Definition of pigment

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Pigment (n.) Any material from which a dye, a paint, or the like, may be prepared; particularly, the refined and purified coloring matter ready for mixing with an appropriate vehicle..

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Chromoblast :: Chromoblast (n.) An embryonic cell which develops into a pigment cell.
Impasto :: Impasto (n.) The thickness of the layer or body of pigment applied by the painter to his canvas with especial reference to the juxtaposition of different colors and tints in forming a harmonious whole.
Whiting :: Whiting (n.) Chalk prepared in an impalpable powder by pulverizing and repeated washing, used as a pigment, as an ingredient in putty, for cleaning silver, etc..
Sealing Wax :: Sealing wax () A compound of the resinous materials, pigments, etc., used as a material for seals, as for letters, documents, etc..
Carmine :: Carmine (n.) A beautiful pigment, or a lake, of this color, prepared from cochineal, and used in miniature painting..
Rhodophane :: Rhodophane (n.) The red pigment contained in the inner segments of the cones of the retina in animals. See Chromophane.
Pigment :: Pigment (n.) Wine flavored with species and honey.
Tattoo :: Tattoo (n.) An indelible mark or figure made by puncturing the skin and introducing some pigment into the punctures; -- a mode of ornamentation practiced by various barbarous races, both in ancient and modern times, and also by some among civilized nations, especially by sailors..
Pecten :: Pecten (n.) A vascular pigmented membrane projecting into the vitreous humor within the globe of the eye in birds, and in many reptiles and fishes; -- also called marsupium..
Bronze :: Bronze (a.) A yellowish or reddish brown, the color of bronze; also, a pigment or powder for imitating bronze..
Tapetum :: Tapetum (n.) An area in the pigmented layer of the choroid coat of the eye in many animals, which has an iridescent or metallic luster and helps to make the eye visible in the dark. Sometimes applied to the whole layer of pigmented epithelium of the choroid..
Palette :: Palette (n.) A thin, oval or square board, or tablet, with a thumb hole at one end for holding it, on which a painter lays and mixes his pigments..
Chloasma :: Chloasma (n.) A cutaneous affection characterized by yellow or yellowish brown pigmented spots.
Ceruse :: Ceruse (n.) White lead, used as a pigment. See White lead, under White..
Auripigment :: Auripigment (n.) See Orpiment.
#NAME? :: -ed () The termination of the past participle of regular, or weak, verbs; also, of analogous participial adjectives from nouns; as, pigmented; talented..
Lake :: Lake (n.) A pigment formed by combining some coloring matter, usually by precipitation, with a metallic oxide or earth, esp. with aluminium hydrate; as, madder lake; Florentine lake; yellow lake, etc..
Chromophane :: Chromophane (n.) A general name for the several coloring matters, red, green, yellow, etc., present in the inner segments in the cones of the retina, held in solution by fats, and slowly decolorized by light; distinct from the photochemical pigments of the rods of the retina..
Stercolin :: Stercobilin (n.) A coloring matter found in the faeces, a product of the alteration of the bile pigments in the intestinal canal, -- identical with hydrobilirubin..
Black :: Black (n.) A black pigment or dye.
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