Word Meanings - DYEING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The process or art of fixing coloring matters permanently and uniformly in the fibers of wool, cotton, etc.
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- COLORMAN
A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds. - COTTONY
1. Covered with hairs or pubescence, like cotton; downy; nappy; woolly. 2. Of or pertaining to cotton; resembling cotton in appearance or character; soft, like cotton. - PROCESSIVE
Proceeding; advancing. Because it is language, -- ergo, processive. Coleridge. - PROCESSIONALIST
One who goes or marches in a procession. - UNIFORMLY
In a uniform manner; without variation or diversity; by a regular, constant, or common ratio of change; with even tenor; as, a temper uniformly mild. To vary uniformly , to vary with the ratio of the corresponding increments constant; -- said of - 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. - FIXTURE
Anything of an accessory character annexed to houses and lands, so as to constitute a part of them. This term is, however, quite frequently used in the peculiar sense of personal chattels annexed to lands and tenements, but removable by the person - COTTONADE
A somewhat stoun and thick fabric of cotton. - PROCESSIONARY
Pertaining to a procession; consisting in processions; as, processionary service. Processionary moth , any moth of the genus Cnethocampa, especially C. processionea of Europe, whose larvæ make large webs on oak trees, and go out to feed in regular - 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. - COLORADOITE
Mercury telluride, an iron-black metallic mineral, found in Colorado. - FIXING
Arrangements; embellishments; trimmings; accompaniments. (more info) 1. The act or process of making fixed. 2. That which is fixed; a fixture. 3. pl. - FIX
Fixed; solidified. Chaucer. - 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 - COTTON BATTING
Cotton prepared in sheets or rolls for quilting, upholstering, and similar purposes. - FIXURE
Fixed position; stable condition; firmness. Shak. - COLORIFIC
Capable of communicating color or tint to other bodies. - FIXEDLY
In a fixed, stable, or constant manner. - COLORIMETER
An instrument for measuring the depth of the color of anything, especially of a liquid, by comparison with a standard liquid. - REFIX
To fix again or anew; to establish anew. Fuller. - CONCOLOR
Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne. - AFFIX
figere to fasten: cf. OE. affichen, F. afficher, ultimately fr. L. 1. To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to; to fix to any part of; as, to affix a syllable to a word; to affix a seal to an instrument; to affix one's name to - DEFIX
To fix; to fasten; to establish. "To defix their princely seat . . . in that extreme province." Hakluyt. - AFFIXION
Affixture. T. Adams. - 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 - ACID PROCESS
That variety of either the Bessemer or the open-hearth process in which the converter or hearth is lined with acid, that is, highly siliceous, material. Opposed to basic process. - BARREL PROCESS
A process of extracting gold or silver by treating the ore in a revolving barrel, or drum, with mercury, chlorine, cyanide solution, or other reagent. - TRICOLOR
1. The national French banner, of three colors, blue, white, and red, adopted at the first revolution. 2. Hence, any three-colored flag. - CONFIXURE
Act of fastening. - WATER-COLORIST
One who paints in water colors. - BASIC PROCESS
A Bessemer or open-hearth steel-making process in which a lining that is basic, or not siliceous, is used, and additions of basic material are made to the molten charge during treatment. Opposed to acid process, above. Called also Thomas process.