Encouraging and inspiring confidence.
Showing promise, and likely to develop in a desirable fashion.
a promising young apprentice
The act of making a promise.
Anticipating the best; optimistic; confident; full of hope.
Characterized by abundance and active circulation of blood.
Having the colour of blood; blood red.
Warm; ardent.
A tincture, seldom used, of a blood-red colour (not to be confused with murrey).
Red crayon.
Blood colour; red.
Bloodstone.
Anything of a blood-red colour, as cloth.
To stain with blood; to impart the colour of blood to; to ensanguine.