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.  RED, is one of the simple or primary colours, into which the rays of divide themselves, on being refraded through a prism.

The principal reds employed in painting are,, rose-, red-, and vermilion; of the preparation of which, the reader will find a concise account,.

In dyeing, the chief articles that afford a red shade, with its different varieties, are, , and .—See , vol. ii. pp. 203-5.

In the 2d volume of the New Memoirs of the Roval Academy of Sciences, &c. of Berlin, we meet with a communication by M., containing an account of an excellent red paint. Its component parts are Dutch madder, and alum; which, being mixed with a small portion of the oil of popples, afford a colour of exquisite beauty and lustre, far superior to the red obtained from cochineal, or any other vegetable substitute; while it is considerably cheaper; though, he observes, the quantity of distilled water used in the process, increases the expence of the preparation.

-, is a coloured liquor employed for the ruling of account-books, and other mercantile purposes. It is prepared by infusing 4 ounces of the raspings of Brazil-wood, and 2 drams of pulverized alum, in equal quantities, namely, a pint of rain-water and vinegar, for two or three days; at the expiration of which time, the infusion is boiled over a moderate fire, till the third part of the fluid be evaporated. It is then suffered to stand for three or four days, when it is filtred through blotting-paper, and preserved for use, in close vessels. There is no occasion for adding any gum-arabic, which only tends to suspend impurities, while it changes the ink to a pale purple shade.—Another mode of making red-ink, consists in triturating the whites of four eggs, and a tea-spoonful of pounded lump-sugar, with a similar quantity of spirit of wine, till they acquire an uniform consistence. Vermilion is then to be incorporated in such a proportion as will produce a red colour of sufficient strength. The liquor must be kept in a well-closed vessel, and agitated every time before it is used.  RED-BREAST, or, Motacilla rubecula, L. a little bird, the body of which is of a greenish ash colour; and the forehead, throat, neck, and breast, are marked with a rufous orange shade.

This familiar and diminutive creature inhabits Britain, and the whole Continent of Europe.—It abounds in several provinces of