Designating the colour of blood, a ruby, a ripe tomato, etc., and appearing in various shades at the longer-wavelength end of the visible…

Red, ruddy.

In general use: red or reddish; characterized by a red or reddish colour.

Originally: †red, ruddy (obsolete). In later use: reddish, somewhat red.

Formerly: of any generally red shade; (now) of a deep, rich shade intermediate between crimson and violet (cf. sense B. 2(c)).

Of or being of the colour red. rare.

Red, reddish.

Red in colour. (Usually placed after the word which it qualifies.)

Of the colour gules or red.

Ruddy; roseate.

Of a red or reddish colour, as of skin flushed with anger, embarrassment, etc.; designating such a colour. Also: (of a shade of red) bright, harsh…

Chiefly poetic. Red, ruddy. Now rare.

Of the colour of minium; red. Cf. miniaceous, adj.

Red, reddish.

Of the colour of ruddle; designating this colour; red; ruddy. rare.

In Newton's terminology: (of a light ray) that produces the colour red.

Of or resembling a carbuncle; bearing carbuncles.

transferred. Blush-coloured, rosy, ruddy.

roseate, ruddy.

In predicative use only: blushing, flushed, rosy.

Of a reddish colour, ruddy.

Reddish; ruddy.