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Vocal music colored, as it were, by florid ornaments, runs, or rapid passages.

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  • COLORMAN
    A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds.
  • MUSIC HALL
    A place for public musical entertainments; specif. , esp. a public hall for vaudeville performances, in which smoking and drinking are usually allowed in the auditorium.
  • RAPID
    1. Very swift or quick; moving with celerity; fast; as, a rapid stream; a rapid flight; a rapid motion. Ascend my chariot; guide the rapid wheels. Milton. 2. Advancing with haste or speed; speedy in progression; in quick sequence; as, rapid growth;
  • FLORIDA BEAN
    The large, roundish, flattened seed of Mucuna urens. See under Bean. One of the very large seeds of the Entada scandens.
  • RAPIDNESS
    Quality of being rapid; rapidity.
  • COLORATE
    Colored. Ray.
  • COLORIMETRY
    The quantitative determination of the depth of color of a substance. 2. A method of quantitative chemical analysis based upon the comparison of the depth of color of a solution with that of a standard liquid.
  • MUSICALLY
    In a musical manner.
  • VOCALIST
    A singer, or vocal musician, as opposed to an instrumentalist.
  • FLORIDNESS
    The quality of being florid. Boyle.
  • RAPIDITY
    The quality or state of being rapid; swiftness; celerity; velocity; as, the rapidity of growth or improvement. Syn. -- -- Rapidness; haste; speed; celerity; velocity; swiftness; fleetness; quickness; agility.
  • RAPIDLY
    In a rapid manner.
  • COLORADO BEETLE
    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.
  • FLORIDITY
    The quality of being florid; floridness. Floyer.
  • MUSIC DRAMA
    An opera in which the text and action are not interrupted by set arias, duets, etc., the music being determined throughout by dramatic appropriateness; musical drama of this character, in general. It involves the use of a kind of melodious
  • COLORADOITE
    Mercury telluride, an iron-black metallic mineral, found in Colorado.
  • MUSICALE
    A social musical party.
  • COLOR
    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 asverred in the
  • VOCALLY
    1. In a vocal manner; with voice; orally; with audible sound. 2. In words; verbally; as, to express desires vocally.
  • VOCALIZATION
    1. The act of vocalizing, or the state of being vocalized. 2. The formation and utterance of vocal sounds.
  • PHILOMUSICAL
    Loving music. Busby.
  • CONCOLOR
    Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne.
  • UNIVOCALLY
    In a univocal manner; in one term; in one sense; not equivocally. How is sin univocally distinguished into venial and mortal, if the venial be not sin Bp. Hall.
  • ISABELLA; ISABELLA COLOR
    A brownish yellow color. (more info) Spanish princess Isabella, daughter of king Philip II., in allusion to the color assumed by her shift, which she wore without change from
  • TRICOLOR
    1. The national French banner, of three colors, blue, white, and red, adopted at the first revolution. 2. Hence, any three-colored flag.
  • UNEQUIVOCAL
    Not equivocal; not doubtful; not ambiguous; evident; sincere; plain; as, unequivocal evidence; unequivocal words. -- Un`e*quiv"o*cal*ly, adv. -- Un`e*quiv"o*cal*ness, n.
  • WATER-COLORIST
    One who paints in water colors.
  • DECOLOR
    To deprive of color; to bleach.
  • PARTY-COLORED; PARTI-COLORED
    Colored with different tints; variegated; as, a party-colored flower. "Parti-colored lambs." Shak.

 

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