obs. varr. VERMILION sb.
Cf. med.L. vermeum, var. of vermellum, etc.
1399. Mem. Ripon (Surtees), III. 129. In j lib. de vermion emp. pro prædicto vale [= veil], 22d.
a. 1400–50. Alexander, 3945. Þan come a fliȝtir in of fowls as fast as it dawid, To vise on as vowtres, as vermeon hewid.
14[?]. MS. Harl. 2257. Miniographus, a writer with vermion. Minium est genus coloris rubei,… anglice vermion.
