Red

10 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Red \Red\ (r[e^]d), obs.
     imp. & p. p. of {Read}. --Spenser.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Red \Red\, v. t.
     To put on order; to make tidy; also, to free from
     entanglement or embarrassement; -- generally with up; as, to
     red up a house. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Red \Red\, a. [Compar. {Redder} (-d?r); superl. {Reddest}.] [OE.
     red, reed, AS. re['a]d, re['o]d; akin to OS. r[=o]d, OFries.
     r[=a]d, D. rood, G. roht, rot, OHG. r[=o]t, Dan. & Sw.
     r["o]d, Icel. rau[eth]r, rj[=o][eth]r, Goth. r['a]uds, W.
     rhudd, Armor. ruz, Ir. & Gael. ruadh, L. ruber, rufus, Gr.
     'eryqro`s, Skr. rudhira, rohita; cf. L. rutilus. [root]113.
     Cf. {Erysipelas}, {Rouge}, {Rubric}, {Ruby}, {Ruddy},
     {Russet}, {Rust}.]
     Of the color of blood, or of a tint resembling that color; of
     the hue of that part of the rainbow, or of the solar
     spectrum, which is furthest from the violet part. "Fresh
     flowers, white and reede." --Chaucer.
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           Your color, I warrant you, is as red as any rose.
                                                    --Shak.
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     Note: Red is a general term, including many different shades
           or hues, as scarlet, crimson, vermilion, orange red,
           and the like.
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     Note: Red is often used in the formation of self-explaining
           compounds; as, red-breasted, red-cheeked, red-faced,
           red-haired, red-headed, red-skinned, red-tailed,
           red-topped, red-whiskered, red-coasted.
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     {Red admiral} (Zool.), a beautiful butterfly ({Vanessa
        Atalanta}) common in both Europe and America. The front
        wings are crossed by a broad orange red band. The larva
        feeds on nettles. Called also {Atalanta butterfly}, and
        {nettle butterfly}.
  
     {Red ant}. (Zool.)
     (a) A very small ant ({Myrmica molesta}) which often infests
         houses.
     (b) A larger reddish ant ({Formica sanguinea}), native of
         Europe and America. It is one of the slave-making
         species.
  
     {Red antimony} (Min.), kermesite. See {Kermes mineral}
     (b), under {Kermes}.
  
     {Red ash} (Bot.), an American tree ({Fraxinus pubescens}),
        smaller than the white ash, and less valuable for timber.
        --Cray.
  
     {Red bass}. (Zool.) See {Redfish}
     (d) .
  
     {Red bay} (Bot.), a tree ({Persea Caroliniensis}) having the
        heartwood red, found in swamps in the Southern United
        States.
  
     {Red beard} (Zool.), a bright red sponge ({Microciona
        prolifera}), common on oyster shells and stones. [Local,
        U.S.]
  
     {Red birch} (Bot.), a species of birch ({Betula nigra})
        having reddish brown bark, and compact, light-colored
        wood. --Gray.
  
     {Red blindness}. (Med.) See {Daltonism}.
  
     {Red book}, a book containing the names of all the persons in
        the service of the state. [Eng.]
  
     {Red book of the Exchequer}, an ancient record in which are
        registered the names of all that held lands per baroniam
        in the time of Henry II. --Brande & C.
  
     {Red brass}, an alloy containing eight parts of copper and
        three of zinc.
  
     {Red bug}. (Zool.)
     (a) A very small mite which in Florida attacks man, and
         produces great irritation by its bites.
     (b) A red hemipterous insect of the genus {Pyrrhocoris},
         especially the European species ({Pyrrhocoris apterus}),
         which is bright scarlet and lives in clusters on tree
         trunks.
     (c) See {Cotton stainder}, under {Cotton}.
  
     {Red cedar}. (Bot.) An evergreen North American tree
        ({Juniperus Virginiana}) having a fragrant red-colored
        heartwood.
     (b) A tree of India and Australia ({Cedrela Toona}) having
         fragrant reddish wood; -- called also {toon tree} in
         India.
  
     {Red horse}. (Zool.)
     (a) Any large American red fresh-water sucker, especially
         {Moxostoma macrolepidotum} and allied species.
     (b) See the Note under {Drumfish}.
  
     {Red lead}.
     (Chem) See under {Lead}, and {Minium}.
  
     {Red-lead ore}. (Min.) Same as {Crocoite}.
  
     {Red liquor} (Dyeing), a solution consisting essentially of
        aluminium acetate, used as a mordant in the fixation of
        dyestuffs on vegetable fiber; -- so called because used
        originally for red dyestuffs. Called also {red mordant}.
        
