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▪ I. colouring, coloring, vbl. n.|ˈkʌlərɪŋ|
[f. colour v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of the vb. colour in various senses.
a. lit.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvi. xxiv. (1495) 561 In peyntynge and colourynge of walles. 1780Harris Philol. Enq. Wks. (1841) 419 With good drawing, but with bad and defective colouring. 1821Craig Lect. Drawing iii. 183 The colouring of a head in a process of water colours.
b. techn. The production of a fine polish on a silver surface; done, in silver manufacture, by rubbing with rouge: see also quot. 1875.
1875Jevons Money (1878) 126 It is usual to dissolve the copper from the surface of the blank pieces of metal, so as to produce a film of pure white silver upon the surface. This operation called colouring, gives a fine bright appearance to the [base silver] coins when new.
c. fig. The giving of a fair or specious appearance, especially, to what is bad.
1549Latimer 3rd Serm. bef. Edw. VI (Arb.) 88 Let them leaue their colourynge and cal them by their Christian name Brybes. 1570B. Googe Pop. Kingd. iv. (1880) 57 Fraude and craftie coulourings. 1645E. Pagitt Heresiogr. (1661) 262 Equivocation is a cunning colouring of a lye. 1798J. Hucks Poems 12 Truth..With specious colourings mask'd unholiest views. 1801Strutt Sports & Past, iii. ii. 141 To give the better colouring to their undertaking.
2. The effect of the application of colour, the way or style in which anything is coloured; also concr. a coloured work, a painting.
1707Curios. in Husb. & Gard. 61 To give the Flowers that lively and beautiful Colouring, which is..their chief Merit. 1753Scots Mag. Nov. 546/2 A coach of state bedaubed with gilt and colourings. 1806Wordsw. Ode Intim. Immort. 198 The Clouds..Do take a sober colouring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality. 1879G. Allen Col. Sense i. 3 The existence of bright colouring in the world at large.
b. in Painting.
1706Art of Painting (1744) 5 Colouring..comprehends two things, the local colour, and the claro obscuro. 1862Thornbury Turner I. 339 The old Téméraire is the most glorious consummation of colouring ever painted by English fingers. 1885Truth 28 May 848/1 The colouring of this picture is most objectionable.
c. fig. in Music.
1881Athenæum 26 Mar. 437/1 A certain want of variety in the colouring of his music.
d. Of rhetorical picturesqueness.
1762J. Brown Poetry & Mus. (1763) 190 The..highest Colourings of his [Virgil's] Pencil are prostituted to the Vanity of the ruling Tyrant. 1799Walpoliana iii. (1819) 4 From the elegance of its language, and the warm colouring of the descriptions. 1825Macaulay Milton, Ess. (1885) 11/1 The art of poetic colouring.
e. Pervading character, tone, or aspect.
1769Blackstone Comm. IV. 330 The offences differ in colouring and in degree. 1834J. H. Newman Par. Serm. (1837) I. xxiv. 362 It takes a general colouring from Christianity. 1867Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) I. iii. 121 They give a different colouring to the transaction.
3. Colouring matter or substance.
c1460Russell Bk. Nurture 123 in Babees Bk., Turnesole þat is good colourynge. 1884Health Exhib. Catal. 153/1 Liquid Butter Colouring. Liquid Annatto Cheese Colouring.
4. Comb. colouring book, a book containing outline drawings to be coloured with crayons, paints, etc., usu. by a child.
1931W. Disney (title) Mickey Mouse *coloring book. 1956School Arts June 48/2 In many churches..children copy, trace, use patterns, and fill in coloring books. 1967‘T. Wells’ Dead by Light of Moon (1968) x. 96, I pushed aside a coloring book and sat down. 1977Rolling Stone 5 May 57/1 Her signing arm goes like a buzz saw, autographing..colouring books, hats, shirts, arms, jackets.
▪ II. colouring, coloring, ppl. a.|ˈkʌlərɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That colours: in senses of the verb.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. vi. xii. 334 The action of heat or fire, & colouring bodies objected. 1791D'Israeli Cur. Lit. (1866) 33/2 Conceptions..agreeably set off by a warm and colouring diction. 1801Med. Jrnl. V. 199 Very little impregnated with colouring particles.
b. colouring matter. [It is doubtful whether colouring is here originally the ppl. a. or the vbl. n. used attributively.] Any substance colouring a natural body, or employed in the arts to colour objects.
‘By chemists, however, the term is only applied to organic bodies, and not to mineral substances..Colouring matter may be defined to be substances produced in animal or vegetable organisms, or easily formed there by processes occurring in nature, and which are themselves coloured, or give coloured compounds with bases, or with animal or vegetable fibre’ (Ure Dict. Arts).
1805W. Saunders Min. Waters 69 A saline..water, will..produce material changes on the colouring matter. 1813Sir H. Davy Agric. Chem. (1814) 146 The colouring matters of flowers. 1831Brewster Optics xxvi. 220 The colouring matter of the amethyst. 1838T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies, Contents 11 Of Blue colouring matters: Indigo, Litmus or turnsole, Blue flowers. |