Crimson /(krĭm"z'n)/

1. A deep red color tinged with blue; also, red color in general.

   Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

   A maid yet rosed over with the virgin crimson of modesty.

1. Of a deep red color tinged with blue; deep red.

   The blushing poppy with a crimson hue.

imp. & p. p. Crimsoned; p. pr. & vb. n. Crimsoning

1. To dye with crimson or deep red; to redden.

   Signed in thy spoil and crimsoned in thy lethe.

1. To become crimson; to blush.

   Ancient towers . . . beginning to crimson with the radiant luster of a cloudless July morning.