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Standard Definition

[n] outward or token appearance or form; "he tried to give his actions a semblance of authenticity"; "the situation soon took on a different color"
[n] the timbre of a musical sound; "the recording fails to capture the true color of the original music"
[n] interest and variety and intensity; "the Puritan Period was lacking in color"
[n] (high energy physics) the characteristic of quarks that determines their role in the strong interaction; each flavor of quarks comes in three colors
[n] a race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks)
[n] any material used for its color; "she used a different color for the trim"
[adj] (photography) "color film"; "he rented a color television"; "in glorious color"; "marvelous color illustrations"
[v] change color, often in an undesired manner; "The shirts discolored"
[v] add color to; "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film"
[v] distort; "My personal feelings color my judgment in this case"
[v] gloss or excuse; "color a lie"
[v] decorate with colors; "color the walls with paint in warm tones"
[v] modify or bias; "His political ideas color his lectures"


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Misc. Definitions

2. Any hue distinguished from white or black.
3. The hue or color characteristic of good health and spirits; ruddy complexion. Give color to my pale cheek. --Shak.
5. That which covers or hides the real character of anything; semblance; excuse; disguise; appearance. They had let down the boat into the sea, under color as though they would have cast anchors out of the foreship. --Acts xxvii. 30. That he should die is worthy policy; But yet we want a color for his death. --Shak.
6. Shade or variety of character; kind; species. Boys and women are for the most part cattle of this color. --Shak.
8. (Law) An apparent right; as where the defendant in trespass gave to the plaintiff an appearance of title, by stating his title specially, thus removing the cause from the jury to the court. --Blackstone. Note: Color is express when it is averred in the pleading, and implied when it is implied in the pleading. {Body color}. See under {Body}. {Color blindness}, total or partial inability to distinguish or recognize colors. See {Daltonism}. {Complementary color}, one of two colors so related to each other that when blended together they produce white light; -- so called because each color makes up to the other what it lacks to make it white. Artificial or pigment colors, when mixed, produce effects differing from those of the primary colors, in consequence of partial absorption. {Of color} (as persons, races, etc.), not of the white race; -- commonly meaning, esp. in the United States, of negro blood, pure or mixed. {Primary colors}, those developed from the solar beam by the prism, viz., red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet, which are reduced by some authors to three, -- red, green, and violet-blue. These three are sometimes called {fundamental colors}. {Subjective} or {Accidental color}, a false or spurious color seen in some instances, owing to the persistence of the luminous impression upon the retina, and a gradual change of its character, as where a wheel perfectly white, and with a circumference regularly subdivided, is made to revolve rapidly over a dark object, the teeth of the wheel appear to the eye of different shades of color varying with the rapidity of rotation. See {Accidental colors}, under {Accidental}.
\Col"or\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Colored}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Coloring}.] [F. colorer.]
3. To hide. [Obs.] That by his fellowship he color might Both his estate and love from skill of any wight. --Spenser.