Originally: any of various red paints or pigments made from organic and inorganic materials other than lac. In later use more generally: a pigment…

Powdered brass or bronze mixed with liquid and used as a colouring material. Obsolete.

A colouring matter used to give the appearance of gold. Also figurative.

= earth colour, n. 1. Frequently with distinguishing word. Cf. earth pigment n. at compounds 8b.

A type of artists' paint made with a water-soluble binder and thinned with water rather than oil (frequently in plural). Also as a mass noun…

A pigment obtained from an earth (earth, n.1 16), as an ochre or umber.

A pigment or glaze applied by ‘burning in’.

In extended sense: A pigment obtained by the combination of animal, vegetable, or coal-tar colouring matter with some metallic oxide or earth…

(see quots.).

A gold-coloured metallic powder, consisting mainly of tin disulphide, used in decorating wood, etc. Also called aurum mosaicum, aurum musivum, bro…

(More fully bronze powder: see compounds 2): A metallic powder (usually brass, copper, or tin) used in painting, printing, and the like.

A metallic powder containing or resembling gold, used in paints and other decorative coatings (cf. bronze, n. 4).

paint or pigment prepared or sold in the form of a cake.

= mosaic gold, n. 2.

(see quot. 1816).

A paint used in repainting; a layer of colour added in repainting.

a watercolour paint in the form of a soft paste.

= sense 4.

(a) a pigment ground with wax for encaustic painting; (b) the yellow colour of wax.

a pigment prepared with wax.

A pigment prepared from asphalt.

a pigment prepared from basic chromate of lead.

zinc in the form of fine powder (often mixed with zinc oxide and other impurities), obtained by grinding, or in the extraction of zinc from its…

= zinc-dust n.

Used, with qualifying adjectives, to form the names of medicinal and other earths, boles, and the like… see quot.

= earth colour, n. 1.