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Characterized by, or causing, a morbid redness of the skin; relating to erythema.

A condition of excessive redness. See Erythrochroism.

An unusual redness, esp. in the plumage of birds, or hair of mammals, independently of age, sex, or season.

copious gummy secretion of the humor of the eyelids, in consequence of some disorder; blearedness; lippitude.

Brightness or warmth of color; redness; a rosy flush; as, the glow of health in the cheeks.

ixture of spirit and water not sweetened; hence, any intoxicating liquor. Grog blossom, a redness on the nose or face of persons who drink ardent spirits to excess. [Collog.]

gh temperature; appearance, condition, or color of a body, as indicating its temperature; redness; high color; flush; degree of temperature to which something is heated, as indicated by appearance, condition, or otherwise. It has raised . . . heats in their faces. Addison. The heats smiths take of their iron are a bloo…

The state of being hallowed, or consecrated to God or to his worship; sacredness. Israel was holiness unto the Lord. Jer.ii.3. His holiness, a title of the pope; -- formerly given also to Greek bishops and Greek emperors.

truction of the blood current, and growth of morbid tissue. It is manifested outwardly by redness and swelling, attended with heat and pain.

Soreness of eyes; the state of being blear-eyes; blearedness.

a period of 687 days, and a mean distance of 141,000,000 miles. It is conspicuous for the redness of its light.

), a popular name for an epidemic variety of ophthalmia, associated with early and marked redness of the eyeball. -- Pink salt (Chem. & Dyeing), the double chlorides of (stannic) tin and ammonium, formerly much used as a mordant for madder and cochineal. -- Pink saucer, a small saucer, the inner surface of which is c…

The state of being prepared or made ready; preparedness; readiness; fitness; as, a nation in good preparation for war.

Red with heat; heated to redness; as, red-hot iron; red-hot balls. Hence, figuratively, excited; violent; as, a red-hot radical. Shak.

In a red manner; with redness.

stronghold which protects by its strength, or a sanctuary which secures safety by its sacredness; a place inaccessible to an enemy. The high hills are a refuger the wild goats. Ps. civ. 18. The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed. Ps. ix. 9.

Redness; complexion. [Obs.] "His rode was red." Chaucer.

An external application which produces redness of the skin.

Growing or becoming red; tending to redness.

Inclining to redness; ruddy; red. "His rubicund face." Longfellow.