Kermes

(ker'-mez). A red dye-stuff, made up of the dried females of Coccus ilicis, an insect not unlike cochineal, found on oak-trees in the Orient. K. Mineral, a mixture of the teroxid and tersulphid'of antimony, formerly much medicine. It is also called red antimony. used in Kermesine. Pertaining to kermes.