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abram	auburn.
achromic achromous	colourless.
aeneous aeneus	of a shining bronze colour.
albescent	becoming white; whiteness.
albugineous	like the white of an eye or an egg; white-coloured.
amaranthine	of a dark reddish-purple colour.
anatta anatto annatta annatto arnatta arnotto	a bright orange colouring matter.
anil	indigo, the plant or dye.
archil orchil orchel orchella orseille	a dye obtained from certain lichens; lichens yielding this.
ashen	of the colour of ash, grey.
atrament	blacking; ink; black dye.
atramental atramentous	inky black
auburn	a golden- or reddish-brown colour, used esp. of a person's hair.
aureity	the property of being golden in colour or substance.
azure	sky-blue.
azurean	azure.
azurine	azure; (noun) a blue-black azurine dye.
azurn	azure.
azury	bluish. No comp!
badious	chestnut-coloured.
beige	a woollen fabric of undyed wool; (adj.) greyish buff with a hint of pink.
beigy	somewhat BEIGE > BEIGIER, BEIGIEST.
bice	a pale blue or green paint.
bichrome	two-coloured.
bicolor bicolour	something having two colours.
bicolored	of two colors.
bister bistre	a pigment with brownish colour derived from soot.
bistered bistred	painted with BISTER, a pigment with brownish colour derived from soot.
black	of the darkest colour > BLACKER, BLACKEST; (verb) to make black.
blackish	somewhat black.
blackishly	in a blackish manner.
blackly
blae	dark blue or bluish gray; lead-colored > BLAER, BLAEST. [ON blar, livid].
blanco	a white substance used for treating uniform belts etc.; (verb) to treat with this.
bleuatre	bluish.
bloncket	grey.
blond blonde	having blond hair > BLONDER, BLONDEST.
blondeness blondness	the state of being BLOND.
bloodred	the colour of blood.
blue	(verb) to impart a bluish colour to, esp. a metal > BLUED, BLUING/BLUEING.
blueish bluish	somewhat blue.
blueishness	the state of being BLUEISH.
bluely	with a blue color.
bluey	of a bluish colour > BLUIER, BLUIEST. Also a noun, a swagman's bundle of personal effects.
brazilein	a dyestuff obtained by the oxidation of BRAZILIN.
brindle	of a brindled colour.
brocked brockit	variegated, esp. black and white.
bromeosin	another name for EOSIN, a red dye stuff.
bronzy	like bronze > BRONZIER, BRONZIEST.
brown	> BROWNER, BROWNEST; (verb) to make brown.
brownish	somewhat brown.
browny	brown or, somewhat brown > BROWNIER, BROWNIEST.
brunet brunette	with a somewhat brown or dark complexion or hair.
buff	of a yellowish-brown colour.
buffy	of a yellowish-brown colour > BUFFIER, BUFFIEST.
caerule cerule	blue, cerulean.
caerulean cerulean ceruleous	sky-blue; dark blue; sea-green.
caesious cesious	bluish or greyish green.
canescent	hoary; tending to become white or grey.
canities	whitening or greying of the hair. [L. canus, grey].
carmine	a deep red colour.
castory	a brown colour; a brown dye derived from beaver pelts.
celadon	a pale green colour; a kind of pale green glazed pottery. [Fr. Céladon, f. the name of a character in D'Urfé's L'Astrée].
cendre	ash-blond (the e has an accent).
cerise	a colour, deep to vivid purplish-red.
cerulein	a coal-tar dyestuff, producing fast olive-greens.
chica chicha chico	an orange-red dye-stuff used by S. American Indians.
chroma	quality of colour, hue > CHROMAS.
cinereous	like ashes; ash-colored; grayish.
citreous	lemon-coloured; lemony.
citrine	dark greenish-yellow.
claret	a dark red colour.
claybank	brownish-yellow; (noun) a horse of this colour.
cochineal	a dyestuff consisting of the dried bodies of females of the Coccus cacti, an insect native in Mexico, Central America, etc., and found on several species of cactus, esp. Opuntia cochinellifera.
colorant colourant	a substance used for colouring.
colorfast colourfast	having colours that retain their original hue without running or fading.
colorful colourful
colory	possessing colour. Also COLOURY.
