Ad Valorem :: Ad valorem () A term used to denote a duty or charge laid upon goods, at a certain rate per cent upon their value, as stated in their invoice, -- in opposition to a specific sum upon a given quantity or number; as, an ad valorem duty of twenty per cent..
Ash-colored :: Ash-colored (a.) Of the color of ashes; a whitish gray or brownish gray.
Blore :: Blore (n.) The act of blowing; a roaring wind; a blast.
Calorescence :: Calorescence (n.) The conversion of obscure radiant heat into light; the transmutation of rays of heat into others of higher refrangibility.
Chrysochlore :: Chrysochlore (n.) A South African mole of the genus Chrysochloris; the golden mole, the fur of which reflects brilliant metallic hues of green and gold..
Colored :: Colored (a.) Having color; tinged; dyed; painted; stained.
Colored :: Colored (a.) Specious; plausible; adorned so as to appear well; as, a highly colored description..
Colored :: Colored (a.) Of some other color than black or white.
Colored :: Colored (a.) Of some other color than white; specifically applied to negroes or persons having negro blood; as, a colored man; the colored people..
Colored :: Colored (a.) Of some other color than green.
Cream-colored :: Cream-colored (a.) Of the color of cream; light yellow.
Deplore :: Deplore (v. t.) To feel or to express deep and poignant grief for; to bewail; to lament; to mourn; to sorrow over.
Effloresce :: Effloresce (v. i.) To change on the surface, or throughout, to a whitish, mealy, or crystalline powder, from a gradual decomposition, esp. from the loss of water, on simple exposure to the air; as, Glauber's salts, and many others, effloresce..
Effloresce :: Effloresce (v. i.) To become covered with a whitish crust or light crystallization, from a slow chemical change between some of the ingredients of the matter covered and an acid proceeding commonly from an external source; as, the walls of limestone caverns sometimes effloresce with nitrate of calcium in consequence of the action in consequence of nitric acid formed in the atmosphere..