(a) Red, of various shades of purple, crimson, scarlet, pink, etc.; also fig. [last quot.]; (b) ~ colour, red color; also, red dye, red ink, red pigment, or red paint; (c) in fixed comparisons: ~ as blod (fir, lie, rose), ~ as ani blod (glede, rose), etc.; (d) broun ~, ?dark red; ?brown red; ~ purpel, purpure (purpel) ~, reddish purple, crimson; ~ sanguine, blood-colored, blood-red; scarlet ~, scarlet red; wolen ~, scarlet, purple; her. ~ goules, goules ~, the tincture gules, red; som-del (som-what) ~, somewhat reddish; blod ~, q.v.; firi ~, rose ~ [see firi adj. 2.(a), rose n.]; (e) with adverbial force in participial compounds: ~ brenning, fiery red; ~ leved, having red leaves; ~ plekked (splekked), red-speckled.

(a) Of heavenly bodies, their light, the sky, etc.: red; also of an angel's countenance, the Pentecostal tongues of flame, etc.; ~ broun, of a miraculous light: ?brown-red; dai ~ [see dai n. 13.(c)]; ~ as blod (fir, golde), etc.; (b) of an object: fiery, burning, glowing; of fire, smoke: red; swartish ~, of smoke: dark red; ~ as blod (glede, thonder), ~ as ani glede; glouen ~, to glow red with heat.

(a) Of the complexion, lips, etc.: ruddy, rosy, red; also, of a person with a healthy complexion or skin color: ruddy, rosy; ~ of colour (face, leres, lok, rude), ~ on leres (lippe), ~ in rude; ~ as cheri (rose, etc.); whit and ~; (b) of the face, cheeks, eyelids: unnaturally or excessively red; ~ of chere; ~ as (ani) fir; yelwe ~, of cheeks: reddish yellow; (c) of human or animal hair, a beard, etc.: red, reddish; also, of fingernails: naturally pink; ~ colour, red color of hair; ~ as flaume of fir, ~ as ani soue, etc.; (d) of the eyes, iris, or flecks in the eye: naturally red; with adverbial force in verbal: ~ isprateled, red-flecked; ~ as blod (fir), etc.

(a) Of blood: red; ~ colour, red color of blood; (b) of bile, urine, etc.: red; ~ colre, bile [see also colre n. 1b.(a)]; ~ galle, red bile.

(a) Of sand, earth, clay, etc.: red; (b) of copper: reddish; -- also used of rusted metal.

(a) Of the metal gold, gold coins, gold leaf: pure [as shown through becoming red when heated; cp. Pliny Nat.Hist.33.59 & Albertus Magnus De Min.4.7]; ~ gold, gold ~, pure or reddish gold [see also gold n. 1.(c)]; also, of pure or reddish gold; (b) of the color of pure or reddish gold; blod-red, of the color of highly reddish gold; ~ gold, tincture of the color of pure or reddish gold; also, cloth of gold of the color of pure or reddish gold; (c) gold-bearing, full of gold.

Alch. Of alchemical substances or operations: having the color of the final elixir or stone, effecting transmutation to gold; red; also, as noun: the red form of the philosopher's stone; ~ man, the Red Man, sophic sulfur; ~ elixir (medicine, stone); ~ werk [see ~ werk n. (b)].

(a) Of cloth, clothing, armor, etc.: colored red with dye, etc.; also, of representations of birds, flowers, etc.: colored red or embroidered in red thread; ~ colour, red color of the ground of a coat of arms or shield; maken ~, to color (a skin) red; (b) blod (fir, flaume) ~, dyed scarlet or red [see also blod-red adj.]; (c) of a letter or figure: written or drawn in red; ~ lettre, lettre ~, a rubricated letter, passage, or heading; a letter or letters written in red.

(a) Having a ruddy or reddish complexion or skin color, ruddy-complexioned; ~ of colour; (b) william the ~ (king, the ~ (king) william, william ~, William Rufus; (c) of a person: red-haired; (d) in proverbs.

Of an animal: red-haired; reddish-brown, chestnut, bay; ~ falwe, reddish-yellow; ~ sore(d, reddish-brown; ~ shittel hered, reddish-haired; ~ skin, ?red squirrel skin [cp. red-werk n. (a)].