colourway colorway	one of several combinations of colours in which e.g. a patterned fabric is available.
coloury	full of colour.
concolor	of the same color; of uniform color.
concolorate	having the same colour on both sides.
copen	a strong light blue colour. [From Copenhagen].
coquelicot	brilliant red; poppy red.
corbeau	a blackish-green colour.
cramesy cramoisie cramoisy	crimson.
creamlaid	of paper, cream or white in colour with a laid watermark.
cremosin cremsin	crimson.
crimson	a deep red.
crimsonness	the state of being crimson > CRIMSONNESSES.
croceate croceous	saffron-coloured.
crocein crocine	a red or orange azo dye.
cudbear	a purple or reddish dyestuff obtained from various lichens. [From Dr. Cuthbert Gofdon, a Scottish chemist].
curcumin curcumine	the saffron-yellow colouring matter of TURMERIC.
cyan	a colour, greenish-blue.
cyanin	a plant pigment, blue in cornflower but red in roses because of its reaction with acids.
cyano	blue or dark blue. No -S hook.
dayglo	of a luminous green, yellow, pink or orange. No -S hook.
dealbate	presenting a white appearance; whitened.
decolor decolour	to deprive of color; to bleach.
dichroic	having the property of DICHROISM, i.e. having two colours; as, a dichroic crystal.
discolor discolour	to alter the natural hue or color of; to change to a different color.
drab	of a dull colour.
drabbish	somewhat drab in color.
dubonnet	a red colour.
dun	greyish brown, mouse-coloured > DUNNER, DUNNEST; (verb) to pursue for a debt.
dunness	the state of being dun.
dunnish	inclined to a dun color.
ecru	(having) the color or appearance of unbleached stuff, as silk, linen, or the like.
embrown imbrown	to give a brown color to.
empurple impurple	to color or tinge with purple.
encolour	to colour or tinge.
encrimson	to colour crimson.
engrain	to dye in grain, or of a fast color.
envermeil	to color with, or as with, vermilion.
eosin eosine	a red dye stuff.
eosinic	of or like EOSIN, a red dye-stuff.
erubescent	growing red; blushing.
erythroid	of a red color; reddish.
ethiops	a black substance; -- formerly applied to various preparations of a black or very dark color.
favel favell	light-brown, chestnut.
fawny	of a yellowish-brown colour > FAWNIER, FAWNIEST.
feldgrau	field-grey, the colour of German military uniforms.
ferruginous	of the colour of rust; impregnated with iron.
filemot philamot philomot	dead-leaf colour; dull brown.
flavescent	yellowish or turning yellow.
flavin flavine	a yellow dye made from the bark of QUERCITRON, an American oak.
flaxen	made of or resembling flax; (especially of hair) light yellow.
flushy	reddish > FLUSHIER, FLUSHIEST.
framboise	raspberry; a shade of pink > raspberry colour.
fuchsin fuchsine	an aniline dye.
fulvid fulvous	dull yellow, tawny.
fusc fuscous	brown, dingy.
gingerous	sandy, reddish.
glaucous	sea-green; greyish-blue. [Gk. glaukos].
glaucously	(adv.) GLAUCOUS, sea-green.
gold	the colour of gold > GOLDER, GOLDEST.
golden	having the colour of gold > GOLDENER, GOLDENEST; (verb) to become golden in colour.
goldenly
goldtone	gold-coloured.
gowd	gold, golden > GOWDER, GOWDEST.
gray	grey > GRAYER, GRAYEST; (verb) to make grey.
grayish	somewhat gray.
grayly
grayness
green	> GREENER, GREENEST; (verb) to make or become green.
greenish	somewhat green.
greenly
greenness
greenth	the state or quality of being green; verdure.
greeny	somewhat green in colour > GREENIER, GREENIEST; (noun) a pound note.
grey	GREYER, GREYEST; (verb) to make grey.
greyish
greyly
greyscale	of or relating to a scale consisting of different shades of the colour grey; (noun) a scale consisting of different shades of grey.
gridelin	a colour, pale purple and red. [Fr. gris-de-lin, flax grey].
griesie gryesie gryesy	grey.
gris grise	grey; (noun) a grey fur.
griseous	pearl-grey or blue-grey; grizzled.
