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    pigment


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    1. “Actually the color of yaag comes from a pigment that the plant produces, the chlorophyll, the purified cannaboloid is actually a clear liquid to which a little grain alcohol is added as a vehicle


    2. The coating hardened and gained pigment


    3. Such cave inhabitants lack pigment in the skin and look white or faintly pinkish


    4. “The pigment of the eyes will be a bluish white


    5. Although budgies are usually green, blue, or yellow, with black and white accents, there are really only two pigments in the feathers and skin of budgies: melanin, a pigment that causes dark colors such as black and brown; and a carotene layer that produces yellow (varying to red and orange)


    6. Their skin had horizontal, thin bands running around the body and even the neck, arms and legs that could change to mimic any color by pigment manipulation


    7. The following day, Peter painted with the fervor of a much younger man, slashing away at the canvas with broad yet deliberate strokes of his pigment laden brushes


    8. Her body now nearly all covered by a special green paint that was both resistant to water and let her body perspire through the pigment, Nancy looked at herself in the full-length mirror of her hotel room


    9. change in the pigment of their skin and hair texture thus


    10. This water-soluble pigment has been shown to inhibit histamine release at therapeutic doses, making it an attractive

    11. Just as blood, when seen under the microscope, reveals many mysterious things such as leucocytes, lymphocytes, nuclei, pigment, germs, bacilli, etc


    12. pigment that gives the skin its characteristic color


    13. played on the walls of the cave in hieroglyphs in red clay pigment


    14. hemoglobin in the blood (hemoglobin is the iron-containing pigment of the red blood cells


    15. pigment that is used by the rods in the eye for night vision


    16. Plastered in powdered pigment, it was obvious he was the grunt worker


    17. If the pigment is allowed to reach the lips it will tend to dry them out; this is why a layer of foundation is so important


    18. Displayed on the walls of the cave in hieroglyphs in red clay pigment that could only be ground from the flattest and most unforgiving canyon rock found only in the caverns and mine shafts that lie below the foothills of the Sure Hill Valley! Which is where we must go to find another piece of the scrolls


    19. “Side effects can include folliculitis, a bacterial infection in the hair follicles, skin reddening or puffiness, and changes in skin pigment, said Dr


    20. Now a picture is a thing of paint upon a flat surface, and a drawing is a matter of certain marks upon a paper, and how to translate the intricacies of a visual or imagined impression to the prosaic terms of masses of coloured pigment or lines and tones is the business with which our technique is concerned

    21. The antioxidant can stimulate the production and activity of retinal pigment epithelial cells, which protect the eye from the harmful ultraviolet rays of the sun


    22. The manner in which light is reflected off the hair changes as the natural pigment of the hair is lost


    23. It has been remarked before that those who are sensitive to radiations in the far octarine - the eighth colour, the pigment of the imagination- can see things that others cannot


    24. It was alive and glowing and vibrant and it was the undisputed pigment of the imagination, because wherever it appeared it was a sign that mere matter was a servant of the powers of the magical mind


    25. After completion of laconic epistolary compositions she abandoned the implement of calligraphy in the encaustic pigment, exposed to the corrosive action of copperas, green vitriol and nutgall


    26. alcohol, however the pigment still remain in the currants


    27. All that pigment was intercellular… surface coloration


    28. In certain star-fishes, small depressions in the layer of pigment which surrounds the nerve are filled, as described by the author just quoted, with transparent gelatinous matter, projecting with a convex surface, like the cornea in the higher animals


    29. When we reflect on these facts, here given much too briefly, with respect to the wide, diversified, and graduated range of structure in the eyes of the lower animals; and when we bear in mind how small the number of all living forms must be in comparison with those which have become extinct, the difficulty ceases to be very great in believing that natural selection may have converted the simple apparatus of an optic nerve, coated with pigment and invested by transparent membrane, into an optical instrument as perfect as is possessed by any member of the Articulata class


    30. " Within the highest division of the animal kingdom, namely, the Vertebrata, we can start from an eye so simple, that it consists, as in the lancelet, of a little sack of transparent skin, furnished with a nerve and lined with pigment, but destitute of any other apparatus

    31. It exists there in large quantities, and is employed as a pigment


    1. It did not appear to be a pigmented skin lesion, but a biopsy would tell


    2. She said we'd both been blessed as she showed me a pigmented mirror image on her own right wrist


    3. The next product I would like to mention is pigmented shellac


    4. This is where pigmented shellac works well


    5. There could be a highly pigmented section of skin, or a discoloration somewhere


    1. On top was a tray of art supplies, brushes, bowls, pallets, vials of pigments


    2. pigments, characteristic of a tattoo


    3. They strapped these plates of variable size onto the recipient and used tiny quills that had been filled by capillary action to inject the essences and pigments through the design into the skin


    4. So were the skin pigments that heralded the strangeness


    5. The titanium alloy chamber has buckled, warped, and rusted into what might make good paint pigments


    6. And that beast, Conan knew, had been extinct for at least a thousand years; it was the great golden leopard which figures so predominantly in Hyborian legendry, and which the ancient artists delighted to portray in pigments and marble