(a) Dressed in red clothing or armor, red-clothed; -- sometimes used as an appellative; with adverbial force: in red cloth, clothing, trappings; also, as noun: a man in red armor; trapped ~, caparisoned in red; clothed ~ or blak, no matter how dressed; (b) of a book: bound in red material; -- sometimes used in book titles.

(a) Red in the face because of strong emotion or agitation; flushed, blushing, red; ~ in face; vermeil ~, bright red or scarlet in the face; ben ~, to be or become red; bicomen (waxen) ~, become red; blisshen ~, blush; (b) red or flushed in the face because of drinking, physical activity, etc.

(a) Stained or covered with blood, red with blood, bloody; ~ blodi; ~ mid (o, of, with) blod; ~ flesh, raw meat; (b) consisting of blood; ~ deu, a bloody rain; ~ raie, a streak of blood; (c) associated with blood, violence, or lust; bloodthirsty; mars the ~.

Red-hot; ~ hot; ~ glouing [see also glouen v.(1) 2.]; fir ~; glede ~ [see also glede n.(2) 3.(a)].

(a) Of a red color characteristic of inflammation, blistering, healing, etc., red; ~ blak; derk ~; fir ~; yelwe ~; ~ colour, red color of inflammation; (b) of the eye or the white of the eye: inflamed because of illness, weeping, etc., bloodshot; also, of sores, etc. in the eye: red.

Of wine, ink, vinegar, and other substances classifiable by color: red.

(a) In animal names: ~ brest, the European robin Erithacus rubecula; ~ der, the European red deer Cervus elaphus [see also der n. 2.(a)]; ~ flie, a kind of stinging insect; ?a botfly; ~ lenge, ?a reddish variety of ling of the genus Molva; ~ mous, ?the harvest mouse Micromys minutus; ~ shanke, redshank Tringa totanus; ~ snail, a kind of slug; ~ worm, a kind of earthworm used as bait; ~ hering, hering ~, ~ grei [see animal names for the specific identification]; (b) in plant names: ~ caul (col, colwort), red cabbage Brassica oleracea; ~ fenel (fenkel), red fennel; ~ filbert, a kind of hazelnut Corylus tubulosa; ~ flour, pot marigold Calendula officinalis; ~ hen bane, ?a kind of henbane, perh. with red seeds [cp. quot.: ?a1425(c1373) in 1a.(a)]; ~ kne, water pepper Polygonum hydropiper; ~ malwe, ?a kind of vervain mallow Malva alcea; ~ minte, a kind of mint; ?water mint Mentha aquatica; ~ netle [OE read netele], netle ~, one or more plants used in medicine and cooking; a variety of the common stinging nettle Urtica; prob. the red dead-nettle Lamium purpureum [see also netle n. 2.]; ~ not, ?a kind of awnless wheat or barley; ~ stire, a variety of apple; ?~ uai, ?error for ~ kne; ?error for ~ rai, perennial rye grass Lolium perenne; ~ brer (brembel, chesse, coriaundre, dokke, madere, mal) [see plant names for the specific identification]; ~ hore-houne (honi-soukel gres, pimpernele, popie, saundre, sukel, water-cres, whete) [see hore-houne n. (b), honi-soukel n. (a), pimpernele n. (a), popie n.(1) 1.(d), sukel n., water-cres n., whete n.]; (c) in names of chemical compounds: ~ arsenik, arsenic monosulfide or disulfide, realgar; ~ led, a red oxide of lead [see also led n. 1b.(a)]; ~ vitriol, some kind of vitriol; ?red oxide of iron; (d)med. ~ poudre (pulver), an astringent or styptic powder; ~ salve, an ointment used for healing a fistulous wound; ~ water, an aqueous preparation used in treating wounds; (e)pathol. ~ colre, a disease of the face, perh. caused by an excess of yellow bile; ?also, dysentery [quot.: ?a1450, 2nd]; ~ drope, an infection of the skin characterized by red spots; ~ flux, dysentery; also, chronic dysentery [see also flux n. 2.(b)]; ~ goute, gout, arthritis; ~ ille, a disease affecting lambs, prob. a kind of red water; ~ spot, a pimple.

(a) In surnames; (b) in place names [see Smith PNElem.2.81].