- a brilliant scarlet red.
- a bright-red, water-insoluble pigment consisting of mercuric sulfide, once obtained from cinnabar, now usually produced by the reaction of mercury and sulfur.
- of the color vermilion.
- to color with or as if with vermilion.
- a town in N Ohio.
- a bright red to reddish-orange colour
- (as adjective)
- mercuric sulphide, esp when used as a bright red pigment; cinnabar
