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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

1. Having color; tinged; dyed; painted; stained. The lime rod, colored as the glede. Chaucer. The colored rainbow arched wide. Spenser.

2. Specious; plausible; aborned 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. Of some other color than white; specifically applied to negroes or persons having negro blood; as, a colored man; the colored people.

5. Of some other color than green. Colored, meaning, as applied to foliage, of some other color than green. Gray.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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