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8 ebony, the name of a black-colored wood.)

is a variety of lignite, that is, of fossil wood, which having been buried for thousands of years in the earth, has been converted into coal.

Jet is exceedingly black, and breaks with a glossy fracture. Hence,

, denoting the highest possible degree of blackness.

, characterized by the blackness of the bird thus named; as, raven locks.

, black. (L.) Hence,

Negro, a black person of the African race.

Nigrescent, approaching to blackness.

Denigrate, to blacken.

is a bright color like that of blood.

is a bright red.

is a dark red.

is a light red, like that of the flower thus named.

, rose-colored, that is, moderately red.

, of a reddish color, like that of the cheeks of a healthy child.

, to be red. (L.) Hence,

Rubescent, tending to a red color.

Rubicund, inclining to redness.

Rubefacient, in medicine, an external application which produces redness of the skin. (L. facio, to make.)

Ruby, a precious stone of a red color.

Rubeola, the measles; thus called from the redness of the skin.

Erubescence, a redness of the skin or surface of any thing, resembling the redness caused by blushing.

is a flesh color. A certain species of pink is, from its color, called the carnation. (L. caro [carnis], flesh.)

is a bright red paint. Hence the term vermilion is employed to signify any beautiful red color. We speak of the vermilion of a maiden's lips.

is a paint of a beautiful red color bordering on purple.

A is a temporary redness of the face caused by a sense of shame or abashment.

A is a sudden reddening of the face from mental excitement, or from bodily disease.

To is to be red.

See Arts. Light and Heat.

is a bright color resembling that of gold.

is a disease thus named from the yellowness of the skin by which it is characterized. (Fr., jaune, yellow.)

, yellow, as from illness.

is a combination of red and yellow, like the color of the fruit thus named.

is the characteristic color of the clear sky.

is a sky-blue.

signifies sky-colored.

is a beautiful sky-blue paint, formed of a mineral called lapis lazuli.

is a deep-blue color like that of the drug.

means black-and-blue. The skin may become livid in consequence of a severe contusion.

is a dark-blue, inclining to red, like the color of the flower thus named.

is the color of fresh foliage, and is a compound of yellow and blue.

signifies green, and is properly applied only to the greenness of vegetation; as, verdant meads.

Verdure is the greenness of the fields and forests during the summer season.

, when applied as an epithet to any particular color, denotes a