单词 | red lead |
释义 | red leadn. 1. A bright red, crystalline or amorphous oxide of lead, prepared esp. by heating lead monoxide (litharge) or carbonate in air and used (esp. formerly) as a pigment or paint; a pigment or paint containing or consisting of this oxide.Red lead is lead tetraoxide; Pb3O4. Also called minium or red minium (see minium n. 2). Toxic when ingested, red lead is now used chiefly in anti-corrosive paints for iron and steel and in various manufacturing processes, especially for glass and ceramics. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > oxides and hydroxides > [noun] > other oxides > other simple oxides red lead1295 martial ethiops1773 ilsemannite1871 brookite1879 karelianite1963 1295 in Antiquaries Jrnl. (1927) 7 436 Item, in xxiii li. unius coloris qui dicitur ‘Redled’. ?a1425 MS Hunterian 95 f. 153 Ȝif þou wilte colour þine oynement..make it..rede wiþ rede lede. 1466 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 212 Item, for a li of rede lede, to the said pavyses, ij d. a1475 in J. O. Halliwell Early Eng. Misc. (1855) 73 For an incarnacion, take sable and saffrone and rede lede, and medylle heme welle togedyre. a1550 ( G. Ripley Compend of Alchemy (Bodl. e Mus.) f. 52 (MED) Thow shalt have grapes right as the Ruby Red, whiche is our adrop, our vzifur, & our Red Lead. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball ii. viii. 157 Of the colour of Red-lead, or lyke to the colour of the Orenge pill. 1612 H. Peacham Gentlemans Exercise 17 To draw with drie colours, you may make long pastils, which you shall doe by grinding red lead, or any other colour with strong wort. 1675 A. Browne App. Ars Pictoria 7 A Temperature of White Carmine and a little Red Lead. 1732 Art of Drawing 38 The Minium, or Red Lead, is as heavy and strong a Colour as most we have. 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1278 The vermillion of commerce is often adulterated with red lead, brickdust, dragon's blood, and realgar. 1868 F. H. Joynson Metals in Constr. 122 Paint containing red-lead must be carefully eschewed. 1922 T. M. Lowry Inorg. Chem. v. 60 When the litharge is ground and gently roasted, its colour changes from yellowish-brown to scarlet, and a substance is obtained which was used as a pigment in classical times under the name of minium, and is now generally called red lead. 1978 G. C. Hill & J. S. Holman Chem. in Context xix. 285 The most common method of rust prevention is painting, often incorporating the use of dilead( ii) lead( iv) oxide (red lead) or zinc chromate( vi) as protective priming coats. 1995 J. Miller Voxpop xiii. 189 I got it [sc. a scooter] from a classic restoration place... They'd set it in red lead which had preserved it. 2. Mineralogy. More fully red lead of Siberia, Siberian red lead. = red lead ore n. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > chromates > [noun] > lead chromate red lead of Siberia1788 red lead ore1788 melanochroite1835 phoenicochroite1849 the world > the earth > minerals > ore > [noun] > metal ore > lead ore > types of fell1653 steel-ore1661 bing ore (or simply bing)1686 white lead orea1728 green lead ore1728 blanch1747 red lead of Siberia1788 red lead ore1788 hedyphane1832 cerussite1850 silver lead1860 1788 J. H. de Magellan Cronstedt's Ess. Syst. Mineral. (new ed.) II. 655 (note) Another red lead was found in the mines of Pirosew near Catherinenburg in Siberia. 1800 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 3 173 Cit. Vauquelin..on a new metallic acid which he discovered in the red lead of Siberia. 1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 411 Chromium was discovered by Vauquelin, in analyzing a beautiful mineral called red lead of Siberia. 1933 Sci. News Let. 1 July 11/1 The beautiful red colour, transparency, and crystalline figure, of the Siberian red lead soon induced mineralogists and chemists to make enquiries into its nature. 3. Chiefly North American colloquial (originally U.S. Navy slang). (a) Tomato ketchup; (b) tinned tomatoes (now rare). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > prepared vegetables and dishes > [noun] > tomato preparations Provençale1841 red lead1917 train smash1936 the world > food and drink > food > additive > sauce or dressing > [noun] > ketchup > tomato ketchup tomato ketchup1801 tomato catsup1845 tomato sauce1911 red lead1917 red-eye1923 1917 Des Moines (Iowa) Daily News 4 May 4/2 Potatoes are ‘spuds’; butter is ‘grease’; ketchup, ‘red lead’. 1919 G. M. Battey 70,000 Miles in Submarine Destroyer 261 Beans and ‘red lead’ for breakfast. 