Crimson

See COLOUR.

CRIM'SON. Jer 4:30. See Colors.

CRIM'SON. Jer 4:30. See Colors.

Part of speech: noun (n.)

A deep red color tinged with blue; also, red color in general. Theugh jour be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. Is. i. 18. A maid jet rosed over with the virgin crimson of modesty. Shak.

Part of speech: noun (n.)

To become crimson; to blush. Ancient towers . . . beginning to crimson with the radiant luster of a cloudless July morning. De Quincey.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To dye with crimson or deep red; to redden. Signed in thy spoil and crimsoned in thy lethe. Shak.

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

Of a deep red color tinged with blue; deep red. "A crimson tide." Mrs. Hemans. The blushing poppy with a crimson hue. Prior.