n. [ Pref. anti- + chlorine. ] (Chem.) Any substance (but especially sodium hyposulphite) used in removing the excess of chlorine left in paper pulp or stuffs after bleaching. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. apeleur, fr. L. appellator, fr. appellare. ] (Law) (a) The person who institutes an appeal, or prosecutes another for a crime. Blackstone. (b) One who confesses a felony committed and accuses his accomplices. Blount. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This word is rarely or never used for the plaintiff in appeal from a lower court, who is called the appellant. Appellee is opposed both to appellant and appellor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Ger. erzkanzler. See Arch-, pref. ] A chief chancellor; -- an officer in the old German empire, who presided over the secretaries of the court. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. bacheler young man, F. bachelier (cf. Pr. bacalar, Sp. bachiller, Pg. bacharel, It. baccalare), LL. baccalarius the tenant of a kind of farm called baccalaria, a soldier not old or rich enough to lead his retainers into battle with a banner, a person of an inferior academical degree aspiring to a doctorate. In the latter sense, it was afterward changed to baccalaureus. See Baccalaureate, n. ] 1. A man of any age who has not been married. [ 1913 Webster ]

As merry and mellow an old bachelor as ever followed a hound. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An unmarried woman. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A person who has taken the first or lowest degree in the liberal arts, or in some branch of science, at a college or university; as, a bachelor of arts. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A knight who had no standard of his own, but fought under the standard of another in the field; often, a young knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. In the companies of London tradesmen, one not yet admitted to wear the livery; a junior member. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Zool.) A kind of bass, an edible fresh-water fish (Pomoxys annularis) of the southern United States. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Law) One who delivers goods or money to another in trust. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. bicolor; bis twice + color color. ] Of two colors. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. canceler, chaunceler, F. chancelier, LL. cancellarius chancellor, a director of chancery, fr. L. cancelli lattices, crossbars, which surrounded the seat of judgment. See Chancel. ] A judicial court of chancery, which in England and in the United States is distinctively a court with equity jurisdiction. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The chancellor was originally a chief scribe or secretary under the Roman emperors, but afterward was invested with judicial powers, and had superintendence over the other officers of the empire. From the Roman empire this office passed to the church, and every bishop has his chancellor, the principal judge of his consistory. In later times, in most countries of Europe, the chancellor was a high officer of state, keeper of the great seal of the kingdom, and having the supervision of all charters, and like public instruments of the crown, which were authenticated in the most solemn manner. In France a secretary is in some cases called a chancellor. In Scotland, the appellation is given to the foreman of a jury, or assize. In the present German empire, the chancellor is the president of the federal council and the head of the imperial administration. In the United States, the title is given to certain judges of courts of chancery or equity, established by the statutes of separate States. Blackstone. Wharton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Chancellor of a bishop or
Chancellor of a diocese (R. C. Ch. & ch. of Eng.), a law officer appointed to hold the bishop's court in his diocese, and to assist him in matter of ecclesiastical law. --
Chancellor of a cathedral, one of the four chief dignitaries of the cathedrals of the old foundation, and an officer whose duties are chiefly educational, with special reference to the cultivation of theology. --
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, an officer before whom, or his deputy, the court of the duchy chamber of Lancaster is held. This is a special jurisdiction. --
Chancellor of a university, the chief officer of a collegiate body. In Oxford, he is elected for life; in Cambridge, for a term of years; and his office is honorary, the chief duties of it devolving on the vice chancellor. --
Chancellor of the exchequer, a member of the British cabinet upon whom devolves the charge of the public income and expenditure as the highest finance minister of the government. --
Chancellor of the order of the Garter (or other military orders), an officer who seals the commissions and mandates of the chapter and assembly of the knights, keeps the register of their proceedings, and delivers their acts under the seal of their order. --
Lord high chancellor of England, the presiding judge in the court of chancery, the highest judicial officer of the crown, and the first lay person of the state after the blood royal. He is created chancellor by the delivery into his custody of the great seal, of which he becomes keeper. He is privy counselor by his office, and prolocutor of the House of Lords by prescription. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Written also colour. ] [ OF. color, colur, colour, F. couleur, L. color; prob. akin to celare to conceal (the color taken as that which covers). See Helmet. ] 1. A property depending on the relations of light to the eye, by which individual and specific differences in the hues and tints of objects are apprehended in vision; as, gay colors; sad colors, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The sensation of color depends upon a peculiar function of the retina or optic nerve, in consequence of which rays of light produce different effects according to the length of their waves or undulations, waves of a certain length producing the sensation of red, shorter waves green, and those still shorter blue, etc. White, or ordinary, light consists of waves of various lengths so blended as to produce no effect of color, and the color of objects depends upon their power to absorb or reflect a greater or less proportion of the rays which fall upon them. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any hue distinguished from white or black. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The hue or color characteristic of good health and spirits; ruddy complexion. [ 1913 Webster ]

