- Babe intended to mention skin colour - Colouring matter - Dye - Melanin, for example - Powdered dye - 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. - Any one of the colored substances found in animal and
vegetable tissues and fluids, as bilirubin, urobilin, chlorophyll, etc.