red
      adj 1: having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent
             of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or
             rubies [syn: 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, 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, reddened, red-faced, flushed]
      4: red with or characterized by blood; "waving our red weapons
         o'er our heads"- Shakespeare; "The Red Badge of Courage";
         "the red rules of tooth and claw"- P.B.Sears
      n 1: the quality or state of the chromatic color resembling the
           hue of blood [syn: redness]
      2: a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows eastward
         from Texas along the southern boundary of Oklahoma and
         through Louisiana [syn: Red River]
      3: emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals
         or revolutionaries [syn: Bolshevik, Marxist, pinko,
         bolshie]
      4: the amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its
         revenue; "the company operated at a loss last year"; "the
         company operated in the red last year" [syn: loss, red
         ink] [ant: gain]
      [also: redding, redded, reddest, redder]
 redded
      See red