grisled	grizzled. 'The grisled north/Discharges such a tempest' (Pericles). N.B. there is no verb GRISLE*.
grizzle	to make or become grey or grey-haired.
grizzly	somewhat gray; grizzled > GRIZZLIER, GRIZZLIEST; (noun) a grizzly bear.
hawkit	streaked, white-faced. Cf. HAWKIE, a cow with a white-striped face.
hazelly	of the color of the hazelnut; of a light brown. No comp!.
henna	a tree or shrub; a colour, moderate to strong reddish-brown to strong brown; (verb) to colour with henna. [Arabic hinna].
hoar	grey, esp. with age; (verb) to cover with hoar.
hoarily
hoariness
hoary	grey > HOARIER, HOARIEST.
hore	hoar.
hueless	destitute of color.
hyacinthine	of a blue or purple colour.
ianthine	violet-coloured.
icterine	yellowish or marked with yellow.
icteritious	jaundiced; yellow.
inaurate	gilded; golden.
incarnadine	flesh-colored; red, esp > blood red. [L. carnis, flesh and incarnato, flesh-colored].
indigo	a dark blue powder used as a vat dye, orig. obtained from certain plants but now mainly made synthetically > INDIGOS or INDIGOES.
indigoid	a blue dye.
indigotic	relating to INDIGO.
infuscate infuscated	clouded or tinged with brown; obscured; cloudy brown colour.
isabel isabella isabelline	a dingy yellowish-grey or drab.
isochroous	of uniform colour.
jacinthe	an orange colour.
jettiness	the state of being jetty; blackness.
jetty	(adj.) like jet, black > JETTIER, JETTIEST; (noun) a structure similar to a GROYNE but built to keep sand out of a harbor entrance; (verb) to project, jut out.
kermes	a red cochineal-like dye made from dried bodies of certain female insects of Mediterranean; the evergreen oak on which these insects feed.
khaki	dust-coloured, dull brownish. [Urdu khaki, dusty].
lateritious	brick-red in color.
liard lyard lyart liart	grey; dapple-grey.
livid	black and blue; of an ashen colour > LIVIDER, LIVIDEST.
lividity
lividness
lovat	grey-green; blue-green.
lutein	a yellow xanthophyll pigment present in the leaves of plants, in egg-yolk, and in the corpus luteum.
luteolin	a yellow dyestuff obtained from the foliage of the dyer's broom.
luteolous	yellowish.
luteous	golden-yellow; muddy. [L. lutum, mud].
lutescent	yellowish.
lycopene	a red pigment.
madder	a red dye made from brazil wood.
magenta	reddish-purple. [From its discovery about the time of the battle of Magenta in N. Italy, 1859].
mauve	any of a range of dull shades of purple between lilac and maroon > MAUVER, MAUVEST.
mauvein mauveine mauvin mauvine	a mauve dye
mazarine	a rich blue or reddish-blue colour.
melanosity	the state of being MELANOUS, swarthy.
melanous	swarthy, with a black complexion.
minium	vermilion; red lead > MINIUMS not MINIA*.
modena	a dark purple color. [From the N. Italian city of Modena].
monochroic	of one colour.
multihued	with many hues.
nacarat	a bright orange-red; a fabric so coloured.
nigrescence	blackness; dark colouring or pigmentation.
nigricant	of a blackish colour.
nigrify	to blacken.
nigrosin nigrosine	a blackish coal-tar colour dye.
noncolor	something that is not a colour.
noncolored	not coloured.
nongreen	not green.
nutbrown	having the colour of a nut.
oaker	ochre.
ocher ochre	a native pigment composed of fine earth and an iron oxide; (verb) to colour with ochre.
ocherous ochrous ochraceous ochreous ochroid ochry ochery ochrey	containing or resembling OCHRE.
ochroleucous	yellowish white.
olivaceous	olive-coloured.
orange	ORANGER, ORANGEST.
orangey orangy	somewhat ORANGE > ORANGIER, ORANGIEST.
orangish	somewhat ORANGE.
orcein	a reddish brown amorphous dyestuff, obtained from ORCIN and forming the essential coloring matter of CUDBEAR and ARCHIL. It is closely related to litmus.
orchel orchella orchil orseille	a dye obtained from certain lichens. Cf. ARCHIL.
