Red like blood; blood-coloured.

Originally: of a crimson shade obtained from mollusc dye (see sense B. 4), used in various ways as a distinguishing feature of the dress of emperors…

Of the colour of blood, blood-red.

Of a purple colour or tinge, purplish; †(Heraldry) = purpure, adj. 2 (obsolete).

Blood-red. Also sanguine red (sometimes hyphenated), †red sanguine, †brown sanguine. Now only literary.

transferred. Of a deep red colour, like that of ‘tuly’ silk; absol. or as n. the red colour of this.

Of a deep red colour somewhat inclining towards purple; of the colour of an alkaline infusion of cochineal.

Mulberry-coloured; reddish purple or blood red in colour. See also murrey colour, n.

Of a purple colour; spec. of the distinguishing colour of royal or imperial dress. Cf. purple, adj. 1a 2a. Obsolete.

Having the colour of blood, blood-red. Obsolete.

Crimson.

Of the colour of a ruby; as red as a ruby.

Of the colour of a ruby, of a glowing purplish red; denoting this colour.

Of the colour of blood.

Of the colour of a ruby, of a glowing purplish red; denoting this colour.

Purple-red in colour.

Coloured like a ruby; ornamented with rubies.

also used for various shades of crimson or blood-red (cf. carnation, n.2); in modern use sometimes = Blood-stained (from Shakespeare Macbeth ii.…

spec. In reference or allusion to the purple or crimson dye anciently made at Tyre from certain molluscs: see purple, adj. n.

Ruby-coloured.

Of the colour of a mulberry; blood red.

Resembling blood; blood-red.

Of the (reddish) colour of wine; wine-coloured.

attributive or as adj. Of this colour; deep crimson. carmine spar = carminite, n.

transferred. Dyed or stained blood-colour; crimson.

Resembling the colour of a peony flower, dark red; esp. of the cheeks: plump and rosy.

(See quot. 1816.)

Resembling gore; blood-red. rare. (Cf. bloody, adj. 3) gory dew: name of a minute freshwater alga (see quot.).

Somewhat crimson in colour. Frequently modifying another colour word.

With names of colours: Like that of (red) wine; having a wine-coloured tinge.

Of or pertaining to lake; of the colour of lake; spec. of the blood, when the red corpuscles are acted upon by some solvent.

Used attributively: Of a deep red colour, like that of garnet.

Of the colour of madder.

of the colour of deep-red wine; used esp. to render Greek οἴνοψ as an epithet of the sea; occasionally (poetic) as n.

Esp. of a ruby: dark red.

attributive or as adj. Claret-coloured. Cf. 1a.

Of the colour of wine; vinaceous. Also in combinations.

Of the colour of alizarin; deep red or crimson. Cf. sense A. 2.

Passing into adj. A dark red colour.