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rsistence of vision and mixture of colors) by means of rapidly rotating disks variously colored.

A colored photographic picture taken upon paper made sensitive with potassium bichromate or some other salt of chromium.

not readily obtained in the free state, but forming well known salts, many of which are colored pigments, as chrome yellow, chrome red, etc. -- Chromic anhydride, a brilliant red crystalline substance, CrO3, regarded as the anhydride of chromic acid. It is one of the most powerful oxidizers known.

Secretion of abnormally colored perspiration.

is for its compounds, as potassium chromate, lead chromate, etc., which are brilliantly colored and are used dyeing and calico printing. Called also chrome.

Any colored compound, supposed to contain one or more chromophores.

An orange-colored dyestuff, of artificial production.

It is a white crystalline substance, C18H12, of strong blue fluorescence, but generally colored yellow by impurities.

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.

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

mphor. (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.

rt, objects in natural history, etc.; as, a collector of coins. I digress into Soho to explore a bookstall. Methinks I have been thirty years a collector. Lamb.

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

inting, 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.