Definition of Reddens

1. Verb. (third-person singular of redden) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Reddens

1. redden [v] - See also: redden

Lexicographical Neighbors of Reddens

redd up
reddans
redded
redden
reddenda
reddendo
reddendos
reddendum
reddened
reddener
reddeners
reddenest
reddeneth
reddening
reddenings
reddens (current term)
redder
redders
reddest
reddier
reddiest
redding
reddingite
reddings
reddish
reddish-brown
reddish blue
reddish brown
reddish orange
reddish purple

Literary usage of Reddens

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and ...by William Nicholson by William Nicholson (1819)
"... an acid and bitter taste, and a peculiar odour, not unlike that of some vegetable extracts. Its specific gravity is 1.028. It reddens the tincture of ..."

2. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"Flushed with the furnishing fulness of fever that reddens with radiance of rathe recreation, Gaunt as the ghastliest of glimpses that gleam through the ..."

3. Ireland Past and Present by Augustus J. Thébaud, John Habberton (1878)
"Urged by a mutual impulse, the two crews attack each other at sight; the sea reddens with blood; the savage bravery is equal on both sides ; accident alone ..."

4. A Manual of Chemistry: Containing the Principal Facts of the Science by William Thomas Brande, William James MacNeven (1821)
"It thus becomes brisk and tart, and reddens delicate vegetable blues. By freezing, boiling, or exposure to the vacuum of the air-pump, the gas is given off. ..."

5. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1866)
"It reddens litmus, and is not decomposed when heated at 100° in contact with the air. (Hausmann and Löwenthal.) j8. Stannic salt. ..."

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