Part 2119

<h1>Colorable</h1> <Xpage=280>

<hw>Col"or*a*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Specious; plausible; having an appearance of right or justice.</def> "<i>Colorable</i> pretense for infidility."

<i>Bp. Stillingfleet.</i>

-- <wordforms><wf>Col"or*a*ble*ness</wf>, <tt>n.</tt> -- <wf>Col"or*a*bly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt></wordforms>

<blockquote><b>Colorable</b> and subtle crimes, that seldom are taken within the walk of human justice. <i>Hooker.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Colorado beetle</h1> <Xpage=280>

<hw>Col`o*ra"do bee"tle</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A yellowish beetle (<spn>Doryphora decemlineata</spn>), 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 <altname>potato beetle</altname> and <altname>potato bug</altname>. See <er>Potato beetle</er>.</def>

<h1>Colorado group</h1> <Xpage=280>

<hw>Col`o*ra"do group</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <fld>(Geol.)</fld> <def>A subdivision of the cretaceous formation of western North America, especially developed in Colorado and the upper Missouri region.</def>

<h1>Coloradoite</h1> <Xpage=280>

<hw>Col`o*ra"do*ite</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Min.)</fld> <def>Mercury telluride, an iron-black metallic mineral, found in Colorado.</def>

<h1>Colorate</h1> <Xpage=280>

<hw>Col"or*ate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>coloratus</ets>, p. p. of <ets>colorare</ets> to color.]</ety> <def>Colored.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Ray.</i>

<h1>Coloration</h1> <Xpage=280>

<hw>Col`or*a"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The act or art of coloring; the state of being colored.</def>

<i>Bacon.</i>

<blockquote>The females . . . resemble each other in their general type of <b>coloration</b>. <i>Darwin.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Colorature</h1> <Xpage=280>

<hw>Col"or*a*ture</hw> <tt>(?; 135)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. G. <ets>coloratur</ets>, fr. LL. <ets>coloratura</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Mus.)</fld> <def>Vocal music <i>colored</i>, as it were, by florid ornaments, runs, or rapid passages.</def>

<h1>Color-blind</h1> <Xpage=280>

<hw>Col"or-blind</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Affected with color blindness. See <cref>Color blindness</cref>, under <er>Color</er>, <tt>n.</tt></def>

<h1>Colored</h1> <Xpage=280>

<hw>Col"ored</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Having color; tinged; dyed; painted; stained.</def>

<blockquote>The lime rod, <b>colored</b> as the glede. <i>Chaucer.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The <b>colored</b> rainbow arched wide. <i>Spenser.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Specious; plausible; aborned so as to appear well; <as>as, a highly <ex>colored</ex> description</as>.</def>

<i>Sir G. C. Lewis.</i>