‖ [ L., according to the value. ] (Com.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of the color of ashes; a whitish gray or brownish gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

n. [ Perh. a variant of blare, v. i.; or cf. Gael. & Ir. blor a loud noise. ] The act of blowing; a roaring wind; a blast. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A most tempestuous blore. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. rose-colored.
Syn. -- blushful, rosy. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. calor heat. ] (Physics) The conversion of obscure radiant heat into light; the transmutation of rays of heat into others of higher refrangibility. Tyndall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. chryso`s gold + chlwro`s light green: cf. F. chrysochlore. ] (Zool.) A South African mole of the genus Chrysochloris; the golden mole, the fur of which reflects brilliant metallic hues of green and gold. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. any alga of the genus Chlorella. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. 1. Having color; tinged; dyed; painted; stained. [ 1913 Webster ]

The lime rod, colored as the glede. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

The colored rainbow arched wide. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Specious; plausible; adorned so as to appear well; as, a highly colored description. Sir G. C. Lewis. [ 1913 Webster ]

His colored crime with craft to cloke. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Of some other color than black or white. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Ethnol.) Of some other color than white; having a skin color darker than that of caucasian people; mostly applied to negroes or persons having negro blood; as, a colored man; the colored people. Opposite of white and caucasian.
Syn. -- coloured, dark-skinned. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Bot.) Of some other color than green. [ 1913 Webster ]

Colored, meaning, as applied to foliage, of some other color than green. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In botany, green is not regarded as a color, but white is. Wood. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of the color of cream; light yellow. “Cream-colored horses.” Hazlitt. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To lament. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Deplored p. pr. & vb. n. Deploring. ] [ L. deplorare; de- + plorare to cry out, wail, lament; prob. akin to pluere to rain, and to E. flow: cf. F. déplorer. Cf. Flow. ] 1. To feel or to express deep and poignant grief for; to bewail; to lament; to mourn; to sorrow over. [ 1913 Webster ]

To find her, or forever to deplore
Her loss. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

As some sad turtle his lost love deplores. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To complain of. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To regard as hopeless; to give up. [ Obs. ] Bacon.

Syn. -- To Deplore, Mourn, Lament, Bewail, Bemoan. Mourn is the generic term, denoting a state of grief or sadness. To lament is to express grief by outcries, and denotes an earnest and strong expression of sorrow. To deplore marks a deeper and more prolonged emotion. To bewail and to bemoan are appropriate only to cases of poignant distress, in which the grief finds utterance either in wailing or in moans and sobs. A man laments his errors, and deplores the ruin they have brought on his family; mothers bewail or bemoan the loss of their children. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Lamentably. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being deplored or deplorable. [ R. ] Bp. Hail. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Deploration. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who deplores. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Altered in color; stained; spotted or streaked with foreign matter.
Syn. -- discoloured. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Variegated; of divers colors. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

That ever wore discolored arms. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. having the color of soil or earth; reddish or reddish-brown.
Syn. -- earthlike. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Effloresced p. pr. & vb. n. Efflorescing ] [ L. efflorescere to bloom, blossom; ex + florescere to begin to blossom, incho., fr. florere to blossom, fr. flos a flower. See Flower. ] 1. To blossom forth. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Chem.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. 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 of nitric acid formed in the atmosphere. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. efflorescence. ] 1. (Bot.) Flowering, or state of flowering; the blooming of flowers; blowth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) A redness of the skin; eruption, as in rash, measles, smallpox, scarlatina, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Chem.) (a) The formation of the whitish powder or crust on the surface of efflorescing bodies, as salts, etc. (b) The powder or crust thus formed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being efflorescent; efflorescence. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. efflorescent, L. efflorescens, -entis, blooming, p. pr. of efflorescere. See Effloresce, v. i. ] 1. That effloresces, or is liable to effloresce on exposure; as, an efflorescent salt. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Covered with an efflorescence. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. See Implore. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Explored p. pr. & vb. n. Exploring. ] [ L. explorare to explore; ex out+plorare to cry out aloud, prob. orig., to cause to flow; perh. akin to E. flow: cf. F. explorer. ] 1. To seek for or after; to strive to attain by search; to look wisely and carefully for. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Explores the lost, the wandering sheep directs. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To search through or into; to penetrate or range over for discovery; to examine thoroughly; as, to explore new countries or seas; to explore the depths of science. “Hidden frauds [ to ] explore.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of exploring; exploration. [ R. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who explores; also, an apparatus with which one explores, as a diving bell. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of the color of a fawn; light yellowish brown. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of the color of flame; of a bright orange yellow color. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. floréal, fr. L. flos, floris, flower. ] The eight month of the French republican calendar. It began April 20, and ended May 19. See Vendémiare. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. florenus. See Florin. ] A cerain gold coin; a Florence. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From the city of Florence: cf. F. florence a kind of cloth, OF. florin. ] 1. An ancient gold coin of the time of Edward III., of six shillings sterling value. Camden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A kind of cloth. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Florence flask. See under Flask. --
Florence oil, olive oil prepared in Florence. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. Florentinus, fr. Florentia Florence: cf. F. florentin. ] Belonging or relating to Florence, in Italy. [ 1913 Webster ]

