[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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.
      1913 webster

            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.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

            he colors the falsehood of aeneas by an express
            command from jupiter to forsake the queen. --dryden.
      1913 webster

   3. to hide. obs.
      1913 webster

            that by his fellowship he color might
            both his estate and love from skill of any wight.
                                                  --spenser.
      1913 webster
see also:
colored coloring 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

colored \col"ored\, a.
   1. having color; tinged; dyed; painted; stained.
      1913 webster

            the lime rod, colored as the glede.   --chaucer.
      1913 webster

            the colored rainbow arched wide.      --spenser.
      1913 webster

   2. specious; plausible; adorned so as to appear well; as, a
      highly colored description. --sir g. c. lewis.
      1913 webster

            his colored crime with craft to cloke. --spenser.
      1913 webster

   3. of some other color than black or white.
      1913 webster

   4. ethnol. of some other color than white; having a skin
      color darker than that of caucasian people; mostly applied
      to negroes or persons having negro blood; as, a colored
      man; the colored people. opposite of white and
      caucasian.

   syn: coloured, dark-skinned.
        1913 webster

   5. bot. of some other color than green.
      1913 webster

            colored, meaning, as applied to foliage, of some
            other color than green.               --gray.
      1913 webster

   note: in botany, green is not regarded as a color, but white
         is. --wood.
         1913 webster
see also:
white caucasian 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

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
     n : a united states term for blacks that is now considered
         offensive syn: colored person
see also:
coloured colorful uncolored dark dark-skinned biased 
one-sided slanted bleached dyed colored person 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

130 moby thesaurus words for "colored":
   adorned, affected, antiblack, apocryphal, apparent, artificial,
   assumed, bastard, befrilled, biased, black, black-skinned, bogus,
   brummagem, chauvinistic, colorable, counterfeit, counterfeited,
   dark-complexioned, dark-skinned, decorated, deep, deep-colored,
   distorted, doctrinaire, dogmatic, dressed up, dummy, dyed,
   embellished, embroidered, ersatz, factitious, fake, faked,
   falsified, fancy, feigned, festooned, fictitious, fictive,
   figurative, figured, florid, flowery, full, full-colored, garbled,
   gilded, hued, illegitimate, imbued, imitation, in technicolor,
   in color, influenced, interested, jaundiced, junky, know-nothing,
   lush, luxuriant, make-believe, man-made, melanian, melanic,
   melanistic, melano, melanotic, melanous, meretricious, mock,
   nonobjective, one-sided, opinionated, ornate, ostensible,
   overcharged, overloaded, partial, partisan, perverted, phony,
   pinchbeck, plausible, prejudiced, prepossessed, pretended, pseudo,
   purple, put-on, quasi, queer, racist, seeming, self-styled, sexist,
   sham, shoddy, simulated, so-called, soi-disant, specious, spurious,
   stained, superpatriotic, supposititious, swayed, synthetic,
   tendentious, tin, tinct, tinctured, tinged, tinsel, tinted,
   titivated, toned, twisted, ultranationalist, unauthentic,
   undetached, undispassionate, ungenuine, unnatural, unneutral,
   unreal, warped, wash-colored, xenophobic

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