Colored
Pronunciation : Col"ored
Part of Speech : a.
Definition : 1. Having color; tinged; dyed; painted; stained. The lime rod, colored as the glede. Chaucer. The colored rainbow arched wide. Spenser.
2. Specious; plausible; aborned so as to appear well; as, a highly colored description. Sir G. C. Lewis. His colored crime with craft to cloke. Spenser.
3. Of some other color than black or white.
4. (Ethnol.)
Defn: Of some other color than white; specifically applied to negroes or persons having negro blood; as, a colored man; the colored people.
5. (Bot.)
Defn: Of some other color than green. Colored, meaning, as applied to foliage, of some other color than green. Gray.
Note: In botany, green is not regarded as a color, but white is. Wood.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913