Colored, meaning, as applied to foliage, of some other color than green.
Gray.
&fist; In botany, green is not regarded as a color, but white is. Wood.
Col`or*if"ic (?; 277), a. [L. color color + facere to make: cf. F. colorifique.] Capable of communicating color or tint to other bodies.
Col`or*im"e*ter (?), n. [Color + -meter: cf. F. colorimŔtre.] An instrument for measuring the depth of the color of anything, especially of a liquid, by comparison with a standard liquid.
Col"or*ing (?), n. 1. The act of applying color to; also, that which produces color.
2. Change of appearance as by addition of color; appearance; show; disguise; misrepresentation.
Tell the whole story without coloring or gloss.
Compton Reade.
Dead coloring. See under Dead.
Col"or*ist (?), n. [Cf. F. coloriste.] One who colors; an artist who excels in the use of colors; one to whom coloring is of prime importance.
Titian, Paul Veronese, Van Dyck, and the rest of the good colorists.
Dryden.
Col"or*less, a. 1. Without color; not distinguished by any hue; transparent; as, colorless water.
2. Free from any manifestation of partial or peculiar sentiment or feeling; not disclosing likes, dislikes, prejudice, etc.; as, colorless music; a colorless style; definitions should be colorless.
Col"or*man (?), n.; pl. Colormen (#). A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds.
Col"or ser"geant. See under Sergeant.
Co*los"sal (?), a. [Cf. F. colossal, L. colosseus. See Colossus.] 1. Of enormous size; gigantic; huge; as, a colossal statue. "A colossal stride." Motley.