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See Vermeil. [Obs.] Spenser.

A tribe of edentates comprising the South American ant-eaters. The tongue is long, slender, exsertile, and very flexible, whence the name.

Hence, a red color like the pigment; a lively and brilliant red; as, cheeks of vermilion.

Vermeil. [Obs.] Spenser.

The artificial red sulphide of mercury used as a pigment; vermilion. Cinnabar Græcorum (. Etym: [L. Graecorum, gen. pl., of the Greeks.] (Med.) Same as Dragon's blood. -- Green cinnabar, a green pigment consisting of the oxides of cobalt and zinc subjected to the action of fire. -- Hepatic cinnabar (Min.), an impure…

To color with, or as with, vermilion; to dye red. [Obs.] Milton.

To paint or tinge with red lead or vermilion; also, to decorate with letters, or the like, painted red, as the page of a manuscript. T. Wharton.

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

A Mexican shrub (Euphorbia pulcherrima) with very large and conspicuous vermilion bracts below the yellowish flowers.

The prow or fore part of a ship. [Poetic] "Galleys with vermilion prores." Pope.

Vermilion red; red. [R.] Her face was like the lily roon. J. R. Drake.

Vermilion; also, the color of vermilion, a bright, beautiful red. [Poetic & R.] In her cheeks the vermeil red did show Like roses in a bed of lilies shed. Spenser.

See Vermilion. [R.]