    7. The man who propelled this particular boat was as huge and brown as the others, though closer scrutiny might have revealed the fact that the hue was the result of carefully applied pigments


    8. The study of the genetics of birds is complex, as their colors often are formed in different ways than just through pigments in the feathers and skin


    9. Although budgies are usually green, blue, or yellow, with black and white accents, there are really only two pigments in the feathers and skin of budgies: melanin, a pigment that causes dark colors such as black and brown; and a carotene layer that produces yellow (varying to red and orange)


    10. The green and yellow colors we see in a normal green budgie are the result of the presence of pigments and the way the light absorbs and reflects the colors

    11. As you might expect, white is the absence of both melanin and carotene pigments, with the upper layer of the color cells filled with reflective white granules


    12. The presence or absence of the pigments is indicated by a shorthand code when geneticists and budgie breeders write about their birds


    13. Such constant worry at being consumed has evidently bleached these poor creatures of their jolly pigments, as my understanding of photochemistry has it


    14. south who painted masterpieces in the air with the pigments of


    15. Air-circulated powder, which consists of the paint pigments, the aluminum flakes and the resin particles, ensures even bonding of the frame, building up towards eight miles of paint


    16. `bluè pigments and is characterized out by a nature that cycles out forms


    17. `whitè pigments and is characterized out by a nature of habitats that are located over here


    18. `green` pigments and is characterized out by a nature of production that generates this current sphere


    19. The factor of `Time and spacè that had been imaged out as `firè has `red` pigments and is characterized out by a twisting flame that we always try to avoid


    20. The factor of `Matter` that had been imaged out as `earth` has `blue` pigments and is characterized out by a nature that cycles out forms

    21. The factor of `Relativity` that had been imaged out as `air` has `white` pigments and is characterized out by a nature of habitats that are located over here


    22. The factor of `Polarity` that had been imaged out as `water` has `green` pigments and is characterized out by a nature of production that generates this current sphere


    23. The factor of `Time and space` that had been imaged out as `fire` has `red` pigments and is characterized out by a twisting flame that we always try to avoid


    24. Painted in natural pigments, they were completely life-


    25. By the time he had the car packed up with ochre pigments and paints along with several cases of wine and champagne for his soon to be drunken hosts, business associates of his father’s, he was running several hours behind and that’s the only reason he was still at home when Emelie came by pounding frantically on his door


    26. Most lipsticks are based on a mixture of waxes, oils, and fatty alcohols, with pigments for coloring


    27. The others were harsh drying pigments and lime, which was the drier


    28. *Prime pigments include titanium dioxide (TiO2), plus all other pigments directly adding to the hiding power of this paint


    29. Oil, oil with pigments, we’ve already passed peak


    30. Red raspberry contains high amount of anthocyanin pigments which is one

    31. Finding this to be composed of all the colours of the rainbow as seen in the solar spectrum, and that all the effects nature produced are done with different proportions of these colours, they took them, or the nearest pigments they could get to them, for their palette, eliminating the earth colours and black


    32. And further, finding that nature's colours (the rays of coloured light) when mixed produced different results than their corresponding pigments mixed together, they determined to use their paints as pure as possible, placing them one against the other to be mixed as they came to the eye, the mixture being one of pure colour rays, not pigments, by this means


    33. There were American triggerfish for which nature has ground only black and white pigments, feather–shaped gobies that were long and plump with yellow fins and jutting jaws, sixteen–decimeter mackerel with short, sharp teeth, covered with small scales, and related to the albacore species


    34. There, surrounded by the poisonous pigments and materials of the trade, the youthful artisan worked, generally alone, cleaning the dirty paint-pots brought in by the workmen from finished `jobs' outside, and occasionally mixing paint according to the instructions of Mr Hunter, or one of the sub-foremen


    35. The scenes depicted on the emunctory field, showing our ancient duns and raths and cromlechs and grianauns and seats of learning and maledictive stones, are as wonderfully beautiful and the pigments as delicate as when the Sligo illuminators gave free rein to their artistic fantasy long long ago in the time of the Barmecides


    36. He still forced himself at least once a week, out of a kind of spite, to mix up his pigments


    37. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on those of a beggar, and put on my pigments and wig


    38. Her dress is of rich white satin, and, with the delicate green and gold sheen of her rival's robe—she with whom the Prodigal's right hand toys in caress—makes up a wonderfully brilliant prismatic chord, having the effect of focusing the richer, but not less gorgeous, pigments spread everywhere on the canvas


    39. For those, Penley's large work, the "System of Water-Color Painting" is the best for copying from; or the aspirant may get some of the little Winsor and Newton "Handbooks on Sketching in Water-Colors," to show him how to choose and mix his pigments, and use as models to copy from some of the colored prints of architectural subjects which are to be picked up in the stores


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    Synonyms for "pigment"

    paint pigment dye stain tincture tint

    "pigment" definitions

    dry coloring material (especially a powder to be mixed with a liquid to produce paint, etc.)


    any substance whose presence in plant or animal tissues produces a characteristic color


    a substance used as a coating to protect or decorate a surface (especially a mixture of pigment suspended in a liquid); dries to form a hard coating


    acquire pigment; become colored or imbued


    color or dye with a pigment