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Answer for the clue "A water-soluble brownish-yellow pigment made by boiling wood soot ", 6 letters:
bister

Word definitions for bister in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Bister may refer to: Bister, Switzerland , a village in the canton of Valais Bistre , a pigment and color Bicester , Oxfordshire, United Kingdom Bister, "abrupt", "stringent" or "austere" in Swedish Bister, "bed" in the Urdu language Bister, a Belgian / ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of bistre English)

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bister \Bis"ter\, Bistre \Bis"tre\, n. [F. bistre a color made of soot; of unknown origin. Cf., however, LG. biester frowning, dark, ugly.] (Paint.) A dark brown pigment extracted from the soot of wood.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a water-soluble brownish-yellow pigment made by boiling wood soot [syn: bistre ]

Usage examples of bister.

If Bister were one of these fabulous apers – an Xik reconstructed by surgery and every available form of psycho-training to pass as a Confed man – that would explain a lot.

Framed in a tangled explosion of graying brown hair, his face was chalky with exhaustion, the wide gray eyes in their bistered hollows dilated with drugs.