Give color to my pale cheek. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. That which is used to give color; a paint; a pigment; as, oil colors or water colors. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. That which covers or hides the real character of anything; semblance; excuse; disguise; appearance. [ 1913 Webster ]

They had let down the boat into the sea, under color as though they would have cast anchors out of the foreship. Acts xxvii. 30. [ 1913 Webster ]

That he should die is worthy policy;
But yet we want a color for his death. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Shade or variety of character; kind; species. [ 1913 Webster ]

Boys and women are for the most part cattle of this color. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. A distinguishing badge, as a flag or similar symbol (usually in the plural); as, the colors or color of a ship or regiment; the colors of a race horse (that is, of the cap and jacket worn by the jockey). [ 1913 Webster ]

In the United States each regiment of infantry and artillery has two colors, one national and one regimental. Farrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. (Law) An apparent right; as where the defendant in trespass gave to the plaintiff an appearance of title, by stating his title specially, thus removing the cause from the jury to the court. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Color is express when it is averred in the pleading, and implied when it is implied in the pleading. [ 1913 Webster ]

Body color. See under Body. --
Color blindness, total or partial inability to distinguish or recognize colors. See Daltonism. --
Complementary color, one of two colors so related to each other that when blended together they produce white light; -- so called because each color makes up to the other what it lacks to make it white. Artificial or pigment colors, when mixed, produce effects differing from those of the primary colors, in consequence of partial absorption. --
Of color (as persons, races, etc.), not of the white race; -- commonly meaning, esp. in the United States, of negro blood, pure or mixed. --
Primary colors, those developed from the solar beam by the prism, viz., red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet, which are reduced by some authors to three, -- red, green, and violet-blue. These three are sometimes called fundamental colors. --
Subjective color or
Accidental color, a false or spurious color seen in some instances, owing to the persistence of the luminous impression upon the retina, and a gradual change of its character, as where a wheel perfectly white, and with a circumference regularly subdivided, is made to revolve rapidly over a dark object, the teeth of the wheel appear to the eye of different shades of color varying with the rapidity of rotation. See Accidental colors, under Accidental. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Colored p. pr. & vb. n. Coloring. ] [ F. colorer. ] 1. To change or alter the hue or tint of, by dyeing, staining, painting, etc.; to dye; to tinge; to paint; to stain. [ 1913 Webster ]

The rays, to speak properly, are not colored; in them there is nothing else than a certain power and disposition to stir up a sensation of this or that color. Sir I. Newton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To change or alter, as if by dyeing or painting; to give a false appearance to; usually, to give a specious appearance to; to cause to appear attractive; to make plausible; to palliate or excuse; as, the facts were colored by his prejudices. [ 1913 Webster ]

He colors the falsehood of Æneas by an express command from Jupiter to forsake the queen. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To hide. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

