Definitions for: Pigment


[n] dry coloring matter (especially an insoluble powder to be mixed with a liquid to produce paint etc)
[v] color or dye with a pigment; "pigment a photograph"
[v] acquire pigment; become colored or imbued



Webster (1913) Definition: Pig"ment, n. [L. pigmentum, fr. the root of pingere to
paint: cf. F. pigment. See Paint, and cf. Pimento,
Orpiment.]
1. Any material from which a dye, a paint, or the like, may
be prepared; particularly, the refined and purified
coloring matter ready for mixing with an appropriate
vehicle.

2. (Physiol.) Any one of the colored substances found in
animal and vegetable tissues and fluids, as bilirubin,
urobilin, chlorophyll, etc.

3. Wine flavored with species and honey. --Sir W. Scott.

Pigment cell (Physiol.), a small cell containing coloring
matter, as the pigmented epithelial cells of the choroid
and iris, or the pigmented connective tissue cells in the
skin of fishes, reptiles, etc.

See Also: alizarin, alizarine, animal pigment, bacteriochlorophyll, bister, bistre, bole, cadmium yellow, carotenoid, cerulean blue, chlorophyl, chlorophyll, chrome green, chrome yellow, cobalt blue, cobalt ultramarine, color, color, color in, coloring material, colorise, colorize, colour, colour, colour in, colouring material, colourise, colourize, cupric acetate, earth color, haem, haemitin, haemosiderin, hematin, heme, hemosiderin, Hooker's green, hue, Indian red, iron blue, ivory black, lake, lead carbonate, mosaic gold, orange, paint, Paris green, Payne's gray, photopigment, phycobilin, phycocyanin, phycoerythrin, porphyrin, protoheme, Prussian blue, retinal, retinene, sepia, stannic sulfide, titania, titanic oxide, titanium dioxide, titanium oxide, ultramarine, ultramarine blue, verdigris, watercolor, watercolour, white lead, zinc white

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