discolour

Historical Examples

• Take it up as soon as it is done; remaining in the water will discolour it.

  Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches

  Eliza Leslie

• The Yellow Stone nearly run aground at the mouth of this river, and stirred up the sand so as to discolour the water.

  Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843)

  Alexander Philipp Maximilian, Prince of Wied

• She was haunted by the fear that the blow might discolour Elnora's cheek; that she would tell Margaret.

  A Girl Of The Limberlost

  Gene Stratton Porter

• The slugs thus prepared should not be mounted in spirit, as it is apt to contract and discolour them.

  Notes on Collecting and Preserving Natural-History Objects

  J. E. Taylor

• She watched it curl and discolour, the writing blackly distinct, and crumble into ashes.

  The Shadow of the East

  E. M. Hull