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2. A red pigment. The most useful reds for paint- red 2 (red), v. t. A dialectal form of rid 1 . 
ed 3 (red), v. t. ; pret. and pp. red, ppr. rediliiig. 
[Also redd, dial, rid / (. ME. reden, put in order ; 
in part same as reden redien, make ready, but This fresh Ma doeg uot furnlsh U8 wjth the date 
prob. from the related Sw. reda, prepare, put O f the story, but it gives us the date of one of its redactions, 
in order (reda ut sit hdr, comb out one's hair), and shows it must have existed in the middle of the four- 
ing are carmine, obtained from the cochineal-insect ; the 
lakes and madders, of vegetable origin ; vermilion, chrome- 
red, Indian red, and burnt sienna. 
3. An object of a red color, as wine, gold, etc. 
Now kepe yow fro the whyte and fro the rede, 
And namely fro the whyte wyn of Lepe, 
That is to selle in Fish strete or in fhepe. 
In an early redaction of the well-known ballad of Lord 
Ronald . . . the name of the unfortunate victim to "eels 
boil'd in brue" is Laird Rowland. 
.iV. and (/., 6th ser., XII. 134. 
= Dan. rede, prepare : see ready, v. This verb teenth century. 
Chaucer, Pardoner's Tale, 1. 100. has become confused with red?, var. of 
Edinburgh Rev., CLXIV. 192. 
No pint of white or red 
Had ever half the power to turn 
This wheel within my head. 
Tennyson, Will Waterproof. 
4. Specifically, a red cent. See under I. 
[Slang, U. S.] 5. A red republican (which 
see, under republican). 6. pi. The catameuial 
discharges; menses Adrianople red. Same as 
Turkey red. Alizarin red, iii leather-manuf., a pale 
flesh-color produced by rubbing the cleansed and trodden 
skins with a solution of alizarin or extract of madder in 
weak soda-lye, and rinsing in water. C. T. Davit, Leather, 
p. 735. Aniline red. Same as fuctuin. Anisol red, a 
coal-tar color of the oxy-azo group, formerly used in dyeing 
silk and wool, but not now a commercial product. Anti- 
see n'f/l.] 1 . To put in order; tidy: often with 
up : as, to red tip a house or one's self. 
When the derke was done, and the day sprange, 
All the renkes to row redyn hor shippes, 
Halit out of hauyn to the hegh see, 
There plainly thaire purpos put to an end. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 5648. 
When you rid up the parlour-hearth in a morning, 
throw the last night's ashes into a sieve. 
Ionic redaction of Cynaithos of Chios about the middle 
of the sixth century. Amer. Jour. Philol., VII. 233. 
3. The staff of writers on a newspaper or other 
periodical; an editorial staff or department. 
//;;. Diet. 4f. The act of drawing back; a 
withdrawal. 
It ... takes away all reluctation and redaction, infus- 
eth a pliable willingness ; of wolfish and dogged, makes 
the will lamb-like and dove-like. 
Rev. S. Ward, Sermons, p. 81. 
Jeanie, my 
that winna be redd 
Swift, Advice to Servants (House-Maid). 
woman, gang into the parlour-but stay, redactor (re-dak tor), n. [Also,asF 
redd up yet. < F. redacteur = Sp. Pg. redactor = It. 
. ._ redattore, 
Scott, Heart of Mid-Lothian, xxvi. < NL. redactor, an editor, < L. redigere, pp. redac- 
The fire ... was redd up for the afternoon covered tus, lead back, collect, reduce to a certain state : 
monyred, a sulphid of antimony suggesfed as a pigment, "'Hi "black mass of coal, over which the equally black see redact.] One who redacts; one who pre- 
but not permanent: used for coloring rubber and the Ket tle nung on tn> 3OK. narpR Tnnt.tpi. fm- miKli^Qtwm o-n oHiti 
Mrs. Gaskell, Sylvia's Lovers, xvi. 
