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Answer for the clue "Comparatively angry ", 6 letters:
madder

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Word definitions for madder in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
type of plant (in modern use Rubia tinctorum ) used for making dyes, Old English mædere , from PIE *modhro- "dye plant" (cognates: Old Norse maðra , Old High German matara "madder," Polish modry , Czech modry "blue").

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. Eurasian herb having small yellow flowers and red roots formerly an important source of the dye alizarin [syn: Rubia tinctorum ] v. color a moderate to strong red

Usage examples of madder.

This method can be carried out in, for instance, dyeing a cochineal scarlet with tin crystals, a yellow from fustic and alum, a black from logwood and copperas and bluestone, a red from madder and bichrome, and the dyeing of the Alizarine colours by the use of chrome fluoride, etc.

The knight would be mad as hell about Bodger and Grift turning up on the doorstep, and even madder about the note.

Party candidate Albert Fresco sat in his kitchen madder than a sumbitch, watching a TV program showing preparations for the gubernatorial debate in downtown Tampa.

If I had possessed the necessary materials I would have written my visions down, and I might possibly have produced in my cell a still madder work than the one chosen with such insight by Cavalli.

Empire or Linge Chen that decreed Madder Loss be subdued, not directly.

Shizuka often roamed the mountains gathering wild mushrooms, mugwort to make moxa with, bugle and madder for dyes, and the other, deadlier harvest from which Kenji prepared poison.

Among them are aniline violet, iodine violet, madder, alkanet, orchil and logwood.

There were stone jars brimming with honey, preserved and dried fruits, salt meat, sainfoin, stockfeed, leather, pots and porringers, pitchers and porcelain, fragrances, essences, spices, saffron, scrim, shabrack, musk, muslin, madder, purpurin, talmigold, tragacanth, wax, and all other manner of provisions.

And then Sook would get even madder, the bricking would be more painful and prolonged, and.

Flake Wlite, Cadmium Yellow, Vermilion, Deep Madder, Cobalt Blue, and Emerald Green-and still waiting as the cost all of that clocked up for the familiar credit-expired sign to arrive, he closed the screen.

In 1870 the German chemists, Graebe and Liebermann, announced that they had succeeded in producing artificial alizarin,--the coloring matter of the madder root.

I was mad at myself for not seeing the anticline and madder at Carson, and half-sick about what was going to happen when Big Brother saw that log.

Pending the appearance of artificial alizarine, which was presently to turn the whole madder industry upside down, these more sophisticated persons were able to benefit at leisure by the ingenious processes discovered by Fabre, so that the practical result of so much assiduity, so much patient research, was absolutely nil, and he found himself as poor as ever.

Planch has some fixed notions of justice, and it appears another contender for the person of Trema came on the scene, and paid Planch more than Chenso Planch took some mixed-up vengeance against Chen and Trantor for the ruin of Madder Loss.

Trying to make a poor shipbuilder think he might have something to offer a clutch of madmen and madder women!