Word Meanings - VERMILION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A bright red pigment consisting of mercuric sulphide, obtained either from the mineral cinnabar or artificially. It has a fine red color, and is much used in coloring sealing wax, in printing, etc. Note: The kermes insect has long been used for

Additional info about word: VERMILION

A bright red pigment consisting of mercuric sulphide, obtained either from the mineral cinnabar or artificially. It has a fine red color, and is much used in coloring sealing wax, in printing, etc. Note: The kermes insect has long been used for dyeing red or scarlet. It was formerly known as the worm dye, vermiculus, or vermiculum, and the cloth was called vermiculatia. Hence came the French vermeil for any red dye, and hence the modern name vermilion, although the substance it denotes is very different from the kermes, being a compound of mercury and sulphur. R. Hunt. 2. Hence, a red color like the pigment; a lively and brilliant red; as, cheeks of vermilion.

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• COLORMAN
  A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds.
• BRIGHT
  See I
• INSECTATOR
  A pursuer; a persecutor; a censorious critic. Bailey.
• PRINTLESS
  Making no imprint. Milton.
• CONSISTENTLY
  In a consistent manner.
• PIGMENTATION
  A deposition, esp. an excessive deposition, of coloring matter; as, pigmentation of the liver.
• MINERALIZATION
  The conversion of a cell wall into a material of a stony nature. (more info) 1. The process of mineralizing, or forming a mineral by combination of a metal with another element; also, the process of converting into a mineral, as a bone or a plant.
• PIGMENTAL; PIGMENTARY
  Of or pertaining to pigments; furnished with pigments. Dunglison. Pigmentary degeneration , a morbid condition in which an undue amount of pigment is deposited in the tissues.
• CONSIST
  1. To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained. He is before all things, and by him all things consist. Col.
• OBTAINABLE
  Capable of being obtained.
• CONSISTORIAN
  Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy. You fall next on the consistorian schismatics; for so you call Presbyterians. Milton.
• COLORATE
  Colored. Ray.
• COLORIMETRY
  The quantitative determination of the depth of color of a substance. 2. A method of quantitative chemical analysis based upon the comparison of the depth of color of a solution with that of a standard liquid.
• PRINTA-BLE
  Worthy to be published.
• SEALER
  One who seals; especially, an officer whose duty it is to seal writs or instruments, to stamp weights and measures, or the like.
• PRINT
  To strike off an impression or impressions of, from type, or from stereotype, electrotype, or engraved plates, or the like; in a wider sense, to do the typesetting, presswork, etc., of (a book or other publication); as, to print books, newspapers,
• CONSISTENCE; CONSISTENCY
  1. The condition of standing or adhering together, or being fixed in union, as the parts of a body; existence; firmness; coherence; solidity. Water, being divided, maketh many circles, till it restore itself to the natural consistence. Bacon. We
• COLORADO BEETLE
  A yellowish beetle , with ten longitudinal, black, dorsal stripes. It has migrated eastwards from its original habitat in Colorado, and is very destructive to the potato plant; -- called also potato beetle and potato bug. See Potato beetle.
• CINNABARINE
  Pertaining to, or resembling, cinnabar; consisting of cinnabar, or containing it; as, cinnabarine sand.
• CONSISTORY
  The spiritual court of a diocesan bishop held before his chancellor or commissioner in his cathedral church or elsewhere. Hook. (more info) consistorium a place of assembly, the place where the emperor's council met, fr. consistere: cf.
• CONCOLOR
  Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne.
• UNSEAL
  1. To break or remove the seal of; to open, as what is sealed; as, to unseal a letter. Unable to unseal his lips beyond the width of a quarter of an inch. Sir W. Scott. 2. To disclose, as a secret. The Coronation.
• IMPRINT
  to imprint, fr. L. imprimere to impres, imprint. See 1st In-, Print, 1. To impress; to mark by pressure; to indent; to stamp. And sees his num'rous herds imprint her sands. Prior. 2. To stamp or mark, as letters on paper, by means of type, plates,
• SPRINT
  To run very rapidly; to run at full speed. A runner should be able to sprint the whole way. Encyc. Brit. (more info) Etym:
• ISABELLA; ISABELLA COLOR
  A brownish yellow color. (more info) Spanish princess Isabella, daughter of king Philip II., in allusion to the color assumed by her shift, which she wore without change from
• REOBTAINABLE
  That may be reobtained.
• EMBRIGHT
  To brighten.
• TERSULPHIDE
  A trisulphide.
• COMPRINT
  To print surreptitiously a work belonging to another. E. Phillips. (more info) 1. To print together.
• EPIPHYSEAL; EPIPHYSIAL
  Pertaining to, or having the nature of, an epiphysis.