mahoganyn.adj.

Brit.

/məˈhɒɡəni/, U.S.

/məˈhɑɡəni/

Forms: 1600s mahogeney, 1600s mahoggany, 1600s mohogeney, 1700s mahogena, 1700s mahogeny, 1700s mahogoney, 1700s mahogony, 1700s mohogany, 1700s mohoggony, 1700s mohogony, 1700s–1800s mahagony, 1700s– mahogany, 1800s mohoconey.

Origin: Of uncertain origin.

Etymology: Origin uncertain and disputed; earliest attested in 17th-cent. English writings about Jamaica (see below).Perhaps ultimately a borrowing of Arawak maga mahogany (1528 in a Spanish text from Puerto Rico), or perhaps of a cognate or by-form of that word (see especially G. Friederici Amerikanistisches Wörterbuch (1947) 366–67). A derivation < Yoruba oganwo , in Nigeria applied to the genus Khaya (see sense A. 1a), has also been suggested (for summary see F. B. Lamb in Amer. Speech (1967) 42 219–26); however, this theory has not met with widespread acceptance (see especially K. Malone in Econ. Bot. (1965) 19 286–92). The English word was adopted into scientific Latin as a specific epithet by Linnaeus ( Systema Naturæ (ed. 10, 1759) II. 940) as mahagoni, and is probably the source also of the continental forms: French mahogani, mahagoni, mahogon, etc., Italian mogano, mahogano (mogogano, magogano, etc.), Portuguese mógono, mogno, German Mahagoni, Dutch mahonie, Swedish mahogny, Danish mahogni. Compare Spanish caoba < Taino kaóban.

A. n.

a. The wood, typically a rich reddish brown, of any of various trees of the Central and South American genus Swietenia (family Meliaceae), which is traditionally much valued for cabinetmaking, being hard and fine-grained and taking a high polish; in earlier use esp. that of S. mahagoni, native to the Caribbean and Florida (more fully Cuban mahogany or West Indies mahogany); now chiefly, that of S. macrophylla, widespread in tropical America (more fully Brazilian mahogany or Honduras mahogany). Also: the similar wood of any of various African trees of related genera, esp. Khaya ivorensis and K. senegalensis (more fully African mahogany).African, Honduras, plum pudding, Spanish mahogany: see the first element.

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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > mahogany

mahogany1660

mahogany wood1703

1660 State of Jamaica 661 Many sorts as Cead.^r, Mahogeny, Lignum Vitee..and others w^ch are frequently exported.

1670 J. Ogilby America ii. xvi. 338 Here [i.e. in Jamaica] are..the most curious and rich sorts of Woods, as Cedar, Mohogeney, Lignum-vitæ, Ebony [etc.].

1703 London Gaz. No. 3891/3 On Wednesday.., will be..exposed to Publick Sale.., the Cargo of the Galeon called the Tauro.., consisting of..Cocoa,..Brazelletto, Mohogony.

1733 J. Bramston Man of Taste 15 Say thou that do'st thy father's table praise, Was there Mahogena in former days?

a1746 T. Warton Poems (1748) 109 Odious! upon a walnut-plank to dine! No—the red-vein'd Mohoggony be mine!

1818 Ld. Byron Beppo lxvii. 35 He was a Turk, the colour of mahogany.

1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. ii. ii. 487 The variety called Spanish mahogany, and imported from Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, and other West India islands [etc.].

1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. Gloss. 996 at Mahogany The Jamaica mahogany is the hardest and most beautiful.

1860 J. C. Jeaffreson Bk. about Doctors I. 185 He [sc. Gibbons] brought into domestic use the mahogany with which one has so many pleasant associations.

1875 J. Lukin Carpentry & Joinery 15 Oak, teak, and mahogany should find a place in the workshop more often than they do, the mahogany being what is often called cedar, to distinguish it from the very hard Spanish wood. The softer and more common kind is from Honduras.

1896 Westm. Gaz. 30 Apr. 2/1 The big dining-room is..a vision of walnut and mahogany.

1936 Burlington Mag. Aug. 88/2 Furniture in mahogany, palissander, rose- or satinwood.

1964 R. W. J. Keay et al. Nigerian Trees II. 260 Khaya grandifoliola... Wood typical reddish-brown mahogany esteemed less highly than K. ivorensis.

1993 Campaign Rep. (Greenpeace) Mar. 3/1 A highly successful blockade of Brazil's largest mahogany exporting sawmill.

b. Any of the trees producing such wood.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > non-British timber trees > [noun] > tropical > mahogany tree

mahogany tree1747

mahogany1759

Honduras mahogany1786

sea coconut1841

1759 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. (ed. 7) at Cedrus The second Sort is the Mahogony, whose Wood is now well known in England.

1846 J. Lindley Veg. Kingdom 462 The bark..of Mahogany (Swietenia Mahagoni) is also accounted febrifugal.

1927 M. W. Beckwith Notes Jamaican Ethnobotany 21 Mahogany... For cold or fever, the leaves are used as an ingredient in a bath and also drunk as tea.

1960 H. S. Zim Guide to Everglades 49 These plants range from gumbo-limbo, mahogany and tamarind down through shrubs and flowering plants to ferns and mosses.

1990 D. K. Abbiw Useful Plants Ghana i. 7 Terminalia ivorensis (Emire), Khaya species Mahogany, and Entandrophragma species Cedar are economic trees usually planted in taungyas in Ghana.

2. The wood of any of various other, mostly unrelated, trees resembling mahogany in colour and properties, esp. (U.S.) that of the coffee-tree, Gymnocladus dioica, and (Australian) that of the jarrah, Eucalyptus marginata, and of several other eucalypts; any of the trees yielding such wood. Chiefly with distinguishing word.bastard, forest, Madeira, mountain, white mahogany, etc.: see the first element.

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1780 W. Fleming Jrnl. 27 Mar. in N. D. Mereness Trav. Amer. Colonies (1916) 633 I met with a tall tree..the bark something like a Cheery tree the wood when cut a crimson red and cald by some Mahogany.

1805 J. H. Tuckey Acct. Voy. to establish Colony Port Phillip 226 Mahogany runs good to three feet, and by its texture can scarcely be known from the mahogany of Jamaica.

1813 H. Muhlenberg Catal. Plantarum Americæ Septentrionalis 93 Gymnocladus Canadensis, coffee tree [or] mahagony.

1829 R. Mudie Picture of Austral. 131 Eucalyptus robusta is much the largest of the species... This tree has sometimes got the name of mahogany, though it has no relation to the mahogany tree of America.

1846 J. L. Stokes Discov. Austral. II. iv. 132 Mahogany—Jarrail—Eucalyptus—grows on white sandy land.

1880 J. Bonwick Resources Queensland 83 The Mahogany of Rockhampton, Tristania, has a hard, tough, red wood.

1948 P. J. Hurley Red Cedar 28 Tall Water Gums..reared their white arms loftily above lesser stringies, mahoganies.

1972 B. Fuller West of Bight 124 The first flour mills in Perth were built entirely of jarrah... The pioneers were so impressed by the tree that they called it ‘mahogany’, a name retained until the 1860s.

