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red man
Also red-man.
†1. Alch. ? Red sulphide of mercury. Obs.
1610B. Jonson Alch. ii. iii, Your red man, and your white woman, with all your broths, your menstrues [etc.].
2. a. [See red a. 5 c.] A (or the) North American Indian.
1744Vaudreuil in Pres. State Louisiana 37 The English..aimed at nothing so much as the Destruction of the red Men. 1794S. Williams Vermont 187 The Indian or the Red Man seems to have been the most ancient, or the original man of America. 1804C. B. Brown tr. Volney's View Soil U.S. 187 The fancied superiority of the red men has been exploded ever since the settlement of emigrants from Europe along the frontiers. 1858Longfellow M. Standish vii. 42 Ready to be let loose, and destroy his brother the red man. 1878N. Amer. Rev. CXXVII. 477 A few scattered tribes of red-men.
b. One of the extinct Beothuk people of Newfoundland.
1955L. E. F. English Historic Newfoundland 9/2 They [sc. Beothuks] were described as of ordinary height—yet there are recorded instances of giant Red Men of seven feet in stature. 1969H. Horwood Newfoundland xi. 78 The original Red Men, who, because of their attachment to red ochre, gave their nickname to all the other native tribes of North America.
3. U.S. The squirrel-fish, Holocentrus ascensionis.
1891in Cent. Dict.
4. = roman n.3 2.
1966E. Palmer Plains of Camdeboo xiv. 235 The Red Men come into the house at night... Of medium size—perhaps three inches with the legs fully spread..orange-red, hairy, fast, with great snapping beak-like jaws which, most horrifyingly, they can move at the same time up and down and from side to side. |