■ noun a natural or synthetic substance used to colour something.
■ verb ( ~s , ~ing , ~d ) colour with ~.
Phrases
~d in the wool unchanging in a particular belief. [with allusion to the fact that yarn was ~d when raw, producing a more even and permanent colour.]
Derivatives
~able adjective
~r noun
Origin
OE dēag (n.), dēagian (v.).