| 单词 | greening weed |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgreening weed greening weed n. now rare a plant used for dyeing cloth and wool yellow or green. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > green or greenness > green colouring matter > [noun] > pigment or dye > dyes and dyestuffs greening worta1200 greening weeda1399 spinach-green1845 emeraldine1864 methyl green1873 malachite green1875 viridine1875 a1399Grenyng wed [see sense 1a]. 1583 L. Mascall tr. Profitable Bk. Spottes & Staines 18 Put therein two pound of grening weede. 1597 J. Gerard Herball iii. 1136 The Greeneweedes..do growe to die clothes with... It is called..in English Diers Greening Weede. 1625 G. Markham Inrichm. Weald of Kent 16 There be some other grounds of the Marle Cope, which carry a sowre Grasse, and the Dyers Weed (commonly called Greening weed). 1803 Crit. Rev. 37 552 Among the dyeing plants, we find in the Crimea the madder, the woad, the greening weed, and the archil. 1955 G. Grigson Englishman's Flora 124 The blue wool was ‘greened’ with this Greenweed or Greening-weed—which was valuable enough for the settlers to take to New England. 1985 J. Simmons Shetland Dye Bk. 45 Dyer's greenweed, Genista tinctoria (greening weed). < as lemmas |
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