transitive. To make purple (in any of the shades denoted or formerly denoted by this term: see purple, adj. 2a); to stain, tinge, or dye with purple…

transitive. To mark, smear, or paint with ruddle or another red substance; to redden. Occasionally intransitive. Also figurative and in extended…

transitive. figurative. To stain (a person, a person's hands, a country, etc.) with bloodshed; to taint. Also: to make (something) blood-red; to…

transitive. To stain or paint a sanguine colour.

transitive. To colour with cochineal.

transitive. To colour or suffuse, to stain over, with or as with vermilion or bright red. Also transferred.

transitive. To colour or paint with, or as with, vermilion; to give the colour of vermilion to (the face, etc.).

transitive. To stain or dye gules or red.

transitive. To dye or tinge with incarnadine (see incarnadine, n.); to redden.

transitive. To mark (a sheep, etc.) with raddle, usually at shearing or tupping time; to paint or dye red (an object); to colour (one's face) with…

Const. over (o'er).

to dye scarlet.

transitive. = raddle, v.2 1.

transitive. To colour or paint with vermilion; to rubricate or (in extended use) to illuminate (a manuscript); (poetic) to impart a red colour or…

transitive. Chiefly English regional (northern). In sheep farming: to mark (a sheep) with ruddle. Cf. rud, n.1 3b.

(transitive) to mark or colour with tiver.

transitive. To colour or stain with, or as with, red ochre.

transitive. To stain with the dye roucou (roucou, n. 1).

transitive. To vermilion. Also figurative.

transitive. To apply paint containing red lead to (metal, a ship, etc.); to paint with red lead.