orpin	a yellow pigment of various degrees of intensity, approaching also to red.
outred outredden	to surpass in redness.
overdye	to dye with excess of color; to put one color over (another).
overred	to smear with red.
oxblood	a dark reddish-brown colour.
palish	somewhat pale or wan.
pallid	pale; wan > PALLIDER, PALLIDEST.
pallidity	pallidness; paleness.
pallor	paleness e.g. of the complexion.
paly	pale in colour > PALIER, PALIEST.
peachblow	a delicate purplish-pink colour, used as a glaze on porcelain.
phaeic	dusky. [Gk. phaios, dusky].
philamot philomot	dead-leaf colour; dull brown. Cf. FILEMOT.
pigmental	of or pertaining to pigments; furnished with pigments.
pink	PINKER, PINKEST; (verb) to prick, wound slightly.
pinken	to become pink.
pinkiness	the state of being PINKY.
pinkish	somewhat pink.
pinkly
pinkness
pinky	somewhat pink > PINKIER, PINKIEST; (noun) a little finger.
pistache	a shade of green.
pleochroic polychroic	displaying different colours when seen from different directions.
plumbeous	leaden; lead-coloured.
polychrome	many-coloured; (noun) a work of art using lots of colours; (verb) to colour in many colours.
ponceau	a poppy-coloured red dye > PONCEAUS or PONCEAUX.
porphyrous	purple.
porporate	clad in purple.
porraceous	leek-green.
primrose	pale yellow; (verb) to gather primroses.
primuline	a yellow coal-tar dye.
prussian	As in prussian blue, ferric ferrocyanide, a colour pigment, discovered in Berlin.
puce	brownish-purple; purplish-pink > PUCER, PUCEST.
purple	> PURPLE, PURPLEST; (verb) to make purple.
purpleness	the state of being PURPLE.
purplish	somewhat purple.
purply	somewhat purple > PURPLIER, PURPLIEST.
purpureal	purple.
pyrrhous	reddish; ruddy.
raddle reddle ruddle	red ochre; (verb) to redden with this.
red	> REDDER, REDDEST; (verb) to tidy up, also REDD.
redden	to make red
reddish
reddishly	rEDDISH, somewhat red.
reddy	reddish > REDDIER, REDDIEST.
redness
redye	to dye again.
regreen	to make green again.
rosanilin	a reddish-brown derivative of ANILIN used as a dye.
rose	(verb) to redden.
rosiness
rosy	rose-coloured > ROSIER, ROSIEST; (verb) to redden.
roucou	a bright orange colouring matter, aka ANNATTO. [Fr. ro(u)cou f. Galibi rucu var. of Tupi urucú].
rubefy rubify	to redden.
rubescent	growing red; blushing.
rubicund	inclining to redness; ruddy; red.
rubiginose rubiginous	rust-coloured.
rubineous	ruby-red.
rubious	ruby red; rusty.
ruby	red like a ruby > RUBIER, RUBIEST; (verb) to redden.
rud	redness of complexion; (verb) to redden > RUDDED, RUDDING.
ruddily
ruddiness
ruddy	reddish > RUDDIER, RUDDIEST; to redden.
rufescence	the state of being RUFESCENT, inclined to redness.
rufescent	inclining to redness.
rufous	reddish or brownish-red.
russet	reddish brown; (verb) to make or become russet in colour.
russety	of a russet color.
saffrony	having a color somewhat like saffron; yellowish.
safranin safranine	the yellow colouring matter in saffron; a coal tar derivative which dyes yellowish red.
sallow	of an unhealthy pale or yellowish colour > SALLOWER, SALLOWEST; (verb) to make sallow.
sallowish sallowy	somewhat sallow.
sallowly
sapphired	coloured with sapphire blue.
saxe	as in saxe blue, a light bluish-grey colour.
scarlet	(verb) to redden > SCARLETED, SCARLETING.
sepia	a brown pigment, obtained from the ink of the cuttlefish.
sepic	of or pertaining to SEPIA; done in sepia; as, a sepic drawing.
sienna	a fine pigment made from ferruginous ochreous earth, browny-yellow when raw, reddish-brown when burnt. [From the town of Siena].
silvery	like silver > SILVERIER, SILVERIEST.
smalt	a deep-blue pigment.