  
     {Red maggot} (Zool.), the larva of the wheat midge.
  
     {Red manganese}. (Min.) Same as {Rhodochrosite}.
  
     {Red man}, one of the American Indians; -- so called from his
        color.
  
     {Red maple} (Bot.), a species of maple ({Acer rubrum}). See
        {Maple}.
  
     {Red mite}. (Zool.) See {Red spider}, below.
  
     {Red mulberry} (Bot.), an American mulberry of a dark purple
        color ({Morus rubra}).
  
     {Red mullet} (Zool.), the surmullet. See {Mullet}.
  
     {Red ocher} (Min.), a soft earthy variety of hematite, of a
        reddish color.
  
     {Red perch} (Zool.), the rosefish.
  
     {Red phosphorus}. (Chem.) See under {Phosphorus}.
  
     {Red pine} (Bot.), an American species of pine ({Pinus
        resinosa}); -- so named from its reddish bark.
  
     {Red precipitate}. See under {Precipitate}.
  
     {Red Republican} (European Politics), originally, one who
        maintained extreme republican doctrines in France, --
        because a red liberty cap was the badge of the party; an
        extreme radical in social reform. [Cant]
  
     {Red ribbon}, the ribbon of the Order of the Bath in England.
        
  
     {Red sanders}. (Bot.) See {Sanders}.
  
     {Red sandstone}. (Geol.) See under {Sandstone}.
  
     {Red scale} (Zool.), a scale insect ({Aspidiotus aurantii})
        very injurious to the orange tree in California and
        Australia.
  
     {Red silver} (Min.), an ore of silver, of a ruby-red or
        reddish black color. It includes {proustite}, or light red
        silver, and {pyrargyrite}, or dark red silver.
  
     {Red snapper} (Zool.), a large fish ({Lutjanus aya} syn.
        {Lutjanus Blackfordii}) abundant in the Gulf of Mexico and
        about the Florida reefs.
  
     {Red snow}, snow colored by a mocroscopic unicellular alga
        ({Protococcus nivalis}) which produces large patches of
        scarlet on the snows of arctic or mountainous regions.
  
     {Red softening} (Med.) a form of cerebral softening in which
        the affected parts are red, -- a condition due either to
        infarction or inflammation.
  
     {Red spider} (Zool.), a very small web-spinning mite
        ({Tetranychus telarius}) which infests, and often
        destroys, plants of various kinds, especially those
        cultivated in houses and conservatories. It feeds mostly
        on the under side of the leaves, and causes them to turn
        yellow and die. The adult insects are usually pale red.
        Called also {red mite}.
  
     {Red squirrel} (Zool.), the chickaree.
  
     {Red tape},
     (a) the tape used in public offices for tying up documents,
         etc. Hence,
     (b) official formality and delay; excessive bureaucratic
         paperwork.
  
     {Red underwing} (Zool.), any species of noctuid moths
        belonging to {Catacola} and allied genera. The numerous
        species are mostly large and handsomely colored. The under
        wings are commonly banded with bright red or orange.
  
     {Red water}, a disease in cattle, so called from an
        appearance like blood in the urine.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Red \Red\ (r?d), n.
     1. The color of blood, or of that part of the spectrum
        farthest from violet, or a tint resembling these.
        "Celestial rosy red, love's proper hue." --Milton.
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     2. A red pigment.
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     3. (European Politics) An abbreviation for Red Republican.
        See under Red, a. [Cant]
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     4. pl. (Med.) The menses. --Dunglison.
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     {English red}, a pigment prepared by the Dutch, similar to
        Indian red.
  
     {Hypericum red}, a red resinous dyestuff extracted from
        Hypericum.
  
     {Indian red}. See under {Indian}, and {Almagra}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Wine \Wine\, n. [OE. win, AS. win, fr. L. vinum (cf. Icel.
     v[imac]n; all from the Latin); akin to Gr. o'i^nos, ?, and E.
     withy. Cf. {Vine}, {Vineyard}, {Vinous}, {Withy}.]
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     1. The expressed juice of grapes, esp. when fermented; a
        beverage or liquor prepared from grapes by squeezing out
        their juice, and (usually) allowing it to ferment. "Red
        wine of Gascoigne." --Piers Plowman.
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              Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging, and
              whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise. --Prov.
                                                    xx. 1.
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              Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape
              Crushed the sweet poison of misused wine. --Milton.
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     Note: Wine is essentially a dilute solution of ethyl alcohol,
           containing also certain small quantities of ethers and
           ethereal salts which give character and bouquet.
           According to their color, strength, taste, etc., wines
           are called {red}, {white}, {spirituous}, {dry},
           {light}, {still}, etc.
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     2. A liquor or beverage prepared from the juice of any fruit
        or plant by a process similar to that for grape wine; as,
        currant wine; gooseberry wine; palm wine.
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     3. The effect of drinking wine in excess; intoxication.
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              Noah awoke from his wine.             --Gen. ix. 24.
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     {Birch wine}, {Cape wine}, etc. See under {Birch}, {Cape},
        etc.
  
