minious

English

Etymology

From Latin minium (“red lead”) +‎ -ous.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɪniəs/

Adjective

minious (comparative more minious, superlative most minious)

1. (obsolete) Of a red or vermilion colour.

   Synonym: minaceous

   • 1650, Thomas Browne, “Of the Red Sea”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC, 6th book, page 272:

     Of which opinion are alſo they which hold the Sea receiveth a red and minious tincture from ſprings, wells, and currents that fall into it: […]

   • 1844 September 14, “The Twins; A Story of the Far West”, in Rural Repository‎^[1], volume 21, number 2, page 12:

     A rich minious color, the bloom of health, dyed the cheeks of her exquisitely fine, round, laughing face, which, contrasted with the bright and deep vermilion of two lips, that vied with one of the primitive colors of the rainbow for richness of hue, would, as smiles lit her countenance, display a set of teeth, like rows of pearl, white as the driven snow.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “minious”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• nimious