Abounding in color: as, good colory cows.
                  
                
                  
                    
                    Of a color that indicates excellence of quality: as, colory, hops, or coffee, or tobacco.
                  
                
                  
                    noun. 
                    A packer's grade of light leaf-tobacco, from which tobacco for pipes and cigarettes is manufactured. This grade of tobacco is produced chiefly in Maryland and Ohio and is largely exported.