n. Red ocher; red chalk; reddle.n. In old manuscripts and printed books, and still sometimes in the latter, some small part distinguished from the rest of the matter by being written or printed in red, as an initial letter, a title or heading, a liturgical direction, etc.n. Anything of a kind which in manuscripts or books it was formerly customary to put in red, as the title of a subject or division, the heading of a statute, a guiding rule or direction, the first letter of a chapter, etc.n. Specifically A liturgical direction or injunction in an office-book such as a prayer-book, missal, or breviary; a rule prescribed for the conduct of religious worship, or of any part of a religious service, printed in the Roman Catholic, Greek, and sometimes other office-books in red characters; also, collectively, the body of such rules.n. A flourish after a signature; a paraph.Red; of a red or reddish color.Pertaining to rubrics; made the subject of a rubric; rubrical; marked in red characters.To adorn with red; rubricate.To make the subject of a rubric; enjoin observances regarding, as a saint of the calendar.