Crossword clues for discolour
discolour
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Discolor \Dis*col"or\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Discolored; p. pr. & vb. n. Discoloring.] [OE. descolouren, OF. descolorer, F. d['e]colorer, fr. L. dis- + cololare, coloratum, to color, color color. See Color.] [Written also discolour.]
To alter the natural hue or color of; to change to a different color; to stain; to tinge; as, a drop of wine will discolor water; silver is discolored by sea water.
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To alter the true complexion or appearance of; to put a false hue upon.
To discolor all your ideas.
--Watts.
discolour \discolour\ v. same as discolor. [Brit.]
Syn: discolor, colour, change color.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
chiefly British English spelling of discolor (q.v.); for ending see -or. Related: Discoloured; discolouring; discolouration.
Wiktionary
vb. (label en British spelling Canadian spelling transitive intransitive) (alternative form of discolor English) (US)
WordNet
Usage examples of "discolour".
On the top landing Miss Bombazine was supporting a discoloured young man against the wallpaper.
The grains being then removed, and examined under the microscope, were found discoloured, with the oilglobules remarkably aggregated.
Therefore the acid which fresh leaves contain, as shown by their discolouring litmus paper when crushed, must be of a different nature from that present in the secretion.
Rachel had opened her window-shutters, as was her wont when the moon was up, and with her small white hands on the window-sash, looked into the wooded solitudes, lost in haunted darkness in every direction but one, and there massed in vaporous and discoloured foliage, hardly more distinct, or less solemn.
Many of the papillae within both the utricles and necks were discoloured, as if they had absorbed matter.
I was surprised to find on two occasions that the heat from the rays of the sun, concentrated by a lens on the bases of several filaments, so that they were scorched and discoloured, did not cause any movement.
The shadows that clung to him extended perhaps an inch from his skin, discolouring the air that surrounded him like a caliginous halo.
Now gan the golden Phoebus for to steepeHis fierie face in billowes of the west,And his faint steedes watred in Ocean deepe,Whiles from their iournall labours they did rest,When that infernall Monster, hauing kestHis wearie foe into that liuing well,Can high aduance his broad discoloured brest,Aboue his wonted pitch, with countenance fell,And clapt his yron wings, as victor he did dwell.
Paul's Rocks, non-volcanic -- Singular Incrustations -- Insects the first Colonists of Islands -- Fernando Noronha -- Bahia -- Burnished Rocks -- Habits of a Diodon -- Pelagic Confervae and Infusoria -- Causes of discoloured Sea.
It was almost two feet long and thickly curlicued, the creamy white ivory cracked and discoloured.
The water was still troubled and discoloured by his introductory adventure, and, though he ducked his head with the spirit of a dabchick, the book was missing.
The moon is up already, a moon the colour of candlewax and, as the sky discolours when the night conies on, the moon grows more white, more cold, white as the source of all the cold in the world, until, when the winter moon reaches its chill meridian, everything will freeze -- not only the water in the jug and the ink in the well, but the blood in the vein, the aqueous humour.
Inside was a sheet of thick art paper, yellow at the edges and badly discoloured, but printed with the most richly detailed woodcut that Henry had ever seen.
He stood wretchedly by the fire, his face swollen and discoloured with bruises like a cur dog expecting to be driven away.
Counteracts dental caries but too much of it can discolour the teeth.