crimson, crimosin, crimosyn, crimosine, cremosine, crammysyn

& s. [Ger. karmesin; Fr. cramoisi; Sp. carmesi; Port. car me sim; Ital. cremosi, cremisi, chermisi, crem is i no, carmesino; Low Lat. car me sinus; all from Arab. quarmazi =pertaining to the kermes; quarmaz, quermez the cochineal insect. Mahn and Skeat believe this to be from Sans. krimija =produced from a worm: krimi =aworm, and jan =to generate.] A. As adjective: 1. Lit .: Red with a slight admixture of blue, the color of blood, of a blush, of lips in the sanguine temperament, of some flowers, and occasionally of parts of the sky. "Early, before the Morne with cremosin ray The windowes of bright heaven opened had." Spenser: F. Q. , II. xi. 3. "Of those, the famed in song, who proudly died When Rio Verde roll'd a crimson tide." Hemans: The Abencerrage. 2. Fig . ( of a sin or fault ): Deep dyed in its guilt. It is founded on the following pa age in Isaiah i. though your sins be as scarlet, they 18:" shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool." B. As subst.: Red with a slight admixture of blue. [Α. 1.] "Can you blame her then, being a maid yet rosed over with the virgin crimson of modesty, Henry V. , v. 2. "-Shakesp.: crimson-clover, s. The common name given by agriculturists to Trifolium in carn a tum . crimson-threaded, a . Marked with thin or fine lines of red. "When from crimson- threaded lips Silver-treble laughter trilleth."""