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A table made of mahogany wood. [Colloq.] To be under the mahogany, to be so drunk as to have fallen under the table. [Eng.] -- To put one's legs under some one's mahogany, to dine with him. [Slang]

A red ocher used to darken mahogany and for making chloride of potassium.

The mahogany tree; also, its timber.

A kind of mahogany obtained from Campeachy Bay. Sick bay, in vessels of war, that part of a deck appropriated to the use of the sick. Totten.

A piece of hard wood (as mahogany or cherry) on which a stereotype or electrotype plate is mounted to make it type high.

y and ornament are sold. -- Fancy woods, the more rare and expensive furniture woods, as mahogany, satinwood, rosewood, etc.

A kind of set of drawers. [U. S.] "Mahogany highboys glittering with brass handles." K. L. Bates.

eat velocity. -- Hoop tree (Bot.), a small West Indian tree (Melia sempervirens), of the Mahogany family.

The mahoganylike wood of the Australian Eucalyptus marginata. See Eucalyptus.

A lofty West African tree (Khaya Senegalensis), related to the mahogany, which it resembles in the quality of the wood. The bark is used as a febrifuge.

The mahogany tree (Swietenia Mahogoni).

a natural order (Meliacæ) of plants of which the genus Melia is the type. It includes the mahogany and the Spanish cedar.

. (Zoöl.) (a) The yaffle, or green woodpecker. (b) The European gray shrike. -- Mountain mahogany (Bot.) See under Mahogany. -- Mountain meal (Min.), a light powdery variety of calcite, occurring as an efflorescence. -- Mountain milk (Min.), a soft spongy variety of carbonate of lime. -- Mountain mint. (Bot.) See M…

The wood of a West Indian tree of the Mahogany family (Moschoxylum Swartzii).

The mahogany-like wood of the South African tree Pteroxylon utile, the sawdust of which causes violent sneezing (whence the name). Also called sneezewood.

A mottled appearance of light and shade in wood, especially in mahogany.

A genus of meliaceous trees consisting of one species (Sweitenia Mahogoni), the mahogany tree.

hard reddish wood is used for furniture and building, esp. in wharves, bridges, etc. Also mahogany pine.

or other material for outer finish or decoration; as, to veneer a piece of furniture with mahogany. Used also figuratively. As a rogue in grain Veneered with sanctimonious theory. Tennyson.

Madeira mahogany; the coarse, dark-colored wood of the Persea Indica.