That by his fellowship he color might
Both his estate and love from skill of any wight. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To acquire color; to turn red, especially in the face; to blush. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. concolor; con- + color color. ] Of the same color; of uniform color. [ R. ] “Concolor animals.” Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A member of a council. [ Written also councillor. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The distinction between councilor, a member of a council, and counselor, one who gives counsel, was not formerly made, but is now very generally recognized and observed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. same as counselor.
Syn. -- counselor. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Written also counsellor. ] [ OE. conseiler, F. conseiller, fr. L. consiliarius, fr. consilium counsel. ] 1. One who counsels; an adviser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Can he that speaks with the tongue of an enemy be a good counselor, or no? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A member of council; one appointed to advise a sovereign or chief magistrate. [ See under Consilor. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One whose profession is to give advice in law, and manage causes for clients in court; a barrister.
Syn. -- advocate, counsel, counselor, counselor-at-law; attorney. [ 1913 Webster ]

Good counselors lack no clients. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. someone who has supervisory duties at a summer camp. [ PJC ]

v. t. [ Cf. F. décolorer, L. decolorare. Cf. Discolor. ] To deprive of color; to bleach. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Discolored p. pr. & vb. n. Discoloring. ] [ OE. descolouren, OF. descolorer, F. décolorer, fr. L. dis- + cololare, coloratum, to color, color color. See Color. ] [ Written also discolour. ] 1. To alter the natural hue or color of; to change to a different color; to stain; to tinge; as, a drop of wine will discolor water; silver is discolored by sea water. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To alter the true complexion or appearance of; to put a false hue upon. [ 1913 Webster ]

To discolor all your ideas. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. dolor, dolur, dolour, F. douleur, L. dolor, fr. dolere. See 1st Dole. ] Pain; grief; distress; anguish. [ Written also dolour. ] [ Poetic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Of death and dolor telling sad tidings. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To color. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as funeral home. [ PJC ]

v. t. to add color to (a black-and-white image) using an instrument held in the hand; as, Some old photographs are handcolored.
Syn. -- color by hand. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

{ n., } [ F. isabelle. ] See Isabella.

{ n., . [ Said to be named from the Spanish princess Isabella, daughter of king Philip II., in allusion to the color assumed by her shift, which she wore without change from 1601 to 1604, in consequence of a vow made by her. ] A brownish yellow color. [ 1913 Webster ]

pl. Knights bachelors A knight of the most ancient, but lowest, order of English knights, and not a member of any order of chivalry. See Bachelor, 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To give a wrong color to. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. [ figuratively ] To set forth erroneously or unfairly; to misrepresent; as, to miscolor facts. C. Kingsley. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Multi-, and Color. ] Having many, or several, colors. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. humorously vulgar; mildly obscene; risque; as, an off-color joke.
Syn. -- bawdy, blue, ribald. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. To color too highly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., fr. pallere to be or look pale. See Pale, a. ] Paleness; want of color; pallidity; as, pallor of the complexion. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. parlour, parlur, F. parloir, LL. parlatorium. See Parley. ] [ Written also parlour. ] 1. A room for business or social conversation, for the reception of guests, etc. Specifically: (a) The apartment in a monastery or nunnery where the inmates are permitted to meet and converse with each other, or with visitors and friends from without. Piers Plowman. (b) In large private houses, a sitting room for the family and for familiar guests, -- a room for less formal uses than the drawing-room. Esp., in modern times, the dining room of a house having few apartments, as a London house, where the dining parlor is usually on the ground floor. (c) Commonly, in the United States, a drawing-room, or the room where visitors are received and entertained; a room in a private house where people can sit and talk and relax, not usually the same as the dining room. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

☞ “In England people who have a drawing-room no longer call it a parlor, as they called it of old and till recently.” Fitzed. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A room in an inn or club where visitors can be received. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

