Chapter Words Relating to Matter of Index by Roget's Thesaurus

• Blackness (Substantives), swarthiness, dinginess, lividity, inkiness, pitchiness, nigritude.

Nigrification.

Jet, ink, ebony, coal, pitch, charcoal, soot, sloe, smut, raven, negro, nigger, blackamoor.

(Verbs). To be black, etc.

To render black, to blacken, nigrify, denigrate, blot, blotch.

(Adjectives). Black, sable, swarthy, swart, sombre, inky, ebon, livid, coal-black, fuliginous, dingy, dusky, Ethiopic, nocturnal, nigrescent.

(Phrases). Black as my hat; black as a crow; black as thunder.

• Grey (Substantives), dun, drab, dingy, sombre, tawny, mouse-coloured, ash, cinereous, cineritious, slate, stone, grizzly, grizzled.
• Brown (Substantives), bay, dapple, auburn, chestnut, nut-brown, umber, cinnamon, fawn, russet, olive, hazel, tawny, fuscous, chocolate, liver-colour, tan, brunette, maroon, khaki, bronze, bistre.

(Phrases). Brown as a berry, as mahogany, as a gipsy.

(Verbs). To render brown, to tan, bronze, etc.

(Adjectives). Brown, etc., brindled, brindle, sallow, foxy, bronzed, sunburnt, tanned.

Primitive Colours

• Redness (Substantives), scarlet, vermilion, crimson, carmine, pink, lake, maroon, carnation, damask, ruby, rose, rubescence, rosiness, rufescence, ruddiness, rubicundity, blush colour, peach colour, flesh colour, gules, solferino.

Lobster.

Erubescence, rubefaction.

(Verbs). To become red, to blush, flush, mantle, redden, colour, incarnadine.

To render red, redden, rouge, rubefy, rubricate.

(Adjectives). Red, ruby, crimson, pink, etc., ruddy, rufous, florid, rosy, roseate, auroral, rose-coloured, blushing, mantling, etc., erubescent, blowzy, rubicund, stammel, blood-red, ensanguined, rubiform, cardinal, cerise, sang-de-bœuf, murrey, carroty, sorrel, brick-coloured, lateritic.

(Phrases). Red as fire, as blood, as scarlet, as a turkey-cock, as a cherry.

• Greenness (Substantives), verdure, viridescence.

Emerald, jasper, verd-antique, verdigris, beryl, aquamarine.

(Adjectives). Green, verdant, pea - green, grass - green, apple-green, sea-green, turquoise-green, olive- green, bottle-green, glaucous, virescent, èruginous.

(Phrase). Green as grass.

• Yellowness (Substantives), buff colour, flesh colour, gamboge, crocus, saffron, topaz.

(Adjectives). Yellow, citron, gold, golden, aureate, citrine, fallow, fulvous, saffron, croceate, lemon, sulphur, amber, straw-coloured, sandy, lurid, Claude-tint, luteous, primrose-coloured, cream-coloured, buff, chrome.

(Phrases). Yellow as a quince, as a guinea, as a crow's foot.