- a title, heading, direction, or the like, in a manuscript, book, statute, etc., written or printed in red or otherwise distinguished from the rest of the text.
- a direction for the conduct of divine service or the administration of the sacraments, inserted in liturgical books.
- any established mode of conduct or procedure; protocol.
- an explanatory comment; gloss.
- a class or category
- red ocher.
- written, inscribed in, or marked with or as with red; rubrical.
- red; ruddy.
- a title, heading, or initial letter in a book, manuscript, or section of a legal code, esp one printed or painted in red ink or in some similarly distinguishing manner
- a set of rules of conduct or procedure
- a set of directions for the conduct of Christian church services, often printed in red in a prayer book or missal
- instructions to a candidate at the head of the examination paper
- an obsolete name for red ochre
- written, printed, or marked in red