2. To disentangle; clear; put a stop to, as a 
quarrel, by interference ; adjust. 
Up rose the laird to red the cumber. 
Raid of the Reidswire (Child's Ballads, VL 135). 
He maun take part wi' hand and heart ; and weel his 
heads of friction-matches. Aurora red, a light red, like 
that of the spinel ruby. Barwood red. See bamood. 
Bengal red, a coal-tar color used in dyeing. It pro- 
duces brilliant reds similar to those of eosin, but more blue 
in tone. It is the alkali salt of tetraiododichloro-fluores- 
cei'n. Also called rose bengale. Bristol red, a dye for 
stuffs, in favor in the sixteenth century. 
Her kyrtel Brystaw red. 
Skelton, Elynour Rummyng, 1. 70. 
., ... _ -PMt.J *_*i WJ |M I lulillll^ w d, lcuVH/l VL IT 
Brownred. Same as red ocher (which see, under ocher). -S. lo separate, as two combatants.-To red tion ; having the character of a redaction 
Cadmium red, an artists pigment composed of the one s feet, to free one's self from entanglement : used 
pares matter for publication ; an editor. 
Each successive singer and redactor furnishes it [the 
primeval mythus] with new personages, new scenery, to 
please a new audience. Carlyle, Nibelungen Lied. 
Distrust of Dorothea's competence to arrange what he 
had prepared was subdued only by distrust of any other 
redactor. George Eliot, Middlemarch, 1. 
part it is, for redding his quarrel might have cost you redactorial (re-dak-to'ri-al), a. [< redactor + 
Scott, Guy Mannenng, liii. _ ial -^ Qt QJ . pertaining t5 re dactor or redac- 
cadmium sulphid. It is more" orange in hue than ver- 
milion, but is very brilliant and permanent. Chica or 
. 
chico red. See chico, 1. Cobalt red, a phosphate of 
cobalt sometimes used as an artists' 
, 
chiefly in reference to moral complications. To red the 
hair, specifically, to comb the hair 
Three chief dpcuments.viz. the Yahwistic, the Elohistic, 
an< * ">e Editorial or Redactorial. 
i red, a phosphate of [Now chiefly colloquial in all uses.] 
but poor in hue.- Congo red, a coTlTar color "uTd" hi "dMred), ,, [Perhaps < mJS.] In coal-mining, 
dyeing. It may be applied to cotton and wool, produ- _ ru ,' sh ,\ attle i. waste. ^ [Prov. Eng.] 
. 
Corallin red, a coal-tar color used in dyeing, produced 
by treating aurin with ammonia at a high temperature. 
It is used by calico- and woolen-printers, but is quite fugi- 
tive. See coralline, 3. English red. Same as Venetian 
red. fast red, a coal-tar color used in dyeing a garnet- 
red on woolen. " - 
, 
I. In field fort., the 
The Academy, Feb. 11, 1888, p. 92. 
redan (re-dan'), 11. [More prop, redent; < OF. 
= . f rr ,,..- redan, redent, F. redan = Pg. reden te, a double 
cfng sTbright scarlet fast to soap, but not to light 'oracids. red 5 (red), n. [Also redd; perhaps" < red 2 , .] notching or jagging, as in a saw, < L. re-, back, 
It is _a sodium salt of a tetrazo dye from benzidine.- The nest of a fish ; a trench dug by a fish in 
which to spawn. [Prov. Eng.] 
A trout's redd or nest is a mound of gravel which would 
till one or even two wheelbarrows. 
_ Day, Fishes of Great Britain and Ireland, II. 105. 
to the azo-group" ' Tl'soTown iTcSSSM rSS, d. r. and . An obsolete or dialectal form of 
orseillin, rubidin, and rauracienne. French red, a coal- read 1 . 
tar color used in dyeing, being a mixture of claret-red and red-. A form of re- used before vowels. 
