Word Meanings - TULIPWOOD - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The beautiful rose-colored striped wood of a Brazilian tree , much used by cabinetmakers for inlaying. Queensland tulipwood, the variegated wood of an Australian sapindaceous tree . J. Smith .
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- COLORMAN
A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds. - BEAUTIFUL
Having the qualities which constitute beauty; pleasing to the sight or the mind. A circle is more beautiful than a square; a square is more beautiful than a parallelogram. Lord Kames. Syn. -- Handsome; elegant; lovely; fair; charming; graceful; - STRIPPING
The last milk drawn from a cow at a milking. (more info) 1. The act of one who strips. The mutual bows and courtesies . . . are remants of the original prostrations and strippings of the captive. H. Spencer. Never were cows that required - VARIEGATE
To diversify in external appearance; to mark with different colors; to dapple; to streak; as, to variegate a floor with marble of different colors. The shells are filled with a white spar, which variegates and adds to the beauty of the - 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. - SMITHSONIAN
Of or pertaining to the Englishman J.L.M. Smithson, or to the national institution of learning which he endowed at Washington, D.C.; as, the Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Reports. -- n. - STRIP-LEAF
Tobacco which has been stripped of its stalks before packing. - STRIPLING
A youth in the state of adolescence, or just passing from boyhood to manhood; a lad. Inquire thou whose son the stripling is. 1 Sam. xvii. 56. - STRIPPER
One who, or that which, strips; specifically, a machine for stripping cards. - 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. - TULIPWOOD
The beautiful rose-colored striped wood of a Brazilian tree , much used by cabinetmakers for inlaying. Queensland tulipwood, the variegated wood of an Australian sapindaceous tree . J. Smith . - COLORADOITE
Mercury telluride, an iron-black metallic mineral, found in Colorado. - INLAY
To lay within; hence, to insert, as pieces of pearl, iviry, choice woods, or the like, in a groundwork of some other material; to form an ornamental surface; to diversify or adorn with insertions. Look,how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with - 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 - SMITHSONITE
Native zinc carbonate. It generally occurs in stalactitic, reniform, or botryoidal shapes, of a white to gray, green, or brown color. See Note under Calamine. - 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. - BRAZILIAN
Of or pertaining to Brasil. -- n. - SMITHER
Fragments; atoms; finders. Smash the bottle to smithers. Tennyson. (more info) 1. Light, fine rain. 2. pl. - CONCOLOR
Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne. - UNSTRIPED
Without marks or striations; nonstriated; as, unstriped muscle fibers. (more info) 1. Not striped. - 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. - 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.