3. slang and regional.

a. A Cornish drink made of gin and treacle.

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the world > food and drink > drink > [noun] > a drink or draught

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1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1781 II. 376 They [sc. the Cornish fishermen] call it Mahogany; and it is made of two parts gin and one part treacle, well beat together.

1823 T. Bond Topogr. & Hist. Sketches E. & W. Looe 82 (note) At a trial at the Cornish Assizes some years ago, a witness..puzzled his lordship and the council, by telling them he was..‘eating Fair maids and drinking Mahogany’.

1969 Observer 12 Jan. 32/8 Cornwall..Mahogany (two parts gin, one part treacle beaten together).

b. A strong mixture of brandy and water. Now rare. Perhaps Obsolete.

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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > brandy > [noun] > brandy and water

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mahogany1816

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1816 ‘Quiz’ Grand Master ii. 54 (note) It is believed that drinking mahogany (a strong description of brandy pauny) is the best preventive against the sun's heat. The remedy is in general repute in Bombay.

1852 C. J. Mathews Little Toddlekins 20 Capt. Littlepop. I've been obliged to..diet myself on stiff brandy and water. Brownsmith. Mahogany? I have got some,..black as coffee, strong as mustard.

†4. The mouse moth, Amphipyra tragopogonis, or the non-British A. tetra, formerly confused with this. Obsolete.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Noctuidae > genus Noctua or Cucullia > noctua tetra

mahogany1809

1809 A. H. Haworth Lepidoptera Britannica ii. 164 N. tetra (The Mahogany).

1819 G. Samouelle Entomologist's Compend. 370 Noctua tetra, the Mahogany.

5. The reddish-brown colour of the wood of the mahogany.

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the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > [noun] > reddish brown

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1822 in N. Amer. Rev. (1824) Jan. 96 A more striking figure could not be imagined, than the beautiful English face of the girl,..contrasted with the sallow and bilious skin of the Malay, enamelled or veneered with mahogany, by marine air.

1826 Lancet 26 Aug. 675/1 The colour of the lens has even been found of a rather dark brown, like the husk of a chestnut, or dark mahogany... I have never had an opportunity of seeing a cataract of a darker colour than mahogany.

1872 ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It lxii. 448 His face..was a sultry disk, glowing determinedly out through a weather beaten mask of mahogany, and studded with warts.

1926 People's Home Jrnl. Feb. 51/1 (advt.) Your choice of 23 fashionable colors: Taupe, Mole, Blue, Brown, Mahogany, Beaver Brown, Mulberry, Tete-de-Negre, [etc.].

1969 R. Johnson Valley of Many-colored Grasses 85 Odors of rotted leaves—Deep reds, mahoganies & Ochre. Mauve froths, a bulbous fungus.

1972 J. K. Baxter Autumn Testament xxxvi. 31 The flies moving slowly In and out of his nostrils, over his eyelids; That lion face of dark mahogany Turned up its brow to the overlying cloud.

6. colloquial.

†a. A table, esp. a dining table. Frequently in to put one's feet under (another's) mahogany, etc. Obsolete.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > table > [noun] > dining table

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1830 Sir J. Barrington Personal Sketches Own Times I. xv To give offence..by calling the Whigs an ‘eating and drinking club’,..what they call in Ireland mahogany acquaintances.]

1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xlviii. 520 He having been, for half an hour before, the only other man visible above the mahogany.

1848 W. M. Thackeray Bk. Snobs xxxi. 119 Other families did not welcome us to their mahogany.

1850 Florists' Jrnl. 149 Nearly forty gathered round Mr. Lidgard's mahogany after the exhibition.

1891 L. B. Walford Mischief of Monica III. 90 I could have put my feet under his mahogany..with the very greatest satisfaction.

b. Originally U.S. = bar n.¹ 28.

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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > tap-room or bar

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1896 F. P. Dunne in B. C. Schaaf Mr. Dooley's Chicago (1977) 129 ‘Well, I dinnaw,’ said Mr. Hinnissy, crossing his legs and laying his glass down slowly on the mahogany.

1936 N. Collins Trinity Town i. 18 From the moment Mr. Primrose appeared behind his own mahogany and superseded the barmaid, he dominated everything.

1955 Punch 4 May 557/1 Every interval sees twenty orchestral players with their elbows on the mahogany and off-duty singers in full fig on high stools being selectively sweet about their rivals.

1992 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald Amer. 8 Nov. i. 4/3 I quickly endeared myself to the locals by buying a round, crowding them all to one end of the mahogany and preserving their revelry on film.

B. adj.

1. Made of mahogany.

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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [adjective] > other specific tree

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1730 W. Warren Collectanea in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) I. 225 Mohogany window Seats: A Marble Table for y^e Side-board on a Mohogany Stand.

1732 Daily Post 24 Apr. f. 1^v/3 To be sold at auction..Mahogany Book-Cases, Buroes, Tables, Turkey Carpets, &c.

1763 Museum Rusticum (ed. 2) I. 179 The world of England has been, for some years past, running mad after mahogany furniture.

1773 O. Goldsmith She stoops to Conquer iv. 72 Then there's a mahogany table.

1864 G. A. Sala Quite Alone I. v. 75 In a recess were three handsome mahogany desks.

1885 R. Buchanan Annan Water ix At one side of the room stood a large mahogany bed.

1918 Heal & Son Catal.: Cottage Furnit. 26 Mahogany Inlaid Sideboard, bow front with tambour cupboard in centre.

1954 ‘M. Cost’ Invitation from Minerva 105 The mahogany bed was draped with Pekin.

1977 R. Dahl Wonderful Story Henry Sugar 168 He went upstairs, up the marvellous wide staircase with its carved mahogany banisters.

1987 B. Moore Colour of Blood xviii. 134 A handsome mahogany table sat in a window recess.

2. Of the colour of polished mahogany; rich reddish-brown.

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the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > [adjective] > reddish brown

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reddy-brown1845

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mahogany-brown1881

persimmon1897

a1744 W. Byrd Hist. Dividing Line in Westover MSS (1841) 35 Their..match coats, thrown so negligently about them, that their mahogany skins appeared in several parts like the Lacedaemonian damsels of old.

1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle II. lxxiv. 288 Their natural colour..degenerated into a mahogony tint.

1823 Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1825) 292 Molly Lowe, suffused with mahogany blushes.

1834 Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 1 384/1 His testy temper and mahogany complexion obtained him credit for being an American.

1856 C. Dickens Little Dorrit (1857) i. xxiv. 208 Travelling-people usually get more or less mahogany.

1893 R. L. Stevenson Catriona xxx. 359 We saw he was a big fellow with a mahogany face.

1991 Trad. Woodworking Apr. 15 (caption) An oil-based mahogany stain is made up to blend in the new wood.

1997 G. Bear Slant (1998) 54 Her skin is slowly demelanizing to light nut brown; for now, she is mahogany.

Compounds

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a. General attributive.

