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Instructive discourse. [Obs.] Spenser.

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

In a deploring manner.

Employed in, or designed for, exploration. "Exploring parties." Bancroft.

That implores; beseeching; entreating. -- Im*plor"ing*ly, adv.

The business or the work of a tailor or a tailoress.

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.

sive adjunct.) [Obs. or Poet.] All as his straying flock he fed. Spenser. A damsel lay deploring All on a rock reclined. Gay. All to, or All-to. In such phrases as "all to rent," "all to break," "all-to frozen," etc., which are of frequent occurrence in our old authors, the all and the to have commonly been regarded as…

A resinoid coloring matter obtained from alkanet root.

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.

That appeals; imploring. -- Ap*peal"*ing*ly, adv. -- Ap*peal"ing*ness, n.

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

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

Entreating urgently; imploring; as, a beseeching look. -- Be*seech"ing*ly, adv. -- Be*seech"ing*ness, n.

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

ter; 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 va…