What is "discoloured"

Usage examples of "discoloured".

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.

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.

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.

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.

He could see various discoloured patches on the hull’s surface that didn’t look right, and a few small dangling tubes and wires, up near the newly emplaced lights.

The sea was discoloured and cloudy, like home-made ginger beer, the perfect conditions for the quarry they were seeking.

Apart from one luckily aimed ground bait grenade that burst upon and severely discoloured Mrs Hatch’.

If the light wasn't deceiving her, his nose was thicker and there were discoloured patches and barely healed cuts on his face.