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mahogany colour n.

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1737 E. Hoppus Salmon's Country Builder's Estimator (ed. 2) 101 Chocolate-Colour, Mahogony-Colour, Cedar and Walnut-tree-Colour.

1761 Brit. Mag. 2 44/2 To stain Wood of a Mahogony Colour.

1839 tr. A. de Lamartine Trav. in East 103/1 Their legs and hands were..painted a mahogany colour.

1925 W. Faulkner Let. 25 June in Thinking of Home (1992) 212 I have a grand mahogany colour except where my bathing suit fits.

1997 Grounds Maintenance (Electronic ed.) 1 Sept. The bark starts out with a mahogany color that appears to be polished smooth, sprinkled with corky, beige lenticels.

mahogany dust n.

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1875 J. Lukin Carpentry & Joinery 79 By mahogany dust and glue a nail hole may be partially hidden.

2005 Daily Post (Liverpool) 3 Sept. 24 Antedeluvian brakes are full of mahogany dust, he told me. They need TLC.

mahogany plank n.

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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood in specific form > [noun] > board or plank

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1739 Will in J. O. Payne Rec. Eng. Catholics (1889) 53 My coffin to be of mahogany plank.

1995 Re: Chris Craft SeaSkiff in rec.boats.building (Usenet newsgroup) 2 Nov. If you want a finished wood deck, you should replace the existing ply deck with a mahogany plank deck with the faux seams.

mahogany trade n.

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society > trade and finance > trader > traders or dealers in specific articles > [noun] > in timber

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1850 Mahogany Tree (Chaloner & Fleming, Liverpool) Pref. The promotion of the interests of the Mahogany trade.

1998 K. L. O'Brien Sacrificing Forest iv. 74 New and smaller companies emerged, but they would never see the profits that existed during the best years of the mahogany trade.

mahogany wood n.

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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > mahogany

mahogany1660

mahogany wood1703

1703 London Gaz. No. 3891/3 On Wednesday.., will be exposed to Publick Sale Goods..consisting of..Nicaragua and Mohogony Wood,..&c.

1803 I. Whelen Let. in D. Jackson Lett. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1962) 91 To a new Box of Mohoconey Wood.

1904 ‘O. Henry’ in Everybody's Mag. Feb. 187/1 He was the color of vici kid, and his whiskers was like excelsior made out of mahogany wood.

1994 Evening Sun (Baltimore) 28 Nov. b 4/2 As reconstructed, it remains a classy model of dark mahogany wood topped by a deeply veined green marble counter.

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mahogany-brown adj.

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the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > [adjective] > reddish brown

russet1428

reddish-brown1530

sorrel1534

berry-brown1575

sored1587

russetish1600

Chelidonian1601

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1881 G. M. Fenn Vicar's People xlvi Setting his teeth, and screwing his mahogany-brown face into a state of rigid determination.

1955 F. G. Ashbrook Butchering xii. 238 Two days smoking should make it a rich mahogany brown.

mahogany-red adj.

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the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > [adjective] > brownish-red > of colours

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mahogany-red1843

1843 J. E. Portlock Rep. Geol. Londonderry 513 The paste,..is of a dark red, frequently mahogany-red, felspar.

1990 Garden Answers Nov. 2/1 (advt.) Spartan. The fruits are dark mahogany red, large, sweet, juicy, and have a very good flavour, frost tolerant.

b. Parasynthetic.

mahogany-coloured adj.

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1789 O. Equiano Interesting Narr. Life I. i. 18 Mahogany-coloured men from the south west of us: we call them Oye-Eboe, which term signifies red men living at a distance.

1992 Independent 20 June 41/7 The picture shows rather a handsome, sleek creature with black wing cases and mahogany-coloured legs.

mahogany-faced adj.

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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > types of face > [adjective]

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1825 J. K. Paulding John Bull in Amer. Pref. p. iii There arrived in the stage from Baltimore, a little mahogany-faced foreigner, a Frenchman as it would seem, with gold rings in his ears, and a pair of dimity breeches.

1854 J. D. Hooker Himalayan Jrnls. II. xiii. 142 A mahogany-faced nun.

1976 ‘A. Hall’ Kobra Manifesto xvi. 218 The pilot stood there, a tall mahogany-faced type with four gold rings on his sleeve.

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mahogany birch n. U.S. the black birch, Betula lenta, so called from its hard reddish-brown wood.

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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > birch and allies > [noun]

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river birch1846

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1813 H. Muhlenberg Catal. Plantarum Americæ Septentrionalis 88 Betula lenta..soft birch,..black birch,..sweet birch,..or mahogany birch.

1908 N. L. Britton N. Amer. Trees 256 The cherry birch, or Black birch,..is also called Sweet birch and Mahogany birch.

1950 D. C. Peattie Nat. Hist. Trees E. & Central N. Amer. 172 Mahogany Birch... Two characteristics..easily identify this lovely tree. The first is the strong wintergreen aroma of the bark and the leaves... The second is the close, lustrous mahogany-red bark.

mahogany cutter n. a workman employed in felling and trimming mahogany.

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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > lumberman

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1850 Mahogany Tree (Chaloner & Fleming, Liverpool) 42 1st of April, when the Mahogany Cutters' harvest may be said to commence.

2003 O. N. Bolland Colonialism & Resistance Belize iii. 91 The eldest was a thirty-seven year-old mahogany cutter, Sammy.

mahogany flat n. slang a bedbug.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Heteroptera > member of Capsidae or Miridae > cimex lectularius (bed-bug)

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mahogany flat1864

1864 J. C. Hotten Slang Dict. (new ed.) 176 Mahogany flat, a bug.

1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang § 120/60 Bedbugs,..flats, mahogany flats.

1952 New Biol. 13 86 The abdomen [of the bed-bug] when empty is flat (hence the name ‘mahogany flat’).

1959 T. R. E. Southwood & D. Leston Land & Water Bugs Brit. Isles 188 Bedbug. Also known as ‘wall lice’, ‘mahogany flats’ and ‘crimson ramblers’ these insects have been carried all round the world.

