What is "rhus cotinus"

Fustic \Fus"tic\, n. [F. fustoc, Sp. fustoc. Cf. Fustet.] The wood of the Maclura tinctoria, a tree growing in the West Indies, used in dyeing yellow; -- called also old fustic. [Written also fustoc.]

Note: Other kinds of yellow wood are often called fustic; as that of species of Xanthoxylum, and especially the Rhus Cotinus, which is sometimes called young fustic to distinguish it from the Maclura. See Fustet.

Fustet \Fus"tet\, n. [F. fustet (cf. Sp. & Pg. fustete), LL. fustetus, fr. L. fustis stick, in LL., tree, See 1st Fust, and cf. Fustic.] The wood of the Rhus Cotinus or Venice sumach, a shrub of Southern Europe, which yields a fine orange color, which, however, is not durable without a mordant.
--Ure.

Smoke \Smoke\ (sm[=o]k), n. [AS. smoca, fr. sme['o]can to smoke; akin to LG. & D. smook smoke, Dan. sm["o]g, G. schmauch, and perh. to Gr. ??? to burn in a smoldering fire; cf. Lith. smaugti to choke.]

1. The visible exhalation, vapor, or substance that escapes, or expelled, from a burning body, especially from burning vegetable matter, as wood, coal, peat, or the like.

   Note: The gases of hydrocarbons, raised to a red heat or thereabouts, without a mixture of air enough to produce combustion, disengage their carbon in a fine powder, forming smoke. The disengaged carbon when deposited on solid bodies is soot.

2. That which resembles smoke; a vapor; a mist.

3. Anything unsubstantial, as idle talk.
   --Shak.

4. The act of smoking, esp. of smoking tobacco; as, to have a smoke. [Colloq.]

   Note: Smoke is sometimes joined with other word. forming self-explaining compounds; as, smoke-consuming, smoke-dried, smoke-stained, etc.

   Smoke arch, the smoke box of a locomotive.

   Smoke ball (Mil.), a ball or case containing a composition which, when it burns, sends forth thick smoke.

   Smoke black, lampblack. [Obs.]

   Smoke board, a board suspended before a fireplace to prevent the smoke from coming out into the room.

   Smoke box, a chamber in a boiler, where the smoke, etc., from the furnace is collected before going out at the chimney.

   Smoke sail (Naut.), a small sail in the lee of the galley stovepipe, to prevent the smoke from annoying people on deck.

   Smoke tree (Bot.), a shrub ( Rhus Cotinus) in which the flowers are mostly abortive and the panicles transformed into tangles of plumose pedicels looking like wreaths of smoke.

   To end in smoke, to burned; hence, to be destroyed or ruined; figuratively, to come to nothing.

   Syn: Fume; reek; vapor.

Venetian \Ve*ne"tian\, a. [Cf. It. Veneziano, L. Venetianus.] Of or pertaining to Venice in Italy.

Venetian blind, a blind for windows, doors, etc., made of thin slats, either fixed at a certain angle in the shutter, or movable, and in the latter case so disposed as to overlap each other when close, and to show a series of open spaces for the admission of air and light when in other positions.

Venetian carpet, an inexpensive carpet, used for passages and stairs, having a woolen warp which conceals the weft; the pattern is therefore commonly made up of simple stripes.

Venetian chalk, a white compact or steatite, used for marking on cloth, etc.

Venetian door (Arch.), a door having long, narrow windows or panes of glass on the sides.

Venetian glass, a kind of glass made by the Venetians, for decorative purposes, by the combination of pieces of glass of different colors fused together and wrought into various ornamental patterns.

Venetian red, a brownish red color, prepared from sulphate of iron; -- called also scarlet ocher.

Venetian soap. See Castile soap, under Soap.

Venetian sumac (Bot.), a South European tree ( Rhus Cotinus) which yields the yellow dyewood called fustet; -- also called smoke tree.

Venetian window (Arch.), a window consisting of a main window with an arched head, having on each side a long and narrow window with a square head.