\Red"-hand`\ (r?d"h?nd`), Red-handed \Red"-hand`ed\
(-h?nd`?d), a. or adv.
Having hands red with blood; in the very act, as if with red
or bloody hands; -- said of a person taken in the act of
homicide; hence, fresh from the commission of crime; as, he
was taken red-hand or red-handed.