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

To blind by a red-hot metal plate held before the eyes. [R.]

t mode of trial, in which the test was the ability of the accused to handle or tread upon red-hot irons. Abbot. -- Fire pan, a pan for holding or conveying fire, especially the receptacle for the priming of a gun. -- Fire plug, a plug or hydrant for drawing water from the main pipes in a street, building, etc., for e…

Heated; as, the iron though heat red-hot. [Obs. or Archaic.] Shak.

Hot-short; brittle when red-hot; -- said of certain kinds of iron. -- Red"-short`ness, n.

To be brittle when red-hot; to be red-short. Moxon.

Divination by burning straws on red-hot iron, and noting the manner of their burning. Craig.