colored

Definitions

1. 1.Specious; plausible; aborned so as to appear well; as, a highly colored description. Sir G. C. Lewis. His colored crime with craft to cloke. Spenser.
2. 2.Of some other color than black or white.
3. 3.(Ethnol.) Of some other color than white; specifically applied to negroes or persons having negro blood; as, a colored man; the colored people.
4. 4.(Bot.) Of some other color than green. Colored, meaning, as applied to foliage, of some other color than green. Gray. Note: In botany, green is not regarded as a color, but white is. Wood.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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Definition-first questions whose answer is colored.

• What is specious; plausible; aborned so as to appear well; as, a highly colored description. Sir G. C. Lewis. His colored crime with craft to cloke. Spenser called?
• What is of some other color than black or white called?
• What is of some other color than white; specifically applied to negroes or persons having negro blood; as, a colored man; the colored people called?
• What is of some other color than green. Colored, meaning, as applied to foliage, of some other color than green. Gray. Note: In botany, green is not regarded as a color, but white is. Wood called?