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Crimson : adj
1: having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent
of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or
rubies [syn: red, reddish, ruddy, blood-red, carmine,
cerise, cherry, cherry-red, ruby, ruby-red,
scarlet]
2: characterized by violence or bloodshed; "writes of crimson
deeds and barbaric days"- Andrea Parke; "fann'd by
Conquest's crimson wing"- Thomas Gray; "convulsed with red
rage"- Hudson Strode [syn: red, violent]
3: (especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if
with blood from emotion or exertion; "crimson with fury";
"turned red from exertion"; "with puffy reddened eyes";
"red-faced and violent"; "flushed (or crimson) with
embarrassment" [syn: red, reddened, red-faced, flushed]
(noun)
1: a deep and vivid red [syn: ruby, deep red]
(verb)
1: turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame; "The girl blushed
when a young man whistled as she walked by" [syn: blush,
flush, redden]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Crimson : \Crim"son\ (kr?m"z'n), n. [OE. crimson, OF. crimoisin,
F. cramoisi (cf. Sp. carmesi.) LL. carmesinus, fr. Ar.
qermazi, fr. qermez crimson, kermes, fr. Skr. k?mija produced
by a worm; k?mi worm or insect _ jan to generate; akin to E.
kin. CF. Carmine, Kermes.]
A deep red color tinged with blue; also, red color in
general.
Theugh jour be as scarlet, they shall be as white as
snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as
wool. --Is. i. 18.
A maid jet rosed over with the virgin crimson of
modesty. --Shak.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Crimson : \Crim"son\, a.
Of a deep red color tinged with blue; deep red. ``A crimson
tide.'' --Mrs. Hemans.
The blushing poppy with a crimson hue. --Prior.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Crimson : \Crim"son\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crimsoned (-z'nd); p.
pr. & vb. n. Crimsoning.]
To dye with crimson or deep red; to redden.
Signed in thy spoil and crimsoned in thy lethe. --Shak.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Crimson : \Crim"son\, b. t.
To become crimson; to blush.
Ancient towers . . . beginning to crimson with the
radiant luster of a cloudless July morning. --De
Quincey.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Crimson : See COLOUR.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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