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rbon radicals, as in azobenzene, azobenzoic, etc. These compounds furnish many artificial dyes. See Diazo-.

The clear blue color of the sky; also, a pigment or dye of this color. "In robes of azure." Wordsworth.

st Indian species of acacia; neb-neb. It contains gallic acid and tannin, and is used for dyeing drab.

A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc. Hop back, Jack back, the cistern which receives the infusion of malt and hops from the copper. -- Wash back, a vat in which distillers ferment…

A coarse woolen stuff with a long nap; -- usually dyed in plain colors. A new black baize waistcoat lined with silk. Pepys.

A species of silk or cotton handkerchief, having a uniformly dyed ground, usually of red or blue, with white or yellow figures of a circular, lozenge, or other simple form.

into a preserve or sauce, and have been deemed efficacious in fluxes and fevers. The bark dyes a fine yellow, esp. the bark of the root. [Also spelt berberry.]

a leguminous tree (Baphia nitida), from Angola and the Gaboon in Africa. It is used as a dyewood, and also for ramrods, violin bows and turner's work.

or other flexible material, interwoven. "Rude baskets . . . woven of the flexile willow." Dyer.

A kind of fustian made of coarse twilled cotton, shorn after dyeing. Simmonds.

To tinge or dye with a purple color.

in blue, Prussian blue. Ure. -- Berlin green, a complex cyanide of iron, used as a green dye, and similar to Prussian blue. -- Berlin iron, a very fusible variety of cast iron, from which figures and other delicate articles are manufactured. These are often stained or lacquered in imitation of bronze. -- Berlin shop…

A black pigment or dye.

One who bleats; a sheep. In cold, stiff soils the bleaters oft complain Of gouty ails. Dyer.

A kind of silk lace originally of the color of raw silk, now sometimes dyed; -- called also blond lace.

(Hæmodoraceæ), the roots of many species of which contain a red coloring matter useful in dyeing.

To make blue; to dye of a blue color; to make blue by heating, as metals, etc.

on, or tract of land; one who dwells near to a place or region. Borderers of the Caspian. Dyer.

posure to the air, being oxidized to bra*sil"e*in, C16H12O5, to which brazilwood owes its dyeing properties.

ddish color, imported from Brazil and other tropical countries, for cabinet-work, and for dyeing. The best is the heartwood of Cæsalpinia echinata, a leguminous tree; but other trees also yield it. An interior sort comes from Jamaica, the timber of C. Braziliensis and C. crista. This is often distinguished as Brazilett…