[derogatory terms for black-skinned people] Negro, blackamoor, man of
color, nigger, darkie, Ethiop, black; buck, nigger [U.  S.]; coon [U.  S.], sambo.
     [Pigments] lampblack, ivory black, blueblack; writing ink, printing
ink, printer’s ink, Indian ink, India ink. 
     V. be black &c. adj.; render -black &c. adj.
     blacken, infuscate[obs3], denigrate; blot, blotch; smutch[obs3];
smirch; darken &c. 421.
     black, sable, swarthy, somber, dark, inky, ebony, ebon,
atramentous[obs3], jetty; coal-black, jet-black; fuliginous[obs3], pitchy, sooty, swart, dusky, dingy, murky, Ethiopic; low-toned, low in tone; of the deepest dye.
     black as jet &c. n., black as my hat, black as a shoe, black as a
tinker’s pot, black as November, black as thunder, black as midnight; nocturnal &c. (dark) 421; nigrescent[obs3]; gray &c. 432; obscure &c. 421. 
     Adv. in mourning.

     #432.  Gray. —­ N. gray &c. adj.; neutral tint, silver, pepper and
salt, chiaroscuro, grisaille[Fr].
     [Pigments] Payne’s gray; black &c. 431. 
     Adj. gray, grey; iron-gray, dun, drab, dingy, leaden, livid, somber,
sad, pearly, russet, roan; calcareous, limy, favillous[obs3]; silver, silvery, silvered; ashen, ashy; cinereous[obs3], cineritious[obs3]; grizzly, grizzled; slate-colored, stone-colored, mouse-colored, ash-colored; cool.

     #433.  Brown. —­ N. brown &c. adj. bister[obs3][Pigments], ocher,
sepia, Vandyke brown. 
     V. render brown &c. adj.; tan, embrown[obs3], bronze. 
     Adj. brown, bay, dapple, auburn, castaneous[obs3], chestnut, nut-
brown, cinnamon, russet, tawny, fuscous[obs3], chocolate, maroon, foxy, tan, brunette, whitey brown[obs3]; fawn-colored, snuff-colored, liver-colored; brown as a berry, brown as mahogany, brown as the oak leaves; khaki.
     sun-burnt; tanned &c. v.

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     #434.  Redness. —­ N. red, scarlet, vermilion, carmine, crimson, pink,
lake, maroon, carnation, couleur de rose[Fr], rose du Barry[obs3]; magenta, damask, purple; flesh color, flesh tint; color; fresh color, high color; warmth; gules[Heraldry].
     ruby, carbuncle; rose; rust, iron mold.
     [Dyes and pigments] cinnabar, cochineal; fuchsine[obs3]; ruddle[obs3],
madder; Indian red, light red, Venetian red; red ink, annotto[obs3]; annatto[obs3], realgar[ISA:mineral], minium[obs3], red lead.
     redness &c. adj.; rubescence[obs3], rubicundity, rubification[obs3];
erubescence[obs3], blush. 
     V. be red, become red &c.adj.; blush, flush, color up, mantle, redden.
     render red &c. adj.; redden, rouge; rubify[obs3], rubricate;
incarnadine.; ruddle[obs3]. 
     Adj. red &c. n., reddish; rufous, ruddy, florid, incarnadine,
sanguine; rosy, roseate; blowzy, blowed[obs3]; burnt; rubicund, rubiform[obs3]; lurid, stammell blood red[obs3]; russet buff, murrey[obs3], carroty[obs3], sorrel,