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ion of color; appearance; show; disguise; misrepresentation. Tell the whole story without coloring or gloss. Compton Reade. Dead coloring. See under Dead.

Seeds of the annotto tree; also, the coloring matter, annotto.

To give coloring to in description; to exaggerate; as, to aggravate circumstances. Paley.

A kind of atomizer for applying liquid coloring matter in a spray by compressed air.

A coloring principle, C14H6O2(OH)2, found in madder, and now produced artificially from anthracene. It produces the Turkish reds.

A resinoid coloring matter obtained from alkanet root.

ds of a tree (Bixa orellana) belonging to the tropical regions of America. It is used for coloring cheese, butter, etc. [Written also Anatto, Anatta, Annatto, Annotta, etc.]

The blue coloring matter of certain flowers. Same as Cyanin.

A red coloring matter derived from phenol; -- called also, in commerce, yellow coralin.

s; -- so called from the city of Avignon, in France. It is used by dyers and painters for coloring yellow. Called also French berry.

it aids in the digestive process. Its characteristic constituents are the bile salts, and coloring matters.

hiter; to remove the color, or stains, from; to blanch; to whiten. The destruction of the coloring matters attached to the bodies to be bleached is effected either by the action of the air and light, of chlorine, or of sulphurous acid. Ure. Immortal liberty, whose look sublime Hath bleached the tyrant's cheek in every…

oth and paper hangings with colors, by pressing them upon an engraved surface coated with coloring matter. -- Block system on railways, a system by which the track is divided into sections of three or four miles, and trains are so run by the guidance of electric signals that no train enters a section or block before t…

extensive order of plants (Hæmodoraceæ), the roots of many species of which contain a red coloring matter useful in dyeing.

black porous substance obtained by heating sugar. It is soluble in water, and is used for coloring spirits, gravies, etc.

The essential coloring principle of cochineal, extracted as a purple-red amorphous mass. It is a glucoside and possesses acid properties; -- hence called also carminic acid. Carmine red (Chem.), a coloring matter obtained from carmine as a purple-red substance, and probably allied to the phthaleïns.…

A red coloring matter obtained from the safflower, or Carthamus tinctorius.

A red coloring matter. extracted from the Bignonia Chica, used by some tribes of South American Indians to stain the skin.

An instrument to test the decoloring or bleaching power of chloride of lime.

An abnormal coloring of plants.