1967 B. J. Banfill Pioneer Nurse v. 61 Until two months ago we had only a log shanty. Somehow the Mahogany Flats took over and we had to burn it.

mahogany gum n. Australian the jarrah, Eucalyptus marginata.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > non-British timber trees > [noun] > Australasian

tallow-tree1704

rata1773

rosewood1779

red mahogany1798

ironbark1799

wild orange1802

red gum1803

rewarewa1817

red cedar1818

black-butted gum1820

Huon pine1820

miro1820

oak1821

horoeka1831

hinau1832

maire1832

totara1832

blackbutt1833

marri1833

raspberry jam tree1833

kohekohe1835

puriri1835

tawa1839

hickory1840

whau1840

pukatea1841

titoki1842

butterbush1843

iron gum1844

York gum1846

mangeao1848

myall1848

ironheart1859

lilly-pilly1860

belah1862

flindosa1862

jarrah1866

silky oak1866

teak of New South Wales1866

Tolosa-wood1866

turmeric-tree1866

walking-stick palm1869

tooart1870

queenwood1873

tarairi1873

boree1878

yate1880

axe-breaker1884

bangalay1884

coachwood1884

cudgerie1884

feather-wood1884

forest mahogany1884

maiden's blush1884

swamp mahogany1884

tallow-wood1884

teak of New Zealand1884

wandoo1884

heartwood1885

ivorywood1887

Jimmy Low1887

Burdekin plum1889

corkwood1889

pigeon-berry ash1889

red beech1889

silver beech1889

turnip-wood1891

black bean1895

red bean1895

pinkwood1898

poplar1898

rose mahogany1898

quandong1908

lancewood1910

New Zealand honeysuckle1910

Queensland walnut1919

mahogany gum1944

Australian mahogany1948

1944 Living off Land: Man. Bushcraft vii. 137 Close-grained Timbers,—Real hardwoods... They are slow growers with a dense grain, and include..Mahogany Gum, Snow Gum, Red Ironbark.

1987 Stock & Land (Melbourne) 26 Nov. 23/2 Redgums had done very well, if water was kept up to them—with some Tuart and Mahogany Gums as well.

† mahogany pine n. Obsolete (more fully New Zealand mahogany pine) the tough, durable wood of the totara, Podocarpus totara; this tree (also mahogany pine tree).

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1857 C. F. Hursthouse New Zealand I. 141 Totara..(Mahogany Pine)... principal inner house and furniture wood in the south.

1867 E. Sauter tr. F. von Hochstetter New Zealand 159 Totara N.Z. Mahagony [sic] Pine Podocarpus Totara.

1868 V. Pyke Province of Otago 34 The stately black pines (Matai and Miro),..and the noble mahogany pine (Totara), are ever prominent objects in the forest.

1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants 107/2 Mahogany Pine-tree, Podocarpus (Nageia) Totara.

1926 Trans. & Proc. N.Z. Inst. 56 707/1 Podocarpus totara... Totara... Mahogany pine... New Zealand mahogany pine.

mahogany scrub n. Australian a tract thickly covered with ‘mahogany’ or jarrah trees.

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the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [noun] > wooded land > types of

ripplelOE

wildwooda1122

rough1332

firth?a1400

tod stripec1446

osiard1509

bush1523

bush-ground1523

fritha1552

island1638

oak landc1658

pinelandc1658

piney wood1666

broom-land1707

pine barrenc1721

pine savannah1735

savannah1735

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scrub-land1779

olive wood1783

primeval forest1789

open wood1790

strong woods1792

scrub1805

oak flata1816

sertão1816

sprout-land1824

flatwoods1841

bush-land1842

tall timber1845

amber forest1846

caatinga1846

mahogany scrub1846

bush-flat1847

myall country1847

national forest1848

selva1849

monte1851

virgin forest1851

bush-country1855

savannah forest1874

bush-range1879

bushveld1879

protection forest1889

mulga1896

wood-bush1896

shinnery1901

fringing forest1903

monsoon forest1903

rainforest1903

savannah woodland1903

thorn forest1903

tropical rainforest1903

gallery forest1920

cloud forest1922

rain jungle1945

mato1968

1846 J. L. Stokes Discov. Austral. II. vi. 231 Part of our road lay through a thick mahogany scrub.

2000 J. S. Adams et al. Precious Heritage 342 (table) Transition between oak-juniper woodland and mountain mahogany scrub.

mahogany tree n. (a) the tree Swietenia mahagoni, or any of the trees to which the name is extended (see sense A. 2); (b) humorously a dining table.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > non-British timber trees > [noun] > tropical > mahogany tree

mahogany tree1747

mahogany1759

Honduras mahogany1786

sea coconut1841

1747 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 44 599 He begins this Set with the Mahogony-Tree.

