Word Meanings - REALGAR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Arsenic sulphide, a mineral of a brilliant red color; red orpiment. It is also an artificial product.

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• COLORMAN
  A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds.
• MINERALIZATION
  The conversion of a cell wall into a material of a stony nature. (more info) 1. The process of mineralizing, or forming a mineral by combination of a metal with another element; also, the process of converting into a mineral, as a bone or a plant.
• 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.
• PRODUCTIVITY
  The quality or state of being productive; productiveness. Emerson. Not indeed as the product, but as the producing power, the productivity. Coleridge.
• COLORADOITE
  Mercury telluride, an iron-black metallic mineral, found in Colorado.
• PRODUCTUS
  An extinct genus of brachiopods, very characteristic of the Carboniferous rocks.
• ARTIFICIALITY
  The quality or appearance of being artificial; that which is artificial.
• 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
• ORPIMENT
  Arsenic sesquisulphide, produced artificially as an amorphous lemonyellow powder, and occurring naturally as a yellow crystalline mineral; -- formerly called auripigment. It is used in king's yellow, in white Indian fire, and in certain technical
• SULPHIDE
  A binary compound of sulphur, or one so regarded; -- formerly called sulphuret. Double sulphide , a compound of two sulphides. -- Hydrogen sulphide. See under Hydrogen. -- Metallic sulphide, a binary compound of sulphur with a metal.
• MINERALOGICALLY
  According to the principles of, or with reference to, mineralogy.
• ARTIFICIALLY
  1. In an artificial manner; by art, or skill and contrivance, not by nature. 2. Ingeniously; skillfully. The spider's web, finely and artificially wrought. Tillotson. 3. Craftily; artfully. Sharp dissembled so artificially. Bp. Burnet.
• 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.
• ARTIFICIAL
  1. Made or contrived by art; produced or modified by human skill and labor, in opposition to natural; as, artificial heat or light, gems, salts, minerals, fountains, flowers. Artificial strife Lives in these touches, livelier than life. Shak. 2.
• BRILLIANTINE
  1. An oily composition used to make the hair glossy. 2. A dress fabric having a glossy finish on both sides, resembling alpaca but of superior quality.
• COLOR SERGEANT
  See SERGEANT
• PRODUCTILE
  Capable of being extended or prolonged; extensible; ductile.
• 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
• TERSULPHIDE
  A trisulphide.
• OVERPRODUCTION
  Excessive production; supply beyond the demand. J. S. Mill.
• AETHIOPS MINERAL
  See MINERAL
• 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.
• OXYSULPHIDE
  A ternary compound of oxygen and sulphur.
• DECOLOR
  To deprive of color; to bleach.
• SESQUISULPHIDE
  A sulphide, analogous to a sesquioxide, containing three atoms of sulphur to two of the other ingredient; -- formerly called also sesquisulphuret; as, orpiment, As2S3 is arsenic sesquisulphide.
• REPRODUCTORY
  Reproductive.
• 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.