minious
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin minium (“red lead”) + -ous.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
minious (comparative more minious, superlative most minious)
- (obsolete) Of a red or vermilion colour.
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
- The sea receiveth a red and minious tincture from springs, wells, and currents that fall into it.
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)