scarlet
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
scarlet
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}]
n 1: a variable color that is vivid red but sometimes with an
orange tinge [syn: {scarlet}, {vermilion}, {orange red}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Scarlet \Scar"let\, a.
Of the color called scarlet; as, a scarlet cloth or thread.
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{Scarlet admiral} (Zool.), the red admiral. See under {Red}.
-- Scarlet bean (Bot.), a kind of bean ({Phaseolus
multiflorus}) having scarlet flowers; scarlet runner.
{Scarlet fever} (Med.), a contagious febrile disease
characterized by inflammation of the fauces and a scarlet
rash, appearing usually on the second day, and ending in
desquamation about the sixth or seventh day.
{Scarlet fish} (Zool.), the telescope fish; -- so called from
its red color. See under {Telescope}.
{Scarlet ibis} (Zool.) See under {Ibis}.
{Scarlet maple} (Bot.), the red maple. See {Maple}.
{Scarlet mite} (Zool.), any one of numerous species of bright
red carnivorous mites found among grass and moss,
especially {Thombidium holosericeum} and allied species.
The young are parasitic upon spiders and insects.
{Scarlet oak} (Bot.), a species of oak ({Quercus coccinea})
of the United States; -- so called from the scarlet color
of its leaves in autumn.
{Scarlet runner} (Bot.), the scarlet bean.
{Scarlet tanager}. (Zool.) See under {Tanager}.
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Scarlet \Scar"let\, n. [OE. scarlat, scarlet, OF. escarlate, F.
['e]carlate (cf. Pr. escarlat, escarlata, Sp. & Pg.
escarlata, It. scarlatto, LL. scarlatum), from Per.
sakirl[=a]t.]
A deep bright red tinged with orange or yellow, -- of many
tints and shades; a vivid or bright red color.
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2. Cloth of a scarlet color.
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All her household are clothed with scarlet. --Prov.
xxxi. 21.
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from
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
Scarlet
This dye was obtained by the Egyptians from the shell-fish
Carthamus tinctorius; and by the Hebrews from the Coccus ilicis,
an insect which infests oak trees, called kermes by the
Arabians.
This colour was early known (Gen. 38:28). It was one of the
colours of the ephod (Ex. 28:6), the girdle (8), and the
breastplate (15) of the high priest. It is also mentioned in
various other connections (Josh. 2:18; 2 Sam. 1:24; Lam. 4:5;
Nahum 2:3). A scarlet robe was in mockery placed on our Lord
(Matt. 27:28; Luke 23:11). "Sins as scarlet" (Isa. 1:18), i.e.,
as scarlet robes "glaring and habitual." Scarlet and crimson
were the firmest of dyes, and thus not easily washed out.
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
74 Moby Thesaurus words for "scarlet":
Titian, Titian-red, bricky, cardinal, carmine, carnation,
carnelian, cerise, cherry, cherry-colored, cherry-red, crimson,
damask, fallen, ferruginous, fiery, fire-red, flame-colored,
flame-red, flaming, glowing, gules, harlot, hot, hustling,
incarmined, inflamed, infrared, iron-red, lake-colored, laky,
lateritious, lobster-red, lurid, maroon, meretricious, on the,
on the town, pave, port-wine, prostitute, prostituted, puce, red,
red-dyed, red-looking, reddened, reddish, reddish-amber,
reddish-brown, rubicund, rubiginous, rubric, rubricose, ruby,
ruby-colored, ruby-red, ruddied, ruddy, rufescent, rufous, rust,
rust-red, rusty, stammel, streetwalking, tile-red, vermilion,
vinaceous, warm, whorish, wine, wine-colored, wine-red
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