1847 W. M. Thackeray Mahogany Tree i Little we fear Weather without, Sheltered about The Mahogany Tree.

1875 T. Laslett Timber & Timber Trees 189 The Jarrah or Mahogany tree..is also found in Western Australia.

1987 A. Tutuola Pauper, Brawler & Slanderer xxiii. 116 He wandered to where there were two mighty mahogany trees.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mahogany
释义	mahoganyn.adj. Brit. /məˈhɒɡəni/, U.S. /məˈhɑɡəni/ Forms: 1600s mahogeney, 1600s mahoggany, 1600s mohogeney, 1700s mahogena, 1700s mahogeny, 1700s mahogoney, 1700s mahogony, 1700s mohogany, 1700s mohoggony, 1700s mohogony, 1700s–1800s mahagony, 1700s– mahogany, 1800s mohoconey. Origin: Of uncertain origin. Etymology: Origin uncertain and disputed; earliest attested in 17th-cent. English writings about Jamaica (see below).Perhaps ultimately a borrowing of Arawak maga mahogany (1528 in a Spanish text from Puerto Rico), or perhaps of a cognate or by-form of that word (see especially G. Friederici Amerikanistisches Wörterbuch (1947) 366–67). A derivation < Yoruba oganwo , in Nigeria applied to the genus Khaya (see sense A. 1a), has also been suggested (for summary see F. B. Lamb in Amer. Speech (1967) 42 219–26); however, this theory has not met with widespread acceptance (see especially K. Malone in Econ. Bot. (1965) 19 286–92). The English word was adopted into scientific Latin as a specific epithet by Linnaeus ( Systema Naturæ (ed. 10, 1759) II. 940) as mahagoni, and is probably the source also of the continental forms: French mahogani, mahagoni, mahogon, etc., Italian mogano, mahogano (mogogano, magogano, etc.), Portuguese mógono, mogno, German Mahagoni, Dutch mahonie, Swedish mahogny, Danish mahogni. Compare Spanish caoba < Taino kaóban. A. n. 1. a. The wood, typically a rich reddish brown, of any of various trees of the Central and South American genus Swietenia (family Meliaceae), which is traditionally much valued for cabinetmaking, being hard and fine-grained and taking a high polish; in earlier use esp. that of S. mahagoni, native to the Caribbean and Florida (more fully Cuban mahogany or West Indies mahogany); now chiefly, that of S. macrophylla, widespread in tropical America (more fully Brazilian mahogany or Honduras mahogany). Also: the similar wood of any of various African trees of related genera, esp. Khaya ivorensis and K. senegalensis (more fully African mahogany).African, Honduras, plum pudding, Spanish mahogany: see the first element. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > mahogany mahogany1660 mahogany wood1703 1660 State of Jamaica 661 Many sorts as Cead.^r, Mahogeny, Lignum Vitee..and others w^ch are frequently exported. 1670 J. Ogilby America ii. xvi. 338 Here [i.e. in Jamaica] are..the most curious and rich sorts of Woods, as Cedar, Mohogeney, Lignum-vitæ, Ebony [etc.]. 1703 London Gaz. No. 3891/3 On Wednesday.., will be..exposed to Publick Sale.., the Cargo of the Galeon called the Tauro.., consisting of..Cocoa,..Brazelletto, Mohogony. 1733 J. Bramston Man of Taste 15 Say thou that do'st thy father's table praise, Was there Mahogena in former days? a1746 T. Warton Poems (1748) 109 Odious! upon a walnut-plank to dine! No—the red-vein'd Mohoggony be mine! 1818 Ld. Byron Beppo lxvii. 35 He was a Turk, the colour of mahogany. 1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. ii. ii. 487 The variety called Spanish mahogany, and imported from Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, and other West India islands [etc.]. 1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. Gloss. 996 at Mahogany The Jamaica mahogany is the hardest and most beautiful. 1860 J. C. Jeaffreson Bk. about Doctors I. 185 He [sc. Gibbons] brought into domestic use the mahogany with which one has so many pleasant associations. 1875 J. Lukin Carpentry & Joinery 15 Oak, teak, and mahogany should find a place in the workshop more often than they do, the mahogany being what is often called cedar, to distinguish it from the very hard Spanish wood. The softer and more common kind is from Honduras. 1896 Westm. Gaz. 30 Apr. 2/1 The big dining-room is..a vision of walnut and mahogany. 1936 Burlington Mag. Aug. 88/2 Furniture in mahogany, palissander, rose- or satinwood. 1964 R. W. J. Keay et al. Nigerian Trees II. 260 Khaya grandifoliola... Wood typical reddish-brown mahogany esteemed less highly than K. ivorensis. 1993 Campaign Rep. (Greenpeace) Mar. 3/1 A highly successful blockade of Brazil's largest mahogany exporting sawmill. b. Any of the trees producing such wood. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > non-British timber trees > [noun] > tropical > mahogany tree mahogany tree1747 mahogany1759 Honduras mahogany1786 sea coconut1841 1759 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. (ed. 7) at Cedrus The second Sort is the Mahogony, whose Wood is now well known in England. 1846 J. Lindley Veg. Kingdom 462 The bark..of Mahogany (Swietenia Mahagoni) is also accounted febrifugal. 1927 M. W. Beckwith Notes Jamaican Ethnobotany 21 Mahogany... For cold or fever, the leaves are used as an ingredient in a bath and also drunk as tea. 1960 H. S. Zim Guide to Everglades 49 These plants range from gumbo-limbo, mahogany and tamarind down through shrubs and flowering plants to ferns and mosses. 1990 D. K. Abbiw Useful Plants Ghana i. 7 Terminalia ivorensis (Emire), Khaya species Mahogany, and Entandrophragma species Cedar are economic trees usually planted in taungyas in Ghana. 2. The wood of any of various other, mostly unrelated, trees resembling mahogany in colour and properties, esp. (U.S.) that of the coffee-tree, Gymnocladus dioica, and (Australian) that of the jarrah, Eucalyptus marginata, and of several other eucalypts; any of the trees yielding such wood. Chiefly with distinguishing word.bastard, forest, Madeira, mountain, white mahogany, etc.: see the first element. ΚΠ 1780 W. Fleming Jrnl. 27 Mar. in N. D. Mereness Trav. Amer. Colonies (1916) 633 I met with a tall tree..the bark something like a Cheery tree the wood when cut a crimson red and cald by some Mahogany. 1805 J. H. Tuckey Acct. Voy. to establish Colony Port Phillip 226 Mahogany runs good to three feet, and by its texture can scarcely be known from the mahogany of Jamaica. 1813 H. Muhlenberg Catal. Plantarum Americæ Septentrionalis 93 Gymnocladus Canadensis, coffee tree [or] mahagony. 1829 R. Mudie Picture of Austral. 131 Eucalyptus robusta is much the largest of the species... This tree has sometimes got the name of mahogany, though it has no relation to the mahogany tree of America. 1846 J. L. Stokes Discov. Austral. II. iv. 132 Mahogany—Jarrail—Eucalyptus—grows on white sandy land. 1880 J. Bonwick Resources Queensland 83 The Mahogany of Rockhampton, Tristania, has a hard, tough, red wood. 1948 P. J. Hurley Red Cedar 28 Tall Water Gums..reared their white arms loftily above lesser stringies, mahoganies. 1972 B. Fuller West of Bight 124 The first flour mills in Perth were built entirely of jarrah... The pioneers were so impressed by the tree that they called it ‘mahogany’, a name retained until the 1860s. 3. slang and regional. a. A Cornish drink made of gin and treacle. