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He showed us all over the mills--both kinds--and let us go right up into the very top of the wind-mill, and showed us how the top moved round so that the sails could catch the wind, and the great heaps of corn, some red and some yellow (the red is English wheat), and the heaps slice down a little bit at a time into a square hole and go down to the mill-stones.

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  1. noun The hue of the long-wave end of the visible spectrum, evoked in the human observer by radiant energy with wavelengths of approximately 630 to 750 nanometers; any of a group of colors that may vary in lightness and saturation and whose hue resembles that of blood; one of the additive or light primaries; one of the psychological primary hues.
  2. noun A pigment or dye having a red hue.
  3. noun Something that has a red hue.
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  • But the red was my first love.You can still buy them sometimes, in toy shops.
  • Not content with having a red wash over it, the red was the most unseasonable of all reds—a salmon-colour; but the greatest of all heats was within. —  The Life of Lord Byron
  • The colour red is a very evocative colour and it conjures up images of hell, delight in, fire and warning. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • I worry about being rear-ended at a light - but a collision with some donkey not even paying attention and totally running the red will be the one that kills you or your family more often than not.
  • The huge swing into the red was a result of a £1. 6bn writedown on the original value of the merger between Carlton and Granada, and another £1. 1bn on the current value of the online and broadcasting businesses. —  This is Money | Home
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  1. Middle English, from Old English rēad; see reudh- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English red, reed, rede, earlier read, reod, from Anglo-Saxon reád =Old Saxon rōd =OFries. rād = Dutch rood =Middle Low German rōt, Low German rod =Old High German Middle High German rōt, G. rot, roth = Icelandic rauthr = Swedish Danish röd = Gothic (Moesogothic) rouths (raud-), red; cf. Anglo-Saxon reód (=Icelandic rjódhr), red, rud, rudu, redness (see rud); from Anglo-Saxon reódan, make red, kill, =Icelandic rjōdha (preterit raudh), redden (see red, v.); akin to L. ruber (rubr-, for ruthr-, =Greek ερνθρός), red, rufus, red, rubidus, dark-red, rubere, turn red, blush, rubicundus, red, reddish, russus, reddish, rutilus, reddish, robigo, rust, etc.; Greek ἐρνθρός red, ἐρενθός, redness, ἐρενθεῑν, redden; Irish Gaelic ruadh =W. rhudd, red; Old Bulgarian rŭdrŭ, red, rŭdieti, blush, etc., ruda, metal, etc., =Bohemian Polish ruda, ore, rust, mildew, etc., =Russian ruda, ore, mineral, a mine, blood, etc.; Lithuanian rudas, rusvas, red-brown, raúdas, raudónas, red, raudà, red color; Sanskrit rudhira, red, blood, rohita (for *rodhita), red. From the English root, besides redden, reddish, etc., are derived rud, ruddle, ruddock, ruddy, rust, etc.; from the L. are derived English ruby, rubescent, rubric, rubicund, rufous, russet, rutilate, rutilant; from the Greek are Erythræa, erythric, etc. Red, like lead (led), with which it is phonetically parallel, had in Middle English a long vowel, which has become shortened. The long vowel remains, however, in the surnames Read, Reade, Reed, Reid, which represent old forms of the adjective, and the existence of which as surnames explains the almost total absence of the expected surname Red, parallel to Black, Brown, White, etc. As a noun, cf. Middle English rede, redness, =Old High German rōtī, German röthe, redness, red; from the adjective
  2. from Middle English reden, readen, redden, from Anglo-Saxon reódan, a strong verb (preterit reád, plural rudon), redden, stain with blood, also wound, kill, =Icelandic rjódha (preterit raudh, rautt, past participle rodhinn), redden with blood (see red, a.); also (and in other languages only) weak, Anglo-Saxon reádian, also reódian, =G. röten, röthen, become red; from the adjective Cf. redden.
  3. Also redd, dial. rid; from ME, reden, put in order; in part same as reden, redien, make ready, but prob. from the related Swedish reda, prepare, put in order (reda ut sit hår, comb out one's hair), =Danish rede, prepare: see ready, v. This verb has become confused with red, variant of rid: see rid.
  4. Perhaps from red.
  5. Also redd; perhaps from red, v.
 

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