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Dyewood

Dyewood \Dye"wood`\, n. Any wood from which coloring matter is extracted for dyeing.

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dyewood

n. 1 brazilwood 2 Any wood from which colouring matter is extracted for dyeing.

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dyewood

n. any wood from which dye is obtained

Usage examples of "dyewood".

Lusitanian ships which early in the year 1503 went to the country discovered by Rodrigo de Bastidas, and returned to Lisbon loaded with dyewood and Indian slaves.

Ebony, mahogany, dyewood, great buttressed trunks coming into view as the schooner slowed still more and breasted into the current.

Spaniards for most of these seizures was that the vessels contained logwood, a dyewood found upon the coasts of Campeache, Honduras and Yucatan, the cutting and removal of which was forbidden to any but Spanish subjects.

There should be half a dozen droghers, part of those plying between La Guaira and the villages along the coast, collecting hides and coffee, tobacco and dyewood.

We shipped out of Nantucket Town to San Lorenzo first, picked up cocoa and dyewoods and raw cotton.

Crossing it, Sun Wolf and his bucolic-looking bodyguard jostled shoulders with clerks and staplers, master weavers, merchants, and bankers, among the high-piled ranks of goods—woolpacks and fleeces, aromatic bales of dyewoods, huge baskets of madder and indigo, and netted parcels of shellfish and of the tiny insects from the forests of the south, whose crushed bodies yielded the richest of scarlet dyes.