Ever need a fact or quotation on red? Designed for speechwriters, journalists, writers, researchers, students, professors, teachers, historians, academics, scrapbookers, trivia buffs and word lovers, this is the largest book ever created for this single word. It represents a compilation from a variety of sources with a linguistic emphasis on anything relating to the term “red,” including non-conventional usage and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities. The entries cover all parts of speech (noun, verb, adverb or adjective usage) as well as use in modern slang, pop culture, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This “data dump” results in many unexpected examples for red, since the editorial decision to include or exclude terms is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under “fair use” conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain. Proceeds from this book are used to expand the content and coverage of Webster’s Online Dictionary (www.websters-online-dictionary.org).

Familiar Quotations

Red

Red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin?–Joseph Addison

Green to green, red to red, all is well, go ahead. When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.–Anonymous

Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says For the woman I love and the second, For my best friend.–Anonymous

It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?–Anonymous

I'd rather be Red than dead.–Anonymous

Movie-related foods, such as Milk Duds, buttered popcorn, Junior Mints, Red Hots, and Tootsie Rolls, do not have additional calories because they are part of the entire entertainment package and not part of one's personal fuel.–Anonymous

Whenever you get red in the face, whenever you raise your voice, whenever you get hot under the collar or angry, rebellious or negative in spirit, then know that the spirit of God is leaving you and the spirit of Satan is beginning to take over.–Anonymous

Red is the ultimate cure for sadness.–Bill Blass

In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink.–Catherine Drinker Bowen