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > [noun] > a drink or draught shenchc950 drinkc1000 draughtc1200 beveragec1390 napa1450 potation1479–81 potionc1484 slaker?1518 glut1541 pocill1572 adipson1601 go-down1614 slash1614 gulf1674 libation1751 meridian1771 sinda1774 sling1788 mahogany1791 a shove in the mouth1821 nooner1836 quencher1841 refresh1851 slackener1861 squencher1871 refreshener1888 refresher1922 maiden's blush1941 maiden's water1975 1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1781 II. 376 They [sc. the Cornish fishermen] call it Mahogany; and it is made of two parts gin and one part treacle, well beat together. 1823 T. Bond Topogr. & Hist. Sketches E. & W. Looe 82 (note) At a trial at the Cornish Assizes some years ago, a witness..puzzled his lordship and the council, by telling them he was..‘eating Fair maids and drinking Mahogany’. 1969 Observer 12 Jan. 32/8 Cornwall..Mahogany (two parts gin, one part treacle beaten together). b. A strong mixture of brandy and water. Now rare. Perhaps Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > brandy > [noun] > brandy and water brandy-pawnee1816 mahogany1816 brandy and water1829 1816 ‘Quiz’ Grand Master ii. 54 (note) It is believed that drinking mahogany (a strong description of brandy pauny) is the best preventive against the sun's heat. The remedy is in general repute in Bombay. 1852 C. J. Mathews Little Toddlekins 20 Capt. Littlepop. I've been obliged to..diet myself on stiff brandy and water. Brownsmith. Mahogany? I have got some,..black as coffee, strong as mustard. †4. The mouse moth, Amphipyra tragopogonis, or the non-British A. tetra, formerly confused with this. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Noctuidae > genus Noctua or Cucullia > noctua tetra mahogany1809 1809 A. H. Haworth Lepidoptera Britannica ii. 164 N. tetra (The Mahogany). 1819 G. Samouelle Entomologist's Compend. 370 Noctua tetra, the Mahogany. 5. The reddish-brown colour of the wood of the mahogany. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > [noun] > reddish brown russet1422 red-brown?a1450 reddish-brown1530 sorrel1530 mordoré1791 alezan1820 mahogany1822 henna1911 teak1934 1822 in N. Amer. Rev. (1824) Jan. 96 A more striking figure could not be imagined, than the beautiful English face of the girl,..contrasted with the sallow and bilious skin of the Malay, enamelled or veneered with mahogany, by marine air. 1826 Lancet 26 Aug. 675/1 The colour of the lens has even been found of a rather dark brown, like the husk of a chestnut, or dark mahogany... I have never had an opportunity of seeing a cataract of a darker colour than mahogany. 1872 ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It lxii. 448 His face..was a sultry disk, glowing determinedly out through a weather beaten mask of mahogany, and studded with warts. 1926 People's Home Jrnl. Feb. 51/1 (advt.) Your choice of 23 fashionable colors: Taupe, Mole, Blue, Brown, Mahogany, Beaver Brown, Mulberry, Tete-de-Negre, [etc.]. 1969 R. Johnson Valley of Many-colored Grasses 85 Odors of rotted leaves—Deep reds, mahoganies & Ochre. Mauve froths, a bulbous fungus. 1972 J. K. Baxter Autumn Testament xxxvi. 31 The flies moving slowly In and out of his nostrils, over his eyelids; That lion face of dark mahogany Turned up its brow to the overlying cloud. 6. colloquial. †a. A table, esp. a dining table. Frequently in to put one's feet under (another's) mahogany, etc. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > table > [noun] > dining table meat-boardc1275 tablec1330 meat-table1381 dining table1553 board1606 dinner table1785 mahogany1837 trough1930 1830 Sir J. Barrington Personal Sketches Own Times I. xv To give offence..by calling the Whigs an ‘eating and drinking club’,..what they call in Ireland mahogany acquaintances.] 1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xlviii. 520 He having been, for half an hour before, the only other man visible above the mahogany. 1848 W. M. Thackeray Bk. Snobs xxxi. 119 Other families did not welcome us to their mahogany. 1850 Florists' Jrnl. 149 Nearly forty gathered round Mr. Lidgard's mahogany after the exhibition. 1891 L. B. Walford Mischief of Monica III. 90 I could have put my feet under his mahogany..with the very greatest satisfaction. b. Originally U.S. = bar n.¹ 28. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > tap-room or bar tapstryc1460 ale stand1588 tap1725 bar-room1797 taproom1807 estaminet1814 saloon1841 sample room1865 cantina1892 mahogany1896 beverage room1936 spit and sawdust1937 1896 F. P. Dunne in B. C. Schaaf Mr. Dooley's Chicago (1977) 129 ‘Well, I dinnaw,’ said Mr. Hinnissy, crossing his legs and laying his glass down slowly on the mahogany. 1936 N. Collins Trinity Town i. 18 From the moment Mr. Primrose appeared behind his own mahogany and superseded the barmaid, he dominated everything. 1955 Punch 4 May 557/1 Every interval sees twenty orchestral players with their elbows on the mahogany and off-duty singers in full fig on high stools being selectively sweet about their rivals. 1992 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald Amer. 8 Nov. i. 4/3 I quickly endeared myself to the locals by buying a round, crowding them all to one end of the mahogany and preserving their revelry on film. B. adj. 1. Made of mahogany. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [adjective] > other specific tree aldernOE ashena1400 terebinthenc1440 elmen1466 yewen1501 Brazil1577 walnut-tree1687 arbuteana1706 white pine1708 mahogany1730 teak-built1835 1730 W. Warren Collectanea in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) I. 225 Mohogany window Seats: A Marble Table for y^e Side-board on a Mohogany Stand. 1732 Daily Post 24 Apr. f. 1^v/3 To be sold at auction..Mahogany Book-Cases, Buroes, Tables, Turkey Carpets, &c. 1763 Museum Rusticum (ed. 2) I. 179 The world of England has been, for some years past, running mad after mahogany furniture. 1773 O. Goldsmith She stoops to Conquer iv. 72 Then there's a mahogany table. 1864 G. A. Sala Quite Alone I. v. 75 In a recess were three handsome mahogany desks. 1885 R. Buchanan Annan Water ix At one side of the room stood a large mahogany bed. 1918 Heal & Son Catal.: Cottage Furnit. 26 Mahogany Inlaid Sideboard, bow front with tambour cupboard in centre. 1954 ‘M. Cost’ Invitation from Minerva 105 The mahogany bed was draped with Pekin. 1977 R. Dahl Wonderful Story Henry Sugar 168 He went upstairs, up the marvellous wide staircase with its carved mahogany banisters. 1987 B. Moore Colour of Blood xviii. 134 A handsome mahogany table sat in a window recess. 2. Of the colour of polished mahogany; rich reddish-brown. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > [adjective] > reddish brown russet1428 reddish-brown1530 sorrel1534 berry-brown1575 sored1587 russetish1600 Chelidonian1601 weaselled-coloured1607 deer-coloured1611 spadiceous1646 russeted1654 testaceous1688 russety1697 mahoganya1744 red-brown1786 reddy-brown1845 fusco-testaceous1847 mahogany-brown1881 persimmon1897 a1744 W. Byrd Hist. Dividing Line in Westover MSS (1841) 35 Their..match coats, thrown so negligently about them, that their mahogany skins appeared in several parts like the Lacedaemonian damsels of old. 1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle II. lxxiv. 