Chiefly poet. [f. prec. Cf. the earlier ENVERMEIL v.] trans. To color or suffuse, to stain over, with or as with vermilion or bright red. Also transf.
1596. Danett, trans. Comines (1614), 278. The presses painted & vermiled with golde.
1609. Heywood, Brit. Troy, XIII. lxxxix. Euen till his armes with blood were vermeil’d o’re.
1616. J. Lane, Contn. Sqr.’s T., XI. 164. Their bewties, all sophisticate to viewe (Vulgarlie vermilld to pretende as trewe).
1785. J. Sterling, Cambuscan, cclii. Abundant roses vermil o’er the plain.
1832. J. Bree, St. Herbert’s Isle, etc., 171. ’Twas vermilled o’er with sweetest dye That nature’s pencil ever spread.
Hence Vermeiled, Vermiled ppl. a.
1616. J. Lane, Contn. Sqr.’s T., IX. 17. Her painted truith, her vermild modestie.