1945 ‘Tackline’ Holiday Sailor v. 55 Everything went into a pot-mess—meat, spuds, peas, beans, rice, oxo, ‘red-lead’ (tinned tomatoes)—and the result was invariably good. 1959 W. L. Corzine Sailors in Nightgowns vii. 100 We were having those delicious beans for breakfast, which we always camouflaged with red lead (catsup). 2004 S. Stall et al. Encycl. Guilty Pleasures 141/2 While one can assume that most of that red lead finds its way onto hot dogs, hamburgers, French fries, and the like, true guilty pleasure comes from globbing it onto a good steak. Compounds C1. General attributive in sense 1, as red lead colour, red lead mill, red lead paste, red lead pigment, etc. ΚΠ 1670 J. Pettus Fodinæ Regales xxv. 37 At the Red Lead Mill. 1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. 364 The Eyes are red like the Bill, or rather of a red-lead colour. 1768 Ware's Compl. Body Archit. (new ed.) i. ix. 55 There are two distinct kinds of porphyry met with at this time..one is a red lead colour, with white, black, and green spots. 1811 J. Farey Gen. View Agric. Derbyshire I. 391 For Red-Lead making..the Hard or Slag-Lead is preferred. 1891 H. Patterson Illustr. Naut. Dict. i. 146 Red Lead Putty, a mixture of white lead and red lead used for various purposes. 1952 G. F. Hervey & J. Hems Freshwater Trop. Aquarium Fishes 390 A good mastic may be compounded by mixing linseed-oil and whiting putty with about 10% by weight of red-lead powder. 1992 A. Kurzweil Case of Curiosities vi. 47 Red lead paste in four hues, burnt sienna from five countries. 1994 Amer. Jrnl. Physical Anthropol. 95 427 Red-lead pigment mixed with mercury sulphide (cinnabar)..may have been one of the sources of lead found in bones. C2. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > writing materials > writing instrument > [noun] > lead pen or pencil plummet?1440 black lead?a1560 black lead pen1612 black lead pencil1660 lead-pen1682 red lead pen1682 red lead pencil1686 1682 E. Ravenscroft London Cuckolds i. i. 11 See if there be not a Cupid drawn with a Red-lead Pen? 1766 Compl. Farmer at Surveying We would commend for expedition a red-lead pen, whereby you may mark out every angle neatly. red lead pencil n. a pencil containing red ochre or other red pigment. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > writing materials > writing instrument > [noun] > lead pen or pencil plummet?1440 black lead?a1560 black lead pen1612 black lead pencil1660 lead-pen1682 red lead pen1682 red lead pencil1686 1686 W. Aglionby Painting Illustr. (new ed.) 144 Ghiotto,..with one stroke of a Red-lead Pencil, drew a Circle so round, and so equal, that it was wonderful to see it. 1765 N.Y. Mercury 4 Mar. (advt.) He likewise makes the best of black and red Lead Pencils. 1807 A. Aikin & C. R. Aikin Dict. Chem. & Mineral. I. 587/2 What are vulgarly called Red-lead pencils are composed of thin slips of the finer kinds of reddle inclosed in a wooden case. 1920 Classical Jrnl. 16 180 Every black lead pencil is laid down on the desk and red lead pencils used for indicating errors. 2000 Tampa (Florida) Tribune (Nexis) 12 Oct. (Northeast section) 14 Pull out your red-lead pencils. Grab your grading books. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022). > as lemmasred lead 2. red lead: a red oxide of lead obtained from litharge by exposing it to hot air, much used as a pigment; = minium n. white lead (or simply lead): a mixture of lead carbonate and hydrated lead oxide, much used as a pigment; = ceruse n. yellow lead: (see quot.). blue lead: see blue lead n.1 ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > red colouring matter > [noun] > red lead red leadc1450 minium1601 minion1621 litharge1683 the world > matter > chemistry > elements and compounds > metals > specific elements > lead > [noun] > compounds > others litharge of goldc1400 red leadc1450 tetraethyl lead1923 plumbane1950 c1450 Middle Eng. Med. Bk. (Heinrich) 203 Tak..iij quarter of whyt led Tak a quart of oile and red led. 1658 W. Sanderson Graphice 54 Most excellent pure Virgin Colours are Ceruse and White leade. 1687 Philos. Trans. 1686–7 (Royal Soc.) 16 27 Red-lead, a colour unknown to the Antients. 1727 J. Swift Progress of Beauty in Misc. Last vol. ii. 250 White Lead was sent us to repair..A Lady's Face, and China-Ware. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) The common calx of lead, red lead. 1827 R. Nesbit in J. M. Mitchell Mem. R. Nesbit (1858) iii. 80 It [the idol] was painted with red lead. 1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 747 Lead ores... 12. Yellow lead. Molybdate of lead. 1844 G. Fownes Man. Elem. Chem. 294 Red oxide; red lead. 1844 G. Fownes Man. Elem. Chem. 295 Carbonate of lead; white lead. < n.1295 as lemmas |
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