water color Meaning, Definition & Usage

Wa"ter col`or
Definitions
(Paint.)
  1. A color ground with water and gum or other glutinous medium; a color the vehicle of which is water; -- so called in distinction from oil color. ✍ It preserves its consistency when dried in a solid cake, which is used by rubbing off a portion on a moistened palette. Moist water colors are water colors kept in a semifluid or pasty state in little metal tubes or pans.
  2. A picture painted with such colors.

Webster 1913