     {Spirit of wine}. See under {Spirit}.
  
     {To have drunk wine of ape} or {To have drunk wine ape}, to
        be so drunk as to be foolish. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
  
     {Wine acid}. (Chem.) See {Tartaric acid}, under {Tartaric}.
        [Colloq.]
  
     {Wine apple} (Bot.), a large red apple, with firm flesh and a
        rich, vinous flavor.
  
     {Wine fly} (Zool.), small two-winged fly of the genus
        {Piophila}, whose larva lives in wine, cider, and other
        fermented liquors.
  
     {Wine grower}, one who cultivates a vineyard and makes wine.
        
  
     {Wine measure}, the measure by which wines and other spirits
        are sold, smaller than beer measure.
  
     {Wine merchant}, a merchant who deals in wines.
  
     {Wine of opium} (Pharm.), a solution of opium in aromatized
        sherry wine, having the same strength as ordinary
        laudanum; -- also {Sydenham's laudanum}.
  
     {Wine press}, a machine or apparatus in which grapes are
        pressed to extract their juice.
  
     {Wine skin}, a bottle or bag of skin, used, in various
        countries, for carrying wine.
  
     {Wine stone}, a kind of crust deposited in wine casks. See
        1st {Tartar}, 1.
  
     {Wine vault}.
        (a) A vault where wine is stored.
        (b) A place where wine is served at the bar, or at tables;
            a dramshop. --Dickens.
  
     {Wine vinegar}, vinegar made from wine.
  
