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Having, or subject to, erythrochroism.

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

A dextrin which gives a red color with iodine. See Dextrin.

Carbon disulphide; -- so called from certain red compounds which it produces in combination with other substances.

A term applied by Brücke to a substance present in small amount in starch granules, colored red by iodine.

Of a red color; reddish; as, the erythroid tunic (the cremaster muscle).

Having a red color and oily appearance; -- applied to a purple semifluid substance said to be obtained from archil.

A red substance obtained from litmus.

Erythrolein.

A name originally given (from its red acid) to the metal vanadium. [R.]

A white crystalline alkaloid, extracted from sassy bark (Erythrophleum Guineense).

The red coloring matter of leaves, fruits, flowers, etc., in distinction from chlorophyll.

A red substance formed by the oxidation of tyrosin.

A genus of shrubs or small trees of the Flax family, growing in tropical countries. E. Coca is the source of cocaine. See Coca.

A ferment extracted from madder root, possessing the power of inducing alcoholic fermentation in solutions of sugar.

A mineral of a brownish red color and vitreous luster, consisting chiefly of the silicates of iron, zirconia, and lime.

eral, consisting chiefly of the silicate of bismuth, found at Freiberg; -- called also culytine.

Just or harmonious proportion or movement, as in the composition of a poem, an edifice, a painting, or a statue.

the subject under consideration; all things. More wise, more learned, more just, more everything. Pope.

See Faitour. [Obs.] Spenser.