单词 | fustic |
释义 | fusticn. 1. The name of two kinds of wood, both used for dyeing yellow: (a) the wood of the Venetian sumac ( Rhus cotinus); now only with defining word, as young, Zante, etc.; (b) the wood of the Cladrastis (Chlorophora, Maclura) tinctoria of America and the West Indies; sometimes called for distinction old fustic. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plants used in dyeing > trees or shrubs yielding dyes > [noun] > Venetian sumac shrub or wood fustic1545 fust1682 Venetian sumac1755 fustet1821 wig-sumac1867 1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus ii. f. 12 Steles [of arrows] be made of dyuerse woodes..as..Fusticke [etc.]. 1646 Royalist Composition Papers (Yorksh. Archæol. Soc.) II. 47 In goods viz. Oyles, Mathers, Gales, Copperis, Retwood, ffustwick. 1652 Perfect Account No. 101. 2071, 2 Cannestrees of Cochinele, a good quantity of Fustick. 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 269 It was very like the Tree we call Fustic. 1757 J. Dyer Fleece iii. 93 The snowy web is steep'd, with grains of weld, Fustic, or logwood, mix'd, or cochineal. 1812 J. Smyth Pract. of Customs ii. 241 Fustick imported from the Greek islands is in very small sticks, and is denominated by the trade young Fustick. 1838 T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 414 Before fustic can be employed as a dye-stuff, it must be cut into chips. 1870 J. Yeats Nat. Hist. Commerce 218 Fustic is brought to market in long pieces or logs. 2. A yellow dye extracted from the wood of the fustic trees. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > yellow or yellowness > colouring matter > [noun] > dyes and dyestuffs weldc1374 turmeric1545 yellow berry1652 fust1682 Avignon berry1728 eel-pout1736 yellowroot1755 quercitron1785 brass-colour1797 fustet1821 tesu1823 morin1833 datiscin1835 maize1838 picric acid1838 xanthin1838 moric acid1839 purree1844 nitrophenisic acid1845 rubiacin1848 flavin1853 orellin1857 fustic1858 maize colour1859 fusteric1860 Manchester yellow1862 chrysaniline1864 ilixanthin1865 flavaniline1882 sun-yellow1884 butter yellow1887 African turmeric1888 Indian turmeric1890 weld yellow1899 1858 E. Lankester & W. B. Carpenter Veg. Physiol. (new ed.) §367 The dye termed Fustic..is extracted from the wood of a species of Mulberry tree. 1863 Life in South II. 306 Fustic, and copal, with other dyes and varnishes. 3. attributive, as fustic-tree, fustic-wood. ΚΠ 1630 J. Smith True Trav. xxvi. 56 Fusticke trees are very great and the wood yellow, good for dying. 1712 J. Browne tr. P. Pomet et al. Compl. Hist. Druggs I. 70 The People of Provence and Italy, after they have peel'd off the Bark, sell the Fustick Wood. 1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. ii. 339 The Fustic Tree. This is a fine timber wood; and a principal ingredient in most of our yellow dyes. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1545 |
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