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8,087 words match “RED”

OARED a. 3 definitions

Furnished with oars; -- chiefly used in composition; as, a four- oared boat.

OBDURE; OBDURED a.

Obdurate; hard. [Obs.] This saw his hapless foes, but stood obdured. Milton.

OBDURENESS; OBDUREDNESS n.

Hardness. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Covered or adorned with osiers; as, osiered banks. [Poetic] Collins.

To surpass in giving rede, or counsel. [Obs.] See Atrede. Chaucer.

OVERCREDULOUS a.

To smear with red. [Obs.]

Fed luxuriously; indulged to the full; hence, luxuriant. "Pampered boughs." Milton. "Pampered insolence." Pope. -- Pam"pered*ness, n. Bp. Hall.

Bearing panniers. Wordsworth.

PARTICOLORED a.

Same as Party-colored.

PARTY-COLORED; PARTI-COLORED a.

Colored with different tints; variegated; as, a party-colored flower. "Parti-colored lambs." Shak.

PATENT-HAMMERED a.

Having a surface dressed by cutting with a hammer the head of which consists of broad thin chisels clamped together.

PEACH-COLORED a.

Of the color of a peach blossom. "Peach-colored satin." Shak.

Guilty of perjury; having sworn falsely; forsworn. Shak. "Perjured persons." 1 Tim. i. 10. "Their perjured oath." Spenser.

Wearing a phylactery.

Furnished with pictures; represented by a picture or pictures; as, a pictured scene.

PIGEON-LIVERED a.

Pigeon-hearted.

Furnished with pilasters.

Supported or ornamented by pillars; resembling a pillar, or pillars. "The pillared arches." Sir W. Scott. "Pillared flame." Thomson.

PINFEATHERED a.

Having part, or all, of the feathers imperfectly developed.