2. To change or alter, as if by dyeing or painting; to give a false appearance to; usually, to give a specious
appearance to; to cause to appear attractive; to make plausible; to palliate or excuse; as, the facts were
colored by his prejudices.
He colors the falsehood of Æneas by an express command from Jupiter to forsake the queen.
Dryden.
3. To hide. [Obs.]
That by his fellowship he color might
Both his estate and love from skill of any wight.
Spenser.
Color
(Col"or), v. i. To acquire color; to turn red, especially in the face; to blush.
Colorable
(Col"or*a*ble) a. Specious; plausible; having an appearance of right or justice. "Colorable pretense
for infidelity." Bp. Stillingfleet.
— Col"or*a*ble*ness, n. — Col"or*a*bly, adv.
Colorable and subtle crimes, that seldom are taken within the walk of human justice.
Hooker.
Colorado beetle
(Col`o*ra"do bee"tle) (Zoöl.) A yellowish beetle with ten longitudinal, black, dorsal stripes.
It has migrated eastwards from its original habitat in Colorado, and is very destructive to the potato plant; —
called also potato beetle and potato bug. See Potato beetle.
Colorado group
(Col`o*ra"do group) (Geol.) A subdivision of the cretaceous formation of western North
America, especially developed in Colorado and the upper Missouri region.
Coloradoite
(Col`o*ra"do*ite) n. (Min.) Mercury telluride, an iron-black metallic mineral, found in Colorado.
Colorate
(Col"or*ate) a. [L. coloratus, p. p. of colorare to color.] Colored. [Obs.] Ray.
Coloration
(Col`or*a"tion) n. The act or art of coloring; the state of being colored. Bacon.
The females . . . resemble each other in their general type of coloration.
Darwin.
Colorature
(Col"or*a*ture) n. [Cf. G. coloratur, fr. LL. coloratura.] (Mus.) Vocal music colored, as it
were, by florid ornaments, runs, or rapid passages.
Color-blind
(Col"or-blind) a. Affected with color blindness. See Color blindness, under Color, n.
Colored
(Col"ored) a.
1. Having color; tinged; dyed; painted; stained.
The lime rod, colored as the glede.
Chaucer.
The colored rainbow arched wide.
Spenser.
2. Specious; plausible; adorned so as to appear well; as, a highly colored description. Sir G. C. Lewis.
His colored crime with craft to cloke.
Spenser.
3. Of some other color than black or white.
4. (Ethnol.) Of some other color than white; specifically applied to negroes or persons having negro
blood; as, a colored man; the colored people.
