Word Meanings - FLESHINGS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Flesh-colored tights, worn by actors dancers. D. Jerrold.
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- COLORMAN
A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds. - FLESHMENT
The act of fleshing, or the excitement attending a successful beginning. Shak. - FLESHHOOD
The state or condition of having a form of flesh; incarnation. Thou, who hast thyself Endured this fleshhood. Mrs. Browning. - 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. - 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. - FLESHINESS
The state of being fleshy; plumpness; corpulence; grossness. Milton. - COLORADOITE
Mercury telluride, an iron-black metallic mineral, found in Colorado. - 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 - FLESHER
1. A butcher. A flesher on a block had laid his whittle down. Macaulay. 2. A two-handled, convex, blunt-edged knife, for scraping hides; a fleshing knife. - COLORIFIC
Capable of communicating color or tint to other bodies. - FLESHLY
1. Of or pertaining to the flesh; corporeal. "Fleshly bondage." Denham. 2. Animal; not Dryden. 3. Human; not celestial; not spiritual or divine. "Fleshly wisdom." 2 Cor. i. 12. Much ostentation vain of fleshly arm And fragile arms. Milton. - 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. - FLESHLESS
Destitute of flesh; lean. Carlyle. - COLORATURE
Vocal music colored, as it were, by florid ornaments, runs, or rapid passages. - COLORIST
One who colors; an artist who excels in the use of colors; one to whom coloring is of prime importance. Titian, Paul Veronese, Van Dyck, and the rest of the good colorists. Dryden. - FLESHLING
A person devoted to fleshly things. Spenser. - FLESHMONGER
One who deals in flesh; hence, a pimp; a procurer; a pander. Shak. - CONCOLOR
Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne. - 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 - HORSEFLESH
1. The flesh of horses. The Chinese eat horseflesh at this day. Bacon. 2. Horses, generally; the qualities of a horse; as, he is a judge of horseflesh. Horseflesh ore , a miner's name for bornite, in allusion to its peculiar reddish color on - TRICOLOR
1. The national French banner, of three colors, blue, white, and red, adopted at the first revolution. 2. Hence, any three-colored flag. - 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. - FAWN-COLORED
Of the color of a fawn; light yellowish brown. - DECOLORATION
The removal or absence of color. Ferrand. - TROUT-COLORED
White, with spots of black, bay, or sorrel; as, a trout-colored horse. - TRICOLORED
Having three colors. - ENCOLOR
To color.