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A ford. [Obs.]

Am alkaloidal principle obtained from the celandine, and named from the red color of its salts, It is a coloriess crystalline substance, and acts as an acrid narcotic poison. It is identical with sanguinarine.

Drought. [Obs.] Tyndale.

A disease of the skin, in which a diffused inflammation forms rose-colored patches of variable size.

Characterized by, or causing, a morbid redness of the skin; relating to erythema.

Relating to, or causing, erythema.

Red in color. "The erythrean main." Milton.

Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, erythrin.

orsellinic acid. So called because of certain red compounds derived from it. Called also erythric acid.

A genus of leguminous plants growing in the tropics; coral tree; -- so called from its red flowers.

A condition of excessive redness. See Erythrochroism.

eet, cooling taste, extracted from certain lichens, and obtained by the decomposition of erythrin; -- called also erythrol, erythroglucin, erythromannite, pseudorcin, cobalt bloom, and under the name phycite obtained from the alga Protococcus vulgaris. It is a tetrabasic alcohol, corresponding to glycol and glycerin.…

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.