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COCHINEAL |
Red dye |
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EOSIN |
Red dye |
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HENNA |
Red dye |
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INCARNADINE |
To dye red or crimson. |
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PILLAR |
Red dye used by heathen nations |
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CRIMSON |
To dye with crimson or deep red; to redden. |
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ENVERMEIL |
To color with, or as with, vermilion; to dye red. |
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STAMMEL |
A red dye, used in England in the 15th and 16th centuries. |
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PURPLE |
To make purple; to dye of purple or deep red color; as,
hands purpled with blood. |
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RUBIRETIN |
One of the red dye products extracted from madder root,
and probably identical with ruberythrinic acid. |
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VERMILION |
To color with vermilion, or as if with vermilion; to
dye red; to cover with a delicate red. |
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SAFRANIN |
An orange-red dyestuff prepared from certain nitro
compounds of creosol, and used as a substitute for the safflower dye. |
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CUDBEAR |
A powder of a violet red color, difficult to moisten with
water, used for making violet or purple dye. It is prepared from
certain species of lichen, especially Lecanora tartarea. |
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GRAIN |
A reddish dye made from the coccus insect, or kermes; hence,
a red color of any tint or hue, as crimson, scarlet, etc.; sometimes
used by the poets as equivalent to Tyrian purple. |
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URANIN |
An alkaline salt of fluorescein, obtained as a brownish red
substance, which is used as a dye; -- so called from the peculiar
yellowish green f... |
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MAGENTA |
... having a
green bronze surface color, which dissolves to a shade of red; also,
the color; -- so called from Magenta, in Italy, in allusion to th... |