hue

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun The property of colors by which they can be perceived as ranging from red through yellow, green, and blue, as determined by the dominant wavelength of the light.
• noun A particular gradation of color; a shade or tint.
• noun Color.
• noun Appearance; aspect.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun Form; appearance; guise.
• noun Color; specifically and technically, distinctive quality of color in an object or on a surface; the respect in which red, yellow, green, blue, etc., differ one from another; that in which colors of equal luminosity and chroma may differ.
• noun In painting, a compound color in which one of the primaries predominates, as the various grays, which are composed of the three primary colors in unequal proportion.
• noun A cry; a shout; loud shouting of many voices, as in pursuit of game or of a fugitive: now used only in the phrase hue and cry.
• noun In English practice, a written proclamation issued on the escape of a felon from prison, requiring officers and all other people to assist in retaking him. A general outcry or alarm; a great stir or clamor made about any matter.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun Color or shade of color; tint; dye.
• noun (Painting) A predominant shade in a composition of primary colors; a primary color modified by combination with others.
• noun A shouting or vociferation.
• noun (Law) a loud outcry with which felons were anciently pursued, and which all who heard it were obliged to take up, joining in the pursuit till the malefactor was taken; in later usage, a written proclamation issued on the escape of a felon from prison, requiring all persons to aid in retaking him.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun obsolete A shout or cry.
• noun obsolete Form; appearance; guise.
• noun A color, or shade of color, blee; tint; dye.
• noun The characteristic related to the light frequency that appears in the color, for instance red, yellow, green, cyan, blue or magenta.
• noun figuratively A character; aspect, blee.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb take on color or become colored
• verb suffuse with color
• noun the quality of a color as determined by its dominant wavelength