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Red deer   /rɛd dɪr/   Listen
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Red  adj.  (compar. redder; superl. reddest)  Of the color of blood, or of a tint resembling that color; of the hue of that part of the rainbow, or of the solar spectrum, which is furthest from the violet part. "Fresh flowers, white and reede." "Your color, I warrant you, is as red as any rose." Note: Red is a general term, including many different shades or hues, as scarlet, crimson, vermilion, orange red, and the like. Note: Red is often used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, red-breasted, red-cheeked, red-faced, red-haired, red-headed, red-skinned, red-tailed, red-topped, red-whiskered, red-coasted.
Red admiral (Zool.), a beautiful butterfly (Vanessa Atalanta) common in both Europe and America. The front wings are crossed by a broad orange red band. The larva feeds on nettles. Called also Atalanta butterfly, and nettle butterfly.
Red ant. (Zool.)
(a)
A very small ant (Myrmica molesta) which often infests houses.
(b)
A larger reddish ant (Formica sanguinea), native of Europe and America. It is one of the slave-making species.
Red antimony (Min.), kermesite. See Kermes mineral (b), under Kermes.
Red ash (Bot.), an American tree (Fraxinus pubescens), smaller than the white ash, and less valuable for timber.
Red bass. (Zool.) See Redfish (d).
Red bay (Bot.), a tree (Persea Caroliniensis) having the heartwood red, found in swamps in the Southern United States.
Red beard (Zool.), a bright red sponge (Microciona prolifera), common on oyster shells and stones. (Local, U.S.)
Red birch (Bot.), a species of birch (Betula nigra) having reddish brown bark, and compact, light-colored wood.
Red blindness. (Med.) See Daltonism.
Red book, a book containing the names of all the persons in the service of the state. (Eng.)
Red book of the Exchequer, an ancient record in which are registered the names of all that held lands per baroniam in the time of Henry II.
Red brass, an alloy containing eight parts of copper and three of zinc.
Red bug. (Zool.)
(a)
A very small mite which in Florida attacks man, and produces great irritation by its bites.
(b)
A red hemipterous insect of the genus Pyrrhocoris, especially the European species (Pyrrhocoris apterus), which is bright scarlet and lives in clusters on tree trunks.
(c)
See Cotton stainder, under Cotton.
Red cedar (Bot.)
(a)
An evergreen North American tree (Juniperus Virginiana) having a fragrant red-colored heartwood.
(b)
A tree of India and Australia (Cedrela Toona) having fragrant reddish wood; called also toon tree in India.
Red chalk. See under Chalk.
Red copper (Min.), red oxide of copper; cuprite.
Red coral (Zool.), the precious coral (Corallium rubrum).
Red cross
(a)
The cross of St. George, the national emblem of the English.
(b)
The Geneva cross. See Geneva convention, and Geneva cross, under Geneva.
Red currant. (Bot.) See Currant.
Red deer. (Zool.)
(a)
The common stag (Cervus elaphus), native of the forests of the temperate parts of Europe and Asia. It is very similar to the American elk, or wapiti.
(b)
The Virginia deer. See Deer.
Red duck (Zool.), a European reddish brown duck (Fuligula nyroca); called also ferruginous duck.
Red ebony. (Bot.) See Grenadillo.
Red empress (Zool.), a butterfly. See Tortoise shell.
Red fir (Bot.), a coniferous tree (Pseudotsuga Douglasii) found from British Columbia to Texas, and highly valued for its durable timber. The name is sometimes given to other coniferous trees, as the Norway spruce and the American Abies magnifica and Abies nobilis.
Red fire. (Pyrotech.) See Blue fire, under Fire.
Red flag. See under Flag.
Red fox (Zool.), the common American fox (Vulpes fulvus), which is usually reddish in color.
Red grouse (Zool.), the Scotch grouse, or ptarmigan. See under Ptarmigan.
Red gum, or Red gum-tree (Bot.), a name given to eight Australian species of Eucalyptus (Eucalyptus amygdalina, resinifera, etc.) which yield a reddish gum resin. See Eucalyptus.
Red hand (Her.), a left hand appaumé, fingers erect, borne on an escutcheon, being the mark of a baronet of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; called also Badge of Ulster.
Red herring, the common herring dried and smoked.
Red horse. (Zool.)
(a)
Any large American red fresh-water sucker, especially Moxostoma macrolepidotum and allied species.
(b)
See the Note under Drumfish.
Red lead, (Chem) See under Lead, and Minium.
Red-lead ore. (Min.) Same as Crocoite.
Red liquor (Dyeing), a solution consisting essentially of aluminium acetate, used as a mordant in the fixation of dyestuffs on vegetable fiber; so called because used originally for red dyestuffs. Called also red mordant.
Red maggot (Zool.), the larva of the wheat midge.
Red manganese. (Min.) Same as Rhodochrosite.
Red man, one of the American Indians; so called from his color.
Red maple (Bot.), a species of maple (Acer rubrum). See Maple.
Red mite. (Zool.) See Red spider, below.
Red mulberry (Bot.), an American mulberry of a dark purple color (Morus rubra).
Red mullet (Zool.), the surmullet. See Mullet.
Red ocher (Min.), a soft earthy variety of hematite, of a reddish color.
Red perch (Zool.), the rosefish.
Red phosphorus. (Chem.) See under Phosphorus.
Red pine (Bot.), an American species of pine (Pinus resinosa); so named from its reddish bark.
Red precipitate. See under Precipitate.
Red Republican (European Politics), originally, one who maintained extreme republican doctrines in France, because a red liberty cap was the badge of the party; an extreme radical in social reform. (Cant)
Red ribbon, the ribbon of the Order of the Bath in England.
Red sanders. (Bot.) See Sanders.
Red sandstone. (Geol.) See under Sandstone.
Red scale (Zool.), a scale insect (Aspidiotus aurantii) very injurious to the orange tree in California and Australia.
Red silver (Min.), an ore of silver, of a ruby-red or reddish black color. It includes proustite, or light red silver, and pyrargyrite, or dark red silver.
Red snapper (Zool.), a large fish (Lutjanus aya syn. Lutjanus Blackfordii) abundant in the Gulf of Mexico and about the Florida reefs.
Red snow, snow colored by a mocroscopic unicellular alga (Protococcus nivalis) which produces large patches of scarlet on the snows of arctic or mountainous regions.
Red softening (Med.) a form of cerebral softening in which the affected parts are red, a condition due either to infarction or inflammation.
Red spider (Zool.), a very small web-spinning mite (Tetranychus telarius) which infests, and often destroys, plants of various kinds, especially those cultivated in houses and conservatories. It feeds mostly on the under side of the leaves, and causes them to turn yellow and die. The adult insects are usually pale red. Called also red mite.
Red squirrel (Zool.), the chickaree.
Red tape,
(a)
the tape used in public offices for tying up documents, etc. Hence,
(b)
official formality and delay; excessive bureaucratic paperwork.
Red underwing (Zool.), any species of noctuid moths belonging to Catacola and allied genera. The numerous species are mostly large and handsomely colored. The under wings are commonly banded with bright red or orange.
Red water, a disease in cattle, so called from an appearance like blood in the urine.