288 Their natural colour..degenerated into a mahogony tint. 1823 Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1825) 292 Molly Lowe, suffused with mahogany blushes. 1834 Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 1 384/1 His testy temper and mahogany complexion obtained him credit for being an American. 1856 C. Dickens Little Dorrit (1857) i. xxiv. 208 Travelling-people usually get more or less mahogany. 1893 R. L. Stevenson Catriona xxx. 359 We saw he was a big fellow with a mahogany face. 1991 Trad. Woodworking Apr. 15 (caption) An oil-based mahogany stain is made up to blend in the new wood. 1997 G. Bear Slant (1998) 54 Her skin is slowly demelanizing to light nut brown; for now, she is mahogany. Compounds C1. a. General attributive. (a) mahogany colour n. ΚΠ 1737 E. Hoppus Salmon's Country Builder's Estimator (ed. 2) 101 Chocolate-Colour, Mahogony-Colour, Cedar and Walnut-tree-Colour. 1761 Brit. Mag. 2 44/2 To stain Wood of a Mahogony Colour. 1839 tr. A. de Lamartine Trav. in East 103/1 Their legs and hands were..painted a mahogany colour. 1925 W. Faulkner Let. 25 June in Thinking of Home (1992) 212 I have a grand mahogany colour except where my bathing suit fits. 1997 Grounds Maintenance (Electronic ed.) 1 Sept. The bark starts out with a mahogany color that appears to be polished smooth, sprinkled with corky, beige lenticels. mahogany dust n. ΚΠ 1875 J. Lukin Carpentry & Joinery 79 By mahogany dust and glue a nail hole may be partially hidden. 2005 Daily Post (Liverpool) 3 Sept. 24 Antedeluvian brakes are full of mahogany dust, he told me. They need TLC. mahogany plank n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood in specific form > [noun] > board or plank boardc1000 plank1294 shingle-boardc1300 shotboard1310 planch1344 plancher1408 theal1517 broad1535 brod1643 mahogany plank1739 shingle1825 1739 Will in J. O. Payne Rec. Eng. Catholics (1889) 53 My coffin to be of mahogany plank. 1995 Re: Chris Craft SeaSkiff in rec.boats.building (Usenet newsgroup) 2 Nov. If you want a finished wood deck, you should replace the existing ply deck with a mahogany plank deck with the faux seams. mahogany trade n. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trader > traders or dealers in specific articles > [noun] > in timber wooderc1050 woodmonger1261 woodman1426 timberman1429 wood-maker1616 billet-dealera1625 mahogany trade1850 1850 Mahogany Tree (Chaloner & Fleming, Liverpool) Pref. The promotion of the interests of the Mahogany trade. 1998 K. L. O'Brien Sacrificing Forest iv. 74 New and smaller companies emerged, but they would never see the profits that existed during the best years of the mahogany trade. mahogany wood n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > mahogany mahogany1660 mahogany wood1703 1703 London Gaz. No. 3891/3 On Wednesday.., will be exposed to Publick Sale Goods..consisting of..Nicaragua and Mohogony Wood,..&c. 1803 I. Whelen Let. in D. Jackson Lett. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1962) 91 To a new Box of Mohoconey Wood. 1904 ‘O. Henry’ in Everybody's Mag. Feb. 187/1 He was the color of vici kid, and his whiskers was like excelsior made out of mahogany wood. 1994 Evening Sun (Baltimore) 28 Nov. b 4/2 As reconstructed, it remains a classy model of dark mahogany wood topped by a deeply veined green marble counter. (b) mahogany-brown adj. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > [adjective] > reddish brown russet1428 reddish-brown1530 sorrel1534 berry-brown1575 sored1587 russetish1600 Chelidonian1601 weaselled-coloured1607 deer-coloured1611 spadiceous1646 russeted1654 testaceous1688 russety1697 mahoganya1744 red-brown1786 reddy-brown1845 fusco-testaceous1847 mahogany-brown1881 persimmon1897 1881 G. M. Fenn Vicar's People xlvi Setting his teeth, and screwing his mahogany-brown face into a state of rigid determination. 1955 F. G. Ashbrook Butchering xii. 238 Two days smoking should make it a rich mahogany brown. mahogany-red adj. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > [adjective] > brownish-red > of colours rustya1500 mahogany-red1843 1843 J. E. Portlock Rep. Geol. Londonderry 513 The paste,..is of a dark red, frequently mahogany-red, felspar. 1990 Garden Answers Nov. 2/1 (advt.) Spartan. The fruits are dark mahogany red, large, sweet, juicy, and have a very good flavour, frost tolerant. b. Parasynthetic. mahogany-coloured adj. ΚΠ 1789 O. Equiano Interesting Narr. Life I. i. 18 Mahogany-coloured men from the south west of us: we call them Oye-Eboe, which term signifies red men living at a distance. 1992 Independent 20 June 41/7 The picture shows rather a handsome, sleek creature with black wing cases and mahogany-coloured legs. mahogany-faced adj. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > types of face > [adjective] flatc1400 hardc1400 low-cheeredc1400 large?a1425 ruscledc1440 well-visagedc1440 platter-faced1533 well-faced1534 full-faced1543 fair-faced1553 bright-faceda1560 crab-faced1563 crab-snouted1563 crab-tree-faced1563 long-visaged1584 owlya1586 wainscot-faced1588 flaberkin1592 rough-hewn1593 angel-faced1594 round-faced1594 crab-favoured1596 rugged1596 weasel-faced1596 rough-faced1598 half-faced1600 chitty1601 lenten-faced1604 broad-faced1607 dog-faced1607 weaselled-faced1607 wry-faced1607 maid-faced1610 warp-faced1611 ill-faceda1616 lean-faceda1616 old-faceda1616 moon-faced1619 monkey-faced1620 chitty-face1622 chitty-faceda1627 lean-chapt1629 antic-faced1635 bloat-faced1638 bacon-facea1640 blue-faced1640 hatchet-faced1648 grave1650 lean-jawed1679 smock-faced1684 lean-visaged1686 flaber1687 baby-faced1692 splatter-faced1707 chubby1722 puggy1722 block-faced1751 haggard-looking1756 long-faced1762 haggardly1763 fresh-faced1766 dough-faced1773 pudding-faced1777 baby-featured1780 fat-faced1782 haggard1787 weazen-face1794 keen1798 ferret-like1801 lean-cheeked1812 mulberry-faced1812 open-faced1813 open-countenanced1819 chiselled1821 hatchety1821 misfeatured1822 terse1824 weazen-faced1824 mahogany-faced1825 clock-faced1827 sharp1832 sensual1833 beef-faced1838 weaselly1838 ferret-faced1840 sensuous1843 rat-faced1844 recedent1849 neat-faced1850 cherubimical1854 pinch-faced1859 cherubic1860 frownya1861 receding1866 weak1882 misfeaturing1885 platopic1885 platyopic1885 pro-opic1885 wind-splitting1890 falcon-face1891 blunt-featured1916 bun-faced1927 fish-faced1963 1825 J. K. Paulding John Bull in Amer. Pref. p. iii There arrived in the stage from Baltimore, a little mahogany-faced foreigner, a Frenchman as it would seem, with gold rings in his ears, and a pair of dimity breeches. 1854 J. D. Hooker Himalayan Jrnls. II. xiii. 142 A mahogany-faced nun. 1976 ‘A. Hall’ Kobra Manifesto xvi. 218 The pilot stood there, a tall mahogany-faced type with four gold rings on his sleeve. C2. mahogany birch n. U.S. the black birch, Betula lenta, so called from its hard reddish-brown wood. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > birch and allies > [noun] bircha700 birch-tree1530 weeping birch1606 Our Lady's tree1608 black birch1674 sugar-birch1751 white birch1766 red birch1774 yellow birch1774 paper birch1791 canoe birch1810 mountain mahogany1810 old field birch1810 mahogany birch1813 towai1845 river birch1846 kamahi1867 silver birch1884 wire birch1899 1813 H. Muhlenberg Catal. Plantarum Americæ Septentrionalis 88 Betula lenta..soft birch,..black birch,..sweet birch,..or mahogany birch. 1908 N. L. Britton N. Amer. Trees 256 The cherry birch, or Black birch,..is also called Sweet birch and Mahogany birch. 1950 D. C. Peattie Nat. Hist. Trees E. & Central N. Amer. 172 Mahogany Birch... Two characteristics..easily identify this lovely tree. The first is the strong wintergreen aroma of the bark and the leaves... The second is the close, lustrous mahogany-red bark. mahogany cutter n. a workman employed in felling and trimming mahogany. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > lumberman wood-hewerc1000 wooderc1050 hagger1294 wood-hagger1294 feller1422 woodman1426 faller1614 wood-maker1616 forest-feller1618 axeman1671 holt-felstera1678 stocker1686 bayman1715 logger1734 wood-cutter1758 lumberer1809 lumbermana1817 shantyman1824 chopper1827 splitter1841 bushman1846 mahogany cutter1850 piner1871 bush-faller1882 lumberjack1888 bushwhacker1898 home guard1903 Jack1910 gyppo1912 timber-getter1912 timberjack1916 timber beast1919 1850 Mahogany Tree (Chaloner & Fleming, Liverpool) 42 1st of April, when the Mahogany Cutters' harvest may be said to commence. 2003 O. N. Bolland Colonialism & Resistance Belize iii. 91 The eldest was a thirty-seven year-old mahogany cutter, Sammy. mahogany flat n. slang a bedbug. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Heteroptera > member of Capsidae or Miridae > cimex lectularius (bed-bug) punaisec1530 wall-louse1540 cimex1585 bug1622 chincha1640 want-louse1655 wiglouse1658 bedbug1740 B. flat1853 Norfolk Howard1862 mahogany flat1864 1864 J. C. Hotten Slang Dict. (new ed.) 176 Mahogany flat, a bug. 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang § 120/60 Bedbugs,..flats, mahogany flats. 1952 New Biol. 13 86 The abdomen [of the bed-bug] when empty is flat (hence the name ‘mahogany flat’). 1959 T. R. E. Southwood & D. Leston Land & Water Bugs Brit. Isles 188 Bedbug. Also known as ‘wall lice’, ‘mahogany flats’ and ‘crimson ramblers’ these insects have been carried all round the world. 1967 B. J. Banfill Pioneer Nurse v. 61 Until two months ago we had only a log shanty. Somehow the Mahogany Flats took over and we had to burn it. mahogany gum n. Australian the jarrah, Eucalyptus marginata. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > non-British timber trees > [noun] > Australasian tallow-tree1704 rata1773 rosewood1779 red mahogany1798 ironbark1799 wild orange1802 red gum1803 rewarewa1817 red cedar1818 black-butted gum1820 Huon pine1820 miro1820 oak1821 horoeka1831 hinau1832 maire1832 totara1832 blackbutt1833 marri1833 raspberry jam tree1833 kohekohe1835 puriri1835 tawa1839 hickory1840 whau1840 pukatea1841 titoki1842 butterbush1843 iron gum1844 York gum1846 mangeao1848 myall1848 ironheart1859 lilly-pilly1860 belah1862 flindosa1862 jarrah1866 silky oak1866 teak of New South Wales1866 Tolosa-wood1866 turmeric-tree1866 walking-stick palm1869 tooart1870 queenwood1873 tarairi1873 boree1878 yate1880 axe-breaker1884 bangalay1884 coachwood1884 cudgerie1884 feather-wood1884 forest mahogany1884 maiden's blush1884 swamp mahogany1884 tallow-wood1884 teak of New Zealand1884 wandoo1884 heartwood1885 ivorywood1887 Jimmy Low1887 Burdekin plum1889 corkwood1889 pigeon-berry ash1889 red beech1889 silver beech1889 turnip-wood1891 black bean1895 red bean1895 pinkwood1898 poplar1898 rose mahogany1898 quandong1908 lancewood1910 New Zealand honeysuckle1910 Queensland walnut1919 mahogany gum1944 Australian mahogany1948 1944 Living off Land: Man. Bushcraft vii. 137 Close-grained Timbers,—Real hardwoods... They are slow growers with a dense grain, and include..Mahogany Gum, Snow Gum, Red Ironbark. 1987 Stock & Land (Melbourne) 26 Nov. 23/2 Redgums had done very well, if water was kept up to them—with some Tuart and Mahogany Gums as well. † mahogany pine n. Obsolete (more fully New Zealand mahogany pine) the tough, durable wood of the totara, Podocarpus totara; this tree (also mahogany pine tree). ΚΠ 1857 C. F. Hursthouse New Zealand I. 141 Totara..(Mahogany Pine)... principal inner house and furniture wood in the south. 1867 E. Sauter tr. F. von Hochstetter New Zealand 159 Totara N.Z. Mahagony [sic] Pine Podocarpus Totara. 1868 V. Pyke Province of Otago 34 The stately black pines (Matai and Miro),..and the noble mahogany pine (Totara), are ever prominent objects in the forest. 1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants 107/2 Mahogany Pine-tree, Podocarpus (Nageia) Totara. 1926 Trans. & Proc. N.Z. Inst. 56 707/1 Podocarpus totara... Totara... Mahogany pine... New Zealand mahogany pine. mahogany scrub n. Australian a tract thickly covered with ‘mahogany’ or jarrah trees. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [noun] > wooded land > types of ripplelOE wildwooda1122 rough1332 firth?a1400 tod stripec1446 osiard1509 bush1523 bush-ground1523 fritha1552 island1638 oak landc1658 pinelandc1658 piney wood1666 broom-land1707 pine barrenc1721 pine savannah1735 savannah1735 thick woods1754 scrub-land1779 olive wood1783 primeval forest1789 open wood1790 strong woods1792 scrub1805 oak flata1816 sertão1816 sprout-land1824 flatwoods1841 bush-land1842 tall timber1845 amber forest1846 caatinga1846 mahogany scrub1846 bush-flat1847 myall country1847 national forest1848 selva1849 monte1851 virgin forest1851 bush-country1855 savannah forest1874 bush-range1879 bushveld1879 protection forest1889 mulga1896 wood-bush1896 shinnery1901 fringing forest1903 monsoon forest1903 rainforest1903 savannah woodland1903 thorn forest1903 tropical rainforest1903 gallery forest1920 cloud forest1922 rain jungle1945 mato1968 1846 J. L. Stokes Discov. Austral. II. vi. 231 Part of our road lay through a thick mahogany scrub. 2000 J. S. Adams et al. Precious Heritage 342 (table) Transition between oak-juniper woodland and mountain mahogany scrub. mahogany tree n. (a) the tree Swietenia mahagoni, or any of the trees to which the name is extended (see sense A. 2); (b) humorously a dining table. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular timber trees or shrubs > non-British timber trees > [noun] > tropical > mahogany tree mahogany tree1747 mahogany1759 Honduras mahogany1786 sea coconut1841 1747 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 44 599 He begins this Set with the Mahogony-Tree. 1847 W. M. Thackeray Mahogany Tree i Little we fear Weather without, Sheltered about The Mahogany Tree. 1875 T. Laslett Timber & Timber Trees 189 The Jarrah or Mahogany tree..is also found in Western Australia. 1987 A. Tutuola Pauper, Brawler & Slanderer xxiii. 116 He wandered to where there were two mighty mahogany trees. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1660
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