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Terre-verte :: Terre-verte (n.) An olive-green earth used as a pigment. See Glauconite.

Melanaemia :: Melanaemia (n.) A morbid condition in which the blood contains black pigment either floating freely or imbedded in the white blood corpuscles.

Frankfort Black :: Frankfort black () A black pigment used in copperplate printing, prepared by burning vine twigs, the lees of wine, etc..

Carmine :: Carmine (n.) A beautiful pigment, or a lake, of this color, prepared from cochineal, and used in miniature painting..

Russet :: Russet (n.) A russet color; a pigment of a russet color.

Orpiment :: Orpiment (n.) Arsenic sesquisulphide, produced artificially as an amorphous lemonyellow powder, and occurring naturally as a yellow crystalline mineral; -- formerly called auripigment. It is used in king's yellow, in white Indian fire, and in certain technical processes, as indigo printing..

Pentacrinin :: Pentacrinin (n.) A red and purple pigment found in certain crinoids of the genus Pentacrinus.

Levigate :: Levigate (v. t.) Technically, to make smooth by rubbing in a moist condition between hard surfaces, as in grinding pigments..

Quercitrin :: Quercitrin (n.) A glucoside extracted from the bark of the oak (Quercus) as a bitter citron-yellow crystalline substance, used as a pigment and called quercitron..

Blue :: Blue (n.) One of the seven colors into which the rays of light divide themselves, when refracted through a glass prism; the color of the clear sky, or a color resembling that, whether lighter or darker; a pigment having such color. Sometimes, poetically, the sky..

Quercitron :: Quercitron (n.) Quercitrin, used as a pigment. See Quercitrin..

Pigmentation :: Pigmentation (n.) A deposition, esp. an excessive deposition, of coloring matter; as, pigmentation of the liver..

Turacin :: Turacin (n.) A red or crimson pigment obtained from certain feathers of several species of turacou; whence the name. It contains nearly six per cent of copper.

Distemper :: Distemper (v. t.) A preparation of opaque or body colors, in which the pigments are tempered or diluted with weak glue or size (cf. Tempera) instead of oil, usually for scene painting, or for walls and ceilings of rooms..

Brunswick Green :: Brunswick green () An oxychloride of copper, used as a green pigment; also, a carbonate of copper similarly employed..

Lake :: Lake (n.) A pigment formed by combining some coloring matter, usually by precipitation, with a metallic oxide or earth, esp. with aluminium hydrate; as, madder lake; Florentine lake; yellow lake, etc..

Pigment :: Pigment (n.) Any material from which a dye, a paint, or the like, may be prepared; particularly, the refined and purified coloring matter ready for mixing with an appropriate vehicle..

#NAME? :: -ed () The termination of the past participle of regular, or weak, verbs; also, of analogous participial adjectives from nouns; as, pigmented; talented..

Scrimshaw :: Scrimshaw (v. t.) To ornament, as shells, ivory, etc., by engraving, and (usually) rubbing pigments into the incised lines..

Green :: Green (n.) Any substance or pigment of a green color.

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