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Eye-spot :: Eye-spot (n.) A simple visual organ found in many invertebrates, consisting of pigment cells covering a sensory nerve termination..

Pigmented :: Pigmented (a.) Colored; specifically (Biol.), filled or imbued with pigment; as, pigmented epithelial cells; pigmented granules..

Smalt :: Smalt (v. t.) A deep blue pigment or coloring material used in various arts. It is a vitreous substance made of cobalt, potash, and calcined quartz fused, and reduced to a powder..

Xylindein :: Xylindein (n.) A green or blue pigment produced by Peziza in certain kinds of decayed wood, as the beech, oak, birch, etc., and extracted as an amorphous powder resembling indigo..

Auripigment :: Auripigment (n.) See Orpiment.

Carmine :: Carmine (n.) A beautiful pigment, or a lake, of this color, prepared from cochineal, and used in miniature painting..

Euxanthin :: Euxanthin (n.) A yellow pigment imported from India and China. It has a strong odor, and is said to be obtained from the urine of herbivorous animals when fed on the mango. It consists if a magnesium salt of euxanthic acid. Called also puri, purree, and Indian yellow..

Colcothar :: Colcothar (n.) Polishing rouge; a reddish brown oxide of iron, used in polishing glass, and also as a pigment; -- called also crocus Martis..

Melanaemia :: Melanaemia (n.) A morbid condition in which the blood contains black pigment either floating freely or imbedded in the white blood corpuscles.

Pigmentous :: Pigmentous (a.) Pigmental.

Urobilin :: Urobilin (n.) A yellow pigment identical with hydrobilirubin, abundant in the highly colored urine of fever, and also present in normal urine. See Urochrome..

Cassius :: Cassius (n.) A brownish purple pigment, obtained by the action of some compounds of tin upon certain salts of gold. It is used in painting and staining porcelain and glass to give a beautiful purple color. Commonly called Purple of Cassius..

Turacoverdin :: Turacoverdin (n.) A green pigment found in the feathers of the turacou. See Turacin.

Color :: Color (n.) That which is used to give color; a paint; a pigment; as, oil colors or water colors..

Russet :: Russet (n.) A russet color; a pigment of a russet color.

Ochre :: Ochre (n.) A impure earthy ore of iron or a ferruginous clay, usually red (hematite) or yellow (limonite), -- used as a pigment in making paints, etc. The name is also applied to clays of other colors..

Levigate :: Levigate (v. t.) Technically, to make smooth by rubbing in a moist condition between hard surfaces, as in grinding pigments..

Vehicle :: Vehicle (n.) Any liquid with which a pigment is applied, including whatever gum, wax, or glutinous or adhesive substance is combined with it..

Paint :: Paint (n.) A pigment or coloring substance.

Sepia :: Sepia (n.) A pigment prepared from the ink, or black secretion, of the sepia, or cuttlefish. Treated with caustic potash, it has a rich brown color; and this mixed with a red forms Roman sepia. Cf. India ink, under India..

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