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单词 anil
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aniln.

/ˈænɪl/
Forms: Also 1500s anele, anill, (aphetic) neel, 1500s–1600s anile, 1600s anneill, anir.
Etymology: < French anil or Portuguese anil = Spanish añil, < Arabic al-nīl, i.e. al the + nīl, Arabic and Persian < Sanskrit nīlī indigo (and -plant), < nīla dark blue.
1. The Indigo shrub; the native name of the E. Indian species ( Indigofera tinctoria); but in Bot. the trivial name of the W. Indian Indigo ( I. anil).
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plants used in dyeing > [noun] > indigo-plant or shrub
nil1583
indigo1600
anil1712
indigo-plant1758
palay1866
1712 J. Browne tr. P. Pomet et al. Compl. Hist. Druggs I. 91 There is a Meal made of Anil..out of the entire Plant.
1754 Philos. Trans. 1753 (Royal Soc.) 48 257 [Indigo] not of equal value with that made of the anil.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. 621/2 Indigofera Anil..has become naturalised in Asia and Africa.
2. The indigo dye.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > blue or blueness > blue colouring matter > [noun] > dyes and dyestuffs > indigo
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indicum1398
indy blue1509
indigo1555
indebaudias1573
vanil1577
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1581 Act 23 Eliz. ix. (Pulton) Cloth..grounded with woad only, or with woad and a nele, alias blew Inde.
1583 J. Newbery Let. 20 July in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1589) i. 209 Neel the churle, 70. ducats.
1594 T. Blundeville Exercises v. xi. f. 261, Merchandizes that come from Afrique..Gold, Iuory.. Anil feathers.
1599 R. Fitch in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) II. i. 262 They vse to pricke the skinne, and to put on it a kinde of anile or blacking, which doth continue alwayes.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Anir, the name of an Indian hearbe, vsed much by Dyers.]
1611 Bk. Rates 1 (Jam.) Anneill of Barbarie for litsters [i.e. dyers], the pound weight thereof—xviijs.
1613 Voy. Guiana in Harl. Misc. III. 173 They in New Spain..have cocheneal, anir, and cotton-wool.
1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes ii. 1415 Hispahan..vseth great store of Anil.
1852 T. Ross tr. A. von Humboldt Personal Narr. Trav. Amer. I. xv. 502 The anil, or indigo, of these provinces has always been considered..as equal..to that of Guatemala.
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3. Chem. Formative (prefix or suffix) of names of aniline compounds or derivatives; as anilide n., anilamic n. = phenylamic adj., chloranil C6CI4O2.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1884; most recently modified version published online March 2011).
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