     {Wine whey}, whey made from milk coagulated by the use of
        wine.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  red
       adj 1: having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent
              of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or
              rubies [syn: {reddish}, {ruddy}, {blood-red}, {carmine},
               {cerise}, {cherry}, {cherry-red}, {crimson}, {ruby},
              {ruby-red}, {scarlet}]
       2: characterized by violence or bloodshed; "writes of crimson
          deeds and barbaric days"- Andrea Parke; "fann'd by
          Conquest's crimson wing"- Thomas Gray; "convulsed with red
          rage"- Hudson Strode [syn: {crimson}, {violent}]
       3: (especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if
          with blood from emotion or exertion; "crimson with fury";
          "turned red from exertion"; "with puffy reddened eyes";
          "red-faced and violent"; "flushed (or crimson) with
          embarrassment" [syn: {crimson}, {reddened}, {red-faced}, {flushed}]
       4: red with or characterized by blood; "waving our red weapons
          o'er our heads"- Shakespeare; "The Red Badge of Courage";
          "the red rules of tooth and claw"- P.B.Sears
       n 1: the quality or state of the chromatic color resembling the
            hue of blood [syn: {redness}]
       2: a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows eastward
          from Texas along the southern boundary of Oklahoma and
          through Louisiana [syn: {Red River}]
       3: emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals
          or revolutionaries [syn: {Bolshevik}, {Marxist}, {pinko},
          {bolshie}]
       4: the amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its
          revenue; "the company operated at a loss last year"; "the
          company operated in the red last year" [syn: {loss}, {red
          ink}] [ant: {gain}]
       [also: {redding}, {redded}, {reddest}, {redder}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  303 Moby Thesaurus words for "red":
     Adrianople red, Amytal, Amytal pill, Bolshevik, Bolshevist,
     Bolshie, Burgundy, Carbonarist, Carbonaro, Castroist, Castroite,
     Charley, Communist, Cong, Congo rubine, Demerol, Dolophine,
     English red, Fenian, Goya, Guevarist, H, Indian red, Jacobin,
     Leninist, Luminal, Luminal pill, M, Majolica earth, Maoist,
     Marxist, Mau-Mau, Mickey Finn, Nembutal, Nembutal pill,
     Persian red, Prussian red, Puritan, Red, Red Republican, Roundhead,
     Seconal, Seconal pill, Sinn Feiner, Titian, Titian-red, Trotskyist,
     Trotskyite, Tuinal, Tuinal pill, Turkey red, VC, Vandyke red,
     Vietcong, Wobbly, Yankee, Yankee Doodle, alcohol, algetic,
     amidonaphthol red, amobarbital sodium, analgesic, anarch,
     anarchist, anarchistic, anarcho-syndicalist, angry, annatto,
     anodyne, any color, barb, barbiturate, barbiturate pill,
     black stuff, blue, blue angel, blue devil, blue heaven,
     blue velvet, blushful, blushing, bonnet rouge, bricky, bright rose,
     burning, burnt carmine, burnt ocher, calmative, cardinal, carmine,
     carnation, carnelian, cerise, chafed, cherry, cherry-colored,
     cherry-red, chloral hydrate, chrome red, cinnabar, claret,
     cochineal, codeine, codeine cough syrup, color, copper red,
     cordovan, cramoisie, cresol red, criminal syndicalist, crimson,
     crude, damask, depressant, depressor, dolly, downer, embarrassed,
     erythema, extreme, extreme left-winger, extremist, extremistic,
     faded rose, ferruginous, festering, fiery, fire red, fire-red,
     flame-colored, flame-red, flaming, floridity, floridness, flushed,
     fuchsine, galled, glowing, goofball, gules, hard stuff, heroin,
     high color, hop, horse, hot, hypnotic, incarmined, inflamed,
     infrared, iron red, iron-red, irritated, jockey, junk,
     knockout drops, lake, lake-colored, laky, lateritious, laudanum,
     left-wing extremist, light red, liquor, lobster, lobster-red,
     lotus, lunatic fringe, lurid, madder, madder crimson, madder lake,
     madder pink, madder rose, maroon, meperidine, methadone,
     mild radical, mildly radical, morphia, morphine, murrey, narcotic,
     nihilist, nihilistic, old red, opiate, opium, pacifier,
     pain killer, palladium red, paregoric, parlor Bolshevik,
     parlor pink, pen yan, phenobarbital, phenobarbital sodium, pink,
     pinko, ponceau, poppy, port-wine, puce, purple heart, purple lake,
     quietener, radical, rainbow, raisin, rankling, rare, raw, realgar,
     rebel, red lead, red ocher, red race, red-dyed, red-looking,
     reddened, reddish, reddish-amber, reddish-brown, reddishness,
     redness, revolutionary, revolutionary junta, revolutioner,
     revolutionist, revolutionizer, roccellin, rubicund, rubiginous,
     rubine, rubor, rubric, rubricose, ruby, ruby-colored, ruby-red,
     ruddied, ruddle, ruddy, rufescent, rufosity, rufous, rust,
     rust-red, rusty, sans-culotte, sans-culottist, scag, scarlet,
     secobarbital sodium, sedative, sensitive, sheepish, shit,
     sleep-inducer, sleeper, sleeping draught, sleeping pill, smack,
     smarting, sodium thiopental, solferino, somnifacient, soother,
     soothing syrup, soporific, sore, stammel, strawberry, subversive,
     syndicalist, tar, tender, terrorist, tile-red, tingling,
     toluidine red, tranquilizer, turps, ultra, ultraconservative,
     ultraist, ultraistic, unbaked, unboiled, uncooked, undercooked,
     underdone, vermilion, vermilionette, vinaceous, warm, white stuff,
     wine, wine-colored, wine-red, yellow, yellow jacket, yippie
  
  

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  54 Moby Thesaurus words for "Red":
     Bolshevik, Bolshevist, Bolshie, Carbonarist, Carbonaro, Castroist,
     Castroite, Charley, Communist, Communist sympathizer, Cong, Fenian,
     Guevarist, Jacobin, Leninist, Maoist, Marxist, Marxist-Leninist,
     Mau-Mau, Puritan, Red Republican, Roundhead, Sinn Feiner,
     Stalinist, Titoist, Trotskyist, Trotskyite, VC, Vietcong, Yankee,
     Yankee Doodle, anarch, anarchist, avowed Communist, bolshie,
     bonnet rouge, commie, communistic, comrade, criminal syndicalist,
     fellow traveler, rebel, red, revisionist, revolutionary,
     revolutionary junta, revolutioner, revolutionist, revolutionizer,
     sans-culotte, sans-culottist, subversive, syndicalist, terrorist
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  Red
       
          (Or "REDL") A language proposed by {Intermetrics} to meet the
          {Ironman} requirements which led to {Ada}.
       
          ["On the RED Language Submitted to the DoD", E.W. Dijkstra,
          SIGPLAN Notices 13(10):27 (Oct 1978)].
       
          ["RED Language Reference Manual", J. Nestor and M. van Deusen,
          Intermetrics 1979].
       
          (1995-01-19)
       
       

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  RED-:SKIN:, n.  A North American Indian, whose skin is not red -- at
  least not on the outside.