Parlor car. See Palace car, under Car. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make motley or parti-colored.
Syn. -- motley. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who follows the business of navigating ships or other vessels; one who understands the practical management of ships; one of the crew of a vessel; a mariner; a common seaman. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Mariner; seaman; seafarer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sailor's choice. (Zool.) (a) An excellent marine food fish (Diplodus rhomboides, syn. Lagodon rhomboides) of the Southern United States; -- called also porgy, squirrel fish, yellowtail, and salt-water bream. (b) A species of grunt (Orthopristis chrysopterus syn. Pomadasys chrysopterus), an excellent food fish common on the southern coasts of the United States; -- called also hogfish, and pigfish. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A color not mixed or variegated. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. G. similor, semilor. ] A yellowish alloy of copper and zinc. See Simplor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. L. similus similar + F. or gold, L. aurum. Cf. Semilor. ] An alloy of copper and zinc, resembling brass, but of a golden color. Ure. [ 1913 Webster ]

A dark bluish gray color. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., fr. squalere to be foul or filthy. ] Squalidness; foulness; filthiness; squalidity. [ 1913 Webster ]

The heterogeneous indigent multitude, everywhere wearing nearly the same aspect of squalor. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

To bring this sort of squalor among the upper classes. Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. tailleor, F. tailleur, fr. OF. taillier, F. tailler to cut, fr. L. talea a rod, stick, a cutting, layer for planting. Cf. Detail, Entail, Retail, Tally, n. ] 1. One whose occupation is to cut out and make men's garments; also, one who cuts out and makes ladies' outer garments. [ 1913 Webster ]

Well said, good woman's tailor . . . I would thou wert a man's tailor. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) (a) The mattowacca; -- called also tailor herring. (b) The silversides. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) The goldfish. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Salt-water tailor (Zool.), the bluefish. [ Local, U. S. ] Bartlett. --
Tailor bird (Zool.), any one of numerous species of small Asiatic and East Indian singing birds belonging to Orthotomus, Prinia, and allied genera. They are noted for the skill with which they sew leaves together to form nests. The common Indian species are Orthotomus longicauda, which has the back, scapulars, and upper tail coverts yellowish green, and the under parts white; and the golden-headed tailor bird (Orthotomus coronatus), which has the top of the head golden yellow and the back and wings pale olive-green. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Tailored p. pr. & vb. n. Tailoring. ] To practice making men's clothes; to follow the business of a tailor. [ 1913 Webster ]

These tailoring artists for our lays
Invent cramped rules. M. Green. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ a treadmark ] the name of one process used for color cinematography; -- also used attributively. [ trademark ] [ PJC ]

‖n. [ Sp. ] An earthquake. [ Western U. S. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Designating, or pert. to, a photomechanical process employing printings in three colors, as red, yellow, and blue. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. tricolore, drapeau tricolore a tricolored flag, fr. tricolore three-colored; tri (see Tri-) + L. color color. ] [ Written also tricolour. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The national French banner, of three colors, blue, white, and red, adopted at the first revolution. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, any three-colored flag. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. valour, OF. valor, valur, valour, F. valeur, LL. valor, fr. L. valere to be strong, or worth. See Valiant. ] [ Written also valour. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Value; worth. [ Obs. ] “The valor of a penny.” Sir T. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Strength of mind in regard to danger; that quality which enables a man to encounter danger with firmness; personal bravery; courage; prowess; intrepidity. [ 1913 Webster ]

For contemplation he and valor formed. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

When valor preys on reason,
It eats the sword it fights with. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A brave man; a man of valor. [ R. ] Ld. Lytton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Courage; heroism; bravery; gallantry; boldness; fearlessness. See Courage, and Heroism. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. versicolor; versare to change + color color. ] Having various colors; changeable in color. “Versicolor, sweet-smelling flowers.” Burton. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Paint.) 1. A color ground with water and gum or other glutinous medium; a color the vehicle of which is water; -- so called in distinction from oil color. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ It preserves its consistency when dried in a solid cake, which is used by rubbing off a portion on a moistened palette. Moist water colors are water colors kept in a semifluid or pasty state in little metal tubes or pans. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A picture painted with such colors. [ 1913 Webster ]