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Colored : adj
1: having color or a certain color; sometimes used in
combination; "colored crepe paper"; "the film was in
color"; "amber-colored heads of grain" [syn: coloured,
colorful] [ant: uncolored]
2: having skin rich in melanin pigments; "National Association
for the Advancement of Colored People"; "the dark races";
"dark-skinned peoples" [syn: coloured, dark, dark-skinned]
3: favoring one person or side over another; "a biased account
of the trial"; "a decision that was partial to the
defendant" [syn: biased, coloured, one-sided, slanted]
4: (used of color) artificially produced; not natural; "a
bleached blonde" [syn: bleached, coloured, dyed]
(noun)
1: a United States term for Blacks that is now considered
offensive [syn: colored person]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Color \Col"or\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Colored; p. pr. & vb. n.
Coloring.] [F. colorer.]
1. To change or alter the hue or tint of, by dyeing,
staining, painting, etc.; to dye; to tinge; to paint; to
stain.
The rays, to speak properly, are not colored; in
them there is nothing else than a certain power and
disposition to stir up a sensation of this or that
color. --Sir I.
Newton.
2. To change or alter, as if by dyeing or painting; to give a
false appearance to; usually, to give a specious
appearance to; to cause to appear attractive; to make
plausible; to palliate or excuse; as, the facts were
Colored : by his prejudices.
He colors the falsehood of [AE]neas by an express
command from Jupiter to forsake the queen. --Dryden.
3. To hide. [Obs.]
That by his fellowship he color might Both his
estate and love from skill of any wight. --Spenser.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Colored : \Col"ored\, a.
1. Having color; tinged; dyed; painted; stained.
The lime rod, colored as the glede. --Chaucer.
The colored rainbow arched wide. --Spenser.
2. Specious; plausible; adorned so as to appear well; as, a
highly colored description. --Sir G. C. Lewis.
His colored crime with craft to cloke. --Spenser.
3. Of some other color than black or white.
4. (Ethnol.) Of some other color than white; specifically
applied to negroes or persons having negro blood; as, a
colored man; the colored people.
5. (Bot.) Of some other color than green.
Colored, meaning, as applied to foliage, of some
other color than green. --Gray.
Note: In botany, green is not regarded as a color, but white
is. --Wood.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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