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

colour \col"our\, n.
   see color. brit.
   1913 webster
see also:
color 

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

color \col"or\ ku^l"~er, n. written also colour. of.
   color, colur, colour, f. couleur, l. color; prob. akin to
   celare to conceal the color taken as that which covers. see
   helmet.
   1. a property depending on the relations of light to the eye,
      by which individual and specific differences in the hues
      and tints of objects are apprehended in vision; as, gay
      colors; sad colors, etc.
      1913 webster

   note: the sensation of color depends upon a peculiar function
         of the retina or optic nerve, in consequence of which
         rays of light produce different effects according to
         the length of their waves or undulations, waves of a
         certain length producing the sensation of red, shorter
         waves green, and those still shorter blue, etc. white,
         or ordinary, light consists of waves of various lengths
         so blended as to produce no effect of color, and the
         color of objects depends upon their power to absorb or
         reflect a greater or less proportion of the rays which
         fall upon them.
         1913 webster

   2. any hue distinguished from white or black.
      1913 webster

   3. the hue or color characteristic of good health and
      spirits; ruddy complexion.
      1913 webster

            give color to my pale cheek.          --shak.
      1913 webster

   4. that which is used to give color; a paint; a pigment; as,
      oil colors or water colors.
      1913 webster

   5. that which covers or hides the real character of anything;
      semblance; excuse; disguise; appearance.
      1913 webster

            they had let down the boat into the sea, under color
            as though they would have cast anchors out of the
            foreship.                             --acts xxvii.
                                                  30.
      1913 webster

            that he should die is worthy policy;
            but yet we want a color for his death. --shak.
      1913 webster

   6. shade or variety of character; kind; species.
      1913 webster

            boys and women are for the most part cattle of this
            color.                                --shak.
      1913 webster

   7. a distinguishing badge, as a flag or similar symbol
      usually in the plural; as, the colors or color of a ship
      or regiment; the colors of a race horse that is, of the
      cap and jacket worn by the jockey.
      1913 webster

            in the united states each regiment of infantry and
            artillery has two colors, one national and one
            regimental.                           --farrow.
      1913 webster

   8. law 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.
      1913 webster

   note: color is express when it is averred in the pleading,
         and implied when it is implied in the pleading.
         1913 webster

   body color. see under body.

   color blindness, total or partial inability to distinguish
      or recognize colors. see daltonism.

   complementary color, one of two colors so related to each
      other that when blended together they produce white light;
      -- so called because each color makes up to the other what
      it lacks to make it white. artificial or pigment colors,
      when mixed, produce effects differing from those of the
      primary colors, in consequence of partial absorption.

   of color as persons, races, etc., not of the white race;
      -- commonly meaning, esp. in the united states, of negro
      blood, pure or mixed.

   primary colors, those developed from the solar beam by the
      prism, viz., red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and
      violet, which are reduced by some authors to three, --
      red, green, and violet-blue. these three are sometimes
      called fundamental colors.

   subjective color or accidental color, a false or spurious
      color seen in some instances, owing to the persistence of
      the luminous impression upon the retina, and a gradual
      change of its character, as where a wheel perfectly white,
      and with a circumference regularly subdivided, is made to
      revolve rapidly over a dark object, the teeth of the wheel
      appear to the eye of different shades of color varying
      with the rapidity of rotation. see accidental colors,
      under accidental.
      1913 webster
see also:
colour helmet body color body color blindness daltonism 
complementary color of color primary colors fundamental colors subjective color 
accidental color accidental colors accidental 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

colour
     adj : having or capable of producing colors; "color film"; "he
           rented a color television"; "marvelous color
           illustrations" syn: color ant: black-and-white
     n 1: any material used for its color; "she used a different color
          for the trim" syn: coloring material, colouring
          material, color
     2: a race with skin pigmentation different from the white race
        especially blacks syn: color, people of color, people
        of colour
     3: physics the characteristic of quarks that determines their
        role in the strong interaction; each flavor of quarks
        comes in three colors syn: color
     4: interest and variety and intensity; "the puritan period was
        lacking in color" syn: color, vividness
     5: the timbre of a musical sound; "the recording fails to
        capture the true color of the original music" syn: color,
         coloration, colouration
     6: a visual attribute of things that results from the light
        they emit or transmit or reflect; "a white color is made
        up of many different wavelengths of light" syn: color,
        coloring, colouring ant: colorlessness
     7: an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately
        misleading; "he hoped his claims would have a semblance of
        authenticity"; "he tried to give his falsehood the gloss
        of moral sanction"; "the situation soon took on a
        different color" syn: semblance, gloss, color
     8: the appearance of objects or light sources described in
        terms of a person's perception of their hue and lightness
        or brightness and saturation syn: color
     v 1: modify or bias; "his political ideas color his lectures"
          syn: color
     2: decorate with colors; "color the walls with paint in warm
        tones" syn: color, emblazon
     3: gloss or excuse; "color a lie" syn: color, gloss
     4: affect as in thought or feeling; "my personal feelings color
        my judgment in this case"; "the sadness tinged his life"
        syn: tinge, color, distort
     5: add color to; "the child colored the drawings"; "fall
        colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film" syn:
        color, colorize, colorise, colourise, colourize,
         color in, colour in ant: discolor
     6: change color, often in an undesired manner; "the shirts
        discolored" syn: discolor, discolour, color
see also:
color black-and-white coloring material colouring material people of color people of colour 
vividness coloration colouration coloring colouring 
colorlessness semblance gloss emblazon tinge 
distort colorize colorise colourise colourize 
color in colour in discolor discolour 

[4] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

colour
     
         us "color" colours are usually represented as
        rgb triples in a digital image because this corresponds
        most closely to the electronic signals needed to drive a
        crt.  several equivalent systems "colour models" exist,
        e.g. hsb.  a colour image may be stored as three separate
        images, one for each of red, green, and blue, or each pixel
        may encode the colour using separate bit-fields for each
        colour component, or each pixel may store a logical colour
        number which is looked up in a hardware colour palette to
        find the colour to display.
     
        printers may use the cmyk or pantone representations of
        colours as well as rgb.
     
