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vermilion Adjective orange-red Noun mercuric sulphide, used as an orange-red pigment; cinnabar [Late Latin vermiculus insect from which red dye was prepared]
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The bees, however, did not suffer this to happen, and they stopped their excavations in due time; so that the basins, as soon as they had been a little deepened, came to have flat bottoms; and these flat bottoms, formed by thin little plates of the vermilion wax having been left ungnawed, were situated, as far as the eye could judge, exactly along the planes of imaginary intersection between the basins on the opposite sides of the ridge of wax. His gun is lavishly decorated with brass tacks and vermilion, and provided with a fringed cover, occasionally of buckskin, ornamented here and there with a feather. Once a year they make a visit to the Mandans, Minatarees, and other tribes of the Missouri, taking with them droves of horses which they exchange for guns, ammunition, trinkets, vermilion, cloths of bright colors, and various other articles of European manufacture. |
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vermilion - a variable color that is vivid red but sometimes with an orange tinge
vermilion - color vermilion
vermilion - of a vivid red to reddish-orange color
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