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obs. imp. of Read, or Rede. Chaucer.

To grow or become red; to blush. Appius reddens at each word you speak. Pope. He no sooner saw that her eye glistened and her cheek reddened than his obstinacy was at once subbued. Sir W. SCott.

A clause in a deed by which some new thing is reserved out of what had been granted before; the clause by which rent is reserved in a lease. Cruise.

nds, generally but not always distinguished by their sour taste, solubility in water, and reddening of vegetable blue or violet colors. They are also characterized by the power of destroying the distinctive properties of alkalies or bases, combining with them to form salts, at the same time losing their own peculiar pr…

ng and forming salts with acids, turning to brown several vegetable yellows, and changing reddened litmus to blue. Fixed alkalies, potash and soda. -- Vegetable alkalies. Same as Alkaloids. -- Volatile alkali, ammonia, so called in distinction from the fixed alkalies.

To suffuse with a blush; to redden; to make roseate. [Obs.] To blush and beautify the cheek again. Shak.

To dye with crimson or deep red; to redden. Signed in thy spoil and crimsoned in thy lethe. Shak.

A substance reddened by acids, which is supposed to be contained in flowers.

A detached mass of loosely fibrous structure like a shredded tuft of wool.

sonous shrub, Kalmia angustifolia, smaller than the mountain laurel, and with smaller and redder flowers. -- Spurge laurel, Daphne Laureola. -- West Indian laurel, Prunus occidentalis.

To render rose-colored; to redden; to flush. [Poetic] "A maid yet rosed over with the virgin crimson of modesty." Shak.

The quality or state of being rubescent; a reddening; a flush.

To redden. [R.] "Waters rubifying." Chaucer.

To adorn ith red; to redden; to rubricate. [R.] Johnson.

To make red; to redden. [R.] Pope.

A piece of gold money; -- probably because the gold of coins was often reddened by copper alloy. Called also red ruddock, and golden ruddock. [Obs.] Great pieces of gold . . . red ruddocks. Florio.

he flowers of meadow sweet (Spiræa), and also obtained by oxidation of saligenin, etc. It reddens on exposure. Called also salycylol, salicylic aldehyde, and formerly salicylous, or spiroylous, acid.

pigment. It is used either in the raw state or burnt. Burnt sienna, sienna made of a much redder color by the action of fire. -- Raw sienna, sienna in its natural state, of a transparent yellowish brown color.

Minute vesicles surrounded by an area of reddened skin, produced by excessive sweating.