Crimson \Crim"son\ (kr[i^]m"z'n), n. [OE. crimson, OF.
crimoisin, F. cramoisi (cf. Sp. carmesi.) LL. carmesinus, fr.
Ar. qermazi, fr. qermez crimson, kermes, fr. Skr. k[.r]mija
produced by a worm; k?mi worm or insect + jan to generate;
akin to E. kin. CF. Carmine, Kermes.]
A deep red color tinged with blue; also, red color in
general.
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Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white
as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be
as wool. --Is. i. 18.
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A maid yet rosed over with the virgin crimson of
modesty. --Shak.
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Crimson \Crim"son\, a.
Of a deep red color tinged with blue; deep red. "A crimson
tide." --Mrs. Hemans.
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The blushing poppy with a crimson hue. --Prior.
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Crimson \Crim"son\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crimsoned (-z'nd); p.
pr. & vb. n. Crimsoning.]
To dye with crimson or deep red; to redden.
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Signed in thy spoil and crimsoned in thy lethe. --Shak.
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Crimson \Crim"son\, v. t.
To become crimson; to blush.
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Ancient towers . . . beginning to crimson with the
radiant luster of a cloudless July morning. --De
Quincey.
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crimson
adj 1: having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent
of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or
rubies [syn: red, reddish, ruddy, blood-red, carmine,
cerise, cherry, cherry-red, ruby, ruby-red,
scarlet]
2: characterized by violence or bloodshed; "writes of crimson
deeds and barbaric days"- Andrea Parke; "fann'd by
Conquest's crimson wing"- Thomas Gray; "convulsed with red
rage"- Hudson Strode [syn: red, violent]
3: (especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if
with blood from emotion or exertion; "crimson with fury";
"turned red from exertion"; "with puffy reddened eyes";
"red-faced and violent"; "flushed (or crimson) with
embarrassment" [syn: red, reddened, red-faced, flushed]
n : a deep and vivid red [syn: ruby, deep red]
v : turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame; "The girl blushed
when a young man whistled as she walked by" [syn: blush,
flush, redden]
WordNet (r) 2.0
95 Moby Thesaurus words for "crimson":
Titian, Titian-red, blanch, blush, bricky, cardinal, carmine,
carnation, carnelian, cerise, change color, cherry, cherry-colored,
cherry-red, color, color up, damask, darken, ferruginous, fiery,
fire-red, flame, flame-colored, flame-red, flaming, flush, glow,
glowing, grow red, gules, henna, hot, incarmined, incarnadine,
inflame, inflamed, infrared, iron-red, lake-colored, laky,
lateritious, lipstick, lobster-red, look black, lurid, madder,
mantle, maroon, miniate, pale, pink, port-wine, puce, red,
red-dyed, red-ink, red-looking, redden, reddened, reddish,
reddish-amber, reddish-brown, rose, rouge, rubicund, rubify,
rubiginous, rubric, rubricose, ruby, ruby-colored, ruby-red,
ruddied, ruddle, ruddy, rufescent, rufous, rust, rust-red, rusty,
scarlet, squirm with self-consciousness, stammel, stammer,
tile-red, turn color, turn pale, turn red, vermilion, vinaceous,
warm, whiten, wine, wine-colored, wine-red
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
Crimson
See COLOUR.
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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