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Definition of Reddens
1. redden [v] - See also: redden
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reddens
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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