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单词 old fustic
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old fustic
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.
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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.
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