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vermilion

Red form of mercuric sulphide; a scarlet that occurs naturally as the crystalline mineral cinnabar.

Vermilion

Town in Erie and Lorain counties, north-central Ohio; population (1990) 11,100. It is situated on Lake Erie at the mouth of the Vermilion River, 16 km/10 mi southwest of Lorain. Its boating and fishing facilities are an attraction for summer tourists. Vermilion has substantial commercial fishing and some light industry. There are many stone quarries and dairy and wheat farms in the area.

Founded in 1808, the town took its name from its red clay river banks, the source for paint used by the Ottawa people.
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The bees, however, did not suffer this to happen, and they stopped their excavations in due time; so that the basins, as soon as they had been a little deepened, came to have flat bottoms; and these flat bottoms, formed by thin little plates of the vermilion wax having been left ungnawed, were situated, as far as the eye could judge, exactly along the planes of imaginary intersection between the basins on the opposite sides of the ridge of wax.
The Origin of Species by Darwin, Charles View in context
His gun is lavishly decorated with brass tacks and vermilion, and provided with a fringed cover, occasionally of buckskin, ornamented here and there with a feather.
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A., in the Rocky Mountains and the far West by Irving, Washington View in context
Once a year they make a visit to the Mandans, Minatarees, and other tribes of the Missouri, taking with them droves of horses which they exchange for guns, ammunition, trinkets, vermilion, cloths of bright colors, and various other articles of European manufacture.
Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington View in context
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