He wishes that he, too, had a wound, a red badge of courage.–Stephen Crane

• Preface x
• Familiar Quotations 1
• Red 1
• Red – "Cherry" 3
• Red – "Communism" 3
• Red – "Flushed" 4
• Red – "Glowing" 4
• Red – "Rosy" 4
• Red – "Sanguines" 4
• Use in Literature 5
• Red 5
• Red – "Above" 16
• Red – "Air" 17
• Red – "Anger" 18
• Red – "Appeared" 19
• Red – "Arm" 20
• Red – "Around" 21
• Red – "Balls" 22
• Red – "Beard" 23
• Red – "Beautiful" 24
• Red – "Bed" 25
• Red – "Behind" 25
• Red – "Being" 26
• Red – "Below" 27
• Red – "Big" 28
• Red – "Black" 29
• Red – "Blood" 31
• Red – "Blue" 34
• Red – "Body" 36
• Red – "Books" 37
• Red – "Bright" 37
• Red – "Brownish" 39
• Red – "Called" 40
• Red – "Cap" 40
• Red – "Cheeks" 41
• Red – "Child" 44
• Red – "Clear" 45
• Red – "Close" 45
• Red – "Coat" 46
• Red – "Color" 47
• Red – "Colour" 48
• Red – "Came" 50
• Red – "Country" 53
• Red – "Covered" 53
• Red – "Cry" 55
• Red – "Curtains" 56
• Red – "Cut" 56
• Red – "Danced" 56
• Red – "Darkened" 57
• Red – "Days" 59
• Red – "Deep" 61
• Red – "Disappeared" 62
• Red – "Distance" 63
• Red – "Drew" 63
• Red – "Dressed" 64
• Red – "Dried" 67
• Red – "Dull" 67
• Red – "Early" 68
• Red – "End" 69
• Red – "Evening" 69
• Red – "Everywhere" 70
• Red – "Excitement" 71
• Red – "Eyes" 71
• Red – "Faces" 78
• Red – "Fancy" 79
• Red – "Far" 79
• Red – "Father" 80
• Red – "Feet" 81
• Red – "Feels" 82
• Red – "Few" 83
• Red – "Fiery" 85
• Red – "Figure" 85
• Red – "Finally" 86
• Red – "Fire" 87
• Red – "Fishermen" 89
• Red – "Flag" 89
• Red – "Flashing" 90
• Red – "Flesh" 91
• Red – "Flowers" 91
• Red – "Flushed" 92
• Red – "Former" 92
• Red – "Found" 93
• Red – "Full" 94
• Red – "Gate" 95
• Red – "Gaze" 95
• Red – "Girls" 96
• Red – "Glow" 97
• Red – "Glowing" 98
• Red – "Going" 98
• Red – "Gold" 99
• Red – "Gone" 100
• Red – "Grass" 101
• Red – "Gray" 101
• Red – "Great" 102
• Red – "Green" 105
• Red – "Grey" 106
• Red – "Ground" 107
• Red – "Grew" 108
• Red – "Gun" 110
• Red – "Hair" 110
• Red – "Hand" 114
• Red – "Hanging" 117
• Red – "Hat" 119
• Red – "Having" 119
• Red – "Head" 120
• Red – "Heard" 123
• Red – "Heart" 124
• Red – "Heat" 125
• Red – "Heavy" 126
• Red – "Horse" 126
• Red – "Hot" 127
• Red – "Houses" 127
• Red – "Humanity" 129
• Red – "Ink" 130
• Red – "Keeping" 130
• Red – "Kind" 131
• Red – "Lady" 131
• Red – "Lamp" 132
• Red – "Large" 133
• Red – "Leaning" 135
• Red – "Left" 136
• Red – "Legs" 137
• Red – "Let" 138
• Red – "Life" 138
• Red – "Line" 139
• Red – "Lips" 140
• Red – "Little" 142
• Red – "Looking" 147
• Red – "Louder" 152
• Red – "Loves" 153
• Red – "Lie" 153
• Red – "Made" 154
• Red – "Man" 157
• Red – "Marks" 163
• Red – "Mean" 164
• Red – "Mighty" 164
• Red – "Miles" 164
• Red – "Minute" 165
• Red – "Moment" 165
• Red – "Moons" 167
• Red – "Morning" 167
• Red – "Mountaineer" 168
• Red – "Mouth" 168
• Red – "Movements" 169
• Red – "Near" 170
• Red – "Neck" 170
• Red – "Night" 171
• Red – "Observed" 172
• Red – "Old" 172
• Red – "Once" 175
• Red – "Open" 176
• Red – "Others" 177
• Red – "Painted" 178
• Red – "Parts" 180
• Red – "Passed" 181
• Red – "Patches" 182
• Red – "Place" 183
• Red – "Plates" 184
• Red – "Pointed" 185
• Red – "Poor" 186
• Red – "Presently" 186
• Red – "Purple" 187
• Red – "Ray" 188
• Red – "Reading" 189
• Red – "Ribbon" 189
• Red – "Rock" 189
• Red – "Rolled" 190
• Red – "Room" 191
• Red – "Rose" 192
• Red – "Round" 194
• Red – "Ran" 196
• Red – "Second" 197
• Red – "Seen" 197
• Red – "Show" 206
• Red – "Sides" 207
• Red – "Silence" 209
• Red – "Sitting" 210
• Red – "Skin" 212
• Red – "Skies" 212
• Red – "Soldiers" 213
• Red – "Soon" 213
• Red – "Spoke" 214
• Red – "Spiritual" 215
• Red – "Spot" 216
• Red – "Square" 217
• Red – "Stand" 217
• Red – "Steam" 218
• Red – "Step" 218
• Red – "Stones" 219
• Red – "Stranger's" 220
• Red – "Streaming" 220
• Red – "Street" 221
• Red – "Strips" 222
• Red – "Strongly" 222
• Red – "Sun" 223
• Red – "Tablet" 225
• Red – "Tall" 226
• Red – "Tape" 227
• Red – "Thick" 228
• Red – "Things" 229
• Red – "Thought" 229
• Red – "Thus" 230
• Red – "Touch" 231
• Red – "Trees" 232
• Red – "Tried" 232
• Red – "Turns" 233
• Red – "Uniforms" 233
• Red – "Variety" 234
• Red – "Waited" 234
• Red – "Walked" 235
• Red – "Walls" 236
• Red – "Watched" 237
• Red – "Water" 238
• Red – "Wear" 238
• Red – "West" 242
• Red – "Wife" 242
• Red – "Wild" 243
• Red – "Woman" 244
• Red – "Wonder" 245
• Red – "Years" 245
• Red – "Yellowish" 246
• Red – "Young" 248
• Nonfiction Usage 251
• Lyrical Usage 251
• Script Usage 251
• Tongue-Twister Usage 262
• Spoken Usage 262
• Presidential Usage 262
• Song Title Usage 263
• Bible Usage 264
• Qur'anic Usage 266
• Journalism Usage 267
• Encyclopedic Usage 386
• Lexicographic Usage 521
• Index 637