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Webster 1913 Edition

Colored

Col′ored

,
Adj.
1.
Having color; tinged; dyed; painted; stained.
The lime rod,
colored
as the glede.
Chaucer.
The
colored
rainbow arched wide.
Spenser.
2.
Specious; plausible; adorned so as to appear well;
as, a highly
colored
description
.
Sir G. C. Lewis.
His
colored
crime with craft to cloke.
Spenser.
3.
Of some other color than black or white.
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.
5.
(Bot.)
Of some other color than green.
Colored
, meaning, as applied to foliage, of some other color than green.
Gray.
☞ In botany, green is not regarded as a color, but white is.
Wood.

Webster 1828 Edition

Colored

COLORED

,
pp.
1.
Having the external appearance changed; dyed; tinged; painted stained.
2.
Streaked; striped; having a diversity of hues.
3.
Having a specious appearance.
Colored people, black people, Africans or their descendants, mixed or unmixed.

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