        1999-08-02
     
     
see also:
rgb digital image crt colour models hsb 
pixel bit-fields colour palette cmyk pantone 

[5] : Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary

colour
   the subject of colours holds an important place in the
   scriptures.
   
     white occurs as the translation of various hebrew words. it is
   applied to milk gen. 49:12, manna ex. 16:31, snow isa.
   1:18, horses zech. 1:8, raiment eccl. 9:8. another hebrew
   word so rendered is applied to marble esther 1:6, and a
   cognate word to the lily cant. 2:16. a different term, meaning
   "dazzling," is applied to the countenance cant. 5:10.
   
     this colour was an emblem of purity and innocence mark 16:5;
   john 20:12; rev. 19:8, 14, of joy eccl. 9:8, and also of
   victory zech. 6:3; rev. 6:2. the hangings of the tabernacle
   court ex. 27:9; 38:9, the coats, mitres, bonnets, and breeches
   of the priests ex. 39:27,28, and the dress of the high priest
   on the day of atonement lev. 16:4,32, were white.
   
     black, applied to the hair lev. 13:31; cant. 5:11, the
   complexion cant. 1:5, and to horses zech. 6:2,6. the word
   rendered "brown" in gen. 30:32 r.v., "black" means properly
   "scorched", i.e., the colour produced by the influence of the
   sun's rays. "black" in job 30:30 means dirty, blackened by
   sorrow and disease. the word is applied to a mourner's robes
   jer. 8:21; 14:2, to a clouded sky 1 kings 18:45, to night
   micah 3:6; jer. 4:28, and to a brook rendered turbid by melted
   snow job 6:16. it is used as symbolical of evil in zech. 6:2,
   6 and rev. 6:5. it was the emblem of mourning, affliction,
   calamity jer. 14:2; lam. 4:8; 5:10.
   
     red, applied to blood 2 kings 3;22, a heifer num. 19:2,
   pottage of lentils gen. 25:30, a horse zech. 1:8, wine
   prov. 23:31, the complexion gen. 25:25; cant. 5:10. this
   colour is symbolical of bloodshed zech. 6:2; rev. 6:4; 12:3.
   
     purple, a colour obtained from the secretion of a species of
   shell-fish the murex trunculus which was found in the
   mediterranean, and particularly on the coasts of phoenicia and
   asia minor. the colouring matter in each separate shell-fish
   amounted to only a single drop, and hence the great value of
   this dye. robes of this colour were worn by kings judg. 8:26
   and high officers esther 8:15. they were also worn by the
   wealthy and luxurious jer. 10:9; ezek. 27:7; luke 16:19; rev.
   17:4. with this colour was associated the idea of royalty and
   majesty judg. 8:26; cant. 3:10; 7:5; dan. 5:7, 16,29.
   
     blue. this colour was also procured from a species of
   shell-fish, the chelzon of the hebrews, and the helix ianthina
   of modern naturalists. the tint was emblematic of the sky, the
   deep dark hue of the eastern sky. this colour was used in the
   same way as purple. the ribbon and fringe of the hebrew dress
   were of this colour num. 15:38. the loops of the curtains ex.
   26:4, the lace of the high priest's breastplate, the robe of
   the ephod, and the lace on his mitre, were blue ex. 28:28, 31,
   37.
   
     scarlet, or crimson. in isa. 1:18 a hebrew word is used which
   denotes the worm or grub whence this dye was procured. in gen.
   38:28,30, the word so rendered means "to shine," and expresses
   the brilliancy of the colour. the small parasitic insects from
   which this dye was obtained somewhat resembled the cochineal
   which is found in eastern countries. it is called by naturalists
   coccus ilics. the dye was procured from the female grub alone.
   the only natural object to which this colour is applied in
   scripture is the lips, which are likened to a scarlet thread
   cant. 4:3. scarlet robes were worn by the rich and luxurious
   2 sam. 1:24; prov. 31:21; jer. 4:30. rev. 17:4. it was also
   the hue of the warrior's dress nah. 2:3; isa. 9:5. the
   phoenicians excelled in the art of dyeing this colour 2 chr.
   2:7.
   
     these four colours--white, purple, blue, and scarlet--were
   used in the textures of the tabernacle curtains ex. 26:1, 31,
   36, and also in the high priest's ephod, girdle, and
   breastplate ex. 28:5, 6, 8, 15. scarlet thread is mentioned in
   connection with the rites of cleansing the leper lev. 14:4, 6,
   51 and of burning the red heifer num. 19:6. it was a crimson
   thread that rahab was to bind on her window as a sign that she
   was to be saved alive josh. 2:18; 6:25 when the city of
   jericho was taken.
   
     vermilion, the red sulphuret of mercury, or cinnabar; a colour
   used for drawing the figures of idols on the walls of temples
   ezek. 23:14, or for decorating the walls and beams of houses
   jer. 22:14.
   

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