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▪ I. reddish, a.|ˈrɛdɪʃ|
Also 4 redische.
[f. red a. + -ish1.]
1. a. Somewhat red, red-tinted.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. vi. xxii. (Tollem. MS.), Some [wine] is reed or redische, and is more hote þan oþer. Ibid. xvii. vi, The Aloe þat is calde Epaticum..is broune redische as þe lyuoure. 1545T. Raynalde Byrth Mankynde 18 The lytel small vaynes which ye se reddisshe in a mans eye. 1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 21 b/1 Then is the swellinge reddishe of colour, or purple-coloured. 1660F. Brooke tr. Le Blanc's Trav. 192 They delight much to parget their bodies with a reddish earth. 1712Addison Spect. No. 281 ⁋5 This Pericardium..contains in it a thin reddish Liquor. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) IV. 339 The two former are of a brown dusky colour, but this of a beautiful reddish. 1836Macgillivray tr. Humboldt's Trav. x. 122 A reddish vapour rose in the evening. 1886Ruskin Præterita I. 407 A reddish and rather vacant face.
b. In names of animals and plants.
1777Lightfoot Flora Scot. II. 846 Lichen rubescens, Reddish Ground Liverwort. 1785Pennant Arct. Zool. II. 447 Reddish Egret. 1809Shaw Zool. Lect. I. ii. 37 The species which makes the nearest approach to the human figure, is the chesnut-coloured or reddish Oran Otan. 1835Audubon Ornith. Biog. III. 411 The Reddish Egret is a constant resident on the Florida Keys. 1869Sowerby Eng. Bot. IX. 31 Polygonum Rufescens,..Reddish Pondweed. 1889Cent. Dict. 5018/3 Reddish light-arches, a British noctuid moth. 1907R. South Moths Brit. Isles 1st Ser. 279 The Reddish Light Arches..occurs in beech woods. Ibid. 321 The Reddish Buff... The female is much smaller than the male. 1968Oxf. Bk. Insects 82/1 It is easy to confuse this moth with the less common Reddish Light Arches.
2. Comb.
a. Qualifying adjs. and ns. of colour; esp. reddish-blue, reddish-brown, reddish-purple, reddish-violet, reddish-yellow.
reddish-grey bat, Natterer's bat (see quot. 1837).
1629J. Parkinson Paradisi in Sole l. 518 The scales..are eyther of a reddish browne, whitish, or greenish colour. Ibid. viii. 55/2 A white [flowring Tulipa], speckled with reddish purple, more or lesse, of diuers sorts, with white, yellow, or blew bottomes. 1659Howell Vocab. ii, A reddish bay [horse], Rabicano. 1685W. King in Phil. Trans. XV. 953 The reddish black colour of the turf. a1728Woodward Hist. Fossils I. 226 Internally the Colour is a reddish brown. 1739C. Labelye Short Acc. Piers Westm. Bridge 53 A dirty reddish yellow. 1831Brewster Optics xiv. 115 Of a dull reddish-white colour. 1837T. Bell Brit. Quadrup. 42 Vespertilio Nattereri. This species, to which I have applied the English name of Reddish-grey Bat from its prevailing colour, was first described by Kuhl, and named by him after..Dr. Natterer. 1849D. Campbell Inorg. Chem. 76 Its vapour is reddish-green. 1855J. Phillips Man. Geol. 411 Over all is a continuous widely spread reddish-brown clay. 1856Rep. Comm. Patents 1855: Agric. 273 The Red-striped [sugar] cane,..and the Violet or Reddish-violet, which is only a variation from the former,..will generally prosper..[in] the Southern States. 1879O. N. Rood Chromatics xi. 168 The resultant tint would always have been a reddish-grey. 1934Webster, Reddish-blue. 1962I. Murdoch Unofficial Rose xviii. 179 A dark reddish-blue sky. 1963A. Lubbock Austral. Roundabout 108 The granite ridges round Cloncurry, reddish-purple and bare. 1964S. Duke-Elder Parsons' Dis. Eye (ed. 14) x. 102 The ciliary form for the most part a diffuse reddish-violet blush. Ibid. xxi. 296 The anterior ciliary veins are dilated, and a reddish-blue zone surrounds the cornea. 1971L. A. Boger Dict. World Pott. & Porc. 278/2 Inscriptions were often painted on the black background in red (or reddish purple). 1980Catal. Fine Chinese Ceramics (Sotheby, Hong Kong) 16 The unglazed stoneware burnt reddish-brown in the firing. Ibid. 92 Covered with a bright reddish-purple glaze attractively streaked and mottled in milky blue.
b. Parasynthetic, as reddish-bellied, reddish-coloured, reddish-haired, reddish headed, and similative, as reddish-looking.
1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 34/1 The matter whyte, or reddishe coloured, and without stincke. 1653R. Sanders Physiogn. 157 The persons are white-breasted, reddish-hair'd. 1678Ray Willughby's Ornith. 369 Our smaller reddish-headed Duck. 1752J. Hill Hist. Anim. 480 The gray-breasted and reddish-bellied Charadrius. 1807T. Thomson Chem. (ed. 3) II. 394 A reddish-coloured acrid solution. 1876Clin. Soc. Trans. IX. 76 Discharging about 8 ozs. of offensive reddish-looking fluid.
Hence ˈreddishly adv.; ˈreddishness.
1663Boyle Exp. Hist. Colours ii. Exp. xiii, Whether or no this White mixture..would not let go its Arsenick,..and return to the Reddishness of Copper. 1881C. A. Young Sun 306 We should doubtless believe this reddishness the natural color of the glowing, naked carbons. 1946R. Capell Simiomata ii. 47 He is donnish, tall and reddishly fair.
▪ II. reddish
obs. form of radish. |