Color \Col"or\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Colored; p. pr. & vb. n. Coloring.]

[F. colorer.]

1. To change or alter the hue or tint of, by dyeing, staining, painting, etc.; to dye; to tinge; to paint; to stain.

The rays, to speak properly, are not colored; in them there is nothing else than a certain power and disposition to stir up a sensation of this or that color. --Sir I. Newton.

2. To change or alter, as if by dyeing or painting; to give a false appearance to; usually, to give a specious appearance to; to cause to appear attractive; to make plausible; to palliate or excuse; as, the facts were colored by his prejudices.

He colors the falsehood of [AE]neas by an express command from Jupiter to forsake the queen. --Dryden.

3. To hide. [Obs.]

That by his fellowship he color might Both his estate and love from skill of any wight. --Spenser.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Colored \Col"ored\, a.

1. Having color; tinged; dyed; painted; stained.

The lime rod, colored as the glede. --Chaucer.

The colored rainbow arched wide. --Spenser.

2. Specious; plausible; adorned 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.) Of some other color than white; specifically applied to negroes or persons having negro blood; as, a colored man; the colored people.

5. (Bot.) 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 Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)