity in the oölitic system. J. Philips.

Living, existing, or occurring at the same time; contemporary. The great age of Jewish philosophy, that of Aben Esra, Maimonides, and Kimchi, had been contemporaneous with the later Spanish school of Arabic philosophy. Milman - Con*tem`po*ra"ne*ous*ness, n.

At the same time with some other event.

Existence at the same time; contemporaneousness. Howell.