smaragdine	emerald green.
soare sore	sorrel, reddish brown.
solferino	a moderate purplish-red (after the town of Solferino) > SOLFERINOS.
sorel sorell sorrel	(of) a reddish-brown or light chestnut colour.
spadiceous	chestnut-coloured.
subfusc subfusk subfuscous	duskish; moderately dark; brownish; tawny.
swart	black, dusky.
swarthily	sWARTHY, dark-complexioned, blackish.
swarthy	black > SWARTHIER, SWARTHIEST.
swartness	the quality or state of being SWART.
swarty	swarthy; tawny. No comp!
tan	of a brown colour > TANNER, TANNEST; (verb) TANS, TANNING, TANNED.
tannish	somewhat tan.
taupe	a brownish-gray to dark yellowish-brown colour.
tawnily
tawniness	the quality or state of being tawny.
tawny	yellowish-brown > TAWNIER, TAWNIEST
thionin thionine	a violet dye.
tinct	to stain, dye.
tinctorial	of or relating to dyeing; giving colour.
tincture	a colouring matter, a dye, a pigment; spec. one used as a cosmetic; (verb) to colour with a tincture.
tinter	a person or thing that tints.
tintiness	the state of being tinted.
tintless	without tint.
tinty	unevenly tinted > TINTIER, TINTIEST.
titian	red-gold or reddish-brown; (noun) this colour.
tricolour tricolor	having three colours; (noun) a flag of three colours; esp. the French national flag of blue, white, and red vertical stripes.
tropeolin	a type of dye.
trypan	as in trypan dye, a blue dye obtained from tolidine.
turacin	a red or crimson pigment obtained from certain feathers of several species of TURACOU; whence the name.
ultramarine	beyond the sea; (of) greenish- blue color or pigment.
umber	brownish red; (verb) to colour brownish red.
umbery	of or pertaining to umber; like umber; as, umbery gold.
uncolored	not colored.
undertint	a tint underlying another tint.
ungreen	not green.
unicolor unicolour	having one colour
unwhite	not white.
varicolored	of different colours.
verdancy	the quality of being verdant.
verdant	green, esp. of growth.
verdure	greenness; health and vigour.
verdured	clad with VERDURE, greenness.
vermeil	bright red; scarlet; vermilion; (verb) to make crimson > VERMEILED/VERMEILLED. Cf. VERMIL, VERMEILLE.
vermeille	bright red; scarlet; vermilion; (verb) to make crimson. Cf. VERMIL, VERMEIL.
vermell	= VERMEIL, bright red.
vermil	bright red; scarlet; vermilion; (verb) to make crimson > VERMILLED/VERMILLING. Cf. VERMEIL, VERMEILLE.
vermilion	bright red; (verb) to make vermilion.
vermillion	bright red.
vermily	vermilion. Cf. VERMIL, VERMELL.
versicolor versicolour	of variable or various colours. Also VERSICOLOR.
vinaceous	of the colour of wine, dark-red. Used esp. for the unique dark-red coloring of some birds, like the vinaceous amazon or vinaceous rosefinch.
virent	green; not withered.
virescent	becoming or slightly green.
virid	bright green.
viridian	chrome green.
viridity	greenness; freshness.
wan	of a pale colour > WANNER, WANNEST; (verb) to make wan > WANS, WANNING, WANNED.
wanness	the quality or state of being wan.
wannish	somewhat wan; of a pale hue.
wheaten	the golden colour of ripe wheat.
white	WHITER, WHITEST; (verb) to make white.
whitely
whiteness
whitish	somewhat white.
whity	whiteish > WHITIER, WHITIEST; (noun) a white person. Also WHITEY.
willowish	of the colour of willow leaves.
woaded	colored or stained with woad.
woald	a yellow pigment.
woodtone	a colour matching that of wood > WOODTONES.
xanthein	a soluble yellow colouring matter present in flowers.
xanthic	yellow; yellowish.
xanthous	yellow- or red-haired; yellow-skinned.
yellow	YELLOWER, YELLOWEST; (verb) to make yellow
yellowish
yellowly
yellowy	somewhat yellow > YELLOWIER, YELLOWIEST.
zaffar zaffer zaffir zaffre	a blue ceramic colouring.

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