Hue \Hue\, n. [OE. hew, heow, color, shape, form, AS. hiw, heow; akin to Sw. hy skin, complexion, Goth. hiwi form, appearance.] 1. Color or shade of color; tint; dye. ``Flowers of all hue.'' --Milton.
Hues of the rich unfolding morn. --Keble.
2. (Painting) A predominant shade in a composition of primary colors; a primary color modified by combination with others.
Hue \Hue\, n. [OE. hue, huer, to hoot, shout, prob. fr. OF. hu an exclamation.] A shouting or vociferation.
{Hue and cry} (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. --Burrill.
Tone \Tone\ (t[=o]n), n. [F. ton, L. tonus a sound, tone, fr. Gr. to`nos a stretching, straining, raising of the voice, pitch, accent, measure or meter, in pl., modes or keys differing in pitch; akin to tei`nein to stretch or strain. See {Thin}, and cf. {Monotonous}, {Thunder}, {Ton} fashion, {Tune}.] 1. Sound, or the character of a sound, or a sound considered as of this or that character; as, a low, high, loud, grave, acute, sweet, or harsh tone.
[Harmony divine] smooths her charming tones. --Milton.
Tones that with seraph hymns might blend. --Keble.
2. (Rhet.) Accent, or inflection or modulation of the voice, as adapted to express emotion or passion.
Eager his tone, and ardent were his eyes. --Dryden.
3. A whining style of speaking; a kind of mournful or artificial strain of voice; an affected speaking with a measured rhythm ahd a regular rise and fall of the voice; as, children often read with a tone.
4. (Mus.) (a) A sound considered as to pitch; as, the seven tones of the octave; she has good high tones. (b) The larger kind of interval between contiguous sounds in the diatonic scale, the smaller being called a semitone as, a whole tone too flat; raise it a tone. (c) The peculiar quality of sound in any voice or instrument; as, a rich tone, a reedy tone. (d) A mode or tune or plain chant; as, the Gregorian tones.
Note: The use of the word tone, both for a sound and for the interval between two sounds or tones, is confusing, but is common -- almost universal.
Note: Nearly every musical sound is composite, consisting of several simultaneous tones having different rates of vibration according to fixed laws, which depend upon the nature of the vibrating body and the mode of excitation. The components (of a composite sound) are called partial tones; that one having the lowest rate of vibration is the fundamental tone, and the other partial tones are called harmonics, or overtones. The vibration ratios of the partial tones composing any sound are expressed by all, or by a part, of the numbers in the series 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc.; and the quality of any sound (the tone color) is due in part to the presence or absence of overtones as represented in this series, and in part to the greater or less intensity of those present as compared with the fundamental tone and with one another. Resultant tones, combination tones, summation tones, difference tones, Tartini's tones (terms only in part synonymous) are produced by the simultaneous sounding of two or more primary (simple or composite) tones.
5. (Med.) That state of a body, or of any of its organs or parts, in which the animal functions are healthy and performed with due vigor.
Note: In this sense, the word is metaphorically applied to character or faculties, intellectual and moral; as, his mind has lost its tone.
6. (Physiol.) Tonicity; as, arterial tone.
7. State of mind; temper; mood.
The strange situation I am in and the melancholy state of public affairs, . . . drag the mind down . . . from a philosophical tone or temper, to the drudgery of private and public business. --Bolingbroke.
Their tone was dissatisfied, almost menacing. --W. C. Bryant.
8. Tenor; character; spirit; drift; as, the tone of his remarks was commendatory.
9. General or prevailing character or style, as of morals, manners, or sentiment, in reference to a scale of high and low; as, a low tone of morals; a tone of elevated sentiment; a courtly tone of manners.
10. The general effect of a picture produced by the combination of light and shade, together with color in the case of a painting; -- commonly used in a favorable sense; as, this picture has tone.
11. (Physiol.) Quality, with respect to attendant feeling; the more or less variable complex of emotion accompanying and characterizing a sensation or a conceptual state; as, feeling tone; color tone. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
12. Color quality proper; -- called also {hue}. Also, a gradation of color, either a hue, or a tint or shade.
She was dressed in a soft cloth of a gray tone. --Sir G. Parker. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
13. (Plant Physiol.) The condition of normal balance of a healthy plant in its relations to light, heat, and moisture. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
{Tone color}. (Mus.) see the Note under def. 4, above.
{Tone syllable}, an accented syllable. --M. Stuart.
But there is real danger in arguments for a rigid form of legislative quotas in which the quality of representation is not nearly as important as its racial or ethnic hue.
Afraid to offend and confuse with tough, honest criticism, even department heavyweights will pass the most banal and badly conceived paper, and accept the leanest excuse for absence from class, when proffered by someone of a darker hue.
The most popular trims are traditional in style, but modern in size, simplici1y and hue.
At post-mortem, no ex-smoker's lungs ever match the healthy pink hue of the life-long non-smoker's.
"Someday, someone very close to a president will commit suicide, and then there will be a hue and cry raised across the country.
"The false hue and cry of quotas is a disservice to the president of the United States, a disreputable tactic by those who don't care about civil rights for women and minorities," Kennedy said.
The weekly news magazine Veja concentrated on infighting within the Workers' Party and said industry was confused over who was in charge. Mr da Silva's near 20-point lead in the polls has started to worry politicians of every hue.
The fatty deposits have a yellowish hue and therefore absorb more of the yellow laser energy than the surrounding, almost colorless artery wall.
Bright yellow, reminiscent of the Giorgio hue and Hayman's favorite color, and fire-engine red are used for 273, as well as for the Beverly Hills store.
But where's the hue and cry arising for modernized coins?
Despite yesterday's rebound, the market has acquired a bearish hue, said Lance Stonecypher, vice president of research at Ned Davis Research.
It would appear to be of a moderate hue.
"The hue and cry that resulted after those decisions was overblown," says Frederick Krebs, a U.S. Chamber of Commerce lobbyist.