Word Meanings - COLORATURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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.