单词 | spirit colour |
释义 | > as lemmasspirit colour (d) In names of dyes originally prepared using a mixture of extracts and a solution of tin salts (cf. sense 26), or (in later use) in names of dyes and varnishes soluble in methylated spirit; as spirit black, spirit blue, spirit yellow, etc. Also spirit colour.Cf. spirit varnish n. at Compounds 2d. ΚΠ 1821 Philos. Mag. 58 395 Method of making fine light black..which, for distinction from other blacks, they call spirit black. 1827 Berrow's Worcester Jrnl. 14 June John Goddard and Alex. Fred. Cope..sugar-refiners, spirit colour-makers, and manufacturers of liquors. 1836 Penny Cycl. VI. 157/1 Spirit-Colours are brilliant, but fugitive; they consist generally of decoctions of dye-woods, mixed with nitro-muriate or muriate of tin. 1867 R. Hunt Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 6) I. 589 1 gallon spirit yellow. 1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 428/1 Spirit-color printing. 1904 House Beautiful May 380/1 A mahogany red is obtained by giving the wood one application of spirit brown. 1908 H. A. Hare et al. National Standard Dispensatory (ed. 2) 185 Aniline Yellow,..Spirit yellow, is used principally as the basis for manufacturing more permanent aniline colors. 1953 A. G. E. Pearse Histochem. viii. 178 Lillie and Laskey..developed a modified Ciaccio method using formol-calcium fixation followed by Sudan black B or Spirit blue. 1967 J. W. Collier Wood Finishing 104 The polisher usually has by him a small stock of spirit-soluble dyes for making up his colours. The following list is usually sufficient for his purposes: Spirit black... Spirit yellow. Spirit green. Spirit blue. < as lemmas |
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