[instruments to measure color] prism, spectroscope, spectrograph,
spectrometer, colorimeter (optical instruments) 445.
     pigment, coloring matter, paint, dye, wash, distemper, stain; medium;
mordant; oil paint &c. painting 556. 
     V. color, dye, tinge, stain, tint, tinct[obs3], paint, wash, ingrain,
grain, illuminate, emblazon, bedizen, imbue; paint &c. (fine art) 556. 
     Adj. colored &c. v.; colorific[obs3], tingent[obs3], tinctorial[obs3];
chromatic, prismatic; full-colored, high-colored, deep-colored; doubly-dyed; polychromatic; chromatogenous[obs3]; tingible[obs3].
     bright, vivid, intense, deep; fresh, unfaded[obs3]; rich, gorgeous;
gay.
     gaudy, florid; gay, garish; rainbow-colored, multihued; showy,
flaunting, flashy; raw, crude; glaring, flaring; discordant, inharmonious.
     mellow, pastel, harmonious, pearly, sweet, delicate, tender, refined.

     #429. [Absence of color.] Achromatism. —­ N. achromatism[obs3];
decoloration[obs3], discoloration; pallor, pallidness, pallidity[obs3]; paleness &c. adj.; etiolation; neutral tint, monochrome, black and white. 
     V. lose color &c. 428; fade, fly, go; become colorless &c. adj.; turn
pale, pale.
     deprive of color, decolorize, bleach, tarnish, achromatize, blanch,
etiolate, wash out, tone down. 
     Adj. uncolored &c. (see color &c. 428); colorless, achromatic,
aplanatic[obs3]; etiolate, etiolated; hueless[obs3], pale, pallid; palefaced[obs3], tallow-faced; faint, dull, cold, muddy, leaden, dun, wan, sallow, dead, dingy, ashy, ashen, ghastly, cadaverous, glassy, lackluster; discolored &c. v.
     light-colored, fair, blond; white &c. 430.
     pale as death, pale as ashes, pale as a witch, pale as a ghost, pale
as a corpse, white as a corpse.

     #430.  Whiteness. —­ N. whiteness &c. adj.; argent.
albification[obs3], etiolation; lactescence[obs3].
     snow, paper, chalk, milk, lily, ivory, alabaster; albata[obs3],
eburin[obs3], German silver, white metal, barium sulphate[Chem], titanium oxide, blanc fixe[Fr], ceruse[obs3], pearl white; white lead, carbonate of lead. 
     V. be white &c. adj.
     render white &c. adj.; whiten, bleach, blanch, etiolate, whitewash,
silver. 
     Adj. white; milk-white, snow-white; snowy; niveous[obs3], candid,
chalky; hoar, hoary; silvery; argent, argentine; canescent[obs3], cretaceous, lactescent[obs3].
     whitish, creamy, pearly, fair, blond; blanched &c. v.; high in tone,
light.
     white as a sheet, white as driven snow, white as a lily, white as
silver; like ivory &c. n.

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     #431.  Blackness. —­ N. blackness &c. adj.; darkness &c. (want of
light). 421; swartliness[obs3], lividity, dark color, tone, color; chiaroscuro &c. 420.
     nigrification[obs3], infuscation[obs3].
     jet, ink, ebony, coal pitch, soot, charcoal, sloe, smut, raven, crow.