Word Meanings - FADING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Losing freshness, color, brightness, or vigor. -- n.

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• COLORMAN
  A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds.
• LOSINGLY
  In a manner to incur loss.
• LOSENGERIE
  Flattery; deceit; trickery. Chaucer.
• LOSEL
  One who loses by sloth or neglect; a worthless person; a lorel. Spenser. One sad losel soils a name for aye. Byron.
• FRESHNESS
  The state of being fresh. The Scots had the advantage both for number and freshness of men. Hayward. And breathe the freshness of the open air. Dryden. Her cheeks their freshness lose and wonted grace. Granville.
• 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.
• VIGOR
  vigueur, fr. L. vigor, fr. vigere to be lively or strong. See 1. Active strength or force of body or mind; capacity for exertion, physically, intellectually, or morally; force; energy. The vigor of this arm was never vain. Dryden. 2. Strength or
• VIGOROUS
  1. Possessing vigor; full of physical or mental strength or active force; strong; lusty; robust; as, a vigorous youth; a vigorous plant. Famed for his valor, young, At sea successful, vigorous and strong. Waller. 2. Exhibiting strength, either
• 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.
• LOSING
  Given to flattery or deceit; flattering; cozening. Amongst the many simoniacal that swarmed in the land, Herbert, Bishop of Thetford, must not be forgotten; nick-named Losing, that is, the Fratterer. Fuller.
• 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
• LOSSLESS
  Free from loss. Milton.
• COLORIFIC
  Capable of communicating color or tint to other bodies.
• COLORIMETER
  An instrument for measuring the depth of the color of anything, especially of a liquid, by comparison with a standard liquid.
• COLOR SERGEANT
  See SERGEANT
• COLORATION
  The act or art of coloring; the state of being colored. Bacon. The females . . . resemble each other in their general type of coloration. Darwin.
• LOSANGE
  See LOZENGE
• COLORATURE
  Vocal music colored, as it were, by florid ornaments, runs, or rapid passages.
• PAXILLOSE
  Resembling a little stake.
• CALLOSUM
  The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
• FLOSSIFICATION
  A flowering; florification. Craig.
• PHILOSOPHIZE
  To reason like a philosopher; to search into the reason and nature of things; to investigate phenomena, and assign rational causes for their existence. Man philosophizes as he lives. He may philosophize well or ill, but philosophize he must. Sir
• TYPHLOSOLE
  A fold of the wall which projects into the cavity of the intestine in bivalve mollusks, certain annelids, starfishes, and some other animals.
• CONCOLOR
  Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne.
• CYCLOSTYLE
  A contrivance for producing manifold copies of writing or drawing. The writing or drawing is done with a style carrying a small wheel at the end which makes minute punctures in the paper, thus converting it into a stencil. Copies are transferred
• FILOSELLE
  A kind of silk thread less glossy than floss, and spun from coarser material. It is much used in embroidery instead of floss.
• FLOSH
  A hopper-shaped box or Knight.
• UNCLOSE
  1. To open; to separate the parts of; as, to unclose a letter; to unclose one's eyes. 2. To disclose; to lay open; to reveal.
• ENCLOSE
  To inclose. See Inclose.
• GLANDULOSITY
  Quality of being glandulous; a collection of glands. Sir T. Browne.
• PARCLOSE
  A screen separating a chapel from the body of the church. Hook.
• GLOSSA
  The tongue, or lingua, of an insect. See Hymenoptera.
• DIPLOSTEMONOUS
  Having twice as many stamens as petals, as the geranium. R. Brown.
• GLOSSIST
  A writer of comments. Milton.
• PHILOSOPHATE
  To play the philosopher; to moralize. Barrow.
• PETALOSTICHA
  An order of Echini, including the irregular sea urchins, as the spatangoids. See Spatangoid.