+ den(t-)s = E. tooth.] 
simplest kind of 
work employed, 
consisting of 
two parapets of 
earth raised so 
as to form a 
salient angle, 
.,1 ,. 1^1 -u,l IIS 
with the apex 
natural* earth 'rich'Sn oxiTotTron^Droug^from India" 8 !? conditi o n > rule, reckoning, estimation, occur- toward the enemy and unprotected on the rear, 
is now prepared artificially by heating iron sulphate in ring as second part of about 25 compounds, Two redan connected form a queue d'aronde, and three 
a reverberatory furnace. The sulphuric acid is driven being a form, with suffix -en of r&d counsel connec j e <! * rm iff"? d ( r de ) Prftre. Several redans 
off, and the iron is immediately oxidized to the red oxid. advice etc (- OHG MHfi rat ad vinp mr *P! onn A ec ^ d ^ curt ^" 8 fo ' nes of Intrenchment 
The color varies from a purple to a light-yellowish red 1 V1C J' etc. (. ytltr. Mllli. rat, advice, counsel, 2. A downward projection in a wall on uneven 
ji , i . , P. * i*-", ofrt TVJmiOflT in rtrtTMTv net Iisi,iin wsif V, n-,-, n nV. ^1 rl t . 
, re an -. - use eore vowes. 
naphthol orange. Indian red, an important pigment .rod K MF, -reflp rpflrn ra>Hfn ( AC! .m 
used by artists and house-painters. Originally it was a V*- i ' , ' '*<*?"> \. rx 
pigment. Madder-red. See madderi . Magdala red, 
, , . - 
uire = Sp. Pg. redargnir = It. redarguire, < 
prepared SimSirfy'S Indian red." It'is" "also"sWe'tim"es of Anelo-Saxon origin, meaning ' condition,' gued,~prjr. redarguing. t<OF.redarguer,'F. 
made by calcining Oxford ocher. It is used as an artists' state/ occurring in hatred, kindred (for *kin- redargue); blame, reprehend, = Pr. redar- 
red), gosnipred, etc. It is analogous to -hood, 
-Mars red, a pigment used by artists. 'it'Ts'Tome: ** brotherhood, neighborhood. 
what similar in composition and color to Indian red redact (re-dakt ), V. t. [< OF. redacter = Sp. 
Mock Turkey red. See barwood. Naphthalene red. redaclar, redact, edit, < L. redactus, pp. of re- 
Srs^ssr^ts^irfi^S^: "^ <v- T T = D - < r^ = G - / edi - 
- Persian red. Same HS t T normal format Indian !" re ! t = w - red,gera = Dan. redigere), drive, 
red. Phenetpl red. Same as coccinin. Piccolpasso ' ea d, or bring back, call in, collect, raise, re- 
red, a name given to the deep red of the Italian majoli- ceive, reduce to a certain state, < red-, back,-f- 
agere,-_ drive, do: see act.] If. To bring to a 
ca, obtained by the use of silicate of alumina, in which 
there is much oxid of iron, and applied up^n the yelow p ' -J JT. i 
enamel already fired: so called from Piccolpasso a six- s P ecl "ed form or condition; force or compel to 
assume a certain form ; reduce. 
tradict, < red-, back, against, + arguere, argue : 
see argue.] 1. To put down by argument; dis- 
prove ; contradict ; refute. 
Sir, I'll redargue you 
By disputation. 
B. Jonson, Magnetick Lady, iii. 4. 
Wherefore, says he, the libel maun be redargued by the 
panel proving her defences. 
, - 
teenth-century writer on Italian potteries. Pompadour 
red. See rose pompadour, under rose-. Pompeian red. 
See Pmnpeian. Prussian red. Same as Venetian red. 
Saturnine red. Same as red lead (which see, under 
(ead2). Spanish red. Same as Venetian red. Turkey 
red, an intense scarlet red produced on fabrics by dye- 
ing with the color-giving principles of the madder-root. 
