incarnadine

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Of the pale pink or pale red colour of flesh

   Of the pale pink or pale red colour of flesh; carnation.

   • Incarnadine, or Incarnate, that is of a bright Carnation or Fleſh Colour, or of the Colour of a Damask-Roſe.
2. 2

   Of the blood-red colour of raw flesh

   Of the blood-red colour of raw flesh; crimson.

   • Wild and dishevelled, thy luxuriant hair / Falls scattered o'er thy throbbing bosom, fair / As snow incarnadine with morning's ray;— [...]
   • The bandages on his hands – cerise and incarnadine, opalescent and viridian – were grotesqueries that only emphasised his stature.
3. 3

   Bloodstained, bloody.

   • "Basically I am a very good person." This from the latest serial killer–destined for the chair, they say–who, with incarnadine axe, recently dispatched half a dozen registered nurses in Texas.
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   1. 4

      Of a red colour.

      • Let the wine incarnadine, / In crystal goblets gleaming, / Be the sign, O muse divine, / Of golden moments teeming.
      • Green orchards with ripe fruit incarnadine, / Each several member autumn-canopied / So thickly as to bend beneath its freight, [...]
   2. 5

      The pale pink or pale red colour of flesh

      The pale pink or pale red colour of flesh; carnation.

      • To dye SILK FLESH colour or INCARNADINE. For every pound of ſilk, put in a quarter of a pound of Braſil; boil it, ſtrain it through a ſieve, and pour freſh cold water upon it.
      • Incarnadine – this remarkable colour of the human skin – how does it arise in painting? [...] Painting what transpires within the soul, it becomes external image: incarnadine, and the colours that surround the head or the human figure.
   3. 6

      The blood-red colour of raw flesh

      The blood-red colour of raw flesh; crimson.

      • Now thou [the sea] must wear an unmix'd crimson; no / Barbaric blood can reconcile us now / Unto that horrible incarnadine, / But friend or foe will roll in civic slaughter.
   4. 7

      A red colour.

      • Now sixty-eight years of age she [Elizabeth I] has chosen for the occasion of a dance in her honor a long flowing velvet gown of incarnadine red.
   5. 8

      To make flesh-coloured.

   6. 9

      To make red, especially blood-coloured or crimson

      To make red, especially blood-coloured or crimson; to redden.

      • Will all great Neptunes ocean waſh this blood / Cleane from my Hand? no: this my Hand will rather / The multitudinous Seas incarnardine, / Making the Greene one, Red.
      • [H]e dies. / His wife her cheeks rends inconſolable, / His babes are fatherleſs, his blood the glebe / Incarnadines, and where he bleeds and rots / More birds of prey than women haunt the place.

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