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"Red deer" Quotes from Famous Books



... 500 feet level, the land of Cat was a land of heath and woods[3] and rocks, studded, especially in the west, with lochs abounding in trout, a vast area of rolling moors, intersected by spacious straths, each with its salmon river, a land of solitary silences, where red deer and elk abounded, and in which the wild boar and wolf ranged freely, the last wolf being killed in Glen Loth within twelve miles of Dunrobin at a date between 1690 and 1700.[4] No race of hunters or fishermen ever surpassed the Picts in their ...
— Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time - or, The Jarls and The Freskyns • James Gray
 
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... hearts of the ruling minority. They were watched and feared; they were known to be numerous; and many were the plans set on foot to reduce their numbers, and cause them to become extinct, like the red deer of their native hills. Surely, then, a potato blight, followed by a famine, would not be regarded as a calamity, unless it affected the English colony. The Celtic nation in Ireland could have no record of such a visitation, unless in the fugitive ballad of some ...
— The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) - With Notices Of Earlier Irish Famines • John O'Rourke
 
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... waters. The wanderlust has carried me far, but the lakes and waterfalls, the bluffs and the bays of the great northern No-Man's Land are my home, and with Mukwa the bear, Mah-en-gin the wolf, Wash-gish the red deer, and Ah-Meek the beaver, I have much consorted and have found their company quite ...
— The Drama of the Forests - Romance and Adventure • Arthur Heming
 
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... the training of a sheep-dog. Oftentimes I looked at his gun, an ancient piece found in the sea, a little below Glenthorne, and of which he was mighty proud, although it was only a match-lock; and I thought of the times I had held the fuse, while he got his aim at a rabbit, and once even at a red deer rubbing among the hazels. But nothing came of my looking at it, so far as I remember, save foolish tears of my own perhaps, till John Fry took it down one day from the hooks where father's hand had laid it; and it hurt ...
— Lorna Doone - A Romance of Exmoor • R. D. Blackmore
 
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... spoke, there burst from the thicket, not a hundred yards away, a splendid red deer, whose spreading antlers proclaimed him to be a "stag of twelve" or "stag-royal." Fast after him dashed the excited hunters; but, leading them all, spurred a sturdy young fellow of eager fifteen—tall and slender, but quick and active in every movement, as he yielded himself ...
— Historic Boys - Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their Times • Elbridge Streeter Brooks
 
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