redly

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red

(rĕd)

a. The hue of the long-wave end of the visible spectrum, evoked in the human observer by radiant energy with wavelengths of approximately 630 to 750 nanometers; any of a group of colors that may vary in lightness and saturation and whose hue resembles that of blood; one of the additive or light primaries; one of the psychological primary hues.

b. A pigment or dye having a red hue.

c. Something that has a red hue.

a. often Red A Communist.

b. A revolutionary activist.

3. The condition of being in debt or operating at a loss: The firm has been in the red all year.

adj. red·der, red·dest

1. Having a color resembling that of blood.

2. Reddish in color or having parts that are reddish in color: a red dog; a red oak.

a. Having a reddish or coppery skin color.

b. often Red Often Offensive Of or being a Native American.

4. Having a ruddy or flushed complexion: red with embarrassment.

5. Relating to or being a red state.

6. often Red Communist.

[Middle English, from Old English rēad; see reudh- in Indo-European roots.]

red′ly adv.

red′ness n.

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red•ly

(ˈrɛd li)

adv.

with a red color or glow.

[1605–15]

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redly - displaying a red color; "the forge belched redly at the sky"-Adria Langley

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It landed in the grove, and exploding redly flung the brown earth.

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Here and there, where new shafts were starting, these fires flamed redly. Figures of men crawled out of the holes, or disappeared into them, or, on raised platforms of hand-hewn timber, windlassed the thawed gravel to the surface, where it immediately froze.

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A full moon was beginning to rise and peered redly through the upper edges of the fog, and this increased our haste, for it was plain, before we came forth again, that all would be as bright as day, and our departure exposed to the eyes of any watchers.

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This overflow of blazing lava wrapped the sides of the mountain with a veritable drapery of flame; the lower half of the balloon glowed redly in the upper night; a torrid heat ascended to the car, and Dr.

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Suddenly Pete swore redly. The flash of action gleamed from his eyes.

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Redly illuminating the central portion of the room, opposite to which we were standing, the fire-light left the extremities shadowed in almost total darkness.

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The women went off to their cabins, and Tom sat alone, by the smouldering fire, that flickered up redly in his face.

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Then when he saw the slanting sunlight lying on field and fallow, shining redly here and there on cot and farmhouse, and when he heard the sweet birds singing their vespers, and the sheep bleating upon the hillside, and beheld the swallows flying in the bright air, there came a great fullness to his heart so that all things blurred to his sight through salt tears, and he bowed his head lest the folk should think him unmanly when they saw the tears in his eyes.