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 ] | 
