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Of the color of red or vermilion. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

grace; dishonorable; shameful. Then first with fear surprised and sense of pain, Fled ignominious. Milton.

In an ignominious manner; disgracefully; shamefully; ingloriously.

o bungles. If to be a dunce or a bungler in any profession be shameful, how much more ignominious and infamous to a scholar to be such! Barrow.

Shameful; disgraceful; ignominious; as, inglorious flight, defeat, etc. Inglorious shelter in an alien land. J. Philips.

In an inglorious manner; dishonorably; with shame; ignominiously; obscurely.

Contrived, done, or existing subsequently. "Postliminious after applications of them to their purposes." South.

om an Irish saint. -- Saint Distaff's Day. See under Distaff. -- Saint Elmo's fire, a luminious, flamelike appearance, sometimes seen in dark, tempestuous nights, at some prominent point on a ship, particularly at the masthead and the yardams. It has also been observed on land, and is due to the discharge of electric…

an by an introduction. Farquhar. He tried to scrape acquaintance with her, but failed ignominiously. G. W. Cable.

A spectroscope fitted for measurements of the luminious spectra observed with it.

-- To turn over a new leaf. See under Leaf. -- To turn tail, to run away; to retreat ignominiously. -- To turn the back, to flee; to retreat. -- To turn the back on or upon, to treat with contempt; to reject or refuse unceremoniously. -- To turn the corner, to pass the critical stage; to get by the worst point; hen…