Florentine mosaic, a mosaic of hard or semiprecious stones, often so chosen and arranged that their natural colors represent leaves, flowers, and the like, inlaid in a background, usually of black or white marble. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A native or inhabitant of Florence, a city in Italy. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A kind of silk. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A kind of pudding or tart; a kind of meat pie. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Stealing custards, tarts, and florentines. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Florescent. ] (Bot.) A bursting into flower; a blossoming. Martyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. florescens, p. pr. of florescere begin to blossom, incho. fr. florere to blossom, fr. flos, floris, flower. See Flower. ] Expanding into flowers; blossoming. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. florete, F. fleurette, dim. of OF. lor, F. fleur. See Flower, and cf. Floweret, 3d Ferret. ] 1. (Bot.) A little flower; one of the numerous little flowers which compose the head or anthodium in such flowers as the daisy, thistle, and dandelion. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. [ F. fleuret. ] A foil; a blunt sword used in fencing. [ Obs. ] Cotgrave. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ n., or }. Tales, legends, or superstitions long current among the people; the unwritten literature of a culture, such as stories, proverbs, riddles and songs. Trench. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

imp. pl. & p. p. of Forlese. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The beasts their caves, the birds their nests forlore. Fairfax. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. & a. [ Scot. gelore, gilore, galore, fr. Gael. gu leòr, enough; gu- to, also an adverbial prefix + leòr, leòir, enough; or fr. Ir. goleor, the same word. ] Plenty; abundance; in abundance. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ See Gloar. ] To glare; to glower. [ Obs. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Galore. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Having a strong, deep, or glaring color; flushed. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Vivid; strong or forcible in representation; hence, exaggerated; as, high-colored description. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Imploration. [ Obs. ] Spencer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Implored p. pr. & vb. n. Imploring. ] [ L. implorare; pref. im- in + plorare to cry aloud. See Deplore. ] To call upon, or for, in supplication; to beseech; to pray to, or for, earnestly; to petition with urgency; to entreat; to beg; -- followed directly by the word expressing the thing sought, or the person from whom it is sought. [ 1913 Webster ]

Imploring all the gods that reign above. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

I kneel, and then implore her blessing. Shak.

Syn. -- To beseech; supplicate; crave; entreat; beg; solicit; petition; prey; request; adjure. See Beseech. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To entreat; to beg; to prey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who implores. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. inflorescens, p. pr. of inflorescere to begin to blossom; pref. in- in + florescere to begin to blossom: cf. F. inflorescence. See Florescent. ] 1. A flowering; the putting forth and unfolding of blossoms. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) (a) The mode of flowering, or the general arrangement and disposition of the flowers with reference to the axis, and to each other. (b) An axis on which all the buds are flower buds. [ 1913 Webster ]

Inflorescence affords an excellent characteristic mark in distinguishing the species of plants. Milne. [ 1913 Webster ]

Centrifugal inflorescence, determinate inflorescence. --
Centripetal inflorescence, indeterminate inflorescence. See under Determinate, and Indeterminate. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Red; -- from a tradition that Judas Iscariot had red hair and beard. [ 1913 Webster ]

There's treachery in that Judas-colored beard. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having the sandy brown color of the European larks. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a color like liver; dark reddish brown. [ 1913 Webster ]