scarlet

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A strong to vivid red or reddish orange.
• noun Scarlet-colored clothing or cloth.
• adjective Of a strong to vivid red or reddish orange.
• adjective Flagrantly immoral or unchaste.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun In archery, the second or next to the innermost circle of the target, which is colored red. See red, 7.
• noun The rank, dignity, or office of a cardinal: so called from the official color of his robes.
• noun A name by which benzopurpurin 4B is sometimes known.
• To make scarlet or bright-red; redden.
• To clothe in scarlet.
• noun A highly chromatic and brilliant red color, inclining toward orange.
• noun One of a group of coal-tar colors used for dyeing wool and silk, and to a certain extent for the manufacture of pigments.
• noun Cloth of a scarlet color; a scarlet robe or dress.
• Of the color scarlet; bright-red.
• Dressed in scarlet; wearing scarlet.
• The red valerian, Centranthus ruber.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb rare To dye or tinge with scarlet.
• adjective Of the color called scarlet.
• adjective (Zoöl.) the red admiral. See under Red. -- Scarlet bean (Bot.), a kind of bean (Phaseolus multiflorus) having scarlet flowers; scarlet runner.
• adjective (Med.) a contagious febrile disease characterized by inflammation of the fauces and a scarlet rash, appearing usually on the second day, and ending in desquamation about the sixth or seventh day.
• adjective (Zoöl.) the telescope fish; -- so called from its red color. See under Telescope.
• adjective (Zoöl.) See under Ibis.
• adjective (Bot.) the red maple. See Maple.
• adjective (Zoöl.) any one of numerous species of bright red carnivorous mites found among grass and moss, especially Thombidium holosericeum and allied species. The young are parasitic upon spiders and insects.
• adjective (Bot.) a species of oak (Quercus coccinea) of the United States; -- so called from the scarlet color of its leaves in autumn.
• adjective (Bot.) the scarlet bean.
• adjective (Zoöl.) See under Tanager.
• noun A deep bright red tinged with orange or yellow, -- of many tints and shades; a vivid or bright red color.
• noun Cloth of a scarlet color.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A bright red, slightly orange colour.
• noun a scarlet-coloured cloth.
• adjective Of a bright red colour.
• adjective Sinful or whorish.
• verb To dye or tinge with scarlet.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• adjective of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies
• noun a variable color that is vivid red but sometimes with an orange tinge