| 单词 | wood-soot |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswood-soot wood-soot n. the soot of burnt wood, formerly recognized in the British Pharmacopœia as fuligo ligni, and used in dyeing. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > black or blackness > blackening agent > [noun] > dye sumac?a1350 sumac black1580 wood-soot1667 Manchester black1862 azurine1878 chestnut-extract1881 nigrosine1881 1667 W. Petty in T. Sprat Hist. Royal-Soc. 296 In Cloth Dying wood-soot is of good use. 1738 E. Chambers Cycl. (ed. 2) at Dying Wood-soot, containing not only a colour, but a salt, needs nothing to extract its dye, or make it strike on the stuff. 1773 J. Hawkesworth Acct. Voy. Southern Hemisphere III. iii. viii. 632 Of the colour of wood soot, or what is commonly called a chocolate colour. < as lemmas |
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