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The quality or state of being red; red color.

The state of being assured; certainty; full confidence.

The state of being bewildered; bewilderment. [R.]

The quality of being cleared. Imputed by his friends to the clearedness, by his foes to the searedness, of his conscience. T. Fuller.

The state of being declared.

The state of being deplored or deplorable. [R.] Bp. Hail.

State of being endeared.

Appearance. [Obs.]

Coarseness of features.

Coarseness of features.

Hardness. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

The state of being seared or callous; insensibility. Bp. Hall.

The state of being tired, or weary.

The rising light of the morning; the dawn of day; the redness of the sky just before the sun rises.

Pale, without redness or glare, -- said of a flame; hence, of the color of burning brimstone, betokening the presence of ghosts or devils; as, the candle burns blue; the air was blue with oaths.

To deprive of sacredness; to secularize. -- De*con`se*cra"tion, n.

To deprive of consecration or sacredness. [R.]

An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.

A redness of the skin; eruption, as in rash, measles, smallpox, scarlatina, etc.

The act of becoming red; redness of the skin or surface of anything; a blushing.