This has been almost entirely superseded by exactly the 
same color produced on fabrics by means of artificial ali- 
zarin. See alizarin. Also called Adrianople red. Tur- 
- 
Then was the teste or potsherd [the brasse, golde, and 
syluer] redaite into dust. Joye, Expos, of Daniel ii. 
They were now become miserable, wretched, sinful, re- 
dact to extreme calamity. 
Bacon, Works, p. 46. (Hattiwell.) 
Plants they had, but metals whereby they might make 
use of those plants, and redact them to any form or in- 
struments of work, were yet (till Tubal Cain) to seek. 
Scott, Heart of Mid-Lothian, xii. 
Consciousness cannot be explained nor redargued from 
without. Sir w. Hamilton. 
2f. To accuse; blame. 
When he had redargued himself for his slothfulness, he 
began to advise how he should eschew all danger. 
Piticottie, Chron. of Scotland, p. 19. (Jamieson.) 
How shall I be able to suffer that God should redargue 
me at doomsday, and the angels reproach my lukewarm- 
Jer. Taylor. (Allibone.) 
washed away with a solution of common salt, and the 
fatty acids saponified with ammonia. The oil consists 
chiefly of ammonium sulpho-ricinoleate. Compare Gal- 
lipolioil, under oil. Venetian red, an important pig- 
key-red oil, an oil with which cloth is treated in dyeing " Bu Hall Character of Mar 
the color called Turkey red. It is prepared by mixing m , . . . redargutiont (red-ar-gu'shon), . [ME. redar- 
castor-pil with dilute sulphuric acid; the acid is then *0 bring into a presentable literary form; guation, < OF. redarguacion, redargation (prop. 
pc '' t - redargudon, redargutionj = Sp. redargucion = 
I saw the reporters' room, in which they redact their It. redarguizione, < L. redargutio(n-), a refuta- 
Emerson, Eng. Traits, p. 265. tion, < redarguere, disprove, refute : see redar- 
gue.] Refutation; conviction. 
To pursue all tho that do reprobacion 
Agayns our lawes by ony redarguacion. 
Digby Mysteries, p. 33. (HalliweU.) 
what darker than brick-red 'in color, and is very pernia- = Sp. redaction = Pg. reddccSo = It. redazione, The more subtile fomis of sophisms and illaqueations 
nent (See also chrome-red, claret-red.) < NL. redactio(n-) redaction < L redioere m) with their rp</arjrMi<is, which is that which is termed 
red 1 (red), ,- f, pret. and pp. redded, ppr. red- redactus, lead back, collect, prepare, reduce to elenches - Bacm - Advancement of Learning, ii. 224. 
< ME. reden, readen, redden, < AS. red- a certain state : see redact.] 1. The act of re- redarglltoryt (re-dar'gu-to-ri), a. [< redargu- 
an, a strong verb (pret. read, pi. nidon), red- ducing to order : the act of preparing for pub- 
dcn stain with blood, also wound, kill, = Icel. lication : said of literary or historical matter. 
ffii^^ ( r .^r^^ , - r^=awfti 
guages only) weak, AS. reddian, also reddiiui, and the operation performed on it is exactly expressed by the privy lodgings. Carew, Ccelum Britannicum. 
= G. roten rothen, become red; from the adj. redaction. F. Hall, Mod. Eng., p. 310. redback (red'bak), n. 1. The red-backed sand- 
en.\ lo make red; redden. 2. A work thus prepared ; a special form, edi- piper, or American dunlin. A. Wilson. See cut 
For he did red and die them with their own blood. tion i or version of a work as digested, revised, under dunlin. [New Jersey.] 2. The pectoral 
Foxe, Martyrs, I. 664. or rewritten. sandpiper, Tringa maailafti. [Local, U. S.] 
t(ion) + -ory.] Tending to redargue or refute ; 
pertaining to refutation ; refutatory. 
My privileges are an ubiquitary, circumambulatory, 
speculatory, interrogatory, redargutory immunity overall 
the privy lodgings. Carew, Ccelum Britannicum. 
