Crimson

crimson
    adj 1: of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to
           orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or
           tomatoes or rubies [syn: {red}, {reddish}, {ruddy},
           {blood-red}, {carmine}, {cerise}, {cherry}, {cherry-red},
           {crimson}, {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: {crimson}, {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: {crimson}, {red}, {reddened}, {red-faced}, {flushed}]
    n 1: a deep and vivid red color [syn: {crimson}, {ruby}, {deep
         red}]
    v 1: turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame; "The girl
         blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by" [syn:
         {blush}, {crimson}, {flush}, {redden}